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Question	Answer	% Correct
Which country used to be part of Sweden until 1809?	Finland	97%
What event was hosted by Sweden in 1912?	Summer Olympics	90%
What did Alfred Nobel invent in 1867?	Dynamite	87%
What set of annual international awards were first awarded in 1901?	Nobel Prize	87%
Which country was the main opponent of Sweden during the Great Northern War?	Russia	87%
What group of people inhabited modern-day Sweden between 793–1066?	Vikings	85%
The most widely used temperature scale worldwide was invented by and named after what Swedish astronomer?	Anders Celcius	80%
What mineral did Sweden mainly export to Nazi Germany during the WWII?	Iron	64%
With which of their song did ABBA get the first win for Sweden in Eurovision?	Waterloo	64%
What Germanic people, that originated in southern Sweden, played an important role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire?	Goths	61%
In what modern-day African country was the Swedish Gold Coast located?	Ghana	58%
What city did Stockholm replace as the Swedish national capital in 1436?	Uppsala	49%
What bridge, that connects Sweden to Denmark, was opened in 1999?	Öresund Bridge	48%
Which Swedish prime minister was assassinated in 1986?	Olof Palme	46%
What political party has dominated the Swedish politics since World War II?	Social Democrats	46%
The first of what in Northern Europe was opened in 1477 in that city?	University	41%
Which Swedish botanist is known to be the "father of modern taxonomy"?	Carl von Linne	40%
In what modern-day U.S. state was the colony of New Sweden established in 1638?	Delaware	38%
This French philosopher was invited to Sweden by that queen in 1649, but eventually died in Stockholm in 1650 because of pneumonia. Who was he?	René Descartes	33%
Who succeeded Gustavus Adolphus as Queen of Sweden in 1632, converted to Catholicism, and was abdicated in 1654?	Christina	32%
What book series, featuring Lisbeth Salander, did Stieg Larsson first publish in 2005?	Millennium	32%