Statistics for Famous Norwegians

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Expressionist painter known for "The Scream"	Edvard Munch	88%
Playwright and novelist who authored "Peer Gynt" and "A Doll's House"	Henrik Ibsen	82%
Explorer who discovered the South Pole in 1911	Roald Amundsen	78%
Composer famous for "Lyric Pieces" and incidental music to "Peer Gynt"	Edvard Grieg	64%
Fascist politician who collaborated with Germany in World War II and was executed for high treason in 1945	Vidkun Quisling	60%
Ethnographer and adventurer known for the Kon-Tiki expedition across the Pacific Ocean in 1947	Thor Heyerdahl	52%
Explorer, scientist, diplomat and humanitarian whose efforts to defend refugees and displaced people earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922	Fridtjof Nansen	46%
King of Norway since 1991	Harald V	45%
Author who wrote the lyrics to the Norwegian national anthem and received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1903	Bjørstjerne Bjørnson	44%
Figure-skating champion who became one the highest-paid filma stars in Hollywood in the 30's and 40's	Sonja Henie	43%
Author who wrote "Hunger" and "Growth of the Soil" and received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920	Knut Hamsun	42%
Cross-country skier, most successful sprinter in cross-country World Cup history	Marit Bjørgen	41%
Explorer who founded the first Norse settlement in Greenland	Erik the Red	33%
Cross-country skier, most successful winter Olympic champion of all time	Bjørn Dæhlie	28%
First Secretary-General of the United Nations	Trygve Lie	25%
Actress and filmmaker who starred in several films by Swedish director Ingmar Bergman (eg. "Persona", "Shame", "Hour of the Wolf") and also has a daughter with him	Liv Ullmann	23%
World-famous violinist of the 19th century who bought land and found a colony in Pennsylvania	Ole Bull	21%
Physician who identified the prime agent of leprosy in 1873; leprosy is also known as "_____'s disease" in his honour	Gerhard Armauer Hansen	12%
Black metal band whose discography includes "Death Cult Armageddon" and "In Sorte Diaboli"	Dimmu Borgir	11%
Wagnerian soprano often called "the voice of the century"	Kirsten Flagstad	8%
Businessman who built large shipping empire bearing his name	Thomas Fredik Olsen (Fred. Olsen)	6%