Statistics for History of Denmark

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Which of the Shakespearean plays is about a Danish prince?	Hamlet	92%
What toy company was founded by Ole Kirk Christiansen in Billund in 1932?	Lego	89%
What country did Denmark have a union with from 1537–1814?	Norway	88%
What Norse god had one eye and a long beard?	Odin	84%
What country gained independence from Denmark in 1944?	Iceland	83%
What king introduced Christianity to Denmark? (hint: technology used in wireless headsets)	Harald {Bluetooth}	80%
What person was the first to discover Greenland?	Erik the Red	71%
What group of Vikings settled France and went on to conquer England in 1066?	Normans	71%
What H.C. Andersen fairy tale was adapted into an animated movie by Disney in 1989?	The Little Mermaid	69%
What U.S. state was Vitus Bering the first European to visit?	Alaska	67%
In which modern-day African country was the Danish colony of Gold Coast founded?	Ghana	60%
What historical figure did the newspaper Jyllands-Posten publish cartoons of in 2005?	Muhammad	58%
What theme park was opened in 1843 in Copenhagen?	Tivoli Gardens	56%
Who was crowned Queen of Denmark in 1972?	Margrethe II	49%
What novel was published by Karen Blixen in 1937?	Out of {Africa}	49%
What Danish quantum theorist won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics?	Niels Bohr	46%
Which of its territories did the U.S. purchase from Denmark in 1917?	U.S. Virgin Islands	41%
Who is considered history's first existentialist philosopher?	Søren Kierkegaard	40%
What king ruled over Norway, Denmark, and England in the early 11th century?	{Cnut} the Great	37%
What filmmaking movement was created by directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg in 1995?	{Dogme} 95	14%