ANSWERS: 34
  • The Nobel Peace Prize.
  • Volvo and IKEA. meatballs and smorgasbord. ABBA.
  • Blondes and Neutrality
  • Many things. People who are blond and/or very fair in complection, Ikea, ABBA, Meatballs. But my personal favourite Swedish claim to fame will always be the Swedish Chef.
  • Crystal/The Glass Kingdom; smorgasbord; Volvo and Saab; pop and metal bands; socialism.
  • what about chocolate and watches/clocks
  • Swedes
  • Jumping into a hot tub outside during the dead of winter. Glug, this hot spiced wine with fruit and nuts floating in it... Damn good stuff. I worked for Volvo for 12 years, that by far is the best.
  • Gustavus Adolphus during the 30 years war. He used newer and more advanced fighting techniques against the Catholic armies of the Hapsburgs and their allies. "As a general, Gustav Adolf is famous for employing mobile artillery on the battlefield, as well as very aggressive tactics, where attack was stressed over defense and mobility emphasized over the usual linear tactics" Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavus_Adolphus_of_Sweden http://badley.info/history/Thirty-Years-War-Sweden.general.html Sweden is also know for all the reasons given in the former answers as well.
  • Bo Hansson who recorded; "Lord of the rings" "Magicians hat" "Attic thoughts" and "watership down" all excellent albums but little known?
  • Meatballs
  • Blonde haired pigtail braids..accents...and vodka?
  • eh visst va, inte bara IKEA =)
  • How much of your furniture is from IKEA?
  • Swedes! Oh and my Volvo car!
  • High suicide rates! Beautiful blonde women,and great seafood! Soviet subs running aground on their coastline! It's the nude blondes always sunbathing that causes that activity!
  • TetraPak machinery....Great fun to operate and hugely expensive!!!!!
  • Absolut Vodka
  • Lots of people living in sin, the marriage rate is very low. Saab Pickled Fish
  • Beautiful blondes.
  • Bikini Team?
  • their bikini team meatballs pancakes
  • having some kickazz laws regarding copyright protected material
  • Helping downed US pilots during WWII Helping Jewish refugees escape the Nazi regime throughout Hitler's reign Volvo Saab Absolut Vodka Aquavit Raoul Wallenberg The Nobel Prizes TetraPak Engineering The Aswan Dam The safest nuclear power plants in the world IKEA Eriksson Telephone Hennes and Mauritz SAS Airlines, the airlines with the best safety record, by far, in the world. Bofors Inovative automobile safety devices Ingmar Bergman Lasse Hallström Bo Hansson First class, high quality goods Worker's rights Stainless Steel Athletes Beautiful women Maud Adams Ann-Margret Ingrid Bergman May Britt Anita Ekberg Britt Ekland Greta Garbo Handsome men A modern wealthy, healthy, educated society Honest government officials that are called upon to mediate disputes around the world. Olaf Palme Dag Hammarskjöld, the second Secretary General of the United Nations Folke Bernadotte (1895–1948), count and diplomat, mediated the formation of Israel and was murdered for his efforts. Hans Blix (born 1928), diplomat Rolf Ekéus, diplomat Liberalism and Tolerance Quiet, confident, proud people. Short, fantastic summers. Long, dark winters. Officially neutral in every war since 1864. Alfalfa, The Safety Match, the cream separator, the light-sensitive electric switch Entrepreneurship Gustaf Dalén (1869–1937), inventor and entrepreneur Lars Magnus Ericsson (1846–1926), industrialist and founder of Ericsson AB John Ericsson (1803–1889), inventor and engineer Nils Ericson (1802–1860), railroad pioneer Ingvar Kamprad (born 1926), founder of IKEA Ivar Kreuger (1880–1932), industrialist and financier, Swedish Match Gustav de Laval (1845–1913), industrialist, Alfa-Laval Alfred Nobel (1833–1896), industrialist, instituted the Nobel Prizes Niklas Zennström (born 1966), founder of the KaZaa peer-to-peer file sharing network and Skype peer-to-peer internet telephony network Anders Celsius (1701–1744), astronomer Eva Ekeblad (1724–1786), botanist Magnus Jaderberg (born 1954), pharmaceutical physician Carolus Linnaeus (1707–1778), botanist Lise Meitner (1878–1968), nuclear physicist Christopher Polhem (1661–1751), physicist Johannes Rydberg (1854–1919), physicist Verner von Heidenstam (1859–1940), poet, novelist and Nobel Prize laureate Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864–1931), poet and Nobel Prize laureate Eyvind Johnson (1900–1976), novelist and Nobel Prize laureate Pär Lagerkvist (1891–1974), writer Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940), novelist and Nobel Prize laureate Anna Maria Lenngren (1754–1817), poet Astrid Lindgren (1907–2002), children's author Vilhelm Moberg (1898–1973), novelist August Strindberg (1849–1912), novelist and playwright Axel Hägerström (1868–1939), philosopher, a founder of the Uppsala school of philosophy Sven Hedin (1865–1952), explorer Mauritz Stiller, director Saint Birgitta (1303–1373), patron saint of Europe Anders Zorn (1860–1920), painter Carl Milles (1875–1955), Swedish sculptor Carl Larsson (1859–1928), painter Alvah and Gunnar Myrdahl -All of the above from a population the size of the greater NYC metro area. Oh yeah, ...and swedish meatballs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Swedes
  • Being hated by Denmark. Oh, and Meatballs.
  • ... the great recipe for Swedish Meatballs (that we stole from Denmark) ... ... and my family tree ... .
  • snus...
  • Volvo, cute blonde girls.
  • Bikini Team
  • Vikings Furniture Meatballs Fjords Volvos
  • meatballs
  • Inga and Sven
  • Pippi :) Ikea, "æbleskiver", H&M (?), design? ;)

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