Danish Science, Arts and Culture

Science Arts And Culture

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  1. Complete the sentence about Michael Learns to Rock with the correct year: Søren Madsen was an original member of the group since its formation but left in ______.
  2. Complete the sentence about Michael Learns to Rock with the correct year: In addition, their song "Take Me to Your Heart" was awarded "most downloaded single of the year ______" with 6 million or more…
  3. Complete the sentence about Michael Learns to Rock with the correct year: On 22 May ______, the quartet played their first public show in Aarhus in 'Rock Grand Prix' at Aarhus's biggest venue, Ridehus…
  4. Complete the sentence about Medina with the correct year: In September ______, Medina released an English-language version of "Kun for mig", titled You and I, in the UK, Germany, Austria and Switzerla…
  5. Complete the sentence about Medina with the correct year: In ______, her Danish studio album For Altid was released, including the single's "Synd for Dig", "For Altid", "Kl. 10", "12 Dage", "Lyser i M…
  6. Complete the sentence about Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest with the correct year: Denmark has been represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 54 times, making its first appearance in ______.
  7. Complete the sentence about Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest with the correct year: Denmark won the contest for the second time in ______ with "Fly on the Wings of Love" performed by the Olsen B…
  8. Complete the sentence about Only Teardrops with the correct year: On 26 January ______, "Only Teardrops" performed by Emmelie de Forest competed in the 43rd edition of the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix, win…
  9. Complete the sentence about Only Teardrops with the correct year: On 18 May ______, she performed the song again in the grand final eighteenth on the evening.
  10. Complete the sentence about Only Teardrops with the correct year: De Forest opened the first semi-final on 6 May ______ performing "Only Teardrops".
  11. Complete the sentence about Only Teardrops with the correct year: On 31 March ______, she performed the song in the Eurovision sixtieth anniversary show Eurovision Song Contest's Greatest Hits held in…
  12. Complete the sentence about Henrik Pontoppidan with the correct year: The couple separated in ______, after Pontoppidan met Antoinette Caroline Elise Kofoed.
  13. Complete the sentence about Johannes V. Jensen with the correct year: Jensen had been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature 53 times, the first time in ______.
  14. Complete the sentence about Johannes V. Jensen with the correct year: In a letter sent to publisher Ernst Bojesen in December ______, he includes both a happy and sad face ideogram.
  15. Complete the sentence about Martin Andersen Nexø with the correct year: In ______, during Denmark's occupation by Germany, Danish police arrested Nexø due to his communist affiliation.
  16. Complete the sentence about Martin Andersen Nexø with the correct year: Nexø died in Dresden in ______ and was interred in the Assistens Kirkegård in the Nørrebro neighbourhood of Copenhagen.
  17. Complete the sentence about Martin Andersen Nexø with the correct year: A minor planet, 3535 Ditte, discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in ______, is named after the main char…
  18. Complete the sentence about Jens Peter Jacobsen with the correct year: In ______, although he was already secretly writing poetry, Jacobsen adopted botany as a profession.
  19. Complete the sentence about C. W. Eckersberg with the correct year: Having amassed some money, including financial support from local well-wishers, he arrived at Copenhagen's Tollbooth on 23 May _____…
  20. Complete the sentence about Nikolai Abildgaard with the correct year: The Large Gold Medallion from the academy won in ______ included a travel stipend, which he waited five years to receive.
  21. Complete the sentence about Asger Jorn with the correct year: In ______, aged 15, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis, from which he recovered after spending three months on the west coast of Jutland.
  22. Complete the sentence about Danish furniture with the correct year: In ______, Arne Jacobsen went even further with his sculptural Ant Chair with a one-piece plywood seat and back, bent in both direct…
  23. Complete the sentence about Finn Juhl with the correct year: In ______, Juhl designed a house for himself, today known as Finn Juhl's House, and had it built with money inherited from his father.
  24. Complete the sentence about Verner Panton with the correct year: In ______ Panton was the designer of the very first single-form injection-moulded plastic chair.
  25. Complete the sentence about Kaare Klint with the correct year: After his father's death in ______, Kaare Klint completed his monumental Grundtvig's Church in Copenhagen.
  26. Which place completes this sentence about Roskilde Festival? In 2014, the ______ Foundation provided festival participants with the opportunity to nominate and vote upon which organizations should rec…
  27. Which place completes this sentence about Roskilde Festival? The ______ Festival was Denmark's first music-oriented festival created for hippies, and today covers more of the mainstream youth from Sca…
  28. Which place completes this sentence about Danish Royal Library? In 2017, it merged with the State and University Library in ______ to form a combined national library.
  29. Which place completes this sentence about Kim Larsen? In the mid-1990s he founded the band Kim Larsen & Kjukken which was based in ______.
  30. Which place completes this sentence about Kim Larsen? Larsen died of prostate cancer at his home in ______ on 30 September 2018.
  31. Which place completes this sentence about Michael Learns to Rock? On 22 May 1988, the quartet played their first public show in ______ in 'Rock Grand Prix' at Aarhus's biggest venue, Ridehuset.
  32. Which place completes this sentence about Michael Learns to Rock? As one of the two winning teams, MLTR performed that summer at the ______ Outdoor Festival on 20 June, however, only 20 people turned…
  33. Which place completes this sentence about Hans Wegner? Wegner was born to cobbler Peter Mathiesen Wegner and Nicoline Lausen on Smedegade 12 in ______.
  34. Which place completes this sentence about Jens Peter Jacobsen? Jacobsen was born in ______ in Jutland, the eldest of the four children of a prosperous merchant.

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