Q 01/05

Besides Denmark proper and Greenland, what is the third constituent part of the Danish kingdom?

A) The Faroe Islands

B) The Shetland Islands

C) The Åland Islands

D) The Lofoten Islands

Answer · why

A) The Faroe Islands

The Faroe Islands voted narrowly to leave Denmark in 1946, but the king dissolved their parliament and the islands settled for home rule two years lat...

Q 02/05

What is Greenland's capital and largest city?

A) Ilulissat

B) Sisimiut

C) Nuuk

D) Qaqortoq

Answer · why

C) Nuuk

Nuuk was Godthåb to the Danes for more than two centuries, until home rule arrived in 1979 and Greenlanders put their own names back on the map.

Q 03/05

Geographically, Greenland is part of which continent?

A) It is its own continent

B) Europe

C) North America

D) Asia

Answer · why

C) North America

Politically it was tied to Norway from 986 and later to Denmark, but it sits east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

Q 04/05

Since 2022 Greenland has shared a land border with Canada across which tiny island in Nares Strait?

A) Franklin Island

B) Crozier Island

C) Hans Island

D) Beechey Island

Answer · why

C) Hans Island

Hans Island. For decades Canadians and Danes took turns planting flags and leaving bottles of whisky or schnapps there, until a 2022 deal split the ro...

Q 05/05

Which Norse explorer, exiled from Iceland, gave Greenland its name in the hope of attracting settlers?

A) Bjarni Herjólfsson

B) Harald Fairhair

C) Leif Erikson

D) Erik the Red

Answer · why

D) Erik the Red

Erik the Red was banished from Iceland for manslaughter, spent his exile exploring the unknown coast to the west, then sailed home to recruit colonist...