{"id":13975,"date":"2026-04-20T02:55:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T20:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/first-historically-recognized-king-of-denmark\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T03:03:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:03:51","slug":"first-historically-recognized-king-of-denmark","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/first-historically-recognized-king-of-denmark\/","title":{"rendered":"First historically recognized king of Denmark?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which ruler is commonly identified as the first historically attested king of Denmark?<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options wp-block-list\">\n<li>Harald Bluetooth<\/li>\n<li>Gorm the Old<\/li>\n<li>Sweyn Forkbeard<\/li>\n<li>Canute the Great<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[1902,1901],"subject":[1899],"education_level":[1896],"class_list":["post-13975","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-ancient-history-of-denmark","topic-ancient-scandinavia","subject-european-history","education_level-hsc"],"mcq_note":"Gorm the Old (Gorm den Gamle), who lived in the 10th century CE, is commonly regarded as the earliest historically attested king of Denmark. He is known from contemporary runic inscriptions and later chronicles; he was the father of Harald Bluetooth. Gorm's reign and funerary monuments, including connections to the Jelling site, provide a foundation for the early Danish monarchy's documented history.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"Harald Bluetooth"},{"right":"yes","answer":"Gorm the Old"},{"right":"no","answer":"Sweyn Forkbeard"},{"right":"no","answer":"Canute the Great"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":1899,"title":"European History","slug":"european-history"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":1902,"title":"Ancient History of Denmark","slug":"ancient-history-of-denmark"},{"id":1901,"title":"Ancient Scandinavia","slug":"ancient-scandinavia"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/13975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=13975"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=13975"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=13975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}