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Stockholm

Answer the questions

1. On how many islands the city is situated?
2. What is the name of the airport near Stockholm? What does it look like?
3. How can you get from the airport to the city centre?
4. What is Stockholm card for? How much does it cost? What advantages does it give to you?
5. When was the historical city centre founded? What does it look like?
6. What can you on Gamla Stan at around midday?
7. What can you see if you go to the Three Crown's Museum?
8. Where should you go to get from Gamla Stan to Ostermalm?
9. What is a must-try for lunch, according to the speaker?
10. What does "fikka" mean in Swedish?
11. What can you see at the Vasa Museum?
12. What can you see of you go south from Gamla Stan across Slussen to Sodermalm and jump on the Katarinahissen lift?
13. What are tourist attractions in the so called SoFo area?
14. What is PetSounds on Skanegatan?
15. Which bars did they visit?
16. Where can you  go if you want to escape the heat of the city?
17. How long does it take to get to Fjaderholmarna by ferry?
18. How much does it cost?
19. What can you do at the islands?
20. Is the water warm enough for swimming?
21. Have you ever been to Stockholm?
22. What were your impressions from the city?

Desert Air

Answer the following questions:

1. What is Ben Adair's attitude to deserts?
2. Where is he going to in a plane? What does he call "one of the quietest places of our country"?
3. The sounds of what animals and birds one can hear in the desert discribed?
4. What does Ben see driving north from Los Angeles? How does the scenery change?
5. Which desert mentioned it the talk is called "rain shadow desert"?
6. How does it look like?
7. What does the abreviation of "BLM" mean?
8. What were people mining here in the past?
9. What is the story of Burro Schmidt tunnel? How did Burro Schmidt got his nickname?
10. Why did Tonie Siegert become legendary?
11. Why does David Ayers disapprove of BLM plans of managing the land around Burro Schmidt tunnel
12. Why do people start thinking differently about space in the desert?
13. What does Ben say his friend would love to do in Dealth Valley?
14. What happened in Mosaic Canyon when Ben was there?
15. How old are the oldest rocks at Badwater in Death Valley?
16. Where does Highway 90 bisecting Death Valley dead-end?
17. Due to whom this former ghost town was revived?
18. What are the names of the Marta Beckett's show mentioned in the talk?
19. With what does Martha Beckett compare living in New York and in the desert?
20. Why did artist, musicians, old hippies migrate to the extreme south end of the Mojave Desert?
21. How old is Sonny Two Feathers and where does he come from?
22. What is his explanation of why people come the place?
23. What is a sculptor named Noah Purifoy famous for?
24. Was Ben able to meet and talk to Noah Purifoy?

The Vikings

Answer the questions:

1. Where are the Viking settlements described in the film situated?
2. How does western Norway look like in winter?
3. Why did Vikings head west to the Orkneys and Shetlands?
4. What is the evidence of the Viking presence on the Orkneys and Shetlands? What methods were used to estimate the scale of Viking settlements?
5. Why were they sampling only men?
6. How do they lessen the distorting effects of recent population movement on ancient genetic patterns?
7. What are the preliminary results of these genetic tests?
8. Were the Picts pagans like the Vikings?
9. Do we know for sure what happened to the Picts? What do the place names tell us about it? Why was an example of Tasmanis used?
10. What does archeology say about the presence of the Picts on the islands?
11. Are there any discoveries contradicting the hypothesis that the Pictish population was wiped out by the Vikings?
12. Which of the two theories - slautering of the Picts or coexistence with the Vikings - do you think to be the most convincing?
13. What does the monk record of the raid on Lindisfarne say? When did this happen?
14. Why are the bone combs of the 7th centuary so important for answering a question about the early Viking contacts?
15. What kind of evidence about the time of the Vikking arrival did Dr. James Barret find in the ancient rubbish dumps on one of the Orkney Islands?
16. Why was there such an explosion  in the use of marine resources if there was no increase in the fish consumption based on the dietary evidence from the humane bones?
17. Why are Viking burial places a rich source of information about their everyday life?
18. What did a farmer find on one of the Orkney islands together with the human bones on the beach? Why was this find important? What did they excavate afterwards?
19. Which artifacts were found in the man's grave?
20. Which artifacts were found in the woman's grave? What makes the scientists think that she was rich?
21. What did a landlord of the local pub discover when he was repairing the neighbours wall?
22. Where did the Vikings go after settling on the Orkneys and Shetlands?
23. What is so special about the Viking long house found on South Uist?
24. Why is the discovery of pottery there so important? What did the Vikings usually use instead of pottery?
25. What kind of evidence do we get from examining the fish bones found on South Uist?
26. Why did the Vikings want to get to Ireland?
27. Were they just robbing the land or they also settled in Ireland? What evidence do we have in the annals, from archeology?
28. Where was the most important Viking long fort situated in Ireland?
29. What was found in the burial places in Ireland? In which way do they differ from the finds in the north?
30. Why are some of the sword bent?
31. Why did the Vikings bury so much silver in Ireland? Where did this silver originally come from?
32. What leads us to the idea that large part of Viking trade in Ireland was in slaves?