Denmark Trivia
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69 free Denmark trivia questions with answers — geography quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
68 free Denmark trivia questions with answers. Denmark is a small, flat country that punches far above its weight in trivia: the oldest continuously used national flag, the monarchy that traces itself back to Gorm the Old, the Viking king who lent his name to your headphones, the toy company that outsells every other on Earth, and the fairy-tale writer whose birthday is a global holiday for children's books. This Denmark trivia quiz covers all of it. Sixty-eight questions run through geography (406 islands, a highest point you could walk up in ten minutes), Viking and medieval history, the Kalmar Union, 1864, the German occupation, the road to the EU and the euro referendum, the Folketing, Frederik X and Queen Mary, and then the fun stuff: LEGO, Tivoli, the Little Mermaid, Carl Nielsen, Dogme 95, smørrebrød, Euro 1992 and world-champion handball. It suits pub quizzes, classrooms, and anyone planning a trip to Copenhagen. Every answer has been checked against encyclopaedia and official pages, so the dates, numbers and names here are ones you can rely on.
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Q 01Copenhagen sits mainly on which island, Denmark's largest?
Zealand
Copenhagen spreads across Zealand and the smaller island of Amager, home to the airport at Kastrup; the two are linked by bridges across the harbour.
Q 02Which strait separates the islands of Zealand and Funen?
Great Belt
The Great Belt (Storebælt) separates Zealand from Funen; the Great Belt Fixed Link, opened to road traffic in 1998, crosses it with about 18 km of bridges and tunnel.
Q 03Denmark's highest natural point, Møllehøj, rises to roughly what height?
171 m
Møllehøj, in eastern Jutland, measures 170.86 m, about 171 m; a 2005 survey found it nine centimetres higher than neighbouring Yding Skovhøj, long thought the highest natural point.
Q 04Denmark shares its only land border with which country?
Germany
Denmark's only land border, 68 km long, runs with Germany across the base of Jutland; every other frontier is coastline.
Q 05No point in Denmark is farther from the coast than about how far?
52 km
No spot in Denmark lies more than about 52 km from the coast, roughly an hour's drive, which helps explain why Danes have been sailors, traders and Vikings for a thousand years.
Q 06The island of Bornholm lies about 150 km east of the rest of Denmark, in which sea?
Baltic Sea
Bornholm sits in the Baltic Sea, closer to Sweden and Poland than to Copenhagen; its round churches and smoked herring make it a favourite summer escape.
Q 07What is Denmark's average height above sea level?
31 m
Denmark's average elevation is just 31 m above sea level; the land is a glacial leftover of moraine and sand, which is why cycling everywhere is so painless.
Q 08What is Denmark's largest lake?
Arresø
Arresø, in North Zealand north-west of Copenhagen, covers about 41 km², making it Denmark's largest lake, though it averages only about three metres deep.
Q 09The Danish monarchy, Europe's oldest, traces its roots to which 10th-century king?
Gorm the Old
Gorm the Old, who died around 958, heads the unbroken Danish royal line; his son Harald Bluetooth succeeded him, and Margrethe II and Frederik X both descend from Gorm.
Q 10Which monuments record that Harald Bluetooth made the Danes Christian around 965?
Jelling stones
The larger stone, sometimes called Denmark's birth certificate, carries the oldest known image of Christ in Scandinavia.
Q 11An engineer at which company proposed the name Bluetooth in 1997?
Intel
Intel engineer Jim Kardach proposed 'Bluetooth' in 1997 because Harald united the Danish tribes and the technology was meant to unite communication protocols; the logo merges the runes for his initials.
Q 12Which Danish-born explorer, sailing for Russia, gave his name to the strait between Asia and America?
Vitus Bering
Vitus Bering, born in Horsens in 1681, led Russia's Kamchatka expeditions and sailed through the strait later named for him in 1728; he died on Bering Island in 1741.
Q 13Which Danish king drove Æthelred the Unready into exile and took England in 1013?
Sweyn Forkbeard
Q 21The 1814 Treaty of Kiel ended Denmark's four-century union with which country?
Norway
Denmark, on the losing side of the Napoleonic Wars, ceded Norway to the king of Sweden under the Treaty of Kiel in January 1814, though it kept Iceland, the Faroes and Greenland.
Q 22Denmark's constitution, which ended absolute monarchy, was signed on 5 June of which year?
1849
Frederick VII signed the June Constitution on 5 June 1849, ending absolutism and guaranteeing freedom of the press; the date became Denmark's Constitution Day.
Q 23In the 1864 Second Schleswig War, Denmark lost Schleswig and Holstein to which powers?
Prussia and Austria
Prussia and Austria crushed Denmark in 1864 and took Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg, about a third of the monarchy's territory, leaving a small state that turned to neutrality.
Sweyn Forkbeard, son of Harald Bluetooth, was acknowledged king of England at Christmas 1013 but died five weeks later, in February 1014; his son later completed the conquest.
Q 14Which Danish king conquered England and ruled it, along with Denmark, in the early 11th century?
Canute the Great
Canute the Great ruled England from 1016 and Denmark from 1018, adding Norway in 1028; the tale of him commanding the tide was meant to show his humility before God, not his arrogance.
Q 15Which ruler engineered the 1397 Kalmar Union of Denmark, Norway and Sweden?
Margaret I
Queen Margaret I ruled as regent rather than crowned queen, and the union lasted until 1523.
Q 16In what year did Denmark officially convert to Lutheranism?
1536
In 1536, after winning the Count's Feud civil war, Christian III imposed the Lutheran Reformation, and the Church of Denmark has been Lutheran ever since.
Q 17Christian IV founded which town as a rival to Hamburg?
Glückstadt
Christian IV founded Glückstadt on the Elbe in 1617 to rival Hamburg; the builder-king also gave Copenhagen the Round Tower, Rosenborg Castle and the Stock Exchange with its dragon-tail spire.
Q 18Which king replaced Denmark's elective monarchy with absolute rule in the 17th century?
Frederick III
Frederick III used his popularity after the Swedish wars to make the crown hereditary and absolute in 1660; absolutism lasted until Denmark's first constitution in the mid-19th century.
Q 19Denmark's West African slave-trading fort at Osu stood in which modern country?
Ghana
Osu Castle, on the coast at Accra in modern Ghana, was Denmark's main Gold Coast fort; Danish ships carried roughly 100,000 enslaved Africans, mostly to the Danish West Indies, today's US Virgin Islands.
Q 20Which navy bombarded and burned much of Copenhagen in 1807?
British
Britain wanted to stop the Danish fleet falling into Napoleon's hands, and simply took it away instead.
Q 24In what year did North Schleswig rejoin Denmark after a plebiscite?
1920
The 1920 plebiscite, held after Germany's defeat in the First World War, which Denmark had sat out as a neutral, returned North Schleswig to Denmark; 15 June became Reunification Day.
Q 25On what date did the German occupation of Denmark begin?
9 April 1940
Germany invaded on 9 April 1940; Danish resistance lasted only a few hours, and the occupation ran until liberation on 5 May 1945.
Q 26In September 1943 the Danish resistance helped Niels Bohr escape by sea to which country?
Sweden
Bohr crossed to Sweden by boat on 29 September 1943, was flown on to Britain in the bomb bay of a Mosquito, and ended up advising the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos.
Q 27Iceland severed its ties with Denmark and became an independent republic in which year?
1944
Iceland declared itself a republic on 17 June 1944, while Denmark was under German occupation and in no position to object; Christian X sent his congratulations anyway.
Q 28Denmark joined the EEC in 1973 alongside Ireland and which other country?
Britain
Denmark, Ireland and Britain joined the EEC on 1 January 1973; Greenland came in as part of Denmark but voted to leave and exited in 1985, the first territory to do so.
Q 29In which year did Danes vote in a referendum to reject adopting the euro?
2000
In September 2000 Danes voted 53% to 47% against joining the euro; having already rejected Maastricht once before approving it with opt-outs, they kept the krone.
Q 30The Danish krone is pegged to the euro at roughly what rate?
7.46 kroner
The peg runs through the ERM II mechanism, so Denmark effectively imports European Central Bank policy without a seat at the table.