English
What is the term for a word that imitates a natural sound (e.g. “buzz”)?
Onomatopoeia
What is the most abundant gas in Earth’s atmosphere?
Nitrogen
What is the capital of Turkey?
Ankara
Which Swedish author wrote The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo?
Stieg Larsson
What is the most widely spoken language in the world by native speakers?
Mandarin Chinese
What is the adjective form of the noun “chaos”?
Chaotic
What is the SI unit of electrical resistance?
Ohm
What is the capital of South Korea?
Seoul
What is the name of Sweden’s national epic poem written in the 14th century?
Erikskrönikan
What language family does English belong to?
Germanic
What is the literary term for a contrast between expectation and reality?
Situational irony
What type of rock is formed from cooled lava?
Igneous rock
What is the capital of Chile
Santiago
Which Swedish film director created The Seventh Seal?
Ingmar Bergman
What is the term for a word borrowed from another language?
Loanword
What is the term for a sentence that contains two independent clauses joined by a conjunction?
Compound sentence
What is the name of the boundary between tectonic plates where one plate moves under another?
Subduction zone
What is the capital of Ethiopia?
Addis Ababa
What Swedish literary prize is awarded annually alongside the Nobel Prize?
The Nobel prize in literature
What is the official language of Iran?
Farsi
What is the term for a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
Omniscient narrator
What is the process by which a liquid changes directly into a gas without becoming a liquid first?
Sublimation
What is the capital of Croatia?
Zagreb
As of the 2020s, Sweden has this many official national minority languages.
Sami, Finnish, Meänkieli, Romani, and Yiddish
What is the word for school in French?
ecole