29-05-2002 21:43									#1
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Since we already have three threads like this, another one surely can't hurt.

	29-05-2002 21:51									#2
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Jeez, I never knew I that knew so many Swedes

	29-05-2002 21:55									#3
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All except Max Martin, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Sven-Göran Eriksson and Lennart Johansson.

BTW, can 'Famous Norwegians' be far behind?

Let's see:

1. Vidkun Quisling
2. Varg Vikernes

umm... err... uhh...

	29-05-2002 21:57									#4
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I was looking to click "Who cares?" But that doesn't seem to be a choice...

	29-05-2002 21:58									#5
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Varg Vikernes, ROTFLMAO

damkuna, iftraga, sheg nigurapur, dafast

well, I only know 2-4... that's about as few as on the Belgian one, I seem to know more Finns and Danes than Swedes

(I think you guys just put different emphasii (??)) on persons...

	29-05-2002 21:58									#6
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All of 'em

(Didn't do the test though, Wouldn't like to mess up the results)

	29-05-2002 21:58									#7
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You forgot Seka.

	29-05-2002 22:04									#8
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pamela anderson

	29-05-2002 22:05									#9
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All, except for Max Martin, Carolus Linneaus and Carl Wilhelm Scheele. I suspect they must be Swedish beer drinking champions or maybe hold the record for having the longest hair i länet.

Omissions would seem to be Ingemar Stenmark, Alfred Nobel and quite a few others who had the misfortune of being born just a little too far East, poor chaps.

	29-05-2002 22:32									#10
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The list underrepresents some great sportsmen and women. A golfer, a couple tennis players, a couple downhill skiers and at least two dozen hockey players would all be instantly recognizable for me.

I enjoyed the fiction of Sjowall and Wahloo but I don't know how popular their detective series was.

Glad to hear that someone is claiming Pam as Swedish. We don't want her.

	29-05-2002 23:01									#11
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I put two sportsmen, a manager and a top-level sports official in there...

Sjövall-Wahlöö would have been a good suggestion.

In many countries Carolus Linnaeus is known as Carl von Linée, his secular name. I went for the one more commonly used in England.

	29-05-2002 23:02									#12
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now I have heard of that one before, he was a biologist IIRC, but I didn't recognize his name that way

	29-05-2002 23:12									#13
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And before Boris starts screeming about Opera singers like he did in the other thread:

Yes, I could have put Jussi Björling on there. But I didn't.

	29-05-2002 23:28									#14
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Why did you leave out Sten Sture?

	29-05-2002 23:29									#15
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Who is Björn Borg?

	29-05-2002 23:29									#16
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Everyone rings a bell except Martin, Brolin, Scheele and Johansson

	29-05-2002 23:53									#17
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Borg - old tennis star. - late 70s early 80s.
Also inspiration for Star Trek villains.

	29-05-2002 23:55									#18
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Omitting Nobel really makes this useless. Most people (except, as ever, Hollywood scriptwriters) can place that name immediately.

	30-05-2002 00:01									#19
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If everyone knows who Alfred Nobel is, surely he doesn't need to be included on the list?

	30-05-2002 00:04									#20
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Perhaps we have a couple of Hollywold scripters here at 'Poly?

	30-05-2002 00:07									#21
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Anyway, I don't think most English people would know who Nobel was. Almost everyone I've asked seem to think the Nobel prices were in fact Noble prices...

	30-05-2002 00:08									#22
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quote: Originally posted by Snapcase If everyone knows who Alfred Nobel is, surely he doesn't need to be included on the list?

The guy who invented dynamite of course!

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Maybe I spend too much time with academics. Dunno.

So, where are the Abba girls then, huh? I'm sure a lot of the people who think it's "Noble" who place them...

	30-05-2002 00:12									#24
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quote: Originally posted by Snapcase Anyway, I don't think most English people would know who Nobel was. Almost everyone I've asked seem to think the Nobel prices were in fact Noble prices...

Prices? Prizes? Gases?

	30-05-2002 00:29									#25
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Heh, I only knew 3.... + Henrik.


-FMK.

	30-05-2002 00:34									#26
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Hardly any know of Max martin although they probably hear his work everyday. If they knew they would probably despise him.

	30-05-2002 00:41									#27
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quote: Originally posted by Kropotkin Hardly any know of Max martin although they probably hear his work everyday. If they knew they would probably despise him.

I imagine he is similar to Brian Eno who, among other things, composed the Windows '95 opening sequence music.

	30-05-2002 00:55									#28
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All right, Swedes, reveal thy mysteries. Who is Max Martin? And while we're at it, who is Carl Wilhem Scheele, and why do you assume anyone's heard of him? Same goes for Max Martin, too.

	30-05-2002 01:10									#29
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Scheele was a chemist; I only know about him b/c of a book I recently read.

I knew Gustavus Adolphus; Astrid Lindgren; Carolus Linnaeus; Carl Scheele; Ingmar Bergman; Dag Hammarskjöld; and Raoul Wallenberg.

	30-05-2002 01:24									#30
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quote: Originally posted by Stefu All right, Swedes, reveal thy mysteries. Who is Max Martin? And while we're at it, who is Carl Wilhem Scheele, and why do you assume anyone's heard of him? Same goes for Max Martin, too.

Scheele is one of Sweden's more famous scientists, a chemist who among other things discovered no less than seven common elements (all shared-credit in textbooks, due to the shoddy publishing system of the period, but generally taken to include Oxygen, Nitrogen and Chlorine) plus a number of now-famous acids.

Max Martin is sweden's most infamous record producer and songwriter, and has written such wonderful classics as, erm, "Baby One More Time" and "Oops I did It Again" by Britney Spears and several Backstreet boys songs. Several american grammy awards from Songwriting, and generally representing everything that's wrong with pop.