Geography
The 3 Scandinavian countries.
What are Sweden, Norway, and Denmark?
What is hej hej?
An image that represents both surface level and deeper aspects of culture.
What is the cultural iceberg?
This country's flag is said to have fallen from the sky during a battle in Estonia.
What is Denmark?
This is a commonly enjoyed candy in Scandinavia.
What is salty black licorice (saltlakrits)?
The 5 Nordic countries.
What are Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, and Finland?
How to say thank you in Swedish.
What is tack?
You travel to Sweden and observe that people are eating cinnamon buns for fika. This is an observation related to which level of culture.
What is surface level culture?
This famous author is on the Swedish 20 kr note.
Who is Astrid Lindgren?
True or false. Equality is a high value in Scandinavian culture.
What is true?
This is the country that viking Erik the Red sailed to...they set out with 25 ships, but only 14 arrived.
What is Greenland?
Your grandmother (your mom's mom) in Swedish.
What is mormor?
This is a value that the children's character, Pippi Longstocking, embodies.
Bonus: What is her name in Swedish?
Independence (självständighet)
Bonus: Pippi Långstrump
This concept, promoted by health authorities in Sweden, restricts candy to one day of the week.
What is Saturday Candy (lördagsgodis)?
This is the idea that you do not want to stick out too much, or pretend to be better than anyone else.
What is the law of Jante (jantelagen)?
This is a significant landmark in Jjukkasjärvi, Sweden.
What is the ice hotel?
The words for dog and cat in Swedish.
What are hund and katt?
Recycling, biking, compost, and thrift shopping all reflect this Scandinavian cultural value.
What is sustainability/care for the environment?
Anne Haav, from Skåbu, Norway, grew up on a dairy farm and invented this.
What is gudbrandsdalost, a type of brunost (brown cheese)?
These are the remnants of Viking language/writing.
What are runes?
You can find polar bears in this far north region of Norway.
What is the Svalbard archipelago?
How to count to five in Swedish.
What is ett, två, tre, fyra, fem?
This Danish word describes the practice of "taking time away from the daily rush to be together with people you care about - or even by yourself - to relax and enjoy life's quieter pleasures."
What is hygge?
This Norwegian man invented the "ostehøvel" cheese slicer 100 years ago in the town of Lillehammer.
Who is Thor Bjørklund?
The 3 "v" words that describe the stereotype of Swedish success.
What is Villa, Volvo, Vovve?