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Culture
Questionnaire
Deadline February 1, 2014
1.1. Movies
1. What is the most popular movie of your country? Turks fruit
2. When was the first film taken in your country? 1973
3. Who are your best actors? Carice van houten
4. Do you have any international awards for films?
5. Do you have any films based on true stories? Diary of Anne Frank
6. Can you name any Latvian movies? No
7. Do you have national film festivals? Yes, Nederlandse film festival
8. Can you name popular film directors from your country? Paul Verhoeven
9. What genres of movies do you like (horror, comedies, drama etc.)? Action
10. What is your favorite movie? Lord of the rings
11. How often do students go to the cinema in your country? For school we do not really go
to the cinema, but for fun it is different for every students.
12. How much do cinema tickets cost (in euros)? 10 euros
13. What subtitle language is used in your cinemas? Dutch
14. In what languages can you see movies in your country? Dutch or English
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1.2. Music
1. Who is the most popular composer in your country? Jacob van eik
2. What kind of traditional music instruments do you have? Barrel organ
3. Do you prefer folk music to pop music? No
4. Which are the most famous musicians and bands in your country?
Musicians: Marco Borsato Bands: krezip
5. Is classical music popular in your country? for some of us but the other styles are more
popular
6. Who represented your country in Eurovision 2013? The Common Linnets
7. Do you have any music festivals? Pinkpop
8. Have you been in some world-wide choir competition and home music festivals? No
9. Do you have a national song which is known in all the country and it has also some dance
moves? Our national anthem is called Wilhelmus
10. Are there opportunities for students from different countries to get professional education
in music? Not that I know of
11. How much does it cost to study music in your country? To study a instrument it
depends on the instrument. But on average 1200 euro a year
12. Do you have music clubs and are they popular? I have never hear of a music club
1.3. Art
1. What style of art is the most popular in your country? Modern for example Mondriaan
2. How often do you go to the museum? Once a year
3. Which are the most popular artists in your country? Vincent van Gogh
4. Do you have an art academy or university in your country? Yes
5. How long is the tuition to get a diploma in art? 4 years
6. How old you have to be to study in the art school? There I no age restrict
7. How long do you have to learn in art school? We have 2 years of art in our school
8. Which of your artists are well known in other countries? Rembrandt
9. Which foreign artist is the most popular in your country? Picasso
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1.4. Opera and theatre
1. Who’s the most popular opera singer of your country?
2. Do you have any famous operas or theater performances?
3. Name some famous theatre actors in your country!
4. What are the best theatres in your country? Zaantheater in Zaandam
5. How often do you visit opera and theater performances? Once a year
6. How much does a ticket to opera or theatre cost? Around 20 euro
7. What would you choose to visit – theatre or cinema? Cinema
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History
Task – fill in the table with the most popular inventions, persons and major changes that have
happened. Answer two questions about your country.
Deadline February 1, 2014
Period of time
1945-1950
Popular inventions and
factories
Important people and
interesting facts about
them
Tanning lamp (1945)-
Willem Drees was Prime
Philips made the first
Minister of the
sunlamps based blended Netherlands from 1948 to
lamps to relieve muscle
1958
pain.
Transistor (1952)-
Teddy Scholten won first
Philips is ready for
place at the Eurovision
series production of
Song Contest 1959 in
transistors. With the
Cannes
development of the
1950-1955
transistor - more
reliable and efficient
than the electrons - or
radio tube - a new era
dawned for the
electronics industry.
1955-1960
Camara (1960)-
Jan Cremer was best
Philips achieved a
known for the novel Ik,
breakthrough in camera
Jan Cremer 1964
Major changes
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technology with
Plumbicon (one of the
most important postwar
developments).
Compact Cassette
Hans van Mierlo founder
(1963)- Philips
of the progressive social
introduced the cassette
liberal political party D66
at the international fair
(Democrats in 1966)
in Berlin, the Compact
Cassette. With the
1960-1965
cassette it suddenly
became possible for
anyone to set
themselves to take to
make radio programs or
a message and spread.
Personal music
collection together
1965-1970
LOCOS
Johan Cruyff was
(1967)(Localized
captain of the Dutch
Oxidation of Silicon) a
national team, for the
groundbreaking
World Cup final in 1974
technique for the
fabrication of
semiconductor
1970-1975
video cassette
Lodewijk van den Berg
recorder (1971)
went to space in 1980,
The first Netherlands
astronaut
1975-1980
Compact fluorescent
Wubbo Ockels John
lamp (1980)-
made his space flight in
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Introduction of the
1985, The second
CFL. Philips first to
Netherlands astronaut.
start mass production of
the compact fluorescent
lamp with a screw cap.
CD (1983)-Introduction
Ruud Gullit, Marco van
of the compact disc,
Basten and Frank
video disc preceded by,
Rijkaard
followed by CD-i, DVD European Football
1980-1985
and Blu-ray. The CD
Championship 1988
breathes new life into
the music industry and
a new standard for data
storage.
1985-1990
Three-headed shaver
(1968)
Bluetooth (1994)
1990-1995
Richard Krajicek won
the 1996 Wimbledon title
in singles
3D
Victor Hayes The Dutch
Radiography(1998)-
engineer is also called
Philips Research
"The Father of WiFi"
discovered that it is
1995-2000
possible to make by
means of a series of
projections with a Cshaped arm that rotates
around the patient. 3D
X-ray images
2000-2005
Coffee machines
André Kuipers made in
(2001) - Philips
2006 a space trip, the
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Introducing the Senseo
third Netherlands
coffee brewing in
astronaut
collaboration with
Douwe Egberts.
LED (2007)-
Princess Ariane was
Development of
born as the third child of
Lumiramic: a
Prince Willem-Alexander
groundbreaking
and Princess Máxima
technology (with
2005-2010
partners) for energyefficient LEDs. The
LED bulb from Philips
TIME Magazine as one
of the best inventions of
2009.
Airfloss(2011)-
Prince Friso was on
Introduction of the
February 17, 2012 in a
Airfloss, a device which coma after a skiing
2010-2014
by means of a
accident in the Austrian
microdroplet
Lech.
technology plaque is
removed.
1. What are your country’s most important historical dates that you celebrate
nowadays? Liberation Day on 5 may
2. Are there any interesting facts about your country’s history that are not well-known in
other countries? Our country is known for their inventions, one of the biggest
company that is known for inventing technologies is called philips
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Sports
Task – fill in the table about sport in your country.
Deadline February 1, 2014
Country
The
Netherlands
Most
popular
individual
sport
Swimming
Most
Most famous Most famous
popular team
athlete
team
sport
Football
pieter van
Ajax
Shortly
about
Olympic
history
We are
den
known for
hoogenband
getting
metals in
Swimming
and
icesskating.
In 2014 of
the winter
games we
got rank 5 of
the total
medals.
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Essay
Task – write an essay about one of these topics ( a) one as a group or b) each student one, then
choosing the best to be sent to Latvia).
Topics:
o The importance of art in the life of young people;
o My favorite opera or theatre performance.
Deadline February 1, 2014