Norwegian History and Politics

History And Politics

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  1. Complete the sentence about Norges Bank with the correct year: During the Second World War, the seat of Norges Bank was temporarily moved to London in ______, in that the Norwegian government-in-exile…
  2. Complete the sentence about Norges Bank with the correct year: In ______, the Mint Supervisory Authority and the Royal Mint were transferred from the state to Norges Bank.
  3. Complete the sentence about Norwegian European Union membership referendum, 1994 with the correct year: A referendum on joining the European Union was held in Norway on 27 and 28 November ______.
  4. Complete the sentence about European Economic Area with the correct year: The EEA was established on 1 January ______ upon entry into force of the Agreement on the European Economic Area.
  5. Complete the sentence about European Economic Area with the correct year: The right and rules applicable in all EEA member states, including those which are not members of the EU, are specified in Dir…
  6. Complete the sentence about European Economic Area with the correct year: First of all, Switzerland rejected the EEA agreement in a national referendum on 6 December ______, obstructing full EU-EFTA i…
  7. Complete the sentence about Schengen Agreement with the correct year: In ______, the Agreement was supplemented by the Schengen Convention which proposed the complete abolition of systematic internal…
  8. Complete the sentence about Schengen Agreement with the correct year: Three of the signatories, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, had already abolished common border controls in ______ as part…
  9. Complete the sentence about Schengen Agreement with the correct year: In ______, the Agreement was supplemented by the Schengen Convention which proposed the abolition of internal border controls and…
  10. Complete the sentence about Schengen Agreement with the correct year: In December ______, two non-EU member states, Norway and Iceland, signed an association agreement with the signatories of the Agre…
  11. Complete the sentence about Norway and NATO with the correct year: Norway joined NATO on 4 April ______ as a founding member, along with eleven other countries.
  12. Complete the sentence about Norway and NATO with the correct year: Before joining NATO, the country had been out of any alliances since its complete independence in ______ from Sweden.
  13. Complete the sentence about Trygve Lie with the correct year: When Nazi Germany invaded Norway in ______, Lie ordered all Norwegian ships to sail to Allied ports.
  14. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Norway with the correct year: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs was established on the same day that Norway declared the dissolution of the union with Sw…
  15. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Norway with the correct year: When Norway was invaded by Nazi Germany in ______, the government fled to the United Kingdom and reconstituted in exile i…
  16. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Norway with the correct year: The government moved back to Norway following the peace in ______.
  17. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Norway had its combat units withdraw from the War in Afghanistan in ______.
  18. Complete the sentence about Norway–Russia relations with the correct year: Diplomatic relations between the two nations were established on 30 October ______ – four days after the establishment of Nor…
  19. Complete the sentence with the correct year: A ______ law code refers to the Norwegians' commercial expeditions.
  20. Complete the sentence about Norway–Russia relations with the correct year: The Norwegians built the fortress of Vardøhus in ______ near the modern border while the main economic center on the Russian…
  21. Complete the sentence about Norway–Russia relations with the correct year: The first Russian town in the region was founded in ______ near the current site of Arkhangelsk and had a Norwegian guest hou…
  22. Complete the sentence about Norway–Russia relations with the correct year: On 27 April ______, Norway and Russia officially resolved the territorial dispute in the Barents Sea.
  23. Complete the sentence about Norway–Sweden relations with the correct year: From ______, both realms belonged to the Kalmar Union, an alliance of all three Nordic kingdoms under one monarch, initiated…
  24. Complete the sentence about Norway–Sweden relations with the correct year: During the Napoleonic Wars, Sweden changed alliances and lost Finland to Russia in ______.
  25. Complete the sentence about Norway–Sweden relations with the correct year: Denmark-Norway, on the other hand, sided with Napoleon and suffered a heavy defeat in ______.
  26. Complete the sentence about Norway–Sweden relations with the correct year: In January ______, the Treaty of Kiel forced Denmark to cede Norway to Sweden.
  27. Complete the sentence about Norway–Denmark relations with the correct year: The two countries established diplomatic relations in ______, after Norway ended its union with Sweden.
  28. Complete the sentence about Norway–Denmark relations with the correct year: Denmark took part in the Battle of Svolder against Norway in 999 or ______, and in the following partition of Norway.
  29. Complete the sentence about Norway–United States relations with the correct year: In ______ Norway opened a consulate in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  30. Complete the sentence about Norway–United States relations with the correct year: In ______ the Norwegian government planned to close the consulate but it stayed open after Norwegian American groups l…
  31. Complete the sentence about Norwegian Nobel Committee with the correct year: Since ______, however, the award ceremony takes place in Oslo City Hall.
  32. Complete the sentence about Norwegian Nobel Committee with the correct year: On 26 April ______ the Norwegian Parliament accepted the assignment and on 5 August the same year it formalized the process…
  33. Complete the sentence about Norwegian Nobel Committee with the correct year: The first Peace Prize was awarded in ______ to Henri Dunant and Frédéric Passy.
  34. Complete the sentence about Norwegian Nobel Committee with the correct year: In late ______, the election system was changed to make the committee more proportional with parliamentary representation o…
  35. Complete the sentence about Norwegian Nobel Committee with the correct year: The Norwegian Nobel Committee is assisted by the Norwegian Nobel Institute, established in ______.
  36. Complete the sentence about Norwegian Nobel Committee with the correct year: In January ______ an attempt by the Quisling government to take over the functions of the Nobel Committee led to the resign…
  37. Complete the sentence about Fridtjof Nansen with the correct year: Nansen led the team that made the first crossing of the Greenland interior in ______, traversing the island on cross-country skis.
  38. Complete the sentence about Fridtjof Nansen with the correct year: In the final decade of his life, Nansen devoted himself primarily to the League of Nations, following his appointment in ______ as th…
  39. Complete the sentence about Fridtjof Nansen with the correct year: In ______ he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on behalf of the displaced victims of World War I and related conflicts.
  40. Complete the sentence about Nansen passport with the correct year: Following Nansen's death in ______, the passport was handled by the Nansen International Office for Refugees within the League of Nat…
  41. Complete the sentence about Nansen passport with the correct year: At that point the passport no longer included a reference to the ______ conference, but were issued in the name of the League.
  42. Complete the sentence about Nansen passport with the correct year: The Nansen International Office for Refugees was awarded the ______ Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to establish the Nansen passpor…
  43. Complete the sentence about Roald Amundsen with the correct year: In ______, Amundsen began planning for a South Pole expedition.
  44. Complete the sentence about Roald Amundsen with the correct year: The party of five, led by Amundsen, became the first to reach the South Pole on 14 December ______.
  45. Complete the sentence about Roald Amundsen with the correct year: Following a failed attempt in ______ to reach the North Pole by traversing the Northeast Passage on the ship Maud, Amundsen began plan…
  46. Complete the sentence about Roald Amundsen with the correct year: On 12 May ______, Amundsen and 15 other men in the airship Norge became the first explorers verified to have reached the North Pole.
  47. Complete the sentence about Roald Amundsen with the correct year: Amundsen disappeared in June ______ while flying on a rescue mission for the airship Italia in the Arctic.
  48. Complete the sentence about Thor Heyerdahl with the correct year: The Norwegian government gave him a state funeral in Oslo Cathedral on 26 April ______.
  49. Complete the sentence about Thor Heyerdahl with the correct year: The marriage ended in divorce shortly before the ______ Kon-Tiki expedition, which Liv had helped to organize.
  50. Complete the sentence about Thor Heyerdahl with the correct year: After the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, he served with the Free Norwegian Forces from ______, in the far north province of Fin…
  51. Complete the sentence about Kon-Tiki with the correct year: A ______ documentary film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
  52. Complete the sentence about Oslo Accords with the correct year: The Oslo Accords are based on the ______ Camp David Accords and show therefore considerable similarity with those Accords.
  53. Complete the sentence about Oslo Accords with the correct year: The Oslo Accords, like the ______ Camp David Accords, merely aimed at an interim agreement that allowed first steps.
  54. Complete the sentence about Oslo Accords with the correct year: In their Letters of Mutual Recognition of 9 September ______, days before the signing of the Oslo I Accord, each party agreed to accept…
  55. Complete the sentence about Oslo Accords with the correct year: The Oslo process is the "peace process" that started in ______ with secret talks between Israel and the PLO.
  56. Complete the sentence about Conservative Party with the correct year: Founded in ______, the Conservative Party is the second-oldest political party in Norway after the Liberal Party.
  57. Complete the sentence about Conservative Party with the correct year: The result in ______ was 17%, which saw the election influenced by the EU membership issue which divided the Liberal Party.
  58. Complete the sentence about Progress Party with the correct year: After the ______ Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Progress Party has been amenable to receiving Ukrainian refugees.
  59. Complete the sentence about Progress Party with the correct year: The Progress Party was founded by Anders Lange in ______ as an anti-tax protest movement.
  60. Complete the sentence about Centre Party with the correct year: In ______, party deputy leader Ola Borten Moe declared nationalism to be a "positive force".
  61. Complete the sentence about Centre Party with the correct year: In ______, they reached a compromise with the Labour Party which led to the Nygaardsvold Cabinet.
  62. Complete the sentence about Christian Democratic Party with the correct year: In ______, at the first elections after the Nazi occupation of Norway, the party was organised on a nationwide basis, and…
  63. Complete the sentence about Liberal Party with the correct year: The party Venstre was formed in ______ in connection with the dispute about whether or not to introduce parliamentarianism in Norway.
  64. Complete the sentence about Liberal Party with the correct year: In the decades following ______, Venstre formed several governments, interspersed with periods of Høyre-governments.
  65. Complete the sentence about Liberal Party with the correct year: Six different Prime Ministers of Norway have come from Venstre, all of them before ______.
  66. Complete the sentence about Socialist Left Party with the correct year: According to a ______ poll, one out of four members in the Socialist Left wanted Norway to join the European Union.
  67. Complete the sentence about Socialist Left Party with the correct year: The party's election program for the ______ Norwegian parliamentary election stated that the party was a "socialist party" with…
  68. Complete the sentence about Red Party with the correct year: The party entered Parliament in the ______ election, winning 2.4% of the vote and its first seat ever in the Storting.
  69. Complete the sentence about Red Party with the correct year: The last time a far-left party had representation in the Storting was when its predecessor party, the Red Electoral Alliance, won a seat in…
  70. Complete the sentence about Norwegian parliamentary election, 2021 with the correct year: In the ______ parliamentary election held on 11 September, Erna Solberg of the Conservatives retained her posi…
  71. Complete the sentence about Norwegian parliamentary election, 2017 with the correct year: The last parliamentary elections in Norway were held on 9 September ______.
  72. Complete the sentence about Sámi Parliament of Norway with the correct year: In ______, the Norwegian Sámi Council was established to address Sámi matters.
  73. Complete the sentence about Sámi Parliament of Norway with the correct year: The latter proposed a democratically elected body for the Sámi, resulting in the Sámi Act of ______.
  74. Complete the sentence about Sámi Parliament of Norway with the correct year: The first session of the Sámi Parliament was convened on 9 October ______ and was opened by King Olav V.
  75. Complete the sentence about Alta controversy with the correct year: More than one thousand protesters chained themselves to the site when the work started again in January ______.
  76. Complete the sentence about Alta controversy with the correct year: In ______, in "one scene of the Donald Duck Christmas story, mining activists—clad in gákti—and a chain gang show up.
  77. Complete the sentence about Bokmål with the correct year: The name Bokmål was officially adopted in ______ after a proposition to call the written language Dano-Norwegian lost by a single vote in the…
  78. Complete the sentence about Bokmål with the correct year: Up until about ______, the written language of Norway, Old Norwegian, was essentially the same as the other Old Norse dialects.
  79. Complete the sentence about Norwegian language struggle with the correct year: Parliament decided in ______ that the two forms of written Norwegian were to be equally official.
  80. Complete the sentence about Church of Norway with the correct year: Church employees were civil servants from the Reformation until ______, when the church became a legal entity separate from the stat…
  81. Complete the sentence about Church of Norway with the correct year: The Church of Norway is mentioned specifically in the ______ constitution and is subject to the Church Act.
  82. Complete the sentence about Church of Norway with the correct year: The church is a member of Communion of Protestant Churches in Europe, having signed the Leuenberg Agreement with other Lutheran and…
  83. Complete the sentence about Norwegian Reformation with the correct year: At the end of the war in ______, when Christian III entered Copenhagen, Archbishop Torben Bille was arrested along with two oth…
  84. Complete the sentence about Norwegian Reformation with the correct year: The nobles took power and the king called for a lord's day in Copenhagen on 20 October ______.
  85. Complete the sentence about Norwegian Reformation with the correct year: Already in ______, Hans Tausen, a Knight Hospitaller from the monastery of Antvorskov, had begun preaching Lutheran doctrines i…
  86. Complete the sentence about Equinor with the correct year: The current company was formed by the ______ merger of Statoil with the oil and gas division of Norsk Hydro.
  87. Complete the sentence about Ekofisk with the correct year: Discovered in ______ by Phillips Petroleum Company, it remains one of the most important oil fields in the North Sea.
  88. Complete the sentence about Ekofisk with the correct year: In ______, Phillips started producing directly to tankers from four subsea wells.
  89. Complete the sentence about Ekofisk with the correct year: The four days lifting was completed on 17 August ______, at 11:30 p.m. thanks to 108 hydraulic cylinders synchronised with a network of 14 NU…
  90. Complete the sentence about Ekofisk with the correct year: In April ______, an oil well blowout occurred at the Ekofisk Bravo platform, due to an incorrectly installed downhole safety valve.
  91. Complete the sentence about Norwegian Police with the correct year: The first titled chief of police was hired in Trondheim in ______, thus creating the first police district, although his jurisdictio…
  92. Complete the sentence about Norwegian Constitution Day with the correct year: The Constitution of Norway was signed at Eidsvoll on 17 May ______.
  93. Complete the sentence about Norwegian Constitution Day with the correct year: The king's attitude changed after the Battle of the Square in ______, an incident which resulted in such commotion that th…
  94. Complete the sentence about Norwegian Constitution Day with the correct year: After ______ the day became more established when the first children's parade was launched in Christiania, at first consis…
  95. Complete the sentence about Norwegian Constitution Day with the correct year: In ______, the union with Sweden was dissolved and Prince Carl of Denmark was chosen to be King of an independent Norway…
  96. Complete the sentence about Milorg with the correct year: SOE changed its policy at the end of ______, and from then on Milorg and SOE efforts were coordinated.
  97. Complete the sentence about Milorg with the correct year: Mainly for fear of retaliation, like the Telavåg tragedy in ______, Milorg kept a low profile at first.
  98. Complete the sentence about Milorg with the correct year: The radio station in the loft of Kvinneklinikken, was raided on 1 April ______.
  99. Complete the sentence about Jøssing with the correct year: On 16 February ______, the British destroyer HMS Cossack managed to free prisoners taken by the German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee from the Ger…
  100. Complete the sentence about Nasjonal Samling with the correct year: The party celebrated its founding on 17 May, Norway's national holiday, but was founded on 13 May ______.

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