Q 01/05

Central Stockholm is spread across how many islands?

A) Three

B) Seven

C) Fourteen

D) Thirty

Answer · why

C) Fourteen

Fourteen. They sit where a great inland lake meets the Baltic, and by about 1200 ships had to unload there, one reason a trading town grew up at the s...

Q 02/05

Which Swedish ruler, whose 1252 letters first mention Stockholm, is traditionally called its founder?

A) Gustav Vasa

B) Birger Jarl

C) Magnus Ladulås

D) Sten Sture

Answer · why

B) Birger Jarl

Birger Jarl. German merchants were invited to settle and trade there free of customs duties, and by the end of the 13th century the new town had becom...

Q 03/05

In the world's largest scale model of the Solar System, Stockholm's giant spherical Globe arena plays which body?

A) The Earth

B) Jupiter

C) The Sun

D) The Moon

Answer · why

C) The Sun

The Sun. With the arena as the Sun, the scale puts the inner planets around Stockholm but Pluto about 300 km to the north, a road trip that shows how ...

Q 04/05

Which freshwater lake, Sweden's third largest, flows out into the Baltic at Stockholm?

A) Vänern

B) Vättern

C) Hjälmaren

D) Mälaren

Answer · why

D) Mälaren

Mälaren. In Viking times it was a bay of the Baltic that ships could sail far inland; the land, still rising since the Ice Age, made its mouth too sha...

Q 05/05

Which Viking Age trading centre near Stockholm is a World Heritage Site?

A) Sigtuna

B) Uppsala

C) Birka

D) Visby

Answer · why

C) Birka

Its restored remains sit on a lake island; the site of Stockholm itself appears in the sagas as Agnafit.