Statistics for Famous Danes

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Writer known for his fairy tales such as "The Ugly Duckling"	Hans Christian Andersen	94%
Prince in a Shakespeare tragedy	Hamlet	73%
Actor who played Aragorn in Lord of the Rings film trilogy	Viggo Mortensen	52%
Nuclear physicist and quantum theory founder, Nobel Physics Prize laureate in 1922	Niels Bohr	50%
Explorer who gave his name to the strait that separates Asia and North America	Vitus Bering	50%
Actor whose credits include "King Arthur", "Casino Royale" and "The Hunt"	Mads Mikkelsen	44%
Director associated with the Dogme 95 collective	Lars von Trier	42%
Philosopher considered forerunner of existentialism, known for his book "Either/Or"	Søren Kierkegaard	39%
Author of "Out of Africa"	Karen Blixen (pen name Isak Dinesen)	37%
Tenth-century King of Denmark who lent his name to a wireless software technology	Harald Bluetooth	36%
Prime Minister of Denmark 2001–2009, Secretary-General of NATO since 2009	Anders Fogh Rasmussen	32%
Astronomer who lost part of his nose in a sword duel	Tycho Brahe	31%
Queen of Denmark since 1972	Margrethe II	26%
King of Denmark, Norway and England who famously ordered the ocean waves to prove the limits of kingly power	Canute the Great	25%
Architect who designed Sydney opera house	Jørn Utzon	23%
Twefth-century historian who authored "Gesta Danorum", first history of Denmark	Saxo Grammaticus	20%
Actress and model who married Sylvester Stallone in 1985	Brigitte Nielsen	16%
Writer known for "Smilla's Sense of Snow"	Peter Høeg	14%
Sculptor (1770–1844), only protestant whose work is exhibited in St. Peter's in Rome	Bertel Thorvaldsen	10%
Composer of six symphonies and opera "Maskarade"	Carl Nielsen	10%
Physicist, chemist and philosopher who studied electromagnetism and was the first to produce aluminium (1825)	Hans Christian Ørsted	10%
Creator of Lego	Ole Kirk Christiansen	9%
Modernist writer whose magnum opus is the six-part cycle "The Long Journey". Recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1944.	Johannes Vilhelm Jensen	7%
Danish American sculptor who created the monumental sculpture of Mount Rushmore	Gutzon Borglum	5%
Prolific Baroque organist and composer whose career peaked in Lübeck	Dieterich Buxtehude	2%
Wagnerian tenor who also appeared in American musical movies	Lauritz Melchior	1%

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