Monarchs of Denmark Quiz

Reigned	Monarch
934/6?-958
958-986/7
986/7-1014
1014-1018
1018-1035
1035-1042
1042-1047
1047-1074
1074-1080
1080-1086
1086-1095
1095-1103
1104-1134
1134-1137
1137-1146
1146-1157
1146-1157
1157-1182
1182-1202
1202-1241
1241-1250
1250-1252
1252-1259
1259-1286
1286-1319
1320-1326
1326-1329

Reigned	Monarch
1329-1332
1340-1375
1375-1387
1387-1412
1397-1439
1440-1448
1448-1481
1481-1513
1513-1523
1523-1533
1534-1559
1559-1588
1588-1648
1648-1670
1670-1699
1699-1730
1730-1746
1746-1766
1766-1808
1808-1839
1839-1848
1848-1863
1863-1906
1906-1912
1912-1947
1947-1972
1972-present

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Monarchs of Denmark Quiz

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Created Jan 14, 2009 in History
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	aerodynamic:	Jan 14th, 2009 at 04:29 GMT	18 points
	hamlet should be a bonus answer

	marpocky:	Jan 14th, 2009 at 05:56 GMT	4 points
	I never liked the way you have to type out every number for a particular name with these monarch quizzes (and the pope one). It should be enough to know just the names and it will give you all the numbers. Otherwise you sit there typing "Christian I" "Christian II" etc. until one of them doesn't work and you know you're done.

	Whokee:	Jan 14th, 2009 at 07:35 GMT	25 points
	The danish versions of the names should be acceptable, I am danish and couldn't get that many because the names are completely different. Fx. Canute is Knud in danish.

	emilkr:	Jan 14th, 2009 at 08:51 GMT	1 point
	Thank you, Daniel. This is a great quiz. I got everyone, although it took me some six minutes recalling all of them. But being an Icelander and a royalist I should be familiar with the subject. We shared monarchs with the Danish from the 14. century until 1944. Therefore we (Icelandic royalists) consider the present monarch in Denmark also the rightful head of state of Iceland.

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	davebesag:	Jan 14th, 2009 at 12:20 GMT	1 point
	I'd have got more if Canute II had been accepted as I would have continued with that name. Got 3 in the end but Hans was a fluke and got Niels as I was thinking whether any shared Niels Bohr's name. I agree Hamlet should be a bonus.

	DLJessup:	Jan 14th, 2009 at 12:41 GMT	4 points
	I got 20/54. One was a wild guess; the others were thanks to having recently read the alt-hist novel _1634: The Baltic War_ by Eric Flint and David Weber.

	MrEnglishman:	Jan 14th, 2009 at 12:47 GMT	21 points
	I forgot Eric II the Memorable. :(

	Joe_Ball:	Jan 14th, 2009 at 13:20 GMT	-3 points
	Why aren't 'Christian' and 'Frederick' acceptable for 'Christian I' and 'Frederick I'? I just went straight on to trying other names when they didn't come up. Good quiz, poorly executed.

	AdamL:	Jan 14th, 2009 at 14:20 GMT	-4 points
	I agree that the a I shouldn't necessarily be required for the first monarch of that name since you move on to other names. After the I comes up, totally acceptable to have to type in II, III, IV etc! Would have got a fair few more had I not given up on Eric etc.

	Uhlan:	Jan 14th, 2009 at 15:07 GMT	4 points
	Fredrik as a variation?

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	Emily_Howard:	Jan 14th, 2009 at 17:53 GMT	4 points
	Love how I got the last 500 years just by remembering the names of the queen and her sons. Not very imaginative, the Danes ;) Which Harald was the guy with the hair that I vaguely remember from 4th grade history lessons?

	chambers:	Jan 14th, 2009 at 18:44 GMT	2 points
	got 7 should have guessed frederick or christian

	Catherine_F:	Jan 14th, 2009 at 20:18 GMT	4 points
	The only one I knew was the current queen, but I couldn't spell her name and got a different queen with a similar name instead. Oh well, one to improve on :)

	jzev:	Jan 14th, 2009 at 21:41 GMT	5 points
	valdemar, sounds like voldemort. supicious

	emilkr:	Jan 14th, 2009 at 22:13 GMT	6 points
	@Joe Ball: why not? It is their official name and title. This is is also how it works with the quizzes regarding British and French monarchs. @Emily Howard:Imaginative or not, France had 18 Louises. Regarding Harald, he was a Norwegian king who united Norway under one crown in the ninth century. He proposed to a woman who said she would only accept him if he were the king of whole Norway. He vowed not to cut his hair until he had accomplished the task. It took him ten years and he became known as Harald Tanglehair. When he had conquered all the small kingdoms of Norway he finally could cut his hair and became known after that as Harald Fairhair. Heavy taxation imposed by him led many chiefs to leave the country and settle in the, until then, uninhabited Iceland. That's how Iceland's settlement began.

	Emily_Howard:	Jan 14th, 2009 at 22:33 GMT	4 points
	@Emil: Thank you for a prompt and informative reply. I'm fully aware that the Danes are not the only ones who lack imagination, but it amuses me nevertheless. About Harald, I thought I recalled he had something to do with the settlement. Definitely not a quitter, Haraldur hárfagri :) Ég sé að þú nefndir hér fyrir að ofan að þú ert Íslendingur, man ég rétt með að hann hafi verið kallaður Haraldur lúfa áður en hann klippti hárið?

	C_W_Browne:	Jan 14th, 2009 at 22:45 GMT	3 points
	Got 22 using Harald christian and Frederick

	emilkr:	Jan 14th, 2009 at 22:58 GMT	2 points
	@Emily Howard: Yes you remember correctly. Ert þú líka Íslendingur, Emily?

	bdon:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 00:43 GMT	3 points
	I don't really know my history, did they have the same king from 1620-1626 and again from 1629-32 or did they just lose count?

	bdon:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 00:44 GMT	2 points
	and by that i mean the 1300s not 1600s

	Lindsay:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 03:18 GMT	5 points
	All the ones with a 'I' following their names show up without the 'I' (like Christian for Christian I, etc.) except for Sweyn - that one still requires the full Sweyn I. Can that be fixed to make it more consistent? Thanks!

	JBC:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 07:18 GMT	5 points
	@bdon: No it was actually the same king. He was king over two periods - I can't remember the reason, but I'm pretty sure there were some fights and battles and stuff about who were to be king

	Emily_Howard:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 13:09 GMT	3 points
	@Emil: Jújú, Íslendingur hér. Gaman að sjá fleiri! Mér finnst það áhugavert, að þú skulir aðhyllast það að við tökum aftur saman við Dani. Ég hef reyndar heyrt einhverntíma um félag sem heldur frammi slíkum skoðunum, en það er langt síðan ég heyrði frá þeim síðast. Ég hefði haldið að það væri góður tími hjá ykkur núna í þessu ástandi. Við værum bókað ekki í verri stöðu núna ef sambandið við Dani væri sterkara.

	emilkr:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 21:59 GMT	3 points
	@Emily: Reyndar held ég að við værum vissulega betur komin í ríkjasambandi við Dani og þá sjálfkrafa einnig við Færeyinga. Aðal baráttumálið er hins vegar ekki ríkjasamband, heldur að viðurkennt sé Margrét II. sé réttborinn þjóðhöfðingi Íslands. Landið gæti áfram verið sjálfstætt, þó þjóðhöfðinginn sé sameiginlegur Danmörku. Svipað og er með Bretland, Kanada, Ástralíu, Nýja Sjáland og fleiri ríki þar sem Elísabet er þjóðhöfðingi... annars gaman að spjalla við landa á þessu vefsvæði.

	EasilyConfused:	Jan 16th, 2009 at 17:53 GMT	4 points
	In all the monarch quizzes I have done, the numeral has been required for the first of the Johns (or whatever). The simplest reason is that on the first quiz I made (Monarchs of France), there was a Charles that was outside of the numbering system. Similar cases come up in other monarchies.

	EasilyConfused:	Jan 16th, 2009 at 17:55 GMT	2 points
	bdon: Same king, came back to power.

	Emily_Howard:	Jan 16th, 2009 at 18:01 GMT	3 points
	@Emil: Áhugaverð sýn, en ég verð að viðurkenna að ég skil ekki alveg tilganginn með því að vera undir sama þjóðhöfðingja þegar löndin deila kannski fáu öðru. Það á þó ekki við Ísland og Danmörku, enda held ég að bæði löndin gætu grætt á meira samstarfi (Ísland augljóslega mest núna, en Danmörk til lengri tíma litið). Sömuleiðis, alltaf gaman að finna samlanda á ólíklegum stöðum :)

	expat:	Jan 18th, 2009 at 11:29 GMT	3 points
	How can you have a Canute IV without having a Canute III?

	HamanKarn:	Jan 18th, 2009 at 15:55 GMT	2 points
	@mark: That would be Harthacanute, I believe.

	zigra:	Feb 12th, 2009 at 02:58 GMT	1 point
	28/54 - better than how I thought I'd do. It helped that I remembered the book "Number the Stars", which talked about how Danish Jews were smuggled out of the country under the rule of Christian X.

	Solonet:	Jul 4th, 2009 at 18:27 GMT	5 points
	I'm Dane. I can name the US presidents and all 50 states, but I can't name the Danish Monarchs and countries of Europe... that's a bit scary somehow. As for the Christian - Frederik - Christian - Frederik... I think it was decided to be done this way to help students learn the monarchs. Okay, you can't remember Valdemar, Hans, Christopher and... Canute? (Knud!) Okay, we'll name them Christian and Frederik to make it easier. And ever since, students could focus on more important stuff, like math, knowing that their king was either a guy named Christian or a guy named Frederik. Now that princesses are equal to princes, I imagine the girls will be called Margrethe and Elisabeth.

	piratesswoop:	Aug 21st, 2009 at 07:14 GMT	2 points
	So maybe little Prince Christian will name his eldest son and daughter Frederik and Elisabeth :)

	steeltown:	Sep 19th, 2009 at 09:08 GMT	3 points
	I'm just glad that, whatever people mey say about me after my death, I'm unlikely to be known as Paddy plow-tax.

	Duke_of_Prunes:	Dec 25th, 2009 at 00:21 GMT	3 points
	"Eric IV Plough-Tax" Haha brilliant, what a thing to go down in history for.

	Duke_of_Prunes:	Dec 25th, 2009 at 00:22 GMT	4 points
	Scratch that, "Gorm the old, the Sleepy" easily beats that.

	Masternachos:	Feb 12th, 2010 at 02:49 GMT	2 points
	Freaky sandwiching with the Christophers and Fredericks!

	coolguy666:	Jun 2nd, 2010 at 10:51 GMT	1 point
	I tried Harald Hardrada for a joke. And yes, Hamlet should be a bonus. ;-)