Statistics for Swedish History A-Z

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This quiz has been taken 394 times
The average score is 16 of 25

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	Hint	Answer	% Correct
A	Pop group that became the first Swedish Eurovision winners	ABBA	97%
E	A 2003 referendum failed to replace the Swedish Krona with this currency	Euro	96%
C	Swede who invented an international temperature scale	Anders Celcius	93%
R	Sweden lost the Great Northern War against this country i 1721 - thus losing its major European power status to it	Russia	91%
N	This country had a personal union with Sweden from 1814 up until 1905	Norway	90%
O	God for whom Wednesday in Sweden is named	Odin	89%
Q	Position held once by Ulrica and Christina	Queen	87%
D	Most notable foundation of the chemist Alfred Nobel	Dynamite	83%
M	The tallest building in Sweden was built in 2005 in this city	Malmö	80%
F	Then-a-region-of-Sweden that became a grand duchy of Russia after a 1809 war	Finland	79%
T	543 Swedes died as a result of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunamis in this country	Thailand	77%
I	Main export of Sweden to Germany during World War II	Iron	75%
B	This Swedish tennis player became the first to win five consecutive Wimbledons	Björn Borg	70%
G	This king won the final Swedish secession from the Kalmar Union 1523	Gustav	68%
U	The first university in northern Europe was opened in this city in 1477	Uppsala	57%
K	City that was the site a 1397 treaty joining Denmark, Sweden, and Norway under one king	Kalmar	55%
L	Name of the saint celebrated every December 13th before most students go home to their families for Christmas	Lucia	52%
S	Political party that ruled Sweden the most in the 20th century	Social Democrats	52%
P	This prime minister was assassinated in 1986	Olof Palme	46%
Z	Device of clothes Gideon Sundbäck invented in 1917	Zipper	45%
V	Royal house that ruled over Sweden from 1523 until 1654	Vasa	37%
Y	One of the officially recognized minority languages that was declared in 1999	Yiddish	35%
H	The second Secretary-General of the United Nations	Dag Hammarskjöld	32%
J	Term for the Swedish noblemen	Jarl	29%
W	German royal house that ruled Sweden between 1654–1720	{Wittels}bach	15%