Q 01/05

The blue and yellow of every IKEA store are the national colours of which country?

A) Sweden

B) Denmark

C) Norway

D) Ukraine

Answer · why

A) Sweden

The company was founded there in 1943 and opened its first store in the province of Småland in 1958.

Q 02/05

The letters I and K in IKEA stand for the founder's name. What do the E and A stand for?

A) His parents' first names

B) The farm and village where he grew up

C) Two Swedish words for home and shop

D) His wife's initials

Answer · why

B) The farm and village where he grew up

Elmtaryd was the family farm and Agunnaryd the nearby village.

Q 03/05

How old was Ingvar Kamprad when he founded IKEA in 1943?

A) 21

B) 25

C) 17

D) 30

Answer · why

C) 17

It began as a mail-order business selling pens, wallets and picture frames; furniture only arrived five years later.

Q 04/05

What did the young Ingvar Kamprad buy in bulk from Stockholm and resell to his neighbours?

A) Seeds

B) Pencils

C) Christmas cards

D) Matches

Answer · why

D) Matches

He moved on to seeds, pens and Christmas decorations before founding a company at 17.

Q 05/05

In which small Swedish town did the first IKEA store open in 1958?

A) Älmhult

B) Malmö

C) Uppsala

D) Jönköping

Answer · why

A) Älmhult

The IKEA Museum now occupies that original building.