NewsTracker Answers for week of Oct. 31, 2011

Q: Weather is a big reason Facebook is going to Swedish Lapland to set up its first data center outside of the United States. Where is Sweden?

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Q: The temperatures in Lapland will allow the facility to use outside air for cooling its servers for up to 10 months of the year. Lapland is in the . . .

A. Arctic

B. Baltic Sea

C. Central Sweden

D. Mediterranean Sea

A. The Lapland region is largely within the Arctic Circle and stretches across Norway, Sweden, Finland and part of Russia.

Q: What animal do the indigenous Sami people herd in Lapland?

A. Antelope

B. Buffalo

C. Caribou

D. Reindeer

D. Today, in Norway, reindeer husbandry is legally protected as an exclusive Sami livelihood, such that only persons of Sami descent with a linkage to a reindeer herding family can own, and hence make a living off, reindeer.

Q: Sweden's government is a . . .

A. Socialist republic

B. Confederation

C. Constitutional monarchy

D. Dictatorship

C. King Carl XVI Gustaf is the ceremonial head of state, but government power is held by a democratically elected parliament.

Q: According to the World Economic Forum, Sweden is . . .

A. World's richest nation

B. Over-regulated

C. Extremely competitive

D. Drowning in debt

C. Sweden is ranked as the second most competitive country in the world, after Switzerland.