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  1. Complete the sentence about Swedish cuisine with the correct year: Salt became a major trade item at the dawn of the Scandinavian Middle Ages, which began c. ______ AD.
  2. Complete the sentence about Swedish cuisine with the correct year: An early version of kåldolmar was first published in ______ in the fourth edition of Hjelpreda i Hushållningen för Unga Fruentimber b…
  3. Complete the sentence about Gravlax with the correct year: Perhaps the oldest reference is found in ______ in Diplomatarium Norvegicum as the nickname of a man named Óláfr, who was a delegate in a sal…
  4. Complete the sentence about Surströmming with the correct year: Due to these gases, a thousand cans of surströmming exploded over a period of six hours during a fire at a Swedish warehouse in ______.
  5. Complete the sentence about Smörgåsbord with the correct year: Smörgåsbord became known in the US at the ______ New York World's Fair when it was offered at the Swedish Pavilion's Three Crowns Restaur…
  6. Complete the sentence about Smörgåsbord with the correct year: During the ______ Olympic Games, restaurants in Stockholm stopped serving smörgåsbord as an appetizer and started serving them instead as…
  7. Complete the sentence about Absolut Vodka with the correct year: A settlement between Smith and his competitors led to the formation of Reymersholms Spritförädlings AB in ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about Absolut Vodka with the correct year: In ______, Vin & Sprit reached an agreement with Carillon Importers to introduce the vodka to the United States under the name Absolut…
  9. Complete the sentence about Absolut Vodka with the correct year: Absolut Vodka was introduced at a spirits trade convention in New Orleans in spring ______.
  10. Complete the sentence about Ace of Base with the correct year: Ace of Base are a Swedish pop music group formed in Gothenburg in ______.
  11. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, they were ranked at number twelve on the DJ Mag Top 100 Poll.
  12. Complete the sentence about Avicii with the correct year: Avicii began posting remixes on Internet forums when he was 16 and in ______ signed with the Dejfitts Plays record label.
  13. Complete the sentence about Avicii with the correct year: Tim Bergling was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on 8 September ______; he was the son of Klas Bergling, who ran an office supply business, and act…
  14. Complete the sentence about Max Martin with the correct year: As a teenager he sang in a variety of bands before joining a glam-style metal band called It's Alive in ______ as their singer and frontma…
  15. Complete the sentence about Max Martin with the correct year: The band got a breakthrough in ______, as Dave Constable of Megarock Records offered them to make a demo record.
  16. Complete the sentence about Melodifestivalen with the correct year: With seven nations competing, the first Eurovision Song Contest took place in Lugano, Switzerland in May ______.
  17. Complete the sentence about Melodifestivalen with the correct year: The first Melodifestivalen, incorporated into the Säg det med musik radio series, took place on 29 January ______ at Cirkus in Stock…
  18. Complete the sentence about Spotify with the correct year: As of December ______, Spotify is available in most of Europe, as well as Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania, with availability in a tot…
  19. Complete the sentence about Zara Larsson with the correct year: Larsson was born on 16 December ______ in Solna, Stockholm, to Agnetha and Anders Larsson.
  20. Complete the sentence about Zara Larsson with the correct year: In an interview with Svenska Dagbladet in July ______, she said that she was born "dead" due to a lack of oxygen from a nuchal cord.
  21. Complete the sentence about Robyn with the correct year: Robin Miriam Carlsson was born on 12 June ______ in Stockholm.
  22. Complete the sentence about Robyn with the correct year: Robyn voiced the character of Miranda in the ______ Swedish-Norwegian animated film The Journey to Melonia.
  23. Complete the sentence about Robyn with the correct year: The singles became part of the album Robyn Is Here, which was released in October ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Robyn with the correct year: Robyn's second album, My Truth, was released in Sweden in May ______ and subsequently in Europe.
  25. Complete the sentence about Swedish folk music with the correct year: The first published transcription of a Swedish folk tune came out in their journal Iduna in ______.
  26. Complete the sentence about Nyckelharpa with the correct year: The oldest surviving nyckelharpa is dated ______ and is part of the Zorn Collections in Mora Municipality, Sweden.
  27. Complete the sentence about Nyckelharpa with the correct year: The earliest of these is found in a ______ fresco by Taddeo di Bartolo at the Palazzo Pubblico chapel in Siena, Italy, which depicts an a…
  28. Complete the sentence about Swedish literature with the correct year: With the conversion of the land to Christianity around ______ AD, Sweden entered the Middle Ages, during which monastic writers pr…
  29. Complete the sentence about Swedish literature with the correct year: In Sweden, the period starting in ______ is known as realism because the writing had a strong focus on social realism.
  30. Complete the sentence about Astrid Lindgren with the correct year: In ______, she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "her unique authorship dedicated to the rights of children and respect for…
  31. Complete the sentence about Astrid Lindgren with the correct year: While there in ______ she gave birth to her only son, Lars, who was fostered for four years and then returned to her.
  32. Complete the sentence about Pippi Longstocking with the correct year: After being rejected by Bonnier Publishers in ______, Lindgren's first manuscript was accepted by Rabén and Sjögren.
  33. Complete the sentence about Pippi Longstocking with the correct year: Pippi Longstocking placed first and was subsequently published in November ______ with illustrations by Ingrid Vang Nyman.
  34. Complete the sentence about August Strindberg with the correct year: In the autumn of ______, he was moved to the Stockholm Lyceum, a progressive private school for middle-class boys, where he remaine…
  35. Complete the sentence about August Strindberg with the correct year: In May ______, he failed his qualifying chemistry examination which in turn made him uninterested in schooling.
  36. Complete the sentence about August Strindberg with the correct year: Strindberg returned to Uppsala University in January ______ to study aesthetics and modern languages and to work on a number of pla…
  37. Complete the sentence about Selma Lagerlöf with the correct year: In ______, she was the first woman to be granted a membership of the Swedish Academy.
  38. Complete the sentence about Selma Lagerlöf with the correct year: Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf was born on 20 November ______ at Mårbacka, Värmland, Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway.
  39. Complete the sentence about Selma Lagerlöf with the correct year: The sale of the Lagerlöf family's Mårbacka estate in ______ had a serious impact on her development.
  40. Complete the sentence about Stieg Larsson with the correct year: In ______, Larsson was drafted into the Swedish Army under the conscription law.
  41. Complete the sentence about Henning Mankell with the correct year: In ______, he published The Stone Blaster, a novel about the Swedish labour movement.
  42. Complete the sentence about Tomas Tranströmer with the correct year: Tranströmer was born in Stockholm in ______ and raised by his mother Helmy, a schoolteacher, following her divorce from his father…
  43. Complete the sentence about Tomas Tranströmer with the correct year: In addition to selected journal publications, his first collection of poems, 17 Poems, was published in ______.
  44. Complete the sentence about Pär Lagerkvist with the correct year: In September ______ Lagerkvist was elected a member of the Swedish Academy, succeeding Verner von Heidenstam on chair 8 in December th…
  45. Complete the sentence about Pär Lagerkvist with the correct year: A movie based upon the novel was filmed in ______, with Anthony Quinn playing the title role.
  46. Complete the sentence about Carl Linnaeus with the correct year: By the time of his death in ______, he was one of the most acclaimed scientists in Europe.
  47. Complete the sentence about Carl Linnaeus with the correct year: Linnaeus was born in the village of Råshult in Småland, Sweden, on 23 May ______.
  48. Complete the sentence about Emanuel Swedenborg with the correct year: In ______, aged 27, Swedenborg returned to Sweden, where he devoted himself to natural science and engineering projects for the ne…
  49. Complete the sentence with the correct year: A first step was his meeting with King Charles XII of Sweden in the city of Lund, in ______.
  50. Complete the sentence about Anders Celsius with the correct year: Anders Celsius was born in Uppsala, Sweden, on 27 November ______.
  51. Complete the sentence about Anders Celsius with the correct year: Anders Celsius studied at Uppsala University, where his father was a teacher, and in ______ he, too, became a professor of astronomy t…
  52. Complete the sentence about Anders Celsius with the correct year: In ______, a year after Celsius's death, the scale was reversed by Carl Linnaeus to facilitate more practical measurement.
  53. Complete the sentence about Jöns Jacob Berzelius with the correct year: Following the death of his mother in ______, relatives in Linköping took care of him.
  54. Complete the sentence about Svante Arrhenius with the correct year: In ______, he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, becoming the first Swedish Nobel laureate.
  55. Complete the sentence about Svante Arrhenius with the correct year: In ______, he became the director of the Nobel Institute, where he remained until his death.
  56. Complete the sentence about Svante Arrhenius with the correct year: In ______, based on this work, he submitted a 150-page dissertation on electrolytic conductivity to Uppsala for the doctorate.
  57. Complete the sentence about Ingmar Bergman with the correct year: Most of his films were set in Sweden, and many of his films from ______ onward were filmed on the island of Fårö.
  58. Complete the sentence about Ingmar Bergman with the correct year: In ______, aged 16, he was sent to Germany to spend the summer holidays with family friends.
  59. Complete the sentence about Greta Garbo with the correct year: Garbo launched her career with a supporting role in the ______ Swedish film The Saga of Gösta Berling.
  60. Complete the sentence about Greta Garbo with the correct year: In ______, Garbo starred in A Woman of Affairs, which catapulted her to MGM's highest box-office star, surpassing the long-reigning Lilli…
  61. Complete the sentence about Greta Garbo with the correct year: In ______, Garbo was awarded an Academy Honorary Award "for her luminous and unforgettable screen performances".
  62. Complete the sentence about Ingrid Bergman with the correct year: In ______, the American Film Institute recognized her as the fourth-greatest female screen legend of Classic Hollywood Cinema.
  63. Complete the sentence about Ingrid Bergman with the correct year: In ______, when Bergman was around 14, her father died of stomach cancer.
  64. Complete the sentence about Ingrid Bergman with the correct year: Bergman's first film experience was as an extra in the ______ film Landskamp, an experience she described as "walking on holy ground".
  65. Complete the sentence about Liv Ullmann with the correct year: Ullmann won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama in ______ for the film The Emigrants and has been nominated…
  66. Complete the sentence about Liv Ullmann with the correct year: In ______, she was nominated for the Palme d'Or for her second directorial feature film, Faithless.
  67. Complete the sentence about Max von Sydow with the correct year: Carl Adolf von Sydow was born on 10 April ______ in Lund, Sweden.
  68. Complete the sentence about Max von Sydow with the correct year: In ______, Sydow joined the Norrköping-Linköping Municipal Theatre, appearing in nine plays including Peer Gynt.
  69. Complete the sentence about Max von Sydow with the correct year: Sydow's theatrical work won him critical recognition, and in ______ he received the Royal Foundation of Sweden's Cultural Award, a gran…
  70. Complete the sentence about Max von Sydow with the correct year: In ______, Sydow moved to Malmö and joined the Malmö City Theatre, whose chief director at the time was Ingmar Bergman.
  71. Complete the sentence about Alicia Vikander with the correct year: In ______ she participated in the TV4 children's singing show Småstjärnorna; she performed the Helen Sjöholms song, "Du måste finnas"…
  72. Complete the sentence about Noomi Rapace with the correct year: In ______, she won acclaim for her award-winning portrayal of a troubled teen mother in the Danish film Daisy Diamond, directed by Simon…
  73. Complete the sentence about Lasse Hallström with the correct year: Lars Sven "Lasse" Hallström was born on 2 June ______ in Stockholm, Sweden.
  74. Complete the sentence about Roy Andersson with the correct year: Roy Arne Lennart Andersson was born on 31 March ______ in Uddevalla, the eldest of four brothers.
  75. Complete the sentence about Roy Andersson with the correct year: Eventually he directed the film Giliap which was released in ______.
  76. Complete the sentence about Roy Andersson with the correct year: In ______ he established Studio 24, an independent film company and studio located in central Stockholm.
  77. Complete the sentence about Swedish film with the correct year: Swedish filmmaking rose to international prominence when Svenska Biografteatern moved from Kristianstad to Lidingö in ______.
  78. Complete the sentence about Carl Larsson with the correct year: Larsson was born on 28 May ______, in the Gamla stan neighborhood of Stockholm, Sweden.
  79. Complete the sentence about Anders Zorn with the correct year: At the end of his life in ______, he established the Swedish literary Bellman Prize.
  80. Complete the sentence about Anders Zorn with the correct year: In early ______, Zorn met Emma Lamm, whose background was quite different from his.
  81. Complete the sentence about Anders Zorn with the correct year: At the age of 29, he was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur at the Exposition Universelle ______ Paris World Fair.
  82. Complete the sentence about Bruno Liljefors with the correct year: Liljefors died in ______ and was buried at the Uppsala old cemetery.
  83. Complete the sentence about Ikea with the correct year: In ______, the 17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad founded IKEA as a mail-order sales business and began to resell furniture five years later.
  84. Complete the sentence about Volvo Cars with the correct year: The first Volvo car left the assembly line on 14 April ______, and was called the Volvo ÖV 4.
  85. Complete the sentence about Volvo Cars with the correct year: In the registration application for the Volvo logotype in ______, it simply made a copy of the entire radiator for the ÖV 4, viewed from t…
  86. Complete the sentence about Volvo Cars with the correct year: The first Volvos arrived in the United States in ______, after the hardware wholesaler Leo Hirsh began distributing cars in California.
  87. Complete the sentence about Saab Automobile with the correct year: The first production model, the Saab 92, was launched in ______.
  88. Complete the sentence about Saab Automobile with the correct year: In ______, the parent company merged with Scania-Vabis, and ten years later the Saab 900 was launched, in time becoming Saab's best-s…
  89. Complete the sentence about Saab Automobile with the correct year: In ______, the automobile division of Saab-Scania was restructured into an independent company, Saab Automobile AB.
  90. Complete the sentence about Scania AB with the correct year: AB Scania-Vabis was established in ______ as the result of a merger between Södertälje-based Vabis and Malmö-based Maskinfabriks-aktiebolag…
  91. Complete the sentence about Scania AB with the correct year: In ______, Maskinfabriks-aktiebolaget Scania had succeeded in constructing reliable vehicles, while Vabis was at the brink of closing down.
  92. Complete the sentence about Scania AB with the correct year: Initially the headquarters were located in Malmö, but in ______ they were moved to Södertälje.
  93. Complete the sentence about Ericsson with the correct year: In ______, at the age of 30, he started a telegraph repair shop with help from his friend Carl Johan Andersson in central Stockholm and repa…
  94. Complete the sentence about Ericsson with the correct year: In ______, Ericsson began making and selling his own telephone equipment.
  95. Complete the sentence about Ericsson with the correct year: In ______, he agreed to supply telephones and switchboards to Sweden's first telecommunications operating company, Stockholms Allmänna Telef…
  96. Complete the sentence about Ericsson with the correct year: In the UK, the National Telephone Company was a major customer; by ______ sold 28% of its output in the UK.
  97. Complete the sentence about H&M with the correct year: H&M was founded by Erling Persson in ______ under the name Hennes.
  98. Complete the sentence about H&M with the correct year: The business was established in ______ by Erling Persson, when he opened his first shop in Västerås, Sweden.
  99. Complete the sentence about H&M with the correct year: The company was listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange in ______.
  100. Complete the sentence about H&M with the correct year: Shortly after, in ______, the first store outside Scandinavia opened in London.

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