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  1. Complete the sentence about Belgian cuisine with the correct year: The transition from appropriation to agriculture is thought to have occurred around ______ BC, with migrants travelling across the co…
  2. Complete the sentence about Belgian waffle with the correct year: The waffles were further popularized in the United States during the ______ New York World's Fair at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens…
  3. Complete the sentence about Belgian chocolate with the correct year: Although the industry has been regulated by law since ______, there is no universal standard for the chocolate to be labelled "Belg…
  4. Complete the sentence about Belgian chocolate with the correct year: Chocolate entered Belgium in ______ while the country was under Spanish occupation, shortly after the Spanish had brought chocolate…
  5. Complete the sentence about Belgian chocolate with the correct year: According to one study, Belgium first started to export more chocolate than it imported in the 1960s, with exports of "Belgian choc…
  6. Complete the sentence about Belgian beer with the correct year: On average, Belgians drink 68 litres of beer each year, down from around 200 each year in ______.
  7. Complete the sentence about Trappist beer with the correct year: Various Cistercian congregations existed for many years, and by ______ the abbot of La Trappe felt that the Cistercians were becoming t…
  8. Complete the sentence about Trappist beer with the correct year: For example, the monastery of La Trappe in Soligny already had its own brewery in ______.
  9. Complete the sentence about Trappist beer with the correct year: After unsuccessful negotiations, monks sued one such brewer in ______ in Ghent, Belgium.
  10. Complete the sentence about Moules-frites with the correct year: In ______, TNS Sofres carried out a survey among the people of the North.
  11. Complete the sentence about Speculoos with the correct year: The earliest known attestation is the form speculatie in the bakers' ordinance from the Dutch city of Haarlem in ______.
  12. Complete the sentence about Hergé with the correct year: Working for the conservative Catholic newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle, he created The Adventures of Tintin in ______ on the advice of its editor…
  13. Complete the sentence about Hergé with the correct year: After the Allied liberation of Belgium in ______, Le Soir was shut down and its staff – including Hergé – accused of having been collaborators.
  14. Complete the sentence about The Smurfs with the correct year: The characters proved to be a huge success, and the first independent Smurf stories appeared in Spirou in ______, together with the first…
  15. Complete the sentence about Peyo with the correct year: Culliford was born in ______ in the Brussels municipality of Schaerbeek, Belgium.
  16. Complete the sentence about Magritte with the correct year: René Magritte was born in Lessines, in the province of Hainaut in Belgium, in ______.
  17. Complete the sentence about Magritte with the correct year: On 24 February ______, his mother drowned herself in the River Sambre at Châtelet.
  18. Complete the sentence about Magritte with the correct year: Magritte's earliest paintings, which date to about ______, were Impressionistic.
  19. Complete the sentence about Rubens with the correct year: Peter Paul Rubens was born on 28 June ______ in Siegen, Nassau, to Jan Rubens and Maria Pypelincks.
  20. Complete the sentence about Pieter Bruegel the Elder with the correct year: Bruegel's birth date is not documented, but inferred from the fact that Bruegel entered the Antwerp painters' guild in _____…
  21. Complete the sentence about Adolphe Sax with the correct year: Antoine-Joseph Sax was born on 6 November ______ in Dinant, in a post-Napoleonic polity of what is now Belgium, to Charles-Joseph Sax and…
  22. Complete the sentence about Adolphe Sax with the correct year: Hector Berlioz was so enamoured of these that he arranged in February ______ for one of his pieces to be played entirely on saxhorns.
  23. Complete the sentence about Georges Simenon with the correct year: Désiré Simenon worked in an accounting office at an insurance company and had married Henriette in April ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Georges Simenon with the correct year: One of his mother's most notorious ancestors was Gabriel Brühl, a criminal who preyed on Limburg from the 1720s until he was hanged i…
  25. Complete the sentence about Georges Simenon with the correct year: Simenon's brother Christian was born in September ______ and eventually became their mother's favourite child, which Simenon resented…
  26. Complete the sentence about Audrey Hepburn with the correct year: By ______, Hepburn was performing ballet to raise money to support the resistance.
  27. Complete the sentence about Eddy Merckx with the correct year: After the ______ season, Merckx moved to Faema, and won the Giro d'Italia, his first Grand Tour victory.
  28. Complete the sentence about Kim Clijsters with the correct year: Clijsters competed professionally from ______ in an era in which her primary rivals were compatriot Justine Henin and Serena Williams.
  29. Complete the sentence about Kim Clijsters with the correct year: Plagued by injuries and having lost desire to compete, Clijsters retired from tennis in ______ at the age of 23 to get married and have…
  30. Complete the sentence about Belgium national football team with the correct year: The Belgium national football team has represented Belgium in men's international football since their maiden match in…
  31. Complete the sentence about Royal Belgian Football Association with the correct year: Since October ______, the headquarters of the RBFA are located in Tubize, next to its technical centre.
  32. Complete the sentence about Spa-Francorchamps with the correct year: Between January and June ______, a plebiscite was held, without a secret ballot and under other questionable circumstances.
  33. Complete the sentence about Port of Antwerp with the correct year: Antwerp's potential as a seaport was recognized by Napoleon Bonaparte; he ordered the construction of Antwerp's first lock and dock i…
  34. Complete the sentence about NATO headquarters with the correct year: When NATO was established in ______, London was the first location chosen for its headquarters.
  35. Complete the sentence about NATO headquarters with the correct year: The move was officialized on 1 April ______, coinciding with NATO's third anniversary.
  36. Complete the sentence about NATO headquarters with the correct year: Following France's decision to withdraw from NATO's Military Command Structure in ______, the organization moved its headquarters a…
  37. Complete the sentence about Belgian Army with the correct year: The Belgian Army was established in ______ after Belgium gained independence from the Netherlands after the Belgian Revolution.
  38. Complete the sentence about Ghent University with the correct year: After the Belgian revolution of ______, the newly formed Belgian state began to administer Ghent University.
  39. Complete the sentence about Ghent University with the correct year: In ______, UGent became the first Dutch-speaking university in Belgium.
  40. Complete the sentence about Ghent University with the correct year: The university in Ghent was opened on 9 October ______, with JC van Rotterdam as the first rector.
  41. Complete the sentence about Solvay Conference with the correct year: Hendrik Lorentz was chairman of the first Solvay Conference on Physics, held in Brussels from 30 October to 3 November ______.
  42. Complete the sentence about Solvay Conference with the correct year: The third Solvay Conference on Physics was held in April ______, soon after World War I.
  43. Complete the sentence about Belgian Grand Prix with the correct year: After the ______ success of the new 24 hours of Le Mans in France, the Spa 24 Hours, a similar 24-hour endurance race, was run at…
  44. Complete the sentence about Brussels Airport with the correct year: The airport was closed until April 3rd ______, when it was reopened with temporary facilities at less than 20% of its previous capac…
  45. Complete the sentence about Brussels Airport with the correct year: In April ______, the Belgian government decided to build a new airport, using the same runways, but with the buildings located withi…
  46. Which Belgian place completes the sentence? Located in Flanders, ______ University is the second largest Belgian university, consisting of 50,000 students and 9,000 staff members.
  47. Which place completes this sentence about Walloon language? The historical background of its formation was the territorial extension since 980 of the Principality of ______ to the south and west.
  48. Which place completes this sentence about Rubens? Rubens was an avid art collector and had one of the largest collections of art and books in ______.
  49. Which place completes this sentence about Rubens? Records show that a certain Arnold Rubens bought 'a house with court' in the Gasthuisstraat in ______ in 1396.
  50. Which place completes this sentence about Jan van Eyck? After John's death in 1425 he moved to ______ and came to the attention of Philip the Good c. 1425.
  51. Which place completes this sentence about Georges Simenon? Following the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, ______ was occupied by the German army.
  52. Which place completes this sentence about Ghent University? Located in Flanders, ______ University is the second largest Belgian university, consisting of 50,000 students and 9,000 staff members.
  53. Complete the sentence about Belgian beer with the correct year: In ______, UNESCO inscribed Belgian beer culture on their list of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity.
  54. Complete the sentence about Hergé with the correct year: With Raymond Leblanc he established Tintin magazine in ______, through which he serialised new Adventures of Tintin stories.
  55. Complete the sentence about Peyo with the correct year: In ______, Franquin introduced Peyo to Spirou, a children's Franco-Belgian comics magazine published by Dupuis.
  56. Complete the sentence about Pieter Bruegel the Elder with the correct year: In ______, Bruegel became a free master in the Guild of Saint Luke of Antwerp.
  57. Complete the sentence about Georges Simenon with the correct year: In ______ the Simenons moved to 53 rue de la Loi, where they took in lodgers, many of them students from Eastern Europe, Jews and pol…
  58. Complete the sentence about Georges Simenon with the correct year: In October ______ Simenon began his studies at the Collège Saint-Louis, a Jesuit high school.
  59. Complete the sentence about Eddy Merckx with the correct year: Merckx broke the hour record in October ______, extending the record by almost 800 metres.
  60. Complete the sentence about Kim Clijsters with the correct year: Following defeats in all of her first four major singles finals, Clijsters finally won her first singles major at the ______ US Open.
  61. Complete the sentence about Kim Clijsters with the correct year: Kim Clijsters was born on 8 June ______ in Bilzen, a small town in northeastern Belgium.
  62. Complete the sentence about Spa-Francorchamps with the correct year: As a result, the Transitional Government prepared for the unification of Eupen-Malmedy with Belgium in June ______.
  63. Complete the sentence about Port of Antwerp with the correct year: Called the Bonaparte Dock, it was joined by a second dock – called the Willem Dock after the Dutch King – in ______.
  64. Complete the sentence about Port of Antwerp with the correct year: With his support, the Belgian government was able to redeem the Dutch Toll in ______.
  65. Complete the sentence about Ghent University with the correct year: In the wake of the Belgian Revolution, of ______, the number of students declined, having peaked at 414.
  66. Complete the sentence about Solvay Conference with the correct year: Perhaps the most famous conference was the fifth Solvay Conference on Physics, which was held from 24 to 29 October ______.
  67. Complete the sentence about Brussels Airport with the correct year: On 22 March ______, the airport's departures hall was severely damaged by two terrorist bomb blasts.
  68. Complete the sentence about Arlon with the correct year: In ______, Waleran I of Limburg, Count of Arlon, built a castle on the Knipchen hill in the centre of the town.
  69. Complete the sentence about Arlon with the correct year: The Duchy of Luxembourg itself, of which Arlon was dependent, became part of the Burgundian Netherlands under Philip the Good in ______.
  70. Complete the sentence about Marche-en-Famenne with the correct year: The market place and religious organizations, such as the Carmes convent founded in ______, could thrive inside the closed city.
  71. Complete the sentence about Marche-en-Famenne with the correct year: In the aftermath of the Pacification of Ghent, Don John of Austria, Philip II's half brother, granted the Perpetual Edict, which wa…
  72. Complete the sentence about Marche-en-Famenne with the correct year: Fighting occurred in and around Marche in December ______ as part of the Battle of the Bulge, the last major German offensive in We…
  73. Complete the sentence about Cinquantenaire Park with the correct year: In ______, the government decided to reserve the Cinquantenaire for use as a leisure park.
  74. Complete the sentence about Cinquantenaire Park with the correct year: The Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History has been the sole tenant of the northern half of the complex since ____…
  75. Complete the sentence about Cinquantenaire Park with the correct year: For the National Exhibition of ______, the plain was developed as an exhibition space.
  76. Complete the sentence about Mini-Europe with the correct year: The initial investment was of 50 million Belgian francs in ______, on its inauguration by then-Prince Philippe of Belgium.
  77. Complete the sentence about Mini-Europe with the correct year: Lorijn who, in ______, came up with the idea of creating a miniature park on the Heysel/Heizel site in Brussels.
  78. Complete the sentence about Mini-Europe with the correct year: Mini-Europe was eventually built on the old site of the Meli Heysel/Heizel amusement park, a branch of the West Flanders-based Meli Park…
  79. Complete the sentence about Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Koekelberg with the correct year: Symbolically, King Leopold II laid the first stone in ______ during the celebrations of the 75th anniversary…
  80. Complete the sentence about Victor Horta with the correct year: In ______, King Albert I conferred on Horta the title of Baron for his services to the field of architecture.
  81. Complete the sentence about Victor Horta with the correct year: In ______, Horta won the first Prix Godecharle to be awarded for architecture for a proposed new building for the Belgian Parliament.
  82. Complete the sentence about Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium with the correct year: The transfer of the Contemporary Art collection from the Ministry of the Interior in ______ is at the origin of…
  83. Complete the sentence about Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium with the correct year: In ______, it was decided, by royal decree, that the museum was to receive works of art of deceased and living…
  84. Complete the sentence about Rubens House with the correct year: Purchased in ______, Rubens had the Flemish townhouse renovated and extended on the basis of designs by Rubens himself.
  85. Complete the sentence about Rubens House with the correct year: At the Brussels International ______ World's Fair there was a full-size reconstruction of the Rubens house, built by the architect Henri…
  86. Complete the sentence about Rubens House with the correct year: After his death in ______, Blomme left a legacy to the city of Antwerp to buy the house.
  87. Complete the sentence about Plantin-Moretus Museum with the correct year: Christophe Plantin, his wife Jeanne Rivière and their first daughter Margaretha moved from France to Antwerp around ______.
  88. Complete the sentence about Plantin-Moretus Museum with the correct year: In ______ Edward Moretus sold the company to the city of Antwerp.
  89. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Rome with the correct year: The Treaty expired on 23 July ______, after fifty years, as was foreseen.
  90. Complete the sentence about Benelux with the correct year: In ______, exiled representatives of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands signed the London Customs Convention, the treaty that establish…
  91. Complete the sentence about European Commission with the correct year: Walter Hallstein led the first Commission of the EEC, holding the first formal meeting on 16 January ______ at the Château of Val…
  92. Complete the sentence about Berlaymont building with the correct year: The south wing would take longer given the need to demolish more buildings including the girls' school, with the Ladies of Berlay…
  93. Complete the sentence about Flemish Movement with the correct year: With the French Revolution and Napoleon's conquests, today's Belgium was attached to France in ______.
  94. Complete the sentence about Belgian nationality law with the correct year: Belgian nationality was historically governed by a law dating from 14 December ______.
  95. Complete the sentence about Belgian nationality law with the correct year: In ______, Belgium signed the Strasbourg Convention on Multiple Nationality, which aimed to reduce cases of multiple national…
  96. Complete the sentence about Belgian nationality law with the correct year: Until ______, nationality was subject to relatively stricter rules, which meant that children born to a Belgian mother were n…
  97. Complete the sentence about Belgian nationality law with the correct year: In ______, Belgium denounced the Strasbourg Convention, which opened up the path to allowing for multiple nationality followi…
  98. Complete the sentence about Belgian monarchy with the correct year: When Belgium gained independence from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in ______, the National Congress chose a constitutional…
  99. Complete the sentence about Belgian monarchy with the correct year: The Congress voted on the question on 22 November ______, supporting monarchy by 174 votes to 13.
  100. Complete the sentence about Belgian monarchy with the correct year: Following this refusal, the National Congress appointed Erasme-Louis, Baron Surlet de Chokier to be the Regent of Belgium on 25 Febr…

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