Sweden has created so many icons that the rest of the world has come to love. Take a journey with us through these teasers to identify them.
-1.Missing Letters
We landed in Sweden and hailed a taxi. The cab pulled up and we noticed that some vandals had removed the vowels however, we immediately recognised the make as a vehicle that was once an icon of the country. Can you identify the make of the taxi?
VLV
-2.Palindromes
The taxi driver had his car radio on, which was playing a song with the palindromic title "S.O.S". He proudly boasted that this song was a hit for a Swedish band whose name is also a palindrome. Can you name that band?
-3.Fractured Words
We said to the taxi driver that we were starving hungry and that our first priority was food, could he recommend a place to us. He said that in the city his cousin owned a place that had a fine something or other. His accent was so thick that it sounded like
SMOG GUESS BORED
Can you understand what he was trying to say?
-4.Rebuses
"Sounds good" we said to the taxi driver. "O.K." he said "I will take you to Sweden's capital city, do you know what it is? I will give you a clue, find an alternate word for the two words below and add them together to understand how it sounds".
Inventory + Dwelling
-5.Logic Puzzle
Driving toward Sweden's capital the taxi driver was happy to point out some of Sweden's top sites and businesses. "See if you identify this building" he said as we drove through Södertälje. He gave us the following hints using words that would make any truck driver happy.
My first is in PUMPS but not in PICKUP
My second is in CARGO but not in ROAD
My third is in CAB but not in BULK
My fourth is in NOSE but not in PRIME MOVER
My fifth is in SEMI but not in SLEEPER CAB
My sixth is in DRAG but not in DROP
My whole is a Swedish manufacturer of commercial vehicles.
-6.Hidden Words
Twenty kilometres south of the capital, in Kungens Kurva, we passed a massive building. "What's that" we asked? "It's a furniture store" the driver replied. In his next remark the taxi driver inadvertently hid the name of the store, see if you can find it?
"Ha! I build furniture like a Swedish bus driver".
-7.Words In Common
Finally we arrived at the restaurant belonging to the taxi driver's cousin but before we could enter we had to solve a little brain teaser. Can you identify the word that either precedes or follows the following three words?
Pastry Iron Sous
-8.In Other Words
After a fine feast we decided to catch a Swedish movie. There was a cinema next door that featured a 2009 film starring, what looked like, Sweden's golden girl Noomi Rapace. We couldn't decipher the title so we asked a passerby. We struggled with his translation for a while, see if you have more joy?
"The young lass who bears an inked image of a mythical guardian that breathes fire" 6 words
9.Anagrams
My partner and I thoroughly enjoyed the movie (thank Heavens for subtitles) and on the way out we argued as to who represented a greater icon of Sweden's film industry. My partner declared it was Noomi Rapace and, like a little "Ninotchka", I blurted out
GATOR BARGE
Can you rearrange those letters to reveal the name of the actress, which is what I really meant to say?
-10.Fractured Words
We broke off our discussion on Swedish actresses because we spied our taxi driver. Suddenly I felt we were being stalked. He was all excited and wanted us to see Villa Villekulla but with his excitement and his accent all I could make out was "home", "children's character" and "Astrid Lindgren". Oh, and this bit was apparently important but I couldn't make it out. Can you please help us understand what it means?
PEEP PEA LORE HONG STOW KEEN 2 words
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