Icelandic Science, Arts and Culture
Science, Arts and Culture
403 practice questions, each with the answer and an explanation.
All 403 questions
- Complete the sentence with the correct year: The year ______ saw Paul Oscar make his début as a solo artist.
- Complete the sentence about Páll Óskar with the correct year: Paul Oscar was Iceland's entrant in the annual Eurovision Song Contest in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Icelandic Symphony Orchestra with the correct year: The RO remained virtually the only functional orchestra in Iceland until the founding of the ISO in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Icelandic Symphony Orchestra with the correct year: No formal inaugural meeting was held so the orchestra's foundation date is considered March 9, ______ when its first con…
- Complete the sentence about Iceland Airwaves with the correct year: Iceland Airwaves is a music festival held annually in November in Reykjavík, Iceland, since ______.
- Complete the sentence about Iceland Airwaves with the correct year: The first festival was held in October ______ as a one-off event in an airplane hangar at Reykjavík Airport.
- Complete the sentence about Baltasar Kormákur with the correct year: In ______, Baltasar founded the film production company Blueeyes with his then wife, Lilja Pálmadóttir.
- Complete the sentence about Baltasar Kormákur with the correct year: In December ______, the production of drama film Rocketman was announced, with Baltasar Kormákur and Dagur Kári set to direct.
- Complete the sentence about Baltasar Kormákur with the correct year: Baltasar's ______ film The Deep was selected as the Icelandic entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards…
- Complete the sentence about Baltasar Kormákur with the correct year: In February ______, it was announced that his next film would be the crime-thriller The Oath, which is based on a script by actor Ó…
- Complete the sentence about Baltasar Kormákur with the correct year: In ______, Baltasar began production of the Netflix science fiction series Katla.
- Complete the sentence about Rams with the correct year: In ______, online newspaper Kjarninn voted it the second-greatest Icelandic film of all time.
- Complete the sentence about Rams with the correct year: Rams won the prize for Un Certain Regard for ______, the top prize conferred by a jury presided over by Isabella Rossellini.
- Complete the sentence about Dagur Kári with the correct year: In January ______ it is again announced that film will be produced by Kormákur with his partner Agnes Johansen.
- Complete the sentence about Ólafur Elíasson with the correct year: In ______, Olafur established Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin, a laboratory for spatial research.
- Complete the sentence about Ólafur Elíasson with the correct year: In ______, Olafur and his long-time collaborator – German architect Sebastian Behmann – founded Studio Other Spaces, an office for ar…
- Complete the sentence about Ólafur Elíasson with the correct year: Olafur Eliasson was born in Copenhagen in ______ to Elías Hjörleifsson and Ingibjörg Ólafsdóttir.
- Complete the sentence about Einar Jónsson with the correct year: In ______ the Althing, the Icelandic parliament, awarded Einar a grant to study in Rome for 2 years.
- Complete the sentence about Einar Jónsson with the correct year: In ______, after living abroad for almost 20 years he made an arrangement with the Althing to provide him with a home and studio in Rey…
- Complete the sentence about Ásmundur Sveinsson with the correct year: Ásmundur Sveinsson was born in Kolsstadir in West Iceland on 20 May ______.
- Complete the sentence about Ásmundur Sveinsson with the correct year: In ______ he moved to Reykjavík, where he enrolled in the Technical College of Iceland and apprenticed with sculptor Ríkarður Jóns…
- Complete the sentence about Ásmundur Sveinsson with the correct year: Ásmundur returned to Iceland in ______ and began producing a series of abstracted figurative works.
- Complete the sentence about Ásmundur Sveinsson with the correct year: In ______, for example, Ásmundur's sculpture of Guðríðr Þorbjarnardóttir and her son Snorri was displayed at the New York World's…
- Complete the sentence about Ásmundur Sveinsson with the correct year: The title Sonartorrek is referring to a poem which Egill Skallagrimsson wrote about this scene. Ásmundur died in Reykjavík on 9 De…
- Complete the sentence about Ásmundur Sveinsson with the correct year: In ______, his statue of poet Einar Benediktsson was moved to a spot near Höfði house in Reykjavik, where the poet had lived.
- Complete the sentence about Jóhannes Kjarval with the correct year: In ______, he was awarded the Prince Eugen Medal by the King of Sweden.
- Complete the sentence about Kjarvalsstaðir with the correct year: Hafnarhús is the most recent addition to the locations of Reykjavik Art Museum and was occupied after a complete renovation in April _…
- Complete the sentence about National Gallery of Iceland with the correct year: The National Gallery of Iceland was founded in ______ in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Björn Bjarnarson.
- Complete the sentence about National Gallery of Iceland with the correct year: In ______ a law was passed in the Althing on the Council of Culture, and under that law the National Gallery came under t…
- Complete the sentence about National Gallery of Iceland with the correct year: The main building was erected as a freezing plant in ______, designed by Icelandic architect Guðjón Samúelsson.
- Complete the sentence about National Museum of Iceland with the correct year: The museum was called the Antiquarian Collection until ______ when its name changed to the National Museum of Iceland.
- Complete the sentence about Icelandic art with the correct year: Every other year, Iceland participates in the Venice Biennale and has done so since ______.
- Complete the sentence about Icelandic art with the correct year: In ______, Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir participated on behalf of Iceland.
- Complete the sentence about Icelandic art with the correct year: Einar Hákonarson's show in ______ distinguished itself from its Icelandic art scene then current as Hákonarson's paintings were pop, fi…
- Complete the sentence about Icelandair with the correct year: Icelandair traces its roots back to ______, when Flugfélag Akureyrar was founded in Akureyri on the north coast of Iceland.
- Complete the sentence about Icelandair with the correct year: Flight operations started in ______ with a single Waco YKS-7 configured as a floatplane.
- Complete the sentence about Icelandair with the correct year: In ______, Iceland was invaded by the British and Reykjavík Airport was established south of the capital during the war.
- Complete the sentence about Icelandair with the correct year: In ______, the airport was handed over to Icelandic civilian authorities, now called Isavia.
- Complete the sentence about Play with the correct year: Play originally planned to start operations with two Airbus A321 aircraft configured for 200 passenger seats and add four more aircraft by the s…
- Complete the sentence about Össur with the correct year: Össur was founded in Iceland in ______ by Össur Kristinsson, a prosthetist.
- Complete the sentence about Össur with the correct year: In ______, the company was named as a "technology pioneer" by the World Economic Forum.
- Complete the sentence about EVE Online with the correct year: Eve Online was released in North America and Europe in May ______.
- Complete the sentence about deCODE genetics with the correct year: In ______, Stefansson left a tenured position at Harvard Medical School to found a genomics enterprise in Iceland.
- Complete the sentence about deCODE genetics with the correct year: In ______, funded by $12 million in American venture capital, deCODE set up a laboratory and began operations.
- Complete the sentence about Alvotech with the correct year: Since ______, it has been majority-owned by CVC Capital Partners and Temasek Holdings.
- Complete the sentence about Alvotech with the correct year: The history of the growth of Alvogen is the subject of a Harvard Business School case study published in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Landsvirkjun with the correct year: Landsvirkjun was founded on 1 July ______ by the state of Iceland and the city of Reykjavík.
- Complete the sentence about Landsvirkjun with the correct year: The municipality of Akureyri acquired a 5% share in Landsvirkjun in ______ and became the third owner.
- Complete the sentence about Landsvirkjun with the correct year: The geothermal power station Krafla came under Landsvirkjun's ownership in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Landsvirkjun with the correct year: Through a new electricity act in ______, the company's Transmission Division became Landsnet, an independent limited company and a subsi…
- Complete the sentence about Landsvirkjun with the correct year: In December ______, Landsvirkjun erected two wind turbines, in an area known as Hafið, within the construction area of Búrfell Power Sta…
- Complete the sentence about Reykjavík Energy with the correct year: Orkuveita Reykjavíkur was obliged by law to unbundle its electricity operations by January 1, ______.
- Complete the sentence about University of Iceland with the correct year: Demands for a national Icelandic university stretch as far back as to the first session of the elected assembly of Alþingi in _…
- Complete the sentence about University of Iceland with the correct year: In ______, the university received a special licence from Alþingi to operate a cash-prize lottery called Happdrætti Háskólans.
- Complete the sentence about Reykjavík University with the correct year: Reykjavík University started its first semester on 1 September ______, in a new building under the name Reykjavík School of Busi…
- Complete the sentence with the correct year: On January 4, ______, the Faculty of Fisheries was established.
- Complete the sentence about University of Akureyri with the correct year: The first master's degree students graduated February 26, ______.
- Complete the sentence about University of Akureyri with the correct year: A new chancellor took over from Þorsteinn Gunnarsson on July 1, ______ after 15 years in office, Stefán B.
- Complete the sentence about Icelandic Meteorological Office with the correct year: IMO was founded on 1 January ______ as a solely meteorological institute.
- Complete the sentence about UEFA Euro 2016 with the correct year: For the first time, the European Championship final tournament was contested by 24 teams, having been expanded from the 16-team format…
- Complete the sentence about UEFA Euro 2016 with the correct year: Norway and Sweden eventually withdrew their bid in December ______.
- Complete the sentence about UEFA Euro 2016 with the correct year: Gibraltar competed in a European Championship qualifying for the first time since their affiliation to UEFA in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Viking clap with the correct year: During the ______ FIFA World Cup when Iceland were one of the participating teams, the clap once again drew attention.
- Complete the sentence about Heimir Hallgrímsson with the correct year: Heimir was born on 10 June ______, and grew up in a family of six children on the island of Heimaey.
- Complete the sentence about Lars Lagerbäck with the correct year: In ______, he attended the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, where he was a classmate of current assistant coach Roland And…
- Complete the sentence about Lars Lagerbäck with the correct year: In ______, Lagerbäck took a job with the Swedish Football Association.
- Complete the sentence about Gylfi Sigurðsson with the correct year: Gylfi began his professional career with Reading in the Championship and in ______, was sold to TSG Hoffenheim, which was Reading's…
- Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, he moved back to Swansea as part of an exchange for Ben Davies.
- Complete the sentence about Aron Gunnarsson with the correct year: Aron plays for Iceland at international level, having made his senior debut in ______, and has earned over 100 caps for the national…
- Complete the sentence about Eiður Guðjohnsen with the correct year: On 19 June ______, Eiður was signed by Premier League club Chelsea for a fee of £4.5 million.
- Complete the sentence about Eiður Guðjohnsen with the correct year: Eiður made his debut on 13 August in the ______ FA Charity Shield at Wembley, replacing Gianfranco Zola for the final 17 minutes of…
- Complete the sentence about Ásgeir Sigurvinsson with the correct year: Between April and November ______, Ásgeir had his first coaching experience, with Knattspyrnufélagið Fram.
- Complete the sentence about KR Reykjavík with the correct year: KR is the oldest and most successful club in Icelandic football, having won the Besta deild karla championship 27 times, including the f…
- Complete the sentence about KR Reykjavík with the correct year: KR owe their founding to a Scottish printer, James Ferguson who arrived in Reykjavík in ______ to work in a large printing house.
- Complete the sentence about KR Reykjavík with the correct year: KR was established on 16 February ______, making it the oldest football club in Iceland.
- Complete the sentence with the correct year: KR won the inaugural championship in ______ after a play-off with Fram.
- Complete the sentence about Ólafur Stefánsson with the correct year: As a player for his national team, his goal tally of ______ is fourth only to Gudjon Valur Sigurdsson, Péter Kovács and Kiril Lazar…
- Complete the sentence about Ólafur Stefánsson with the correct year: In ______ he went back to Germany to play with Rhein-Neckar Löwen, then coached by Icelandic national team coach, Guðmundur Guðmund…
- Complete the sentence about Icelandic wrestling with the correct year: The original settlers in Iceland took wrestling with them, and these combat systems have been used by the populace according to t…
- Complete the sentence about Icelandic wrestling with the correct year: A modern trouser-grip glima competition was first held in Iceland in ______ and has been held almost every year since.
- Complete the sentence about Icelandic wrestling with the correct year: In ______ the first competition for the Belt of Grettir was held where the winners are named The Glima King.
- Complete the sentence about Icelandic wrestling with the correct year: In the ______ Summer Olympics there was a demonstration of modern trouser-grip glima.
- Complete the sentence about Vilhjálmur Einarsson with the correct year: In ______ Vilhjálmur set a new Olympic Record by jumping 16.26 m in the triple jump, only to be surpassed by Brazil's Adhemar da…
- Complete the sentence about Vilhjálmur Einarsson with the correct year: In ______ he took bronze in the triple jump at the European Athletics Championships in Stockholm, Sweden, with 16.00 m.
- Complete the sentence about Anníe Mist Þórisdóttir with the correct year: Anníe first appeared in the sport of CrossFit in July ______, when she travelled from Reykjavik to Aromas, California to compe…
- Complete the sentence about Anníe Mist Þórisdóttir with the correct year: In ______, the Games had moved from Aromas, California, to the Home Depot Center in Carson, California.
- Complete the sentence about Sara Sigmundsdóttir with the correct year: Though she has not been back to the Games since her injury, she came back strong in ______, with a 6th place finish in the CrossF…
- Complete the sentence about Fjallkonan with the correct year: A woman dressed as the Lady of the Mountain first appeared at the Iceland Days in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson with the correct year: Björnsson was born on 26 November ______ in Reykjavík, Iceland.
- Complete the sentence about Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson with the correct year: After recovering, in ______, Björnsson moved to KR in the Icelandic top-tier Úrvalsdeild.
- Complete the sentence with the correct year: In May ______, he won the Nordic championship with the U-16 team.
- Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, he won the Nordic championship again, this time with the U-18 team.
- Complete the sentence about Magnús Ver Magnússon with the correct year: In ______, he won a medal in the junior European and World Championships.
- Complete the sentence about Magnús Ver Magnússon with the correct year: Magnús competed in his first strongman contest in ______, finishing third in the Iceland's Strongest Man competition won by Jón…
- Complete the sentence about Magnús Ver Magnússon with the correct year: In ______, Magnús made an appearance on Comedy Central's The Daily Show.
- Complete the sentence about Jón Páll Sigmarsson with the correct year: Jón Páll was invited to the World's Strongest Man for the first time in ______, in which he emerged runner-up to Geoff Capes by o…
- Complete the sentence about World's Strongest Man with the correct year: The concept behind "The World's Strongest Men", as it was originally named, was developed in ______ for CBS by Langstar Inc.
- Complete the sentence about Bobby Fischer with the correct year: In ______, Fischer refused to defend his title when an agreement could not be reached with FIDE, chess's international governing body…
- Complete the sentence about Bobby Fischer with the correct year: In ______, he reemerged to win an unofficial rematch against Spassky.
- Complete the sentence about Bobby Fischer with the correct year: In ______, he was arrested in Japan and held for several months for using a passport that the US government had revoked.