Today’s game is very simple: I give you a name, and you guess whether it is the name of a character from one the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (even you, The Castle of Air that was Exploded) books or if it a piece of Ikea furniture. But first, the seizure-inducing, but entirely compelling trailer.
Game on! (answers below each clue in white, highlight to see)
- Vanger
GWDT - Lindberg
GWDT - Hölmo
IKEA - Aspelund
IKEA - Nygren
GWDT - Malm
Malm is both a character in the novels and the nice medium-sized chest of drawers pictured above. - Bohman
GWDT - Ekstrom
GWDT - Faste
GWDT - Ektorp
IKEA - Karlstad
IKEA - Lack
IKEA - Holger
GWDT - Orgel
IKEA - Bjurman
GWDT - Trondheim
IKEA - Engan
IKEA - Bland
GWDT - Alina
IKEA - Indira
IKEA - Dragan
GWDT - Kvart
IKEA - Frode
GWDT - Fillsta
IKEA - Henrika
IKEA - Ofelia
IKEA - Forbes
GWDT - Krogstad
Krogstad is the antagonist from Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, which is Norwegian, not Swedish, you racist.
To recap, the Ikea ones are (highlight below to see):
Ektorp, Karlstad, Lack, Orgel, Aspelund, Trondheim, Engan, Alina, Indira, Kvart, Fillsta, Hölmo, Henrika, and Ofelia. Malm is both.
How many did you get right?
1-5: You’ve turned in a performance that is statistically significant in its badness. Impressive.
6-10: Also pretty terrible.You must’ve let your subscription to Expo run out years ago.
11-15: Again, in this range, it’s probable you actually knew none of the right answers. Good on you for continuing to read this far.
16-20: Well done, you’re a real Kalle Blomkvist!
21-24: Did you have a feud with a pompous New Yorker critic recently?
25-27: Your closet was already loaded with Lisbeth Salander clothes even before H&M decided to market a line in her honor.
28: You must be very lonely and very Chinese.
Jordan Carr 