Dutch Science, Arts and Culture

Science Arts And Culture

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  1. Complete the sentence about Willem Einthoven with the correct year: Einthoven crater on the far side of the Moon was named after him in ______.
  2. Complete the sentence about Christiaan Eijkman with the correct year: Together with Sir Frederick Hopkins, he received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in ______ for the discovery of vitamin…
  3. Complete the sentence about Christiaan Eijkman with the correct year: Christiaan Eijkman was born on 11 August ______, at Nijkerk, Netherlands, to Christiaan Eijkman, the headmaster of a local school…
  4. Complete the sentence about Christiaan Eijkman with the correct year: A year later, in ______, the Eijkman family moved to Zaandam, where his father was appointed head of a newly founded school for ad…
  5. Complete the sentence about Christiaan Eijkman with the correct year: For his contributions to the discovery of antineuritic vitamins, Eijkman won the ______ Nobel Prize for Medicine, sharing the priz…
  6. Complete the sentence about Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff with the correct year: In his ______ pamphlet, Van 't Hoff formulated the theory of the tetrahedral carbon atom and laid the foundations of ste…
  7. Complete the sentence about Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff with the correct year: The third of seven children, Van 't Hoff was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, 30 August ______.
  8. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Van 't Hoff died at the age of 58, on 1 March ______, at Steglitz, near Berlin, of tuberculosis.
  9. Complete the sentence about Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff with the correct year: A German translation appeared in ______, at a time when the only job Van 't Hoff could find was at the Veterinary School…
  10. Complete the sentence about Tobias Asser with the correct year: Tobias Michael Carel Asser was born on 28 April ______ in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in a Jewish family.
  11. Complete the sentence about Tobias Asser with the correct year: In ______ he became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  12. Complete the sentence about Tobias Asser with the correct year: In ______, Asser initiated the convocation of the First Diplomatic Session of the HCCH, the preeminent global organisation in the area o…
  13. Complete the sentence about Frits Zernike with the correct year: Frederik Zernike was born on 16 July ______ in Amsterdam, the second son of Carl Frederik August Zernike and Antje Dieperink.
  14. Complete the sentence about Frits Zernike with the correct year: In ______, Zernike was awarded a prize for his doctoral work on opalescence in gases.
  15. Complete the sentence about Frits Zernike with the correct year: In ______, he became assistant to Jacobus Kapteyn in the astronomical laboratory at the University of Groningen.
  16. Complete the sentence about Frits Zernike with the correct year: In ______, Zernike and Leonard Ornstein were jointly responsible for the derivation of the Ornstein–Zernike equation in critical-point…
  17. Complete the sentence about Jan Tinbergen with the correct year: At that time, CBS established a new department of business surveys and mathematical statistics, and Tinbergen became its first chairman…
  18. Complete the sentence about Jan Tinbergen with the correct year: Tinbergen became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in ______.
  19. Complete the sentence about Jan Tinbergen with the correct year: In ______, he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  20. Complete the sentence about Nikolaas Tinbergen with the correct year: In ______, he published The Study of Instinct, an influential book on animal behaviour.
  21. Complete the sentence about Nikolaas Tinbergen with the correct year: In ______ Tinbergen became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  22. Complete the sentence about Edsger W. Dijkstra with the correct year: In ______ he moved to Eindhoven, where he became a professor in the Mathematics Department at the Technische Hogeschool Eindhoven.
  23. Complete the sentence about Edsger W. Dijkstra with the correct year: Dijkstra joined Burroughs Corporation as its sole research fellow in August ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Edsger W. Dijkstra with the correct year: Following a cancer diagnosis, he and his wife left Austin in ______ for Nuenen, where he died on 6 August.
  25. Complete the sentence about Guido van Rossum with the correct year: Van Rossum was born and raised in the Netherlands, where he received a master's degree in mathematics and computer science from the…
  26. Complete the sentence about Guido van Rossum with the correct year: In May ______, he left CNRI along with three other Python core developers to work for tech startup BeOpen.com, which subsequently co…
  27. Complete the sentence about Guido van Rossum with the correct year: In January ______, Van Rossum started working at the cloud file storage company Dropbox.
  28. Complete the sentence about Linus Torvalds with the correct year: In ______, Torvalds resumed his university studies, and was exposed to Unix for the first time in the form of a DEC MicroVAX running U…
  29. Complete the sentence about Linus Torvalds with the correct year: On 5 January ______ he purchased an Intel 80386-based IBM PC clone before receiving a copy of MINIX, which in turn enabled him to begi…
  30. Complete the sentence about Linus Torvalds with the correct year: The first Linux prototypes were publicly released on the Internet in late ______ from an FTP server at his university.
  31. Complete the sentence about The Diary of a Young Girl with the correct year: During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, Anne Frank received a blank diary as one of her presents on 12 June ______…
  32. Complete the sentence about Max Havelaar with the correct year: In ______, Säidjah is a small boy from a farmer's family in Parang Koedjang, Lebak Regency in the Dutch East Indies.
  33. Complete the sentence about Max Havelaar with the correct year: A film adaptation of the novel was released in ______, directed by Fons Rademakers as part of a Dutch-Indonesian partnership.
  34. Complete the sentence about Max Havelaar with the correct year: The film Max Havelaar was not allowed to be shown in Indonesia until ______.
  35. Complete the sentence about Harry Mulisch with the correct year: Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch was born on 29 July ______ in Haarlem in the Netherlands.
  36. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The same year ______ he broke to a wide audience with The Darkroom of Damocles.
  37. Complete the sentence about Willem Frederik Hermans with the correct year: After their marriage in ______, Rika Hermans quit working and devoted herself to the household.
  38. Complete the sentence about Willem Frederik Hermans with the correct year: In ______, the family moved to another apartment in the same block, where they occupied the fourth floor, Corry having a larg…
  39. Complete the sentence about Cees Nooteboom with the correct year: LSU Press published his two earlier novels in English in the following years, as well as other works up until ______.
  40. Complete the sentence about Cees Nooteboom with the correct year: Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria "Cees" Nooteboom was born on 31 July ______ in The Hague, Netherlands.
  41. Complete the sentence about Cees Nooteboom with the correct year: In ______, he became the travel editor of the magazine Avenue.
  42. Complete the sentence about Cees Nooteboom with the correct year: In ______ Nooteboom was hired as a sailor on a freighter to Suriname in order to earn money and ask for the hand of his first wife, Fa…
  43. Complete the sentence about Jan Wolkers with the correct year: From ______ until his death, Wolkers resided on the Dutch island of Texel.
  44. Complete the sentence about Jan Wolkers with the correct year: Since ______, the private and literary archive of Jan Wolkers has been available at Leiden University Library.
  45. Complete the sentence about Hella Haasse with the correct year: In ______ Haasse was chosen to interview the Dutch Queen for her 50th birthday after which celebrated Dutch author Adriaan van Dis calle…
  46. Complete the sentence about Hella Haasse with the correct year: In ______, the family moved to Rotterdam in the Netherlands, where her father got a temporary job at the city hall.
  47. Complete the sentence about Hella Haasse with the correct year: In ______, the Haasse family moved again to Buitenzorg, and a year later again to Batavia.
  48. Complete the sentence about Hella Haasse with the correct year: In ______, the family visited the Netherlands, after which Haasse became aware of differences between the Dutch and East Indian society.
  49. Complete the sentence about Joost van den Vondel with the correct year: Although Vondel was born in Cologne, his family, who were Mennonites, originally came from Antwerp, but had to flee after the fa…
  50. Complete the sentence about Joost van den Vondel with the correct year: In ______ he married Mayken de Wolff, with whom he had five children, of which three died in infancy.
  51. Complete the sentence about Bredero with the correct year: Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero was born on 16 March ______ in Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic, where he lived his whole life.
  52. Complete the sentence about Bredero with the correct year: Bredero was born in the Nes, nowadays number 41, and in ______ he and his family moved to a house on Oudezijds Voorburgwal, now number 244, w…
  53. Complete the sentence about Bredero with the correct year: In ______ he became a member of the rederijkerskamer d'Eglantier, where he was an active member and became friends with Roemer Visscher and P…
  54. Complete the sentence about Bredero with the correct year: On 23 August ______, at the age of 33, Bredero suddenly died, shortly after he had recovered from pneumonia that he had contracted after fall…
  55. Complete the sentence about Dick Bruna with the correct year: In ______, Bruna announced his retirement, after which the rights to the Miffy character were not to be sold.
  56. Complete the sentence about Miffy with the correct year: Miffy became female in ______ after Bruna decided that he wanted to draw a dress and not trousers on his rabbit.
  57. Complete the sentence about Miffy with the correct year: At first Miffy looked like a toy animal with floppy ears, but by ______, her design was changed to her current incarnation, a stylised form of…
  58. Complete the sentence about Herman Brood with the correct year: In the summer of ______, Brood tried to enter the American market, with support from Ariola's US division, which was attempting to expan…
  59. Complete the sentence about Herman Brood with the correct year: When he returned to the Netherlands in October ______, his band had begun to fall apart, and soon his popularity went downhill.
  60. Complete the sentence about Tiësto with the correct year: In ______, Tiësto founded the label Black Hole Recordings with Arny Bink, where he released the Magik and In Search of Sunrise CD series.
  61. Complete the sentence about Tiësto with the correct year: Tiësto met producer Dennis Waakop Reijers in ______; the two have worked together extensively since then.
  62. Complete the sentence about Tiësto with the correct year: In ______, he released his first solo album, In My Memory, which gave him several major hits that launched his career.
  63. Complete the sentence about Armin van Buuren with the correct year: Armin Jozef Jacobus Daniël van Buuren was born in Leiden, on 25 December ______, and grew up in Koudekerk aan den Rijn.
  64. Complete the sentence about Armin van Buuren with the correct year: Van Buuren graduated from the Stedelijk Gymnasium Leiden in ______, and studied law at Leiden University.
  65. Complete the sentence about Armin van Buuren with the correct year: In ______, he met Dave Lewis who introduced him as a DJ in England and the United States.
  66. Complete the sentence about Martin Garrix with the correct year: In ______, he headlined the first edition of Ultra South Africa, making this his first major festival.
  67. Complete the sentence about Martin Garrix with the correct year: Martijn Gerard Garritsen was born on 14 May ______, in Amstelveen, the son of Gerard and Karin Garritsen.
  68. Complete the sentence about Martin Garrix with the correct year: In ______, he expressed interest in becoming a DJ after seeing Dutch DJ Tiësto perform at that year's Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony…
  69. Complete the sentence about Golden Earring with the correct year: Golden Earring was a Dutch rock band, founded in ______ in The Hague as the Tornados.
  70. Complete the sentence about Golden Earring with the correct year: What became Golden Earring was formed in ______ in The Hague by 13-year-old George Kooymans and his 15-year-old neighbor, Rinus Gerrit…
  71. Complete the sentence about Golden Earring with the correct year: In ______, Barry Hay joined the band, replacing Krassenburg as frontman.
  72. Complete the sentence about Within Temptation with the correct year: Within Temptation is a Dutch symphonic metal band founded in April ______ by vocalist Sharon den Adel and guitarist Robert Westerho…
  73. Complete the sentence about Within Temptation with the correct year: In ______, they released Black Symphony, a live album recorded with the Metropole Orchestra.
  74. Complete the sentence about Anouk with the correct year: After her ______ breakthrough rock single "Nobody's Wife", she had additional hit records in the Dutch and Belgian charts.
  75. Complete the sentence about Anouk with the correct year: Anouk Teeuwe was born on 8 April ______, in The Hague, Netherlands.
  76. Complete the sentence about Eurovision Song Contest 2021 with the correct year: For the first time since ______, none of the top three entries were performed in English, with France and Switzerland pe…
  77. Complete the sentence about Sinterklaas with the correct year: The text presented here comes from a pamphlet that John Pintard released in New York in ______.
  78. Complete the sentence about King's Day with the correct year: The holiday was initially observed on 31 August ______ as Prinsessedag or Princessday, the fifth birthday of Princess Wilhelmina, then hei…
  79. Complete the sentence about King's Day with the correct year: In September ______, her daughter Juliana ascended to the throne and the holiday was moved to her birthday, 30 April.
  80. Complete the sentence about King's Day with the correct year: Juliana's daughter, Beatrix, retained the celebration on 30 April upon her ascent to the throne in ______, because her birthday was on 31…
  81. Complete the sentence about King's Day with the correct year: During the reign of Queen Wilhelmina, Queen's Day was celebrated on 31 August, her birthday, until ______.
  82. Complete the sentence about King's Day with the correct year: After Juliana's coronation, from ______ onwards, the date was moved to her date of birth, 30 April.
  83. Complete the sentence about Bevrijdingsdag with the correct year: After liberation in ______, Liberation Day was celebrated every five years.
  84. Complete the sentence about Dodenherdenking with the correct year: Until ______ the commemoration only related to the Dutch victims of World War II.
  85. Complete the sentence about Dodenherdenking with the correct year: Since 4 May ______, flags, having hung at half-staff from 18:00, are then hoisted to the music of the Wilhelmus, the Dutch national a…
  86. Complete the sentence about Philips with the correct year: The company was founded in Eindhoven in ______ by Gerard Philips and his father Frederik Philips to manufacture incandescent light bulbs.
  87. Complete the sentence about Philips with the correct year: In October ______, Philips decided to move its corporate headquarters from Eindhoven to Amsterdam, with the relocation beginning the followin…
  88. Complete the sentence about Royal Dutch Shell with the correct year: The combined company rapidly became the leading competitor of the American Standard Oil and by ______ Shell was the largest produce…
  89. Complete the sentence about Unilever with the correct year: Unilever was formed by a merger of Dutch Margarine Unie and British soapmaker Lever Brothers in ______, with the name of Unilever a blend wo…
  90. Complete the sentence about ASML with the correct year: To help fund the expensive research and development required, Intel invested…
  91. Complete the sentence about Heineken International with the correct year: The original brewery in Amsterdam, closed in ______, is preserved as a museum called the Heineken Experience.
  92. Complete the sentence about Heineken International with the correct year: In ______, the brewery is transferred from the Nieuwezijds Achterburgwal to the Stadhouderskade.
  93. Complete the sentence about Heineken International with the correct year: In ______, Heineken hired the experienced Bavarian brewer Wilhelm Feltmann, and switched to the use of bottom-fermenting yeast…
  94. Complete the sentence about Ahold Delhaize with the correct year: Ahold Delhaize was formed in July ______ from the merger of Ahold and Delhaize Group.
  95. Complete the sentence about Ahold Delhaize with the correct year: Delhaize Group dates back to ______, when the Delhaize brothers opened a shop in Charleroi, Belgium.
  96. Complete the sentence about Albert Heijn with the correct year: The chain was founded on 27 May ______, when Albert Heijn bought a grocery store from his father Jan Heijn in Oostzaan.
  97. Complete the sentence about Albert Heijn with the correct year: In the following years, Heijn opened other locations in several cities and in ______, he opened a central warehouse in Zaandam.
  98. Complete the sentence about Albert Heijn with the correct year: On 29 April ______, Albert Heijn transferred control of the company to his sons Gerrit Heijn and Jan Heijn, and his son-in-law Johan Hil…
  99. Complete the sentence about KLM with the correct year: In ______, young aviator lieutenant Albert Plesman sponsored the ELTA aviation exhibition in Amsterdam.
  100. Complete the sentence about KLM with the correct year: On 7 October ______, eight Dutch businessmen, including Frits Fentener van Vlissingen, founded KLM as one of the first commercial airline compani…

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