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  1. Complete the sentence about History of Norway with the correct year: The population expanded quickly until ______ when it was halved by the Black Death and successive plagues.
  2. Complete the sentence about History of Norway with the correct year: Norway entered the Kalmar Union with Denmark and Sweden in ______.
  3. Complete the sentence about Vikings with the correct year: The Viking Age in Scandinavian history is taken to have been the period from the earliest recorded raids by Norsemen in 793 until the Norman…
  4. Complete the sentence about Olaf Tryggvason with the correct year: The oldest narrative source mentioning him briefly is Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum of circa ______.
  5. Complete the sentence about Olaf Tryggvason with the correct year: Snorri Sturluson gives an extensive account of Olaf in the Heimskringla saga of circa ______, using Oddr Snorrason's saga as his prim…
  6. Complete the sentence about Olaf II of Norway with the correct year: A widely used account of Olaf's life is found in Heimskringla from c. ______.
  7. Complete the sentence about Battle of Stiklestad with the correct year: During the pontificate of Pope Alexander III, the Roman Catholic Church declared Olaf a saint in ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about Battle of Stiklestad with the correct year: In the year ______, Sveinn Hákonarson and Eiríkr Hákonarson of Lade took control over Norway, being supported by the Danish King…
  9. Complete the sentence about Battle of Stiklestad with the correct year: In ______, Olaf Haraldsson, representing the descendants of Harald Fairhair, returned from one of his Viking trips and was immed…
  10. Complete the sentence about Battle of Stiklestad with the correct year: In June ______, he won the Battle of Nesjar against the jarls of Lade.
  11. Complete the sentence about Battle of Stiklestad with the correct year: In the year ______, the Danish king Cnut the Great made an alliance with the Lades, and Olaf had to go into exile in Kievan Rus'…
  12. Complete the sentence about Battle of Stiklestad with the correct year: In the year of ______ the last Lade jarl, Haakon Ericsson, drowned, and Olaf prepared a military expedition to reclaim the thron…
  13. Complete the sentence about Harald Hardrada with the correct year: In ______, the fifteen-year-old Harald fought in the Battle of Stiklestad alongside his half-brother Olaf Haraldsson.
  14. Complete the sentence about Harald Hardrada with the correct year: Thereafter, he was in the army of Grand Prince Yaroslav the Wise, becoming captain, until he moved on to Constantinople with his comp…
  15. Complete the sentence about Harald Hardrada with the correct year: In ______, he left the Byzantine Empire, returning to Kievan Rus' to prepare to reclaim the Norwegian throne.
  16. Complete the sentence about Harald Hardrada with the correct year: In ______, Harald joined forces with Magnus's rival in Denmark, the pretender Sweyn II of Denmark, raiding the Danish coast.
  17. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In the late summer of ______, the invaders sailed up the Ouse before advancing on York.
  18. Complete the sentence about Battle of Stamford Bridge with the correct year: Since no similar archeological remains have been discovered near Stamford Bridge itself, they believe that these finds come…
  19. Complete the sentence about Magnus the Good with the correct year: Magnus was an illegitimate son of Saint Olaf, and fled with his mother Alfhild when his father was dethroned in ______.
  20. Complete the sentence about Magnus the Good with the correct year: Olaf was dethroned by the Danish king Cnut the Great in ______, and he went into exile with his family and court, including the young…
  21. Complete the sentence about Haakon IV of Norway with the correct year: As a king of the Birkebeiner faction, Haakon defeated the uprising of the final Bagler royal pretender, Sigurd Ribbung, in ______…
  22. Complete the sentence about Haakon IV of Norway with the correct year: Having come into conflict with the royal representative in Iceland, Sturla came to Norway in ______ in an attempt to reconcile wi…
  23. Complete the sentence about Magnus VI of Norway with the correct year: In ______ his older brother Håkon died, leaving Magnus the heir-apparent to the kingdom.
  24. Complete the sentence about Magnus VI of Norway with the correct year: On 16 December ______ King Håkon died during a campaign against the Scottish king over the Hebrides, and Magnus became the ruler…
  25. Complete the sentence about Magnus VI of Norway with the correct year: In ______ the Treaty of Winchester cemented good relations with the English king Henry III.
  26. Complete the sentence about Magnus VI of Norway with the correct year: When Valdemar was deposed by his two brothers and fled to Norway in ______, this stirred Magnus into gathering a leidang-fleet fo…
  27. Complete the sentence about Kalmar Union with the correct year: Gustav Vasa's election as King of Sweden on 6 June ______, and his triumphant entry into Stockholm 11 days later, marked Sweden's final…
  28. Complete the sentence about Kalmar Union with the correct year: Frederick I formally renounced his claim to Sweden in ______ at the Treaty of Malmö.
  29. Complete the sentence about Kalmar Union with the correct year: Margaret became regent of Denmark and Norway when Olaf died in ______, leaving her without an heir.
  30. Complete the sentence about Kalmar Union with the correct year: In ______, Swedish nobles called upon her help against King Albert.
  31. Complete the sentence about Kalmar Union with the correct year: After Margaret defeated Albert in ______, her heir Eric was proclaimed King of Norway.
  32. Complete the sentence about Kalmar Union with the correct year: Eric was subsequently elected King of Denmark and Sweden in ______ under the banner of the House of Griffin.
  33. Complete the sentence about Kalmar Union with the correct year: The money was never paid, so in ______ the Kingdom of Scotland annexed the islands.
  34. Complete the sentence about Denmark–Norway with the correct year: Denmark, Norway, and Sweden established and formed the Kalmar Union in ______.
  35. Complete the sentence about Denmark–Norway with the correct year: Following Sweden's departure in ______, the union was effectively dissolved.
  36. Complete the sentence about Denmark–Norway with the correct year: Norway thereafter entered into a much looser personal union with Sweden until ______, when that union was peacefully dissolved.
  37. Complete the sentence about Denmark–Norway with the correct year: Following the introduction of absolutism in ______, the centralisation of government meant a concentration of institutions in Copenhag…
  38. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Kiel with the correct year: Sweden therefore refused to hand over Swedish Pomerania, which instead passed to Prussia after the Congress of Vienna in ______.
  39. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Kiel with the correct year: The United Kingdom, which had declared war on France in ______, paid subsidies to Sweden.
  40. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Kiel with the correct year: When Gustav IV Adolf refused to break his alliance with the United Kingdom, the Russian Tsar invaded Finland in ______ and severed it…
  41. Complete the sentence about Union between Sweden and Norway with the correct year: Foreign policy was conducted through the Swedish foreign ministry until the dissolution of the union in ______.
  42. Complete the sentence about Union between Sweden and Norway with the correct year: After the adoption of the new Constitution of Norway on 17 May ______, Prince Christian Frederick was elected king.
  43. Complete the sentence about Christian Frederik with the correct year: As his cousin Frederick VI had no sons, Christian Frederick was heir presumptive to the throne from ______.
  44. Complete the sentence about Christian Frederik with the correct year: On 26 February ______, the family lost their Copenhagen home, as Christiansborg Palace was devastated by a fire.
  45. Complete the sentence about Dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden with the correct year: In turn, Michelsen and his ministers refused to countersign Oscar's decision and returned to Chris…
  46. Complete the sentence about 1905 Norwegian union dissolution referendum with the correct year: A referendum on dissolving the union with Sweden was held in Norway on 13 August ______.
  47. Complete the sentence about 1905 Norwegian union dissolution referendum with the correct year: Voters were asked whether they endorsed the Storting's declaration of 7 June that the personal union, in…
  48. Complete the sentence about 1905 Norwegian union dissolution referendum with the correct year: On 18 and 23 May ______, the Storting, sitting as the Odelsting and Lagting, passed a bill establishing a…
  49. Complete the sentence about Haakon VII of Norway with the correct year: After the ______ dissolution of the union between Sweden and Norway, he was offered the Norwegian crown.
  50. Complete the sentence about Haakon VII of Norway with the correct year: The young prince was baptised at Charlottenlund Palace on 7 September ______ by the Bishop of Zealand, Hans Lassen Martensen.
  51. Complete the sentence about Olav V of Norway with the correct year: In ______, he married his first cousin, Princess Märtha of Sweden.
  52. Complete the sentence about Olav V of Norway with the correct year: During World War II, his leadership was much appreciated, and he was appointed Norwegian Chief of Defence in ______.
  53. Complete the sentence about Olav V of Norway with the correct year: Olav was born on 2 July ______ as Prince Alexander Edward Christian Frederik in Appleton House on the royal Sandringham Estate, Flit…
  54. Complete the sentence about Olav V of Norway with the correct year: In ______, Carl was elected as Norway's first independent king in 518 years.
  55. Complete the sentence about Harald V of Norway with the correct year: In ______, Harald was named the founding president of the Norwegian Sailing Federation.
  56. Complete the sentence about Harald V of Norway with the correct year: Following King Haakon's death in ______, Harald became crown prince as his father became King Olav V.
  57. Complete the sentence about Harald V of Norway with the correct year: In ______, when his father's health declined, Harald became regent and took most of the powers of the monarchy while Olav remained…
  58. Complete the sentence about Harald V of Norway with the correct year: Following his father's death in ______, Harald acceded to the throne.
  59. Complete the sentence about Norway in World War II with the correct year: The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April ______ after Operation Weserübung.
  60. Complete the sentence about Norway in World War II with the correct year: On 28 April ______, Nazi Germany offered Norway and several other Nordic countries non-aggression pacts.
  61. Complete the sentence about Norway in World War II with the correct year: In March and April ______, British plans for an invasion of Norway were prepared, mainly in order to reach and disable the Swe…
  62. Complete the sentence about German invasion of Norway with the correct year: The campaign was fought until 10 June ______ and saw the escape of King Haakon VII and Crown Prince Olav to the United King…
  63. Complete the sentence about Operation Weserübung with the correct year: Taking place from 9 April – 10 June ______, it was the opening operation of the Norwegian Campaign.
  64. Complete the sentence about Operation Weserübung with the correct year: By the spring of ______, the British Admiralty began to view Scandinavia as a potential theatre of war in a future conflict with…
  65. Complete the sentence about Operation Weserübung with the correct year: Toward the end of November ______, Winston Churchill, as a new member of the Chamberlain war ministry, proposed the mining of No…
  66. Complete the sentence about Vidkun Quisling with the correct year: On 1 February ______, he formed a second government, approved by the Germans, and served as minister president.
  67. Complete the sentence about Vidkun Quisling with the correct year: Quisling was executed by firing squad at Akershus Fortress, Oslo, on 24 October ______.
  68. Complete the sentence about Vidkun Quisling with the correct year: The elder Quisling had lectured in Grimstad in the 1870s; one of his pupils was Bang, whom he married on 28 May ______, following a l…
  69. Complete the sentence about Vidkun Quisling with the correct year: In ______, the family moved to Skien when his father was appointed provost of the city.
  70. Complete the sentence about Quisling regime with the correct year: On 25 September ______, the one-year anniversary of the councillors, Terboven gave them the title of "ministers".
  71. Complete the sentence about Norwegian resistance movement with the correct year: Probably the worst act of reprisal was the assault on the fishing village of Telavåg in the spring of ______.
  72. Complete the sentence about Operation Gunnerside with the correct year: Enrico Fermi and his colleagues studied the results of bombarding uranium with neutrons in ______.
  73. Complete the sentence about Operation Gunnerside with the correct year: The German program had already been handicapped by the Nazi purging of German Jewish physicists and the conscription of others a…
  74. Complete the sentence about Liberation of Finnmark with the correct year: The Stavka decided to move against the German forces in the Arctic in late ______.
  75. Complete the sentence about Einar Gerhardsen with the correct year: In ______, during the Finnish Civil War, Gerhardsen resigned his membership of the Church of Norway after the church sided with the…
  76. Complete the sentence about Gro Harlem Brundtland with the correct year: Educated as a physician, Brundtland joined the Labour Party and entered the government in ______ as Minister of the Environment…
  77. Complete the sentence about Gro Harlem Brundtland with the correct year: Brundtland belonged to the moderate wing of her party and supported Norwegian membership in the European Union during the _____…
  78. Complete the sentence about Gro Harlem Brundtland with the correct year: Brundtland received the ______ Charlemagne Prize, and has received many other awards and recognitions.
  79. Complete the sentence about Gro Harlem Brundtland with the correct year: In ______, Brundtland graduated with a medical degree, a cand.med. from the University of Oslo.
  80. Complete the sentence about Jens Stoltenberg with the correct year: Stoltenberg attended Oslo Waldorf School and Oslo Cathedral School before graduating with a degree in economics from the University…
  81. Complete the sentence about Jens Stoltenberg with the correct year: When he became prime minister in ______, he was portrayed as the "Norwegian Tony Blair", and his policies were inspired by Blair's N…
  82. Complete the sentence about Erna Solberg with the correct year: Solberg became the longest-serving Conservative prime minister in Norwegian history in ______.
  83. Complete the sentence about Erna Solberg with the correct year: Following the ______ election, her government lost its majority, and she resigned, returning to the role of Leader of the Opposition.
  84. Complete the sentence about Erna Solberg with the correct year: Solberg was born 24 February ______ in Bergen in western Norway and grew up in the affluent Kalfaret neighbourhood.
  85. Complete the sentence about Kjell Magne Bondevik with the correct year: In ______, Bondevik said that he regards himself as a "68'er", and that he was "influenced by the radical wind of the time".
  86. Complete the sentence about Kjell Magne Bondevik with the correct year: Bondevik then formed his second cabinet, consisting of the Christian Democratic Party, the Conservative Party and the Liberal Pa…
  87. Complete the sentence about Trygve Bratteli with the correct year: Following the Nazi invasion of Norway, the daily newspaper Arbeiderbladet was closed down during ______ by Nazi officials.
  88. Complete the sentence about Trygve Bratteli with the correct year: After the liberation of Norway in ______, Bratteli was appointed as secretary of the Labour Party.
  89. Complete the sentence about Thorbjørn Jagland with the correct year: Jagland was widely perceived to have been passed over when Jens Stoltenberg formed his second cabinet in ______.
  90. Complete the sentence about Thorbjørn Jagland with the correct year: Thorbjørn Jagland was born on 5 November ______ as Thorbjørn Johansen in Drammen and is the son of a welder, Helge Th.
  91. Complete the sentence about Politics of Norway with the correct year: Freedom House's ______ Freedom in the World report classified Norway as "free", scoring maximum points in the categories of "polit…
  92. Complete the sentence about Politics of Norway with the correct year: The Norwegian constitution, signed by the Eidsvoll assembly on 17 May ______, transformed Norway from being an absolute monarchy i…
  93. Complete the sentence about Storting with the correct year: Since ______, Masud Gharahkhani has been President of the Storting.
  94. Complete the sentence about Storting with the correct year: On 27 June ______, the presidium signed an appeal to King Haakon VII, seeking his abdication.
  95. Complete the sentence about Storting with the correct year: The original idea in ______ was probably to have the Lagting act as an actual upper house, and the senior and more experienced members of th…
  96. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Norway has a constitution, which was adopted on 17 May ______.
  97. Complete the sentence about Norwegian krone with the correct year: The krone was introduced in ______, replacing the Norwegian speciedaler/spesidaler at a rate of 4 kroner = 1 speciedaler.
  98. Complete the sentence about Norwegian krone with the correct year: In doing so, Norway joined the Scandinavian Monetary Union, which had been established in ______.
  99. Complete the sentence about Norwegian krone with the correct year: The Scandinavian currencies were mutually exchangeable at par until ______ with the suspension of the gold standard due to World War…
  100. Complete the sentence about Norges Bank with the correct year: The Money Act of 17 April ______ discontinued the terms daler and skilling, and it was decided that the monetary unit should be a krone…

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