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    This document provides a list of questions related to Sweden and Swedish culture, history, and people. It includes multiple choice questions about Stockholm, Ingmar Bergman, Annika Sorenstam, and other notable Swedes. It also lists fill-in-the-blank questions about Nobel laureates, scientists, and inventors from Sweden. The document describes rounds in a quiz competition involving anagrams, images, oral questions, and a buzzer round related to people, places, and events in Swedish history.

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    This document provides a list of questions related to Sweden and Swedish culture, history, and people. It includes multiple choice questions about Stockholm, Ingmar Bergman, Annika Sorenstam, and other notable Swedes. It also lists fill-in-the-blank questions about Nobel laureates, scientists, and inventors from Sweden. The document describes rounds in a quiz competition involving anagrams, images, oral questions, and a buzzer round related to people, places, and events in Swedish history.

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    This document provides a list of questions related to Sweden and Swedish culture, history, and people. It includes multiple choice questions about Stockholm, Ingmar Bergman, Annika Sorenstam, and other notable Swedes. It also lists fill-in-the-blank questions about Nobel laureates, scientists, and inventors from Sweden. The document describes rounds in a quiz competition involving anagrams, images, oral questions, and a buzzer round related to people, places, and events in Swedish history.

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    This document provides a list of questions related to Sweden and Swedish culture, history, and people. It includes multiple choice questions about Stockholm, Ingmar Bergman, Annika Sorenstam, and other notable Swedes. It also lists fill-in-the-blank questions about Nobel laureates, scientists, and inventors from Sweden. The document describes rounds in a quiz competition involving anagrams, images, oral questions, and a buzzer round related to people, places, and events in Swedish history.

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    PRELIMS:

    1.

    Swedish city that is known as the Venice of the North Stockholm

    2.

    Famous director accompanied by a quote about him Ingmar Bergman

    3.

    Swedish chemist who coined the term polymer JJ Berzelius

    4.

    Norse God that provided the rune characters to humanity Odin

    5.

    First female golfer to participate in a PGA event since 1945 Annika Sorenstam

    6.

    Nickname of the famed Swedish Ice Hockey team The Three Kronors(Crowns)

    7.

    Main item served at Kraftskiva held in August Crayfish

    8.

    The Lady is based on which Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi

    9.

    Swedish company that started in Trollhattan in 1937 and is majorly into aerospace and
    automobiles SAAB

    10.

    Nigerian born dentist who sang Hello Africa which sold a million copies Dr. Alban

    11. Antibiotic discovered by SA Waksman for the cure of tuberculosis Streptomycin


    12. Connection between Harbhajan Singh and Swedish inventor Sven Wingquist Ball
    Bearings
    13. Swedish model who was in prominence from 2004-08 Elin Nordegren
    14. Company named after the latin word for I Roll and into ball bearings

    Volvo

    15. Specific water body in which Oresund and two other islands are situated
    16. Term for the official who is charged with representing the interests of the public by
    investigating and addressing complaints of maladministration or a violation of rights
    Ombudsman

    17. Scientist who received the Nobel prize for his work on fission of Heavy Nuclei
    Hahn
    18. Amartya Sens first name means immortal.Who named him such?
    Tagore

    Otto

    Rabindranath

    19. Element discovered by Madame Curie, other than radium Polonium

    20. Eminent Swede who made an expedition in 1736 to verify Newtons theory that the
    world is flat Anders Celsius
    21. Identify

    Astrid Lingdren
    22. Identify the entrepreneur
    Niklas Zennstrom
    23. Identify the statesman

    Olof Palme
    24. Identify the actor
    Stellan Skarsgard

    25. Identify the band

    Aqua

    FINALS:
    1.Anagrams
    Teams had to solve anagrams of a mixed bag of eminent Swedes and Nobel laureates which
    included R Millikan, Erwin Schrodinger, Selma Lagerloff and Galsworthy.

    2. Pictorial round:

    Astrid Lindgren (Kinda surprising how she featured twice in the same quiz :P)

    Gavle goat (Like an idiot, I confused this with the Dala horse :/ )

    John Bardeen

    Lasse Hallstrom

    Ingrid Bergman with her father,Justus

    Gustaf Dalen

    3.DIRECT ORALS:
    Which international organisation was started by a British lawyer named Peter Beneson?
    Amnesty International
    Swedish Inventor Alexander Samuelson designed which iconic product?
    The Coca Cola Bottle
    Some details about an incident in a famous epic
    Beowulf
    Who were the first man and woman according to Norse mythology?
    Ask and Embla
    Oldest Nobel Laureate in literature at the age of 88
    Doris Lessing
    4. AUDIO VISUAL
    Clipping of Il Postino based on the work by Pablo Neruda
    Audio of Ernest Hemingway speaking
    Game of Chess with death scene from The Seventh Seal featuring Max Von Sydow
    Video featuring Icona Pop

    Video named Love based on Anna Karenina


    Trailer of the movie Easy Money
    5. BUZZER
    Which colourless (BUZZ)
    Nitroglycerine
    [ Will have to mention this: 2 years ago, in the very same quiz Parantap and Raj from IITB had
    messed up on a question which talked about a colourless liquid being invented and had answered
    mercury.Their experience counted as they got this one with just 2 words spoken]
    Ake Senning (BUZZ)
    Doctor who implanted the first pacemaker built by Rune Elmqvist
    Swedish game created by which studio
    Ubisoft
    Adnan Raza (BUZZ)
    Captain of the Swedish National cricket team
    2nd youngest person to win a Nobel Prize at a certain point of time (accompanied by a few more
    details that I missed out)
    Heisenberg
    Sample Questions :
    1) Anita and Arabella were 2 animals taken into space. For what purpose were they
    taken ?
    2) Who is the only Wimbledon winner who was also engaged to a Wimbledon
    winner, but instead married a Playboy model ?
    3) Mosammat Taslima Begum collected the Nobel Prize on the behalf of which Nobel
    Prize Winner ?
    4 ) Which Indian Cricket Captain was born in Godhra ?
    Answers :
    1) These were spiders. They were taken to see whether spiders can spin a web in
    zero gravity.
    2) Jimmy Connors
    3) Grameen Bank [ Mohammad Yunus collected his half of the prize while the
    Begum collected it on behalf of Grameen Bank ]
    4) Nari Contractor.

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