Latvian Science, Arts and Culture

Science Arts And Culture

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  1. Complete the sentence about Riga Zoo with the correct year: The zoo was opened to the public on 14 October ______; it housed 267 animals of 88 species at the time.
  2. Complete the sentence about Riga Zoo with the correct year: During World War II the development of the zoo stalled; however, animals and buildings of zoo were preserved and on 9 November ______ the zo…
  3. Complete the sentence about Latvian War Museum with the correct year: The Latvian War Museum was established on 15 October ______ as the Latvian Riflemen Battalion Museum.
  4. Complete the sentence about Latvian War Museum with the correct year: In June ______ the museum restored operations at the Powder Tower in old town Riga.
  5. Complete the sentence about Latvian War Museum with the correct year: The erection of a new museum building was initiated in ______, according to a project by architect Artūrs Galindoms.
  6. Complete the sentence about Latvian War Museum with the correct year: On 11 June ______ the Government of Latvia restored the Latvian War Museum.
  7. Complete the sentence about Latvian Jews with the correct year: The history of the Jews in Latvia dates back to the first Jewish colony established in Piltene in ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about Latvian Jews with the correct year: First was the Duchy of Courland, where there formed a Jewish community near modern day Piltene and Aizpute after ______.
  9. Complete the sentence about Latvian Jews with the correct year: In ______, the Jews in Jelgava expressed their gratitude to Duke Peter von Biron for the protection of Jews and religious tolerance.
  10. Complete the sentence about Positivus Festival with the correct year: First held in ______, Positivus combines a variety of genres, including indie, pop, folk, electronic and more styles in between.
  11. Complete the sentence about Mežaparks with the correct year: In ______, the Mežaparks neighbourhood became Russian Empire's first architectural project to use the garden city movement.
  12. Complete the sentence about Mežaparks with the correct year: After World War II in ______, the Soviet Government carried out a major expansion of the park and inaugurated it as a public park with many…
  13. Complete the sentence about Mežaparks Great Bandstand with the correct year: The bandstand has added cultural value to Riga since ______, when the Latvian Song and Dance Festival was moved to this ven…
  14. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In mid-______ Riga City Council announced a new – international – design competition.
  15. Complete the sentence about Latvian Academy of Culture with the correct year: The academy was founded in ______ and is located in the Latgale Suburb of Riga.
  16. Complete the sentence about Latvian Academy of Culture with the correct year: On 29 December ______, the Latvian Cabinet of Ministers adopted the decision to create what would later be known as the Ac…
  17. Complete the sentence about Latvian Academy of Music with the correct year: The Latvian Conservatory of Music was founded in ______ by Latvian composer Jāzeps Vītols, who became the first director of…
  18. Complete the sentence about Latvian Academy of Music with the correct year: Beginning 1 October ______ LPSR Institute of Theater was attached to the conservatory, reorganizing it to a faculty of theat…
  19. Complete the sentence about Latvian Academy of Music with the correct year: In May ______ it was renamed Jāzeps Vītols Latvian conservatory.
  20. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In January ______ the conservatory was momentarily renamed to J.
  21. Complete the sentence about Alfrēds Kalniņš with the correct year: After a short stay in Riga, which he spent writing a series of songs, he accepted a post as an organist at the Saint Nicholas Church…
  22. Complete the sentence about Alfrēds Kalniņš with the correct year: In Pärnu his son Jānis Kalniņš, who would become a composer too, was born in ______.
  23. Complete the sentence about Alfrēds Kalniņš with the correct year: When in ______ Tartu fell into the hands of the Germans too, he returned to Liepāja.
  24. Complete the sentence about Alfrēds Kalniņš with the correct year: In ______ he accepted a job as head of the Department of Music at the Ministry of Education and chairman of the Music Council at Riga…
  25. Complete the sentence about Alfrēds Kalniņš with the correct year: In ______ he acted as chief conductor at the 6th Latvian Song and Dance Festival.
  26. Complete the sentence about Alfrēds Kalniņš with the correct year: In ______ Kalniņš returned to Riga, where he took the post of organist at Riga Cathedral.
  27. Complete the sentence about Rūdolfs Blaumanis with the correct year: Then he traveled to Riga and started studies in a German merchant school until ______.
  28. Complete the sentence about Rūdolfs Blaumanis with the correct year: In ______, he became a secretary in the Koknese manor and studied to become a steward.
  29. Complete the sentence about Rūdolfs Blaumanis with the correct year: In ______, he moved to Riga and after two years started to work in editorial office of Zeitung für Stadt und Land where he wrote ab…
  30. Complete the sentence about Rūdolfs Blaumanis with the correct year: In ______ collection of his novels was translated into Estonian and later several more of his works was published in Estonia.
  31. Complete the sentence about Rūdolfs Blaumanis with the correct year: After father's death in ______ he again lived in Braki homestead in his native Ērgļi parish for four years and tried to become a fa…
  32. Complete the sentence about Rūdolfs Blaumanis with the correct year: In ______ he returned to Riga and together with Aspazija and Jānis Poruks worked in one of the biggest journals Mājas Viesis.
  33. Complete the sentence about Rainis with the correct year: Rainis and Aspazija returned to Latvia on 4 April ______ and received a hero's welcome.
  34. Complete the sentence about Rainis with the correct year: Rainis did become one of the first recipients of the Commander Grand Cross of the Order of the Three Stars of Latvia – the nation's highest aw…
  35. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, she settled in Riga and started to work as a journalist.
  36. Complete the sentence about Aspazija with the correct year: In ______, her first plays Vaidelote and Zaudētās tiesības were staged in Riga.
  37. Complete the sentence about Aspazija with the correct year: The couple married in ______ when they moved to Panevėžys, Lithuania, after the crackdown of New Current.
  38. Complete the sentence about Vizma Belševica with the correct year: Vizma Belševica was born on May 30, ______, in pre-war Riga, then the capital of democratic Latvia, where she spent most of her child…
  39. Complete the sentence about Imants Ziedonis with the correct year: Indeed, in ______, the year following his inflammatory essays, the Soviet government awarded him the National Poet of Soviet Latvia p…
  40. Complete the sentence about Imants Ziedonis with the correct year: Following Latvian independence from the Soviet Union, Ziedonis in ______ was awarded the Order of the Three Stars, Latvia's highest h…
  41. Complete the sentence about Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš with the correct year: In ______ he published the first short story, "Winter Night", in the Latvian Aviation Newspaper.
  42. Complete the sentence about Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš with the correct year: From ______ on he worked as an agricultural specialist in Remte, but was attracted to art later.
  43. Complete the sentence about Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš with the correct year: In ______ he traveled Europe with a grant from the Cultural Foundation.
  44. Complete the sentence about Anna Brigadere with the correct year: In ______, she turned her focus exclusively to literary work, and her first book Vecā Karlīne/Old Karlīna was published.
  45. Complete the sentence about Anna Brigadere with the correct year: In ______, she returned to Riga and continued there her literary creation.
  46. Complete the sentence about Eduards Veidenbaums with the correct year: In ______ after finishing Riga governorate gymnasium, Veidenbaums started to study law at the University of Tartu.
  47. Complete the sentence about Eduards Veidenbaums with the correct year: After five months of illness he died of tuberculosis on 24 May ______ in Mūrmuiža parish and was buried in the village cemetery o…
  48. Complete the sentence about Zenta Mauriņa with the correct year: In ______, she moved to Bad Krozingen in southern Germany, where she was buried after her death.
  49. Complete the sentence about Aleksandrs Čaks with the correct year: In ______, Čaks received a teachers certificate and started to work in Drabeši primary school as a teacher and administrator.
  50. Complete the sentence about Aleksandrs Čaks with the correct year: In ______ Čaks established a literary magazine called "Jauno Lira" for young Latvian writers and poets.
  51. Complete the sentence about Aleksandrs Čaks with the correct year: After the Soviet occupation of Latvia in ______, Čaks was criticized for anti-soviet undertones in several poems from "Mūžības Skarti…
  52. Complete the sentence about National Theatre of Latvia with the correct year: On 23 February ______, the theatre celebrated its 100th anniversary.
  53. Complete the sentence about National Theatre of Latvia with the correct year: In ______ Riga's city council decided that it was not enough to have just one theatre in Riga.
  54. Complete the sentence about National Theatre of Latvia with the correct year: Although this was Russian language theatre, by ______ Riga Latvian Society was renting the premises to hold plays in Latvi…
  55. Complete the sentence about National Theatre of Latvia with the correct year: During the First World War the theatre was evacuated, but by ______ it was already back in business, and on 15 October sta…
  56. Complete the sentence about Latvian National Ballet with the correct year: As of 5 November ______, the chairman of the board is Egils Siliņš, an opera singer.
  57. Complete the sentence about Alexander Godunov with the correct year: A member of the Bolshoi Ballet, he became the troupe's premier danseur, and received the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR in __…
  58. Complete the sentence about Alexander Godunov with the correct year: Godunov joined the Bolshoi Ballet in ______ and rose to become Premier danseur.
  59. Complete the sentence about Alexander Godunov with the correct year: In ______, Godunov won a gold medal at the Moscow International Ballet Competition.
  60. Complete the sentence about Māris Liepa with the correct year: After graduation from Moscow Choreography School in ______ he returned to Riga and the Latvian Opera and Ballet Theatre.
  61. Complete the sentence about Māris Liepa with the correct year: Collaboration with the new Ballet Master of the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre Yuri Grigorovich began in ______.
  62. Complete the sentence about Stolichnaya with the correct year: Stolichnaya has its origins in the Moscow State Wine Warehouse No. 1 which was opened in ______ by the authorities to ensure higher quali…
  63. Complete the sentence about Stolichnaya with the correct year: In ______, Stolichnaya was introduced at the international trade show in Bern and received a gold medal.
  64. Complete the sentence about Moscow Mule with the correct year: According to a ______ Insider Hollywood article, the Moscow mule was most popular in Los Angeles, where it originated.
  65. Which place completes this sentence about Livonians? The first took place in 1196, but he was forced to retreat to Germany after being ambushed near ______.
  66. Which place completes this sentence about Sklandrausis? A festival dedicated to sklandrauši has been organized in Dundaga, ______ Municipality since 2013.
  67. Which place completes this sentence about Brainstorm? The band was formed in the summer of 1989 in ______, Latvian SSR by four former classmates – Renārs Kaupers, Jānis Jubalts, Gundars Mauševics and…
  68. Which place completes this sentence about Kristine Opolais? Opolais was born in ______, Latvia, and studied at the Latvian Academy of Music.
  69. Which place completes this sentence about Jānis Rozentāls? Rozentāls was born in Bebri Farmstead, ______ parish, Courland Governorate in the Russian Empire.
  70. Which place completes this sentence about FK Ventspils? In total, FK ______ has won six league titles and seven Latvian Cups.
  71. Which place completes this sentence about FK Ventspils? In 2009 FK ______ became the first Latvian club to participate in the group stages of a UEFA competition after beating BATE Borisov from Belarus…
  72. Which place completes this sentence about FK Ventspils? FK ______ was founded in 1997 with the merger of two former Ventspils clubs – FK Venta and FK Nafta.
  73. Which place completes this sentence about Skonto FC? In 2006, Skonto finished third in a close contest with FK Liepājas Metalurgs and FK ______.
  74. Which place completes this sentence about Laima Clock? In 2012, construction of another Laima-branded clock was completed in ______.
  75. Which place completes this sentence about Rainis? Rainis was born on "Varslavāni" farm, Dunava parish in ______ Municipality.

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