Do You Know Sweden? [1] Trivia Quiz

Answer: Finland

About six per cent of Finland's population are bilingual - Finnish/Swedish. Most of them live in the southwest part of Finland.

Answer: Yes

There are also five formally recognized minority languages in Sweden; in Lapland in the far north of Sweden, about 20,000 Sami people speak Sami, a Finnish/Ugrian language also spoken by Sami people in Norway, Finland and Russia. Other minority languages are Finnish, Meänkieli, Romani, and Yiddish.

Answer: True

Yes it´s true. Norway had been in a union with Sweden since November 1814, when on October 16th 1905, The present King Oscar II relinquished the Norwegian throne and recognized Norway as an independent nation.

Answer: Scania

Scania is an internationally well-known manufacturer of trucks and buses.
In Swedish the county is called "Skåne" , with the å (a with a ring over it)pronounced as o in the English word more. Skåne is a largely agricultural county with Malmö as its capital.

Answer: True

Yes it´s true. Sweden is the fourth largest country in Europe after Ukraine, France and Spain. It is actually almost twice the size of Great Britain in area.

Answer: true

Yes that is actually true. Any alcoholic beverage with an alcohol content of more than 3.5 percent is only sold in the government owned shops known as "Monopoly-shops". So if you go to a supermarket in Sweden you can only get beer with less than 3.5 percent alcohol.

The same goes for Norway and Finland, while Denmark has a more liberal view and offer all kind of drinks in their supermarkets.

Answer: Frida (Annifrid)

Frida or Annifrid as her full name is, was actually born in Norway.

Answer: Göteborg (Gothenburg)

Göteborg is the second largest city in Sweden with some 880.000 people living within its metropolitan area. Göteborg is the most important seaport in Sweden with ferries going to Norway, Denmark, Germany and England.
Malmö is the third largest city, Stockholm (the capital) is the largest and Helsinki is the capital of Finland.

Answer: true

Yes it´s true. Stockholm is often referred to as "The Venice of the North", because it is located on Sweden's east coast, where Lake Mälaren meets the Baltic Sea. The central parts of the city consists of fourteen islands, all part of the archipelago. The geographical city centre is virtually situated on the water, in the bay Riddarfjärden.

Many other cities in Northern Europe also have this nickname, such as Bruges, Copenhagen, and St Petersburg.

Answer: two

Sweden has land borders with only two neighbouring countries - Norway and Finland. It has maritime borders with Denmark, Germany, Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, and it is also linked to Denmark (southwest) by the Öresund Bridge.