Understanding the Norwegian Labour Party: A Quiz Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

Vesla Vetlesen became a government minister for Norway's Labour Party in 1986, thirty years after renouncing communism and joining the party together with her husband Leif Vetlesen.

Tove Strand, Norwegian government minister in 1986–1989 and 1990–1992, was formerly married to fellow Labour Party politician Rune Gerhardsen.

Paul Chaffey voted Labour in 1997, the same year that he served as a Parliament of Norway representative for the Socialist Left Party.

Norwegian journalist Ivar Hippe is friends with the current Labour Prime Minister of Norway, Jens Stoltenberg.

at the age of 102, former Labour party secretary Haakon Lie (pictured) is still an active participant in Norwegian public life.

the merger between the Norwegian Labour Party-led Workers' Sport Federation and the Communist-led 'Red Sports' has been described as an early example of the popular front line.

the Trondheim newspaper Ny Tid switched allegiance from Labour to Communist when Knut Olai Thornæs was its editor.

in 1887, Norwegian Labour Party politician and physician Oscar Nissen claimed that only 10% of women had libido.

Martin Kolberg will retire as party secretary for the Norwegian Labour Party to run in the 2009 parliamentary elections.

Ludvig Meyer, the defender of writer Hans Jæger during the high-profile censorship case in 1886, later became the leader of the Norwegian Labour Party.

Anders Buen was removed as editor of the Norwegian Labour Party organ Social-Demokraten in 1903, but continued as a prominent party member until 1921.

Alfred Madsen, a high-ranking politician in the Norwegian Labour Party, started his career as a lithographer.

Norwegian sociologist Ingrid Eide was also a United Nations official and a politician for the Norwegian Labour Party.

Christian Holtermann Knudsen was a founder of the Norwegian Labour Party and the newspaper Dagsavisen.

Helga Karlsen, who was the first female Member of Parliament from the Norwegian Labour Party, died only four days before she could be elected for a third term.

Knut Getz Wold served as a State Secretary in a Labour Party cabinet despite belonging to the Liberal Party.

Karl Evang and Torbjørn Mork, who consecutively headed the Norwegian Directorate for Health between 1938 and 1992, were both active members of the Labour Party.

Milorg resistance member Osmund Faremo later served as member of the national parliament and local mayor for the Norwegian Labour Party.

Understanding the Norwegian Labour Party: A Quiz

1 What are the colours of the Norwegian Labour Party?

2 What ideology does the Norwegian Labour Party subscribe to?

3 Who of the following is/was the leader of the Norwegian Labour Party?

4 Where does the Norwegian Labour Party come from?

5 When was the Norwegian Labour Party founded?

6 Where are the headquarters of the Norwegian Labour Party located?

7 Labour then returned to government in 1935 and remained in power until 1965 (except for the ________ exile period between 1940-1945 and one month in 1963).

8 In 1923 the party left the Communist International, while a significant minority of its members left the party to form the ________.

9 Thus, the party has held power for 24 of the past 38 years (to 2009) and it is largely through their efforts that the modern ________ in Norway has been created.

10 The party experienced a split in 1921 caused by a decision made two years earlier to join the ________, and the Social Democratic Labour Party of Norway was formed.

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