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Eight cheerful questions about the things Sweden is best known for. Everyone can join in, whatever your age, and discover something new.
First stop in Sweden 0–3 · Forest and lake explorer 4–6 · Swede at heart 7–8
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Sweden's flag shows a yellow cross on a blue background, and blue and yellow have been Swedish colours since at least 1275, when they appeared in a king's coat of arms. Sweden's National Day, 6 June, was called Swedish Flag Day until 1983.
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The name ABBA is made from the first letters of the four members' first names: Agnetha, Björn, Benny and Anni-Frid. In 2005, at a celebration of the contest's 50th birthday, 'Waterloo' was chosen as the best song in the whole history of Eurovision.
Photo: AVRO, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl.
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Pippi has red hair and freckles, and she is so strong that she can lift her horse with one hand. Her name was made up by Astrid Lindgren's daughter Karin, who was ill in bed in 1941 and asked her mother for a story about a girl called Pippi Longstocking.
Photo: Unknown photographer, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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Anders Celsius, an astronomer from Uppsala, proposed his scale in 1742. Surprisingly, he set it the other way round, with 0 for boiling water and 100 for freezing water, and the scale was only flipped the year after he died.
Photo: Olof Arenius, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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Nils Bohlin, who had earlier helped design ejector seats for planes, created the belt that crosses both the chest and the lap and clicks in at the side. The design was later made free for everyone to use, and today it is fitted in practically every car.
Photo: State Farm, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.
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Swedes call it a kanelbulle, and many bakers add cardamom, a fragrant spice, to the dough. Cinnamon Bun Day has been celebrated since 1999, and in the old Haga district of Gothenburg you can find cinnamon buns that are very large indeed.
Photo: Kritzolina, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Surströmming is Baltic herring that has been left to ferment for months, and its smell is one of the strongest of any food in the world. That is why it is often eaten outdoors, and the swollen tin is sometimes first opened in a bucket of water so the smelly juice does not spray out.
Photo: Lapplaender, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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This ice hotel is built again every winter from snow and blocks of ice taken from the nearby Torne River, and even the beds are made of ice. When spring comes, most of it melts and flows back into the river, and its very first guests, in 1990, slept in an igloo on reindeer skins.
Photo: Lars Thulin, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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