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Complete the sentence about Danish cuisine with the correct year: Danish cooking is rooted in the peasant dishes served across the country before the Industrial Revolution in ______.
Complete the sentence about Danish pastry with the correct year: The origin of the Danish pastry is often ascribed to a strike amongst bakery workers in Denmark in ______.
Complete the sentence about Danish pastry with the correct year: According to Klitteng, he made Danish pastry for the wedding of President Woodrow Wilson in December ______.
Complete the sentence about Tuborg with the correct year: The brewery's flagship product, the Tuborg pilsner, was brewed for the first time in ______.
Complete the sentence about Tuborg with the correct year: Benny Desau, Heyman's son-in-law, was a director of De Forenede Bryggerier, followed by his son Einar Dessau in ______.
Complete the sentence about Tuborg with the correct year: During the Occupation, because of his Jewish background, Einar Dessau had to flee to Sweden in November ______, where he joined the Danish res…
Complete the sentence about Carlsberg Group with the correct year: Since Jacobsen's death in ______, the majority owner of the company has been the Carlsberg Foundation.
Complete the sentence about Carlsberg Group with the correct year: With his fortune, he amassed an art collection first housed privately, but since ______ housed public in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek i…
Complete the sentence about Carlsberg Group with the correct year: Jacobsen set up the Carlsberg Laboratory in ______, which worked on scientific problems related to brewing.
Complete the sentence about Hans Wegner with the correct year: In ______, he was made honorary Royal designer for industry by the Royal Society of Arts in London.
Complete the sentence about Hans Wegner with the correct year: During the army, he first saw the exhibition of the Copenhagen Cabinetmakers' Guild in ______.
Complete the sentence about Poul Henningsen with the correct year: From ______, Henningsen freelanced as an architect and designer.
Complete the sentence about Jørn Utzon with the correct year: In ______, he won an international design competition for his design of the Sydney Opera House in Australia.
Complete the sentence about Jørn Utzon with the correct year: As a result of his family's interest in art, from ______ he attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts where he studied under Kay Fisk…
Complete the sentence about Jørn Utzon with the correct year: Following his graduation in ______, he joined Gunnar Asplund in Stockholm where he worked together with Arne Jacobsen and Poul Henningsen.
Complete the sentence about Jørn Utzon with the correct year: In ______, he travelled to the United States and Mexico, where the pyramids provided further inspiration.
Complete the sentence about Sydney Opera House with the correct year: The Government of New South Wales, led by the premier, Joseph Cahill, authorised work to begin in ______ with Utzon directing cons…
Complete the sentence about Sydney Opera House with the correct year: By ______, Goossens succeeded in gaining the support of New South Wales Premier Joseph Cahill, who called for designs for a dedica…
Complete the sentence about Bjarke Ingels with the correct year: Hoping to become a cartoonist, he began studying architecture in ______ at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, thinking it would hel…
Complete the sentence about Bjarke Ingels with the correct year: In ______, he returned to Copenhagen to set up the architectural practice PLOT together with Belgian OMA colleague Julien de Smedt.
Complete the sentence about Lego with the correct year: In ______, the business began producing an early version of the now familiar interlocking bricks, calling them "Automatic Binding Bricks".
Complete the sentence about Lego with the correct year: By ______, Christiansen's son, Godtfred, had become the junior managing director of the Lego Group.
Complete the sentence about Lego with the correct year: A patent application for the modern Lego brick design was filed in Denmark on 28 January ______ and in various other countries in the subsequent…
Complete the sentence about Bang & Olufsen with the correct year: When they officially opened their business in ______, Bang focused on the technology while Olufsen was dealing with business.
Complete the sentence about Georg Jensen with the correct year: Born in ______, Jensen was the son of a knife grinder in the town of Raadvad, just to the north of Copenhagen.
Complete the sentence about Georg Jensen with the correct year: Jensen made his first piece of jewelry in ______, a silver and gilt "Adam and Eve" belt buckle.
Complete the sentence about Georg Jensen with the correct year: In ______, Jensen abandoned ceramics and began again as a silversmith and designer with the master Mogens Ballin.
Complete the sentence about Georg Jensen with the correct year: In ______, Adda Husted Andersen worked for Jensen in New York City, enameling homewares.
Complete the sentence about Royal Copenhagen with the correct year: The Royal Copenhagen manufactory's operations began in a converted post office in ______.
Complete the sentence about Royal Copenhagen with the correct year: When, in ______, King Christian VII assumed financial responsibility, the manufactory was styled the Royal Porcelain Factory.
Complete the sentence about Royal Copenhagen with the correct year: In ______, Royal Copenhagen showed its production at the Great Exhibition in London.
Complete the sentence about Royal Copenhagen with the correct year: In ______, as a result of royal companies' privatization, the Royal Porcelain Factory came into private ownership and was sold at au…
Complete the sentence about Hans Christian Andersen with the correct year: Andersen was baptised on 15 April ______ in Saint Hans Church in Odense.
Complete the sentence about The Ugly Duckling with the correct year: In ______, the Fleischer brothers adapted the story for their animated short "The Little Stranger", reversing the story by having a…
Complete the sentence about The Ugly Duckling with the correct year: In ______, the Soviet animation studio Soyuzmultfilm produced its 19-minute version of The Ugly Duckling.
Complete the sentence about The Emperor's New Clothes with the correct year: Reitzel, on 7 April ______, as the third and final installment of Andersen's Fairy Tales Told for Children.
Complete the sentence about The Emperor's New Clothes with the correct year: In ______, Robbins returned to the tale to suggest that the courtiers who pretend not to see what they see are models of me…
Complete the sentence about The Emperor's New Clothes with the correct year: In ______, theatrical short titled The Emperor's New Clothes, produced by UPA, directed by Ted Parmelee and starring Hans C…
Complete the sentence about The Emperor's New Clothes with the correct year: In the ______ Doctor Who serial The Romans, the Doctor uses the story as inspiration to avoid his disguise as a lyre player…
Complete the sentence about The Emperor's New Clothes with the correct year: In ______, Videocraft International released The Daydreamer, written by Arthur Rankin Jr. and directed by Jules Bass.
Complete the sentence about The Emperor's New Clothes with the correct year: In ______, this story was used to create a four-episode special of El Chapulín Colorado, a Mexican TV show created by Rober…
Complete the sentence about Karen Blixen with the correct year: Karen Christentze Dinesen was born on 17 April ______ in Rungstedlund, north of Copenhagen.
Complete the sentence about Out of Africa with the correct year: The book, first published in ______, recounts events of the eighteen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya, then called British East…
Complete the sentence about Out of Africa with the correct year: The book's title was likely derived from the title of a poem, "Ex Africa," she had written in ______, while recuperating in a Danish ho…
Complete the sentence about Tove Ditlevsen with the correct year: The first two books were translated by Tiina Nunnally and published in ______ by Seal Press under the title Early Spring.
Complete the sentence about Peter Høeg with the correct year: Peter Høeg published his first novel, A History of Danish Dreams, in ______ to very positive reviews.
Complete the sentence about Peter Høeg with the correct year: Høeg virtually disappeared in ______ after the lukewarm reception of The Woman and the Ape.
Complete the sentence about Peter Høeg with the correct year: Høeg resurfaced in ______ with The Quiet Girl, his first novel in 10 years.
Complete the sentence about Peter Høeg with the correct year: In ______ he established the Lolwe foundation which provides financial assistance to women and children in the third world, especially in…
Complete the sentence about Niels Bohr with the correct year: Bohr founded the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Copenhagen, now known as the Niels Bohr Institute, which opened in…
Complete the sentence about Niels Bohr with the correct year: In September ______ word reached Bohr that he was about to be arrested by the Germans, so he fled to Sweden.
Complete the sentence about Niels Bohr with the correct year: Jenny became a teacher, while Harald became a mathematician and footballer who played for the Danish national team at the ______ Summer Ol…
Complete the sentence about Niels Bohr with the correct year: In ______, Bohr enrolled as an undergraduate at the University of Copenhagen.
Complete the sentence about Hans Christian Ørsted with the correct year: In ______, Ørsted received a travel scholarship and public grant which enabled him to spend three years traveling across Europe…
Complete the sentence about Hans Christian Ørsted with the correct year: Ørsted welcomed William Christopher Zeise to his family home in autumn ______.
Complete the sentence about Tycho Brahe with the correct year: In ______, Tycho noticed a completely new star that was brighter than any star or planet.
Complete the sentence about Tycho Brahe with the correct year: In ______, Tycho was forced by the new king, Christian IV, to leave Denmark.
Complete the sentence about Tycho Brahe with the correct year: Before his death in ______, he was assisted for a year by Johannes Kepler, who went on to use Tycho's data to develop his own three laws…
Complete the sentence about Ole Rømer with the correct year: Unfortunately, his observations have not survived: they were lost in the great Copenhagen Fire of ______.
Complete the sentence about Ole Rømer with the correct year: In Rømer's position as royal mathematician, he introduced the first national system for weights and measures in Denmark on 1 May ______.
Complete the sentence about Ole Rømer with the correct year: Initially based on the Rhine foot, a more accurate national standard was adopted in ______.
Complete the sentence about Ole Rømer with the correct year: In ______, Rømer persuaded the king to introduce the Gregorian calendar in Denmark and Norway – something Tycho Brahe had argued for in vai…
Complete the sentence about Niels Steensen with the correct year: Born to a Lutheran family, Steensen converted to Catholicism in ______.
Complete the sentence about Niels Steensen with the correct year: Four months later, he was ordained in the Catholic clergy on Easter Sunday in ______.
Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, he took a Master's degree at the University of Copenhagen.
Complete the sentence about Rasmus Bartholin with the correct year: In ______, he received a Doctoral degree at the University of Padua.
Complete the sentence about Carl Nielsen with the correct year: In ______, he took a post teaching at the Royal Danish Academy and continued to work there until his death.
Complete the sentence about Danish National Symphony Orchestra with the correct year: In ______, Holm recruited Nikolai Malko to a key role similar to that of Grøndahl, as a conductor of the orchestra…
Complete the sentence about Danish National Symphony Orchestra with the correct year: In ______, the orchestra began to give concerts at the Stærekassen hall of the Royal Danish Theatre.
Complete the sentence about Royal Danish Ballet with the correct year: The third great period of the Danish Royal Ballet came in ______, when Harald Lander took over the helm of the corps.
Complete the sentence about Royal Danish Ballet with the correct year: Among them was Børge Ralov, who choreographed the first modern Danish Ballet, The Widow in the Mirror, in ______.
Complete the sentence about Royal Danish Theatre with the correct year: The Royal Danish Theatre was founded in ______, first serving as the theatre of the king, and then as the theatre of the country…
Complete the sentence about Roskilde Festival with the correct year: The first Roskilde Festival was held on 28 and 29 August ______, originally named the Sound Festival.
Complete the sentence about Roskilde Festival with the correct year: The foundation had been involved in Roskilde's city festival since ______ and had the necessary contacts.
Complete the sentence about Aqua with the correct year: Aqua was a Danish eurodance band, best known for their ______ single "Barbie Girl".
Complete the sentence about Aqua with the correct year: The group formed in ______ in Copenhagen and achieved international success around the world in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Complete the sentence about Aqua with the correct year: The lawsuit was finally dismissed by a judge in ______, who ruled "The parties are advised to chill".
Complete the sentence about Aqua with the correct year: In ______, Søren Rasted and Claus Norreen won a contest and were hired to produce a soundtrack for a film titled Frække Frida og de frygtløse sp…
Complete the sentence about Aqua with the correct year: A Swedish record label signed them in ______, and their first single "Itzy Bitzy Spider" was released in Sweden.
Complete the sentence about Lars Ulrich with the correct year: In February ______, Ulrich's father obtained passes for five of his friends to a Deep Purple concert held in the same Copenhagen stadium…
Complete the sentence about Lars Ulrich with the correct year: Ulrich originally intended to follow in his father's footsteps and play tennis, and he moved to Newport Beach, California, in the summer…
Complete the sentence about Lars Ulrich with the correct year: In ______, he discovered British heavy metal band Diamond Head.
Complete the sentence about Metallica with the correct year: Metallica was the subject of the acclaimed ______ documentary film Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, which documented the troubled productio…
Complete the sentence about Metallica with the correct year: In ______, Metallica was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Complete the sentence about Metallica with the correct year: The band was officially formed on October 28, ______, five months after Ulrich and Hetfield first met.
Complete the sentence about Metallica with the correct year: Hetfield took vocal duties at the band's first gig, which took place in March ______ at Radio City in Anaheim with newly recruited bassist…
Complete the sentence about Mø with the correct year: In ______, MØ released an EP, The Edmunds, which was composed of three songs.
Complete the sentence about Mø with the correct year: MØ and her friend, Josefine Struckmann Pedersen, formed duo MOR in ______.
Complete the sentence about Lukas Graham with the correct year: The band signed a record deal in late ______ with the Danish record label Copenhagen Records which is owned by Universal Music Denmark.
Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______ he made his first classic film, The Passion of Joan of Arc.
Complete the sentence about Thomas Vinterberg with the correct year: The film won awards at the ______ Nordisk Panorama Film Festival, the International Short Film Festival in Clermont-Ferrand, and th…
Complete the sentence about Thomas Vinterberg with the correct year: In ______, Vinterberg formed the Dogme 95 movement with Lars von Trier, Kristian Levring, and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen.
Complete the sentence about Susanne Bier with the correct year: Susanne Bier was born to a Jewish family in Copenhagen, Denmark on 15 April ______.
Complete the sentence about Susanne Bier with the correct year: In ______, the two families fled from Denmark to Sweden, together with most Danish Jews, to escape the deportation to the Nazi death cam…
Complete the sentence about Mads Mikkelsen with the correct year: During his dancing career, Mikkelsen met choreographer Hanne Jacobsen, whom he married in ______.
Complete the sentence about Mads Mikkelsen with the correct year: Mikkelsen made his film debut in ______ as a drug dealer in Nicolas Winding Refn's internationally successful film Pusher, which spawn…
Complete the sentence about Mads Mikkelsen with the correct year: In ______, Mikkelsen played a gangster opposite Søren Pilmark, Ulrich Thomsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas in Anders Thomas Jensen's Copenhage…
Complete the sentence about Mads Mikkelsen with the correct year: In ______, Mikkelsen had a leading role as a man who leaves his wife and child in the short film Nu.
Complete the sentence about Dogme 95 with the correct year: The manifesto initially mimics the wording of François Truffaut's ______ essay "Une certaine tendance du cinéma français" in Cahiers du ciné…
Complete the sentence about Danish film with the correct year: The first film show in Denmark took place in the Panorama cinema on the Town Hall square in Copenhagen, in June ______.

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