Finnish Science, Arts and Culture
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- Which Finnish composer wrote Finlandia, a symphonic poem that became a national symbol?
- Which Finnish architect and designer created the Paimio Sanatorium, the Savoy vase and Finlandia Hall?
- Which Finnish writer and artist created the Moomins?
- Which operating system kernel was created in 1991 by the Finnish student Linus Torvalds?
- Which Finnish company was for many years a leading maker of mobile phones?
- Which Finnish tradition was added to UNESCO's list of intangible cultural heritage in 2020?
- Which Finnish band won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2006 with Hard Rock Hallelujah?
- Which Finnish runner, nicknamed the Flying Finn, won nine Olympic gold medals in the 1920s?
- Which instrument is a traditional Finnish string instrument, played in the Kalevala by Väinämöinen?
- Which type of bread is a staple of the Finnish diet?
- Which Finnish scientist won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1945 for his work on preserving fodder?
- Which Finnish economist shared the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2016?
- Which Finnish driver won the Formula One World Championship in 2007?
- Which Finnish game company created Angry Birds?
- Which building in Helsinki, opened in 2018, is a public library with a cinema, studios and a workshop?
- Which Finnish design company is known for the bold Unikko poppy print?
- Who designed the Helsinki Central Station, opened in 1919?
- Which sport is regarded as Finland's national summer sport, a form of batting game invented in the 1920s?
- In which year did Finland win its first ice hockey world championship?
- Which university was created in 2010 by merging three Finnish universities?
- Which church in Helsinki is built into solid rock and is known for its copper dome?
- Which traditional Finnish dish is a thin rye crust filled with rice porridge?
- Which Finnish festival is held every summer in a medieval castle at Savonlinna?
- At what age does basic education begin in Finland?
- Which author's Kullervo story, from the Kalevala, inspired the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien?
- Which sweet dish, made of rye and malt, is a traditional Easter food in Finland?
- Why did Sibelius's Finlandia become a symbol of Finnish national feeling?
- How did Artturi Virtanen's AIV method work?
- Which feature distinguishes Linux from a commercial operating system such as Windows?
- What is contract theory, the field for which Bengt Holmström won the Nobel Prize in 2016?
- Which pair correctly matches a Finnish figure with a field?
- Which statement about Finnish sauna culture is accurate?
- Why is Aalto's work described as a link between architecture and design?
- How is Finland's contribution to computing often described?
- In which town is the annual tango festival, Tangomarkkinat, held in Finland?
- What is the Finnish name of the midsummer holiday, celebrated with bonfires and sauna?
- Complete the sentence about Finnish literature with the correct year: The most famous poetry collection is the Kalevala, published in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Finnish literature with the correct year: The first translation of the entire Bible was published in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Finnish literature with the correct year: The first grammar of Finnish was published by Aeschillus Petraeus in ______, and includes eight Finnish riddles.
- Complete the sentence about Finnish literature with the correct year: Another major step towards developing a written vernacular literature came with the work of Cristfried Ganander, who published ove…
- Complete the sentence about Finnish literature with the correct year: Until ______, most of the literature published in Finnish was religious.
- Complete the sentence about Kalevala with the correct year: At the age of 21, he entered the Imperial Academy of Turku and obtained a master's degree in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Kalevala with the correct year: In January ______, he started as the district health officer of Kainuu and began his work on collecting poetry and compiling the Kalevala.
- Complete the sentence about Seven Brothers with the correct year: Published in ______, Seitsemän veljestä ended an era dominated by Swedish-speaking authors, most notable of whom was J.
- Complete the sentence about The Unknown Soldier with the correct year: The novel starts with the company transferring in June ______ from their barracks to the Finnish-Soviet border in preparation for…
- Complete the sentence about The Unknown Soldier with the correct year: In October ______, the company is stationed in the captured and pillaged Petrozavodsk, where the novel follows the soldiers inter…
- Complete the sentence about The Unknown Soldier with the correct year: The war ends in a ceasefire in September ______, with the soldiers rising from their foxholes after the final Soviet artillery ba…
- Complete the sentence about Väinö Linna with the correct year: After working as a lumberjack and a farm hand at the same manor where his mother had worked, Linna moved to Tampere in ______.
- Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, the first part of Under the North Star was released.
- Complete the sentence about Mika Waltari with the correct year: A scandal caused by their relationship had forced them to move to Tampere and the two married on 18 November ______.
- Complete the sentence about Mika Waltari with the correct year: While studying, he contributed to various magazines and wrote poetry and stories, getting his first book Jumalaa paossa published in ___…
- Complete the sentence about Sofi Oksanen with the correct year: From October ______, the play was produced in 15 countries, with productions in Norway, France, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Iceland, Lithua…
- Complete the sentence about Purge with the correct year: The play was written in ______ and produced at the National Theatre of Finland.
- Complete the sentence about Purge with the correct year: After existing as an independent country for twenty-one years, Estonia was occupied and annexed by the Soviet Union in June ______ during World…
- Complete the sentence about Purge with the correct year: From February to November ______, the German forces were expelled by the Red Army.
- Complete the sentence about Runeberg cake with the correct year: The torte was popularized by Fredrik Edvard Ekberg, who began selling it at Café Ekberg in Helsinki in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Blueberry with the correct year: In ______, Canada was the leading producer of lowbush blueberries, while the United States produced 29% of the world's supply of highbush b…
- Complete the sentence about Blueberry with the correct year: Note: habitat and range summaries are from the Flora of New Brunswick, published in ______ by Harold R.
- Complete the sentence about Wife carrying with the correct year: The sport was first introduced in ______ in Sonkajärvi, Finland.
- Complete the sentence about Wife carrying with the correct year: The North American Wife Carrying Championships takes place every year since ______ on Indigenous People's Day Weekend in October at Sun…
- Complete the sentence about Air guitar with the correct year: One of the first air guitar contests was held at Florida State University in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Air guitar with the correct year: Since ______, the annual Air Guitar World Championships have been organized in Oulu, Finland.
- Complete the sentence about Air guitar with the correct year: Annual Air Guitar World Championships were first held in ______ as part of the Oulu Music Video Festival in Oulu, Finland, and now held th…
- Complete the sentence about Air Guitar World Championships with the correct year: The first competition was arranged in ______ as part of Oulu Music Video Festival.
- Complete the sentence about Swamp football with the correct year: The first organized competition, the Finnish Swamp Football Championship, was held in ______ in Hyrynsalmi, Kainuu, organized by local…
- Complete the sentence about Swamp football with the correct year: The sport spread internationally in the early 2000s, with the United Kingdom hosting its first Swamp Soccer World Cup in ______, organ…
- Complete the sentence about Swamp football with the correct year: In ______, the World Cup moved to Istanbul, Turkey, though it has not been held regularly since.
- Complete the sentence about Mobile phone throwing with the correct year: Mobile phone throwing is an international sport that began in Finland in the year ______.
- Complete the sentence about Mobile phone throwing with the correct year: Mobile Phone Throwing became a hit when first arranged in year ______ in Savonlinna, Finland.
- Complete the sentence about Vappu with the correct year: The Germanic term Walpurgisnacht is recorded in ______ by Johannes Praetorius as S.
- Complete the sentence about Kalevala Day with the correct year: The date is based on the day in ______ when Elias Lönnrot signed the preface to the first edition of the Kalevala.
- Complete the sentence about Kalevala Day with the correct year: The version of the book usually read today, the New Kalevala, was published in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Kalevala Day with the correct year: The first celebration took place in ______, organized by Savo-Karelian university students in Helsinki.
- Complete the sentence about Kalevala Day with the correct year: Since its founding in ______, the Kalevala Society has played a central role in organizing the celebrations.
- Complete the sentence with the correct year: Ståhlberg confirmed the Day of the War People's flag fest as an official holiday in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Maamme with the correct year: Through the late months of ______, an instrumental version of Maamme was used as the entrance theme in WWF for wrestler Ludvig Borga.
- Complete the sentence about Flag of Finland with the correct year: The first known "Flag of Finland" was presented in ______, along with the de facto national anthem "Maamme".
- Complete the sentence about Flag of Finland with the correct year: The current blue-crossed design was first used in Finland by Nyländska Jaktklubben, a yacht club founded in Helsinki in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Flag of Finland with the correct year: In ______, in connection with Russification of Finland, the Russian authorities decreed for a Russian flag to be added to the canton.
- Complete the sentence about Flag of Finland with the correct year: Shortly after Finland declared its full independence in ______, a competition was held for the design of the Finnish flag.
- Complete the sentence about Flag of Finland with the correct year: According to tradition, the flag was based on a design by the poet Zachris Topelius in about ______.
- Complete the sentence about Coat of arms of Finland with the correct year: The Finnish coat of arms was originally created around the year ______.
- Complete the sentence about Coat of arms of Finland with the correct year: During the reform of official Russian heraldry in ______, the lion was again changed on the initiative of Baron Bernhard Karl…
- Complete the sentence about Runo song with the correct year: The ______ runic song transcription process in Estonia largely began following an appeal by Jakob Hurt to collect written Estonian folklore…
- Complete the sentence about Finnish tango with the correct year: Brought to Europe in the 1910s, and to Finland itself in ______, by travelling musicians, Finns began to take up the form and write the…
- Complete the sentence about Finnish tango with the correct year: One of the highlights of Finnish summers is the Tangomarkkinat, or tango festival, held annually since ______ in the central Finnish to…
- Complete the sentence about Nightwish with the correct year: In ______, Nightwish was inducted into the Finnish Music Hall of Fame, becoming the honorary gallery's 11th member.
- Complete the sentence about Lordi with the correct year: Lordi has toured and recorded actively since ______, and Mr Lordi upgrades the band's costumes and masks for each album.
- Complete the sentence about Lordi with the correct year: After the video was done, Mr Lordi got an idea of a band of monsters. "Inferno" was later released in the Finnish "Rockmurskaa" compilation alb…
- Complete the sentence about Lordi with the correct year: In ______ Mr Lordi organized a Kiss cruise for Finnish Kiss fans from Finland to Sweden.
- Complete the sentence about Lordi with the correct year: The album was planned to release in early ______, but Anaconda Records went bankrupt shortly before the planned release date and the album was…
- Complete the sentence about Hanoi Rocks with the correct year: The tour was cut short when their drummer Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley died in a drunk driving incident with Vince Neil behind the wheel in…
- Complete the sentence with the correct year: The band never recovered from the loss and announced their split in June ______.
- Complete the sentence about Hanoi Rocks with the correct year: After their initial break-up, lead singer Michael Monroe became the first Finnish artist to chart on the American Billboard 200 in ______…
- Complete the sentence about HIM with the correct year: The band broke up after a few years, then it was reformed in ______ by Valo and guitarist Mikko "Linde" Lindström.
- Complete the sentence about HIM with the correct year: In ______, HIM released Dark Light, which became the group's most commercially successful album to date.
- Complete the sentence about The Rasmus with the correct year: The Rasmus is a Finnish rock band that formed in ______ in Helsinki while the band members were in upper comprehensive school.
- Complete the sentence about The Rasmus with the correct year: Jarno Lahti left the year after and was replaced by Janne Heiskanen in ______.
- Complete the sentence with the correct year: Heiskanen quit the band in ______ and was soon replaced by Aki Hakala.
- Complete the sentence about The Rasmus with the correct year: In ______ Jarno left the band, and was replaced by Janne Heiskanen.