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[dubdobdee]

q13:
i: Who combined with Terboven?
ii: Who developed a way to deal with Jarlsberg?
iii: Whose 32 holes can secure entry for hotel guests?
iv: Whose head-turning tool is favoured by some accoucheurs?
v: Who succeeded with Gjøa, where Terror and Erberus had failed?
vi: Who travelled from el Callao to French Polynesia with assistance from Humboldt?
vii: Who was in conflict with Neisser over his eponymous disease?
viii: Who, according to Snorri, fell to a thrust from the Hound?
ix: Who was the first, and was succeeded by Dag?
x: Who has been worth 100 crowns since 1997?

COMPLETED:
i: As 'Minister-President', VIDKUN QUISLING jointly headed the state administration of Nazi-occupied Norway, with Josef Terboven (googled by jeff_worrell)
ii:
iii: TOR SØRNES' VingCard lock, a 32-hole mechanical keycard, was the forerunner to today's electronic ones. (googled by sbp)
iv:
v: ROALD AMUNDSEN, traversing the north-west passage (known by dubdobdee)
vi: Thor Heyerdahl's KON TIKI floated this route in the Pacific, in 1947 (known by dubdobdee)
vii:
viii: Snorri is presumably SNORRI SNURLUSON, author of the Prose Edda: the hound being GARMR (aka GARM aka acc.some FENRIR), who is a primary cause of RAGNAROK -- but I can't work out who he "thrusts" at (he's bites off the hand of the god TYR) (known by thebopkids, semi-confirmed by dubdobdee)
ix: TRYGVE LIE succeeded DAG HAMMERSKJÖLD as secretary-general of the UN (dubdobdee knew Dag, belecrivain knew Lie)
x: Since 1997, the Norwegian 100 kroner note has portrayed opera singer and first director of the Norwegian National Opera KIRSTEN FLAGSTAD. (Tentative suggestion by belecrivain, google-confirmed by jeff_worrell)

Comments

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Nah, it's the 32-hole mechanical keycard that was the forerunner to today's electronic ones.

"In 1975 Tor Sørnes invented the VingCard lock, the first known mechanical holecard operated lock. Operated by a plastic key card with a pattern of holes, there were 32 possible hole locations, ... The 32 holes in the key gave 4.3 billion combinations, the same number as the population of the earth at that time"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VingCard_Elsafe

So iii) TOR SØRNES