Finnish Science, Arts and Culture
Science, Arts and Culture
368 practice questions, each with the answer and an explanation.
All 368 questions
- Complete the sentence about The Rasmus with the correct year: In December ______ they released their debut EP 1st, including the songs "Funky Jam", "Myself", "Frog" and "Rakkauslaulu".
- Complete the sentence about The Rasmus with the correct year: Records but was re-released through Warner Music Finland after they signed with them early in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Apocalyptica with the correct year: Apocalyptica is a Finnish symphonic metal band from Helsinki, formed in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Apocalyptica with the correct year: A cello quartet, Eicca Toppinen, Paavo Lötjönen, Max Lilja, and Antero Manninen formed Apocalyptica in ______ at Sibelius Academy in Hel…
- Complete the sentence about Apocalyptica with the correct year: The band released their debut studio album, Plays Metallica by Four Cellos, in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Apocalyptica with the correct year: Antero Manninen left the group in ______ and was replaced by Perttu Kivilaakso.
- Complete the sentence about Apocalyptica with the correct year: Apocalyptica released their fourth studio album, Reflections, in ______, containing only original songs.
- Complete the sentence about Children of Bodom with the correct year: Guitarist Alexi "Wildchild" Laiho and drummer Jaska Raatikainen formed Children of Bodom in ______ as Inearthed.
- Complete the sentence about Sunrise Avenue with the correct year: In the early days, the band was called Sunrise and the name was changed to Sunrise Avenue in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Sunrise Avenue with the correct year: Samu Haber established Sunrise together with Finnish singer-songwriter Jan Hohenthal in April ______ in Espoo, Finland.
- Complete the sentence about Bomfunk MC's with the correct year: By ______, "Freestyler" had become popular across Europe, becoming the region's highest-selling single of the year.
- Complete the sentence about Bomfunk MC's with the correct year: The Bomfunk MC's won the ______ Best Nordic Act award at the MTV Europe Music Awards.
- Complete the sentence about Bomfunk MC's with the correct year: In ______, the group released their third and final album, Reverse Psychology, under Universal Music.
- Complete the sentence about Darude with the correct year: Darude's second studio album, Rush, reached number 11 on the Billboard dance chart in ______ and number 4 on weekly album chart in Finland.
- Complete the sentence about Darude with the correct year: Toni-Ville Henrik Virtanen was born on 17 July ______, in the Finnish village of Hinnerjoki in Eura.
- Complete the sentence about Darude with the correct year: Active in the Finnish music trance and house scene since ______, Virtanen continued producing music into the 1990s.
- Complete the sentence about Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest with the correct year: Finland has been represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 59 times since its debut in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest with the correct year: The country won the contest for the first – and to date only – time in ______ with "Hard Rock Hallelujah" perf…
- Complete the sentence about Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest with the correct year: Before its ______ victory, Finland was considered by many to be the under-achiever of the contest.
- Complete the sentence about Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with the correct year: The Eurovision Song Contest ______ was the 51st edition of the Eurovision Song Contest.
- Complete the sentence about Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with the correct year: The contest took place in Athens, Greece, following the country's victory at the ______ edition.
- Complete the sentence about Hard Rock Hallelujah with the correct year: On 20 May ______, in the grand final for the Eurovision Song Contest, Lordi performed "Hard Rock Hallelujah" seventeenth on the…
- Complete the sentence about Cha Cha Cha with the correct year: As a result of its win, the song would go on to represent Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest ______.
- Complete the sentence about Teuvo Hakkarainen with the correct year: In May ______, Hakkarainen was talking to junior high school students.
- Complete the sentence about Sibelius with the correct year: The Finnish 100 mark note featured his image until ______, when the euro was adopted.
- Complete the sentence about Sibelius with the correct year: In ______, in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Sibelius's birth, a number of special concerts and events were held, especially in Hel…
- Complete the sentence about Karelia Suite with the correct year: Sibelius conducted the Karelian Music at its premiere on 13 November ______ at the Imperial Alexander University in Helsinki, Grand Duc…
- Complete the sentence about Karelia Suite with the correct year: The rest of the Karelia Music pieces that were yet to be printed ended up in the hands of Breitkopf & Härtel in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Karelia Suite with the correct year: The suite's British premiere occurred on 23 October ______ at the Promenade Concerts, under the baton of Henry Wood at Queen's Hall.
- Complete the sentence about Karelia Suite with the correct year: The score was at some point left in the possession of Robert Kajanus and, in ______, Kajanus's wife Ella returned it back to Sibelius.
- Complete the sentence about Einojuhani Rautavaara with the correct year: Rautavaara was awarded the Finnish State Prize for Music in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Einojuhani Rautavaara with the correct year: After an aortic dissection in January ______, Rautavaara spent almost half a year in intensive care before recovering and conti…
- Complete the sentence about Kaija Saariaho with the correct year: In ______, Saariaho went to the Darmstadt Summer Courses and attended a concert of the French spectralists Tristan Murail and Gérard G…
- Complete the sentence about Kaija Saariaho with the correct year: During her visit to Tokyo in ______, she expanded her original percussion conception into a semi-indeterminate piece.
- Complete the sentence about Esa-Pekka Salonen with the correct year: Salonen made his conducting debut in the United States with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Esa-Pekka Salonen with the correct year: Continued friction between Fleischmann and Previn led to Previn's resignation in April ______.
- Complete the sentence about Susanna Mälkki with the correct year: In ______, Mälkki won the 1st prize in the Turku National Cello Competition.
- Complete the sentence about Susanna Mälkki with the correct year: Outside of Europe, Mälkki made her New Zealand conducting debut in November ______ with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
- Complete the sentence about Osmo Vänskä with the correct year: In ______, he won the International Besançon Competition for Young Conductors.
- Complete the sentence about Osmo Vänskä with the correct year: In ______, Vänskä became the music director of the Minnesota Orchestra.
- Complete the sentence about Osmo Vänskä with the correct year: In ______, Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra began a five-year project to record the complete Beethoven symphonies on the BIS label.
- Complete the sentence about Leif Segerstam with the correct year: Leif Segerstam was born on 2 March ______ in Vaasa, to Selim Segerstam and Viola Maria Kronqvist, into a musical Swedish-speaking fami…
- Complete the sentence about Leif Segerstam with the correct year: Segerstam took part, as second conductor, in a ______ tour of the Helsinki Philharmonic to the United States.
- Complete the sentence about Finnish National Opera and Ballet with the correct year: Regular opera performances began in Finland in ______ with the founding of the Finnish Opera by Kaarlo Bergbom.
- Complete the sentence about Finnish National Opera and Ballet with the correct year: A group of notable social and cultural figures, led by the international star soprano Aino Ackté, founded the Domes…
- Complete the sentence about Finnish National Opera and Ballet with the correct year: A few years later the Domestic Opera was renamed the Finnish Opera in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Savonlinna Opera Festival with the correct year: In ______ the festival ran into difficulties because of First World War, Finnish Declaration of Independence and the ensuin…
- Complete the sentence about Savonlinna Opera Festival with the correct year: For fifty years, the opera festival was dormant, but in ______, Savonlinna Music Days decided to organise an opera course f…
- Complete the sentence about Savonlinna Opera Festival with the correct year: Therefore, ______ is nowadays regarded as the start of the present Festival; since then it has had steady growth of both au…
- Complete the sentence about Tampere Film Festival with the correct year: Since ______, it has been held in its current form, which makes it the oldest short film festival in Northern Europe.
- Complete the sentence about Midnight Sun Film Festival with the correct year: The festival was first arranged in ______ and the first international director guests were Samuel Fuller, Jonathan Demme…
- Complete the sentence about Aki Kaurismäki with the correct year: Aki Olavi Kaurismäki was born in Orimattila on 4 April ______.
- Complete the sentence about Mika Kaurismäki with the correct year: Mika's ______ film The Clan – Tale of the Frogs was entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival.
- Complete the sentence about Mika Kaurismäki with the correct year: In ______ in Philadelphia he directed the no-budget thriller Condition Red with James Russo, Cynda Williams and Paul Calderón.
- Complete the sentence about Mika Kaurismäki with the correct year: In ______ he was a member of the jury at the 25th Moscow International Film Festival.
- Complete the sentence about Renny Harlin with the correct year: Since ______, Renny's surname has been Harlin, his father's original surname.
- Complete the sentence about Renny Harlin with the correct year: Renny has a half-brother, Veli-Pekka Harjola, who competed at the ______ Summer Olympics in sprint canoeing.
- Complete the sentence about Finnish cinema with the correct year: The most significant Finnish films include The Unknown Soldier, directed by Edvin Laine in ______, which is shown on television every…
- Complete the sentence about Edvard Munch with the correct year: Edvard Munch was born in ______ in a farmhouse in the village of Ådalsbruk in Løten, Norway to Laura Catherine Bjølstad and Christian Mu…
- Complete the sentence about Edvard Munch with the correct year: Christian was a doctor and medical officer who married Laura, a woman half his age, in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Akseli Gallen-Kallela with the correct year: Gallen-Kallela was born on 26 April ______, in Pori, to a Swedish-speaking family.
- Complete the sentence about Akseli Gallen-Kallela with the correct year: Gallen-Kallela was raised in Tyrvää, where the family had moved in ______ after his father had bought a farm there.
- Complete the sentence about Akseli Gallen-Kallela with the correct year: During his Paris years Gallen-Kallela was strongly influenced by the naturalist plein air painting of Jules Bastien-Lepage, who…
- Complete the sentence about Helene Schjerfbeck with the correct year: When Schjerfbeck's father died of tuberculosis, on February 2, ______, Schjerfbeck's mother took in boarders so that they could ge…
- Complete the sentence about Helene Schjerfbeck with the correct year: In ______ she moved to the Académie Colarossi, where she studied once again with Westermarck.
- Complete the sentence about Albert Edelfelt with the correct year: In the autumn of ______, at the age of nineteen, following the advice of his teacher Adolf von Becker, he moved to Paris and enrolled…
- Complete the sentence about Albert Edelfelt with the correct year: After a year in Paris, he returned to Helsinki, but came back to Paris in ______, taking a studio at 81 boulevard du Montparnasse.
- Complete the sentence about Hugo Simberg with the correct year: In the autumn of ______, Silmberg fell ill with meningitis and was forced to stay in bed for much of the winter.
- Complete the sentence about Finnish National Gallery with the correct year: On January 27, ______, the Finnish Art Society was established.
- Complete the sentence about Finnish National Gallery with the correct year: The Ateneum building was completed in the spring of ______ and the Finnish Art Society's operations were moved there.
- Complete the sentence about Finnish National Gallery with the correct year: In ______, Paul and Fanny Sinebrychoff donated approximately 900 works to the Society, creating the basis of what would beco…
- Complete the sentence about Finnish National Gallery with the correct year: In ______, the Finnish National Gallery was established to manage the collection.
- Complete the sentence about Finnish design with the correct year: In ______, the Brooklyn Museum held its "Design in Scandinavia" exhibition, and a fashion for "Scandinavian Modern" furniture began in…
- Complete the sentence about Marimekko with the correct year: Marimekko was founded in ______ by Viljo and Armi Ratia, after the Viljo's oil-cloth factory project failed and was converted to a garment…
- Complete the sentence about Marimekko with the correct year: Nurmesniemi designed the simply striped red and white Jokapoika shirt in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Iittala with the correct year: Iittala, founded as a glassworks in ______, is a Finnish design brand specialising in design objects, tableware and cookware.
- Complete the sentence about Iittala with the correct year: In February ______, Abrahamson left the loss-making Iittala glassworks, and Anders Andersson, the chairman of the board, took over the direct…
- Complete the sentence about Iittala with the correct year: In ______, the Swede Anders Norstedt resigned as administrator of the Nuutajärvi glassworks and moved to Helsinki to handle his business inte…
- Complete the sentence about Iittala with the correct year: By ______, Anders Norstedt was the majority shareholder of the Iittala Glasbruks Aktiebolag.
- Complete the sentence about Arabia with the correct year: Arabia was a Finnish ceramics company, founded in ______ by Rörstrand, now owned by Fiskars.
- Complete the sentence about Arabia with the correct year: In ______ the company was acquired by Hackman and was incorporated into the Hackman trademark.
- Complete the sentence about Arabia with the correct year: Founded as a subsidiary of the Swedish porcelain producer Rörstrand on November 25, ______, the Arabia brand has gone through numerous ownersh…
- Complete the sentence about Arabia with the correct year: Carl-Gustaf Herlitz, formerly an employee of Rörstrand, was recruited in ______ to serve as the technical director.
- Complete the sentence about Arabia with the correct year: A couple of years later in the 1890s, Thure Öberg was poached from Röstrand and become the company's first artist. Öberg worked in Arabia unti…
- Complete the sentence about Fiskars with the correct year: In ______, the first cutlery mill in Finland was founded in Fiskars, with the company's production range increasing from knives to include fo…
- Complete the sentence about Fiskars with the correct year: In ______, after Julin's death, Fiskars was listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange.
- Complete the sentence about Eero Saarinen with the correct year: Saarinen became a naturalized citizen of the United States in ______, a year after marrying the sculptor Lilian Swann, with whom he had…
- Complete the sentence about Eero Saarinen with the correct year: After divorcing Swann in ______, Saarinen married Aline Bernstein Louchheim.
- Complete the sentence about Eero Saarinen with the correct year: In ______, Saarinen died while undergoing an operation for a brain tumor.
- Complete the sentence about Eero Saarinen with the correct year: Saarinen began studies in sculpture at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, France, in September ______.
- Complete the sentence about Eero Saarinen with the correct year: All of these designs were highly successful except for the Grasshopper lounge chair, which, although in production through ______, was…
- Complete the sentence about Eero Saarinen with the correct year: The GM Technical Center was constructed in ______, with Saarinen using models, which allowed him to share his ideas with others and gat…
- Complete the sentence about Finnish architecture with the correct year: Finland declared its full independence in ______, during the Russian Revolution.
- Complete the sentence about Helsinki Central Library Oodi with the correct year: Since opening in December ______, Oodi has become one of Helsinki's most visited public buildings.
- Complete the sentence about Ilmari Tapiovaara with the correct year: In ______ he graduated in interior design and in the following year worked for Asko.
- Complete the sentence about Tapio Wirkkala with the correct year: Wirkkala died in Helsinki on 19 May ______ and was buried in the artists' area of the Hietaniemi Cemetery; his wife, Rut Bryk, was lat…
- Complete the sentence about Kaj Franck with the correct year: Franck died in Santorini, Greece in ______ and is buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki.
- Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______ she went to work for architect Oiva Kallio in Helsinki.
- Complete the sentence about Aino Aalto with the correct year: The Aaltos moved their office to Turku in ______, and started collaborating with architect Erik Bryggman.
- Complete the sentence about Finnair with the correct year: Founded in ______, Finnair is one of the oldest airlines in continuous operation and is consistently listed as one of the safest in the world…