Danish Science, Arts and Culture

Science Arts And Culture

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  1. Complete the sentence about Danish film with the correct year: In ______, cinema owner Ole Olsen founded the first Danish film-making company, Nordisk Films Kompagni.
  2. Complete the sentence about Danish film with the correct year: In the spring of ______, Nordisk Films Kompagni changed its policy of producing only short films and began making feature films.
  3. Complete the sentence about Peter Schmeichel with the correct year: In addition to Euro 92, he played for his country at the ______ FIFA World Cup and three more European Championship tournaments.
  4. Complete the sentence about Peter Schmeichel with the correct year: In ______, Schmeichel was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in recognition of his impact on the English game.
  5. Complete the sentence about Michael Laudrup with the correct year: Laudrup made his debut for the Denmark national team on his 18th birthday in ______, and scored 37 goals in 104 appearances.
  6. Complete the sentence about Christian Eriksen with the correct year: Eriksen began his senior club career at age 18 in ______, playing for Ajax, where he won three Eredivisie titles and the KNVB Cup.
  7. Complete the sentence about Christian Eriksen with the correct year: On 17 October ______, Eriksen signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with Amsterdam-based club, Ajax.
  8. Complete the sentence about Kasper Schmeichel with the correct year: Kasper Schmeichel was born on 5 November ______ in Copenhagen, Denmark.
  9. Complete the sentence about Pierre-Emile Højbjerg with the correct year: Højbjerg started his career as a youth for Danish clubs Skjold, KB and Brøndby, before joining German club Bayern Munich in ___…
  10. Complete the sentence about Denmark national football team with the correct year: Two years later, in the first official football tournament at the ______ Olympics, Denmark won a silver medal.
  11. Complete the sentence about Denmark national football team with the correct year: The first official national football match was played on 19 October ______ during the Olympic Games in London.
  12. Complete the sentence about Denmark national football team with the correct year: Although Denmark figured fairly prominently in the pre-FIFA World Cup era, international success would elude them for…
  13. Complete the sentence about UEFA Euro 1992 with the correct year: On 16 December ______, following a decision made by the UEFA Executive Committee, Sweden was chosen over Spain to host the event.
  14. Complete the sentence about FC Copenhagen with the correct year: FCK made its first appearance in the European tournaments when it beat Swiss team Grasshoppers 2–1 in the ______ UEFA Intertoto Cup.
  15. Complete the sentence about Brøndby IF with the correct year: Brøndbyernes Idrætsforening was formed on 3 December ______ following a merger between two local rivals – Brøndbyøster IF and Brøndbyveste…
  16. Complete the sentence about Jonas Vingegaard with the correct year: Vingegaard, whose youth career initially saw limited success, made his Grand Tour debut at the ______ Vuelta a EspaĂąa.
  17. Complete the sentence about Jonas Vingegaard with the correct year: Then, in ______, he participated in his first Tour de France and secured a second-place finish.
  18. Complete the sentence about Mikkel Hansen with the correct year: After two years and two championships, the club folded in ______ with Hansen joining the newly formed French team PSG Handball.
  19. Complete the sentence about Mikkel Hansen with the correct year: In ______, he was a part of the Danish team that finished second in the World Championships in Sweden.
  20. Complete the sentence about Caroline Wozniacki with the correct year: Wozniacki had a successful junior career, winning the junior title at the ______ Wimbledon Championships.
  21. Complete the sentence about Denmark at the Olympics with the correct year: Denmark first participated at the Olympic Games at the inaugural ______ Games.
  22. Complete the sentence about Denmark at the Olympics with the correct year: Since then, the nation has maintained a consistent presence at the Summer Olympic Games, participating in every edition excep…
  23. Complete the sentence about Copenhagen Airport with the correct year: As the Nordic countries' largest airport, it served close to 30 million passengers in ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Copenhagen Airport with the correct year: The airport was inaugurated on 20 April ______ and was one of the first civil airports in the world.
  25. Complete the sentence about Danish State Railways with the correct year: DSB was founded in ______, when the state-owned companies De jysk-fynske Statsbaner and De sjĂŚllandske Statsbaner merged.
  26. Complete the sentence about Maersk with the correct year: Moller - Maersk A/S is a Danish shipping and logistics company founded in ______ by Arnold Peter Møller and his father Peter MÌrsk Møller.
  27. Complete the sentence about Novo Nordisk with the correct year: The corporation was created in ______, through a merger of two Danish pharmaceutical companies, which date back to the 1920s.
  28. Complete the sentence about Novo Nordisk with the correct year: Kongsted rented a factory in Emdrup, Denmark, in late ______ to help meet the demand for insulin.
  29. Complete the sentence about Novo Nordisk with the correct year: The Insulin Laboratory and the factory were spun off into a new company, Nordisk Insulin Laboratorium, in July ______.
  30. Complete the sentence about Vestas with the correct year: Vestas Wind Systems A/S is a Danish manufacturer, seller, installer, and servicer of wind turbines that was founded in ______.
  31. Complete the sentence about Vestas with the correct year: As of 9 January ______, the company has built production facilities in more than 12 countries, among them China, Spain and the United States.
  32. Complete the sentence about Vestas with the correct year: Vestas traces its roots to ______ when Hans Smith Hansen bought a blacksmith shop in Lem, West Jutland, that operated as a family business.
  33. Complete the sentence about Danske Bank with the correct year: In Denmark, the major expansion occurred in ______ after the merger with Kjøbenhavns Handelsbank and Provinsbanken.
  34. Complete the sentence about Pandora with the correct year: Pandora was founded in ______ by Danish goldsmith Per Enevoldsen and, his then-wife, Winnie Enevoldsen.
  35. Complete the sentence about Pandora with the correct year: The Danish private equity group Axcel bought a 60% stake in the company from the Enevoldsen family in ______.
  36. Complete the sentence about Carlsberg Foundation with the correct year: In ______ the foundation started to manage and fund the Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Palace.
  37. Complete the sentence about Carlsberg Foundation with the correct year: In ______ the foundation started a Scholarship programme named after J.
  38. Complete the sentence about Carlsberg Foundation with the correct year: The foundation sponsored the Danish excavation of Tell Shemshara in Iraq in ______.
  39. Complete the sentence about University of Copenhagen with the correct year: Founded in ______, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia, after Uppsala University.
  40. Complete the sentence about University of Copenhagen with the correct year: The University of Copenhagen was founded on 1 June ______ and is the oldest university in Denmark.
  41. Complete the sentence about University of Copenhagen with the correct year: In ______, Christian I of Denmark received a papal bull from Pope Sixtus IV with permission to establish a university in Den…
  42. Complete the sentence about University of Copenhagen with the correct year: The bull was issued on 19 June ______ as a result of the visit to Rome by Christian I's wife, Dorothea of Brandenburg, Queen…
  43. Complete the sentence about Aarhus University with the correct year: In ______, the municipality of Aarhus gave the university land with a landscape of rolling hills.
  44. Complete the sentence about Aarhus University with the correct year: Møller, Kay Fisker and Povl Stegmann, who won the architectural competition in ______.
  45. Complete the sentence about Aarhus University with the correct year: The first buildings were finished in ______ and housed the Departments of Chemistry, Physics and Anatomy.
  46. Complete the sentence about Technical University of Denmark with the correct year: In ______ a decision was made to move the College of Advanced Technology to new and larger facilities in Lyngby north…
  47. Complete the sentence about Grundtvig with the correct year: Jacob and Niels died while young priests at Osu Castle in the Danish Gold Coast, while Ulrike Eleonore died from an illness in ______.
  48. Complete the sentence about Grundtvig with the correct year: In ______, Grundtvig took a position as tutor in a house on the island of Langeland.
  49. Complete the sentence about Grundtvig with the correct year: Previously, in ______, his cousin, the philosopher Henrich Steffens, returned to Copenhagen full of the teaching of Friedrich Wilhelm Josep…
  50. Complete the sentence about Danish Royal Library with the correct year: The library was founded in ______ by King Frederik III, who contributed a comprehensive collection of European works.
  51. Complete the sentence about Danish Royal Library with the correct year: The official name of the organization as of 1 January ______ is The Royal Library, the National Library of Denmark and the Copen…
  52. Complete the sentence about Danish Royal Library with the correct year: In the 1970s, the library saw the largest book theft in Danish history, with the case only being resolved in ______.
  53. Complete the sentence about National Museum of Denmark with the correct year: For example, it holds a collection of objects that were retrieved during the Danish excavation of Tell Shemshara in Iraq i…
  54. Complete the sentence about National Museum of Denmark with the correct year: The Danish pre-history section was re-opened in May ______ after years of renovating.
  55. Complete the sentence about Louisiana Museum of Modern Art with the correct year: Since ______, the Louisiana has presented international art and culture to a Danish and international audience.
  56. Complete the sentence about Louisiana Museum of Modern Art with the correct year: Louisiana Channel is a non-profit web TV channel launched in ______ and based at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
  57. Complete the sentence about Louisiana Museum of Modern Art with the correct year: Launched in ______, the Louisiana's literary festival, Louisiana Literature, celebrates exceptional writing from aroun…
  58. Complete the sentence about Ordrupgaard with the correct year: In ______, he founded the Danish-based life insurance company Dansk Folkeforsikringsanstalt.
  59. Complete the sentence about Ordrupgaard with the correct year: In ______, Danish insurance company Hafnia appointed to their managing director.
  60. Complete the sentence about Ordrupgaard with the correct year: In ______, Wilhelm Hansen suffered a massive financial and personal loss. "Landmandsbanken", in which the Consortium had taken loans for…
  61. Complete the sentence about Ordrupgaard with the correct year: After the death of Wilhelm Hansen in ______, his widow Henny Hansen lived on alone at Ordrupgaard.
  62. Complete the sentence about Ordrupgaard with the correct year: At her death in ______, she left the collection, the house and the park to the Danish State, as Wilhelm Hansen had wished.
  63. Complete the sentence about Danish Golden Age with the correct year: Literature centred on Romantic thinking, introduced in ______ by the Norwegian-German philosopher Henrik Steffens.
  64. Complete the sentence about Danish Golden Age with the correct year: In ______, as a result of the country's involvement in the League of Armed Neutrality, the Royal Navy successfully attacked a Danis…
  65. Complete the sentence about Danish Golden Age with the correct year: In ______, on rumours that the French might force Denmark-Norway to close the Baltic to their shipping, the British bombarded Copen…
  66. Complete the sentence about Danish Golden Age with the correct year: Then in ______, as a result of the country's inability to support the costs of war, the Dano-Norwegian government declared a state…
  67. Complete the sentence about P. S. Krøyer with the correct year: Krøyer was born in Stavanger, Norway, on 23 July ______ to a single mother, Ellen Cecilie Gjesdal.
  68. Complete the sentence about P. S. Krøyer with the correct year: In ______, at the age of 19, Krøyer completed his studies at the Royal Academy, where he had studied with Frederik Vermehren.
  69. Complete the sentence about P. S. Krøyer with the correct year: In ______ Heinrich Hirschsprung bought his first paintings from Krøyer — four watercolours of fishermen — establishing a lifelong patron…
  70. Complete the sentence about P. S. Krøyer with the correct year: In ______, Krøyer received a 2-year travel scholarship from the Royal Academy, and financial aid from Hirschsprung allowed him to extend…
  71. Complete the sentence about Vilhelm Hammershøi with the correct year: In ______, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote of the artist, "Hammershøi is not one of those about whom one can speak quickly.
  72. Complete the sentence about Vilhelm Hammershøi with the correct year: The Metropolitan Museum of Art held an exhibition of their collective works in ______.
  73. Complete the sentence about Dannebrog with the correct year: An origin legend with considerable impact on Danish national historiography connects the introduction of the flag to the Battle of Lindanis…
  74. Complete the sentence about Dannebrog with the correct year: The flag holds the Guinness world record of being the oldest continuously used national flag, that is since ______.
  75. Complete the sentence about Danish Football Association with the correct year: The DBU was founded on 18 May ______ and was the first national football association outside Great Britain and Ireland.
  76. Complete the sentence about Danish Football Association with the correct year: Since ______, the DBU has awarded the Danish Player of the Year in a vote amongst the Danish players.
  77. Complete the sentence about Danish Handball Federation with the correct year: The first official national team game was played on 20 August ______ as a 11v11 outdoor match against Germany.
  78. Complete the sentence about Danish Handball Federation with the correct year: From ______ the Danish Men's Handball Cup and Danish Women's Handball Cup were introduced.
  79. Which place completes this sentence about Hans Christian Andersen? Andersen was baptised on 15 April 1805 in Saint Hans Church in ______.
  80. Which place completes this sentence about Søren Kierkegaard? Peter, who was seven years older, later became bishop in ______.
  81. Which place completes this sentence about Mø? Karen Marie Aagaard Ørsted Andersen was born in Ubberud, near ______, and she grew up in Ejlstrup on the island of Funen, Denmark.
  82. Which place completes this sentence about Viktor Axelsen? Axelsen was born in ______, to Henrik Axelsen and Gitte Lundager.
  83. Which place completes this sentence about Maersk? MÌrsk Mc-Kinney Møller was, until his death, one of the "managing owners" of the company and was chairman of ______ Steel Shipyard until 2 May 2006.
  84. Which place completes this sentence about Skagen Painters? Madsen, who had already visited ______ in 1871 while staying with his uncle in nearby Frederikshavn, invited Ancher to join him there in 1874…
  85. Which place completes this sentence about Danish Handball Federation? In the 1990's the Danish handball leagues professionalised, and in 1999 ______ HK became the first club to turn the elite division…
  86. Complete the sentence about Niels Bohr with the correct year: In ______, he was named the fourth greatest physicist of all time by Physics World.
  87. Complete the sentence about Peter Schmeichel with the correct year: In March ______, he was named among the "125 greatest living footballers" on the FIFA 100 list.
  88. Complete the sentence about Kasper Schmeichel with the correct year: After one year at Leeds, Schmeichel was signed by fellow Championship side Leicester City in ______, reuniting again with Eriksson.
  89. Complete the sentence about Kasper Schmeichel with the correct year: Schmeichel started playing organised football in Portugal in ______, while his father was part of Sporting CP.
  90. Complete the sentence about Mikkel Hansen with the correct year: On 2 June ______, he returned to Denmark to play for AG København after two years of playing in Spain.
  91. Complete the sentence about Maersk with the correct year: In ______, the company was one of the main victims of the NotPetya ransom malware attack, which severely disrupted its operation for several m…
  92. Complete the sentence about Novo Nordisk with the correct year: In January ______, Novo was named the most sustainable company in the world by the business magazine Corporate Knights.
  93. Complete the sentence about Danske Bank with the correct year: As of ______, Danske Bank's largest shareholder with 21% of the share capital was A.P.
  94. Complete the sentence about Danske Bank with the correct year: On 15 November ______, Sampo Bank was renamed Danske Bank after banking operations were uniformed under one brand.
  95. Complete the sentence about University of Copenhagen with the correct year: As of October ______, 10 Nobel laureates and 1 Turing Award laureate have been affiliated with the University of Copenhagen…
  96. Complete the sentence about National Museum of Denmark with the correct year: In ______, a major exhibition on the Vikings was opened by Margrethe II of Denmark.
  97. Complete the sentence about Vilhelm Hammershøi with the correct year: In ______, the Royal Academy of Arts in London hosted the first major exhibition in Britain of Hammershøi's work, Vilhelm Hammersh…
  98. Complete the sentence about Danish jazz with the correct year: Jazz went underground in ______ as a result of the Nazi occupation of Denmark when jazz was discouraged by the regime.
  99. Complete the sentence about Kim Larsen with the correct year: The song titled "Jutlandia" became a large hit in Denmark in ______.
  100. Complete the sentence about Kim Larsen with the correct year: By the end of ______, Larsen was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

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