Some sample questions from this category:
* Who was the first Viking to sight America?
* What was the Eastern Settlement on Greenland called?
* Who named the settlement of Vinland?
* Which of these Vikings did NOT go to America?
* Who was the first man to sail to Greenland?
* What was the first settlement in America?
* Where are the Vikings from?
* Who is NOT one of the gods of the Vikings?
* What was the name given to the Scandinavians in Russia?
* The Vikings were perhaps the earliest culture to ice-skate. What material did they carve their skates primarily from?
* The Vikings practiced early-forms of Landnam, due to a series of bad crops. What does this word, for raiding translate to?
* The Vikings, sailing with their mighty Gokstads, invaded the aboriginee peoples of Newfoundland. What was the derogatory term, the Vikings, used to call these people?
* The Vikings were good farmers, but also good at taming animals. What animal did they train to hunt ducks?
* The Beothuk Indians were the first aboriginee people to come in contact with the Vikings. Subsequently, they were wiped out. However, their descendants, continued trading with the Vikings. (Furs for steel-products.) What was the name of this tribe?
* The Vinland Saga, contain the voyages and adventures of the Viking's travels. What are the 2 main tales called?
* What material, obtained at L'Anse aux Meadows, did the Vikings use to start their fires?
* What were the homes, which resembled tent-houses, called?
* Who was the person responsible for the Christian conversion of the Danish people, greatly influencing Gizur the White Tesson to make Christianity the main religion?
* When did sailing-boats first appear in Scandinavia?
* What was the private boat-type?
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