Q 01/05

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was first published in Sweden under a title meaning what in English?

A) Men Who Hate Women

B) The Girl Who Vanished

C) The Island of Secrets

D) The Winter of Lies

Answer · why

A) Men Who Hate Women

Men Who Hate Women was the title Stieg Larsson refused to let his Swedish publisher change. The English edition, released after his death, renamed the...

Q 02/05

Stieg Larsson said he based Lisbeth Salander on which children's book heroine imagined as an adult?

A) Nancy Drew

B) Anne of Green Gables

C) Pippi Longstocking

D) Dorothy Gale

Answer · why

C) Pippi Longstocking

Pippi Longstocking is hidden on Salander's own front door in the series: the nameplate reads V. Kulla, short for Villa Villekulla, the name of Pippi's...

Q 03/05

What killed Stieg Larsson at 50, before The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo had even been printed?

A) A brain aneurysm

B) A heart attack

C) Lung cancer

D) A car crash

Answer · why

B) A heart attack

A heart attack struck after he climbed the stairs to his office, with three finished novels accepted by a publisher but none yet in print. He never sa...

Q 04/05

Which actress earned an Oscar nomination as Lisbeth Salander in the 2011 Hollywood film?

A) Carey Mulligan

B) Natalie Portman

C) Scarlett Johansson

D) Rooney Mara

Answer · why

D) Rooney Mara

Rooney Mara won the part after two and a half months of auditions, then had her brow pierced and her eyebrows bleached to play the hacker. Her nose an...

Q 05/05

What does Henrik Vanger receive on every birthday in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, convinced a killer sends it?

A) A pressed flower

B) A blank postcard

C) A single chess piece

D) An old photograph

Answer · why

A) A pressed flower

A pressed flower in a frame had been his grandniece Harriet's yearly gift, so each new one feels like a taunt from her murderer. Who really sends them...