# 🛡️ Vikings Trivia Set

**Used:** 2025-06-13

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## 📌 REGULAR QUESTIONS

### 1. What region of Europe were the Vikings originally from?  
**Answer:** Scandinavia  
**Taglines:**  
- Cold climate, colder hearts  
- Where fjords meet fury  
- Home of axes and angst  
- IKEA's bloodthirsty predecessors  
- Exporters of fear and furniture  

### 2. What was the primary Viking ship called?  
**Answer:** Longship  
**Taglines:**  
- Like an Uber, but with oars and war  
- Longship: sleek, scary, soggy  
- The original drive-by  
- Rows before bros  
- Viking sea chariot of doom  

### 3. What is the name of the Viking heaven for warriors?  
**Answer:** Valhalla  
**Taglines:**  
- Endless ale and axe fights  
- Heaven’s most metal VIP lounge  
- Afterlife with buffet and battles  
- Where dying in battle earns bottle service  
- Not peaceful, just epic  

### 4. What Viking explorer is believed to have reached North America before Columbus?  
**Answer:** Leif Erikson  
**Taglines:**  
- Erikson: Viking MVP of the pre-Columbian league  
- America’s first uninvited guest  
- Iceland’s finest export  
- Leif it to the Norse  
- Dude beat Columbus, no statues  

### 5. What was the term for Viking law assemblies?  
**Answer:** Thing  
**Taglines:**  
- “We’re having a Thing” – the Norse Congress  
- Viking version of a town hall with more axes  
- The original “let’s circle back”  
- Thing: it’s not just a Marvel character  
- No PowerPoints, just power plays  

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## 🧩 FILL-IN-THE-BLANK QUESTIONS

### 1. The Viking age began around the year ______ AD.  
**Answer:** 793  
**Taglines:**  
- When monasteries got nervous  
- 793: the original "Oh no"  
- Raiding season opens  
- Kicked off with coastal drama  
- Pillage & plunder season premiere  

### 2. The Viking alphabet was made up of symbols called ______.  
**Answer:** Runes  
**Taglines:**  
- Emo letters from the North  
- Runes: for when you want to hex AND text  
- Magic meets messaging  
- Viking font of doom  
- Spell it, then spell-cast it  

### 3. Viking warriors sometimes went into battle wearing ______ instead of armor.  
**Answer:** Animal skins  
**Taglines:**  
- Fuzzy, feral fashion  
- Dress to distress  
- Berserkers: ragewear specialists  
- When bears became battle buddies  
- No chainmail, just chaos couture  

### 4. The Viking homeland of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden is collectively called ______.  
**Answer:** Scandinavia  
**Taglines:**  
- Land of gods, glaciers, and grudges  
- Where saunas meet savagery  
- United by vowels and violence  
- Fjord squad  
- North of normal  

### 5. The Norse god of thunder, known to Vikings, is named ______.  
**Answer:** Thor  
**Taglines:**  
- Hammer time, ancient edition  
- Norse thunder daddy  
- Marvel made him hot, Vikings made him feared  
- God of lightning and leg day  
- Not just a Chris Hemsworth fever dream  

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## 📝 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

### 1. [Difficulty: 1] What does the word “Viking” most accurately refer to?  
A) A warrior  
B) A king  
C) A farmer  
D) A raider/seafarer ✅  
**Taglines:**  
- It’s not a people, it’s a profession  
- Viking: noun, verb, lifestyle  
- Not all Scandinavians were Vikings, Karen  
- It’s a job, not a tribe  
- Pillage first, label later  

### 2. [Difficulty: 2] Which of these items did Vikings NOT typically wear?  
A) Chainmail  
B) Horned helmets ✅  
C) Wool cloaks  
D) Leather boots  
**Taglines:**  
- Horns? More like Hollywood  
- Vikings: no horns, no lies  
- Blame Wagner, not the Norse  
- Fact-check your cosplay  
- Real Vikings would roast your costume  

### 3. [Difficulty: 3] What was the Viking name for their homeland in Greenland?  
A) Vinland  
B) Norseland  
C) Erik’s Land  
D) Greenland ✅  
**Taglines:**  
- The biggest false ad in history  
- Spoiler: it’s mostly ice  
- Greenland: the icy hustle  
- “Green” for the win? Nope.  
- Thanks, Erik the Real Estate Agent  

### 4. [Difficulty: 4] Which of these modern countries was NOT invaded by Vikings?  
A) France  
B) Spain  
C) Russia  
D) Greece ✅  
**Taglines:**  
- The Med was spared this time  
- Vikings didn’t vibe with feta  
- Too hot, too olive-y  
- Plunder pass on the Parthenon  
- No raids, just raisins  

### 5. [Difficulty: 2] What Norse god rules over the realm of the dead?  
A) Odin  
B) Loki  
C) Hel ✅  
D) Freya  
**Taglines:**  
- Hel with one L, all the shade  
- Daughter of Loki, queen of goths  
- Cold ruler, colder location  
- Welcome to Hel—no sunscreen needed  
- Even their death goddess had attitude
