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  • This quiz has been taken 82 times
    (72 since last reset)
  • The average score is 7 of 12

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QuestionAnswer% Correct
Viking helmets had horns.False
80%
The Kalmar Union was a personal union where, for over a century, Danish monarchs also ruled Norway and Sweden.True
77%
Between 1513 and 1972, Denmark has an unbroken list of kings alternating between the names Christian and Frederick.True
77%
Valdemar I the Great, king of Denmark during the 1100s, was born a week after his father died.True
74%
Johann Friedrich Struensee was the personal physician and a trusted friend of the mentally ill king Christian VII. Using his influence on the king, Struensee loosened censorship laws and brought the Enlightenment to Denmark.True
70%
Denmark joined the European Union (then called the European Communities) in 1973, alongside Ireland and the United Kingdom.True
67%
After its defeat in World War I, Germany was forced to give part of Schleswig back to Denmark. This triggered a constitutional crisis, when king Christian X dismissed the prime minister Carl Theodor Zahle because the king didn't like that Zahle wasn't asking for more land.True
54%
Vidkun Quisling was prime minister of Denmark during part of World War II. He has become hated for his open support of the Nazis.False
52%
The Egtved stones, which contain the oldest known use of the name "Denmark", are commonly known as "Denmark's birth certificate".False
39%
The Second Schleswig War (1864), where Denmark lost the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein, and Lauenburg, was ended by the Treaty of Strassburg in February 1865.False
30%
The Danish constitution allows for the creation of "Rigsretten", an interim court where government ministers can be impeached and punished for abuses of power, but this power has never been used.False
21%
King Christian IV (reign 1588 to 1648) commissioned several historical buildings in Copenhagen, including Christiansborg Castle.False
20%

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