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Exploring Denmark: A Comprehensive Quiz

Test your knowledge about Denmark's history, geography, and leadership with this engaging quiz that covers various aspects of Danish culture and its significance.

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1 How many square miles is Denmark in area?

2 Following the ________ (1700–21), Denmark managed to restore control of the parts of Schleswig and Holstein ruled by the house of Holstein-Gottorp in 1721 and 1773, respectively.

3 Which of the following titles did Denmark have?

4 What is the native name for Denmark?

5 What time offset in UTC is Denmark in during daylight savings?

6 During the 8th–11th centuries, the Danish people were amongst those known as ________.

7 Who of the following is/was the leader of Denmark?

8 A high point was reached during the reign of Valdemar II, who led the formation of a Danish 'Baltic Sea Empire', which by 1221 extended control from ________ in the east to Norway in the north.

9 What is the leader of Denmark called?

10 What timezone is Denmark in during daylight savings?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Danish firm Marcussen & Søn have built over 1000 organs since their foundation in 1806.
  • the medieval Horne Church (pictured) in Denmark has box seating for the nobility that was used by the family of astronomer Tycho Brahe.
  • the locomotive involved in Sweden’s worst rail accident (pictured) was later hit in an air raid near Korsør, Denmark, in 1943 after it had been overhauled and sold to the Danes.
  • the Society of the Friends of Peasants had significant influence on the Danish Constitution of 1849.
  • in Norse mythology, the goddesses Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr and Irpa defeated a Danish fleet by shooting arrows from their fingertips.
  • in 1953, Polish Air Force pilot Franciszek Jarecki escaped to Denmark with a Soviet MiG-15, which helped the U.S. Air Force in the Korean War.
  • both the father and son Johann Friedrich and Carl von und zu Mansbach, who spent much of their life in Hesse and Denmark, also served as commanders of Fredriksten Fortress in Norway.
  • chronically indebted Philipp Julius, Duke of Pomerania wanted to sell the island of Rügen to Denmark.
  • despite being outnumbered by more than two to one, Denmark defeated Schleswig-Holstein in the Battle of Fredericia in 1849.
  • each year on the Danish island of Bornholm, an artist is selected to have a street in the village of Østermarie named after him.
  • the Danish land laws referendum of 1963 is the only referendum in the history of Denmark to have been held by a minority of parliament.
  • the Isted Lion, an important Danish war monument, was located in Berlin for almost 70 years, but was returned to Denmark on the orders of General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
  • the first of Denmark’s Galathea expeditions had a budget of nearly half a million Rixdollars, equivalent to 3% of the state’s annual revenues at the time.
  • the founders of the Communist League in Denmark, had departed from the Left Socialists in 1972 even though they had been in majority in that party.
  • the lyrics of Kong Kristian stod ved højen mast, the royal anthem of Denmark, first appeared in an 18th-century vaudeville play by Johannes Ewald.
  • when Danish socialist pioneer and former prisoner Poul Johansen Geleff (pictured) emigrated to the United States, Danish police helped pay for his travel costs.
  • the author Amulya Malladi, an expatriate Indian, said that when she first moved to Denmark that "Danish sounded to me like the buzzing of bees".
  • the German Reichsflotte Navy was founded on 14 June 1848, before the German Empire was proclaimed on 28 March 1849, and that it fought only in the Battle of Heligoland on 4 June against Denmark.
  • the Råbjerg Mile, a giant sand dune, drifts across Jutland, Denmark at a rate of up to 18 metres a year.
  • the psychiatric hospital of Denmark's Capital Region treats about 35,000 patients with mental disorders every year, which is about 40% of the nation's total.
  • the Stöðulög laws of 1871 declared Iceland an inseparable part of Denmark.
  • the British submarine HMS E13 (pictured) was attacked and destroyed by German warships during World War I after running aground off the neutral Danish island of Saltholm.
  • both Denmark and Spain have plans to change their succession laws from male primogeniture to equal primogeniture, leaving Luxembourg and the United Kingdom as the only monarchies in the European Union not to have equal primogeniture.
  • before Danish director Bille August made his Oscar-winning Pelle the Conqueror, he had great domestic success with the children's television series and movie Busters verden.
  • U.S. Independence Day is celebrated every 4th of July in Rebild National Park in Himmerland, Denmark.
  • Dyrehaven, a forest park outside Copenhagen, Denmark, has 15 entrances, all with characteristic red gates (pictured).
  • Joan Tompkins in The Christine Jorgensen Story played the Danish aunt who gave the world's first transsexual, George Jorgensen, his new name, Christine.
  • Johannes Bugenhagen introduced the Protestant Reformation to Pomerania and Denmark in the 16th century.
  • Grand Duchess Sophie Caroline of East Friesland instructed Danish royal architect Lauritz de Thurah to demolish Sorgenfri Palace in 1756 to make way for a new palace (pictured).
  • Danish-born jurist Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne was disqualified from the Norwegian Parliament in 1824, having previously accepted a personal payment from the King.
  • archaeologist Eigil Knuth was co-leader of the first Danish Greenland expedition to make use of an airplane, a Tiger Moth.
  • Danish mass murderer Peter Lundin got married twice while in prison.
  • Danish painter Albert Küchler's "Albanian Girl" was probably not Albanian, but Italian.
  • Danish painter Carl-Henning Pedersen was known as the "Scandinavian Chagall".
  • John Dyneley Prince, who later served as U.S. Ambassador to Denmark and Yugoslavia, learned the Romani language as a 12-year-old, which helped him when he ran away for three days to a gypsy camp.
  • Lykke Friis, the current Danish Minister for Climate and Energy, was not a member of the party Venstre before becoming a minister.
  • Flora Danica, a comprehensive botanical collection containing pictures of all known wild plants native to Denmark, was initiated by Georg Christian Oeder.
  • Oksbøl became the sixth largest town of Denmark because of the 37,000 inmates of the Oksbøl Refugee Camp.
  • almost 2,500 gullgubber have been found at Sorte Muld, on the island of Bornholm in Denmark.
  • at age 23, Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen (pictured) was the youngest Danish politician ever to participate in a nationally televised debate for party leaders.
  • St. Bendt's Church (pictured) in Ringsted, Denmark, where Danish kings and queens of the 12th to 14th centuries were buried, is the oldest brick church in Scandinavia.
  • shooting an apple off one's child's head is not a feat unique to William Tell, but was reportedly ascribed to Danish hero Palnatoki in the 12th century.
  • Majbølle Mølle was officially opened in 1988 by Prince Henrik of Denmark after its restoration.
  • Mandø, a Danish island in the Wadden Sea has about as much land area in mudflat as its considerable arable land.
  • Ordbogen.com, the most popular online dictionary in Denmark, was relaunched after a predecessor was taken offline for over a year due to a lack of funding.
  • 17th century Russian diplomat Pyotr Ivanovich Potemkin (pictured) is reputed to have insisted on lying in bed during an audience with the King of Denmark, who was himself confined to his bed, to demonstrate equality between Russia and Denmark.
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