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  1. Which architect redesigned and expanded Ljubljana's Triple Bridge in the early 1930s?
  2. Which Slovenian basketball player, born in 1999, plays for the Los Angeles Lakers?
  3. Which Slovenian won the overall classification of the 2020 Tour de France?
  4. Which goalkeeper from Slovenia has played for Atlético Madrid for many years?
  5. What is potica?
  6. Which cream cake is commonly associated with the Alpine town of Bled in Slovenia?
  7. Which instrument, the oldest type of accordion, is typical of Slovenian folk music?
  8. Which Slovene physicist empirically derived the law of thermal radiation later named after him and Ludwig Boltzmann?
  9. Which Slovene mathematician, physicist and artillery officer published famous logarithmic tables?
  10. What is the chemical symbol for iron?
  11. Which gas does photosynthesis convert into carbohydrates, using energy from sunlight?
  12. Which planet is the largest in the Solar System?
  13. Which Austrian officer, electrical engineer and astronautics theorist wrote under the pseudonym Hermann Noordung?
  14. Which Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physician, born in Ljubljana, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1923?
  15. Which bobbin tape lace, native to Slovenia, is an important part of Slovenian cultural heritage?
  16. Which Slovenian beekeeper developed the AZ hive house and hive box, widely used today in Slovenia?
  17. Which day was proclaimed World Bee Day by the United Nations, on the proposal of Slovenia?
  18. In which year were the works of Jože Plečnik in Ljubljana added to the UNESCO World Heritage List?
  19. In which Slovenian town does a Žametovka vine grow that is the oldest living vine still producing fruit in the world?
  20. Which Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic was born in Ljubljana in 1949?
  21. Which Slovenian won the overall and ski flying titles and the Four Hills Tournament in the 2015–16 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup?
  22. Which soup of beans, sauerkraut, potatoes, pancetta and onions is typical around Gorizia and Trieste on the Slovenian border?
  23. Which Slovenian wine district near Trieste is known for Teran, a dark acidic red wine?
  24. Which ensemble, formed in 1953, produced more than 1,000 songs and made Slovenian folk music famous across Europe and America?
  25. Which group, formed in 1980 in the mining town of Trbovlje, is the musical wing of the NSK art collective?
  26. What does the Stefan-Boltzmann law state about a black body?
  27. Why are selected works of Jože Plečnik on UNESCO's World Heritage list?
  28. In which year was bobbin lacemaking in Slovenia, including Idrija lace, inscribed on UNESCO's intangible heritage list?
  29. Why is the Carniolan honey bee popular with beekeepers?
  30. Which statement describes the Ljubljana Triple Bridge?
  31. In which sport did Janja Garnbret win Olympic gold in Tokyo in 2021?
  32. What kind of animal is the olm, the largest troglodytic one in the world, found in Postojna's caves?
  33. Which Renaissance castle is built within a cave mouth near Postojna?
  34. Which medieval castle stands on a cliff above Lake Bled?
  35. At Ptuj's carnival, which figures wear traditional sheepskin garments and make noise to chase away winter?
  36. Which town is the oldest recorded town in Slovenia, with roots in Roman Poetovio?
  37. Which language family is Slovene a South Slavic language of?
  38. Which document is the oldest document in Slovene and the first Latin-script continuous text in a Slavic language?
  39. In which year was the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts established?
  40. In which year was the University of Maribor established?
  41. Which Slovene inventor founded the Austrian Puch automobile plants?
  42. Into how many gastronomic regions did leading Slovenian ethnologists divide the country in 2016?
  43. Which horse breed originated at the Lipica Stud Farm in the Karst region?
  44. In which year was Zdravljica written?
  45. What is the Vače Situla?

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