Questions
  1 Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine two years ago most international companies have withdrawn from trading in Russia but allegedly continue to trade under a different brand name. One of them today is called Swedhouse, which Swedish company might have been replaced  by Swedhouse?
2 In terms of population, what is the largest capital city of the Nordic countries! 
3 Which Swedish football team have won more Swedish titles than any other, qualified twice for the group stages of the champions league in recent years and played in the group stages of the Europa League in the 22/23 season. This club is also where Zlatan Ibrahimovic started his career. What club are we talking about?
4 Identify these four Swedish brands
5 Kiruna, one of Sweden’s most northerly cities. It is well known for lying on top of the world’s most vast resource of what?
6 In 2005 Madonna had a hit worldwide with the song Hung Up. The sampled part of a song from which Swedish group in that song?
7 Johan August Strindberg wrote in many styles but is best known for his novels and plays. >He was born in Stockholm, name any rear that he was alive
8 Name these six Swedish musical artists
9 Today has been a holiday for everyone, in what year was June 6th made into a red day?
10 Three actresses have played Lisbeth Salander in movies. <name the three of them
11

Name these four Swedish voices
12 In 1397 a union between Norway, Sweden and Denmark under one king was put in place. It lasted until 1534 when the Swede Gustav Vasa brought it to an end.. The union is named after a Swedish city in Smaland county.  What is the name of the union. 
13 Sweden has a coastline of just over 3000 km and lies on four seas. The Gulf of Bothnia, The Baltic. Name any one of the other two
14 Name these four movies, they year each film was released is also included.All these films are listed on imdb’s list of greatest Swedish movies
15 Opened for the first time in 1477, what Swedish University is the oldest in Scandinavia?
16 Hillevi Rombin in 1955, Margareta Arvidsson in 1966 and Yvonne Ryding in 1984
17 Stockholm lies on the border of two Swedish ‘landscapes’ (old regions). Which two?
18 Identify these four events in history that all happened on this date.
19 Dag Hammarskjold was the secretary general of which organisation between 1953 and 1961?
20 In 1954 Roger Bannister was the first man to run a mile in under four minutes. Before he did so the runner who had the world record for the mile came from which country=
21 Sweden shares a land border with two countries, Norway and Finland. Which is longer?
22

Name these six hits from ABBA.

 
Answers
1 IKEA
2 Stockholm
3 Malmö FF
4
  1. Vattenfall
  2. Telia
  3. Klarna
  4. Swedbank
5 Iron ore
6

Abba

Gimme Gimme Gimme
7 1849 – 1912
8
  1. First Aid Kit
  2. Ace of Base
  3. The Spotnicks
  4. The Cardigans
  5. The Knife
  6. Doctor Alban
9 2005
10

Noomi Rapace

Claire Foy

Rooney Mara
11
  1. Sven Goran Ericsson
  2. Anna Lindh
  3. Princess Victoria
  4. Zlatan Ibrahimovic
12

The Kalmar Union

Erik (of Pomerania)
13 Kattegat or Skagerrak
14
  1. The Seventh Seal
  2. Show Me Love
    (Fucking Åmal)
  3. Evil Ed
  4. Sir Arne’s Treasure
15 Uppsala
16 Miss Universe
17 Sodermanland and Uppland
18
  1. Bjorn Borg
  2. D day
  3. Sex and the City
  4. World war 1
19 The United Nations
20

Sweden

(Gunder Hägg)
21 Norway
22
  1. One of Us
  2. Super Trooper
  3. Waterloo
  4. The Piper
  5. Gimme Gimme Gimme
  6. Chiquitita