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Science Arts And Culture

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Complete the sentence about Ivan Meštrović with the correct year: In ______ he had his first exhibit with the Secession Group in Vienna, noticeably influenced by the Art Nouveau style.
Complete the sentence about Nikola Tesla with the correct year: In ______, he migrated to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen.
Complete the sentence about Faust Vrančić with the correct year: Veranzio died in ______ in Venice and was buried in Dalmatia, near his family's country house on the island of Prvić.
Complete the sentence about Faust Vrančić with the correct year: According to legend, Veranzio, in ______, at over sixty-five years of age, implemented his parachute design and tested it by jumping fr…
Complete the sentence about Marko Marulić with the correct year: Marulić was born on 18 August ______ into the Croatian nobility in Split, Dalmatia.
Complete the sentence about Ivan Gundulić with the correct year: From ______ until his death Ivan held various offices in the city government.
Complete the sentence about Miroslav Krleža with the correct year: After the break with Stalin, his speech at the ______ Congress of Yugoslav Writers signaled a new era of comparative freedom in Yugos…
Complete the sentence about Miroslav Krleža with the correct year: Supported by Tito, in ______ Krleža founded the Yugoslav Institute for Lexicography, holding the position as its head until his death…
Complete the sentence about Miroslav Krleža with the correct year: From ______ on, Krleža enjoyed the life of a high-profile writer and intellectual, often closely connected to Tito.
Complete the sentence about Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić with the correct year: After a long battle with depression, she committed suicide on 21 September ______ in Zagreb.
Complete the sentence about Vladimir Prelog with the correct year: Prelog completed his high school education in Zagreb in ______.
Complete the sentence about Vladimir Prelog with the correct year: Following his father's wishes, he moved to Prague, where he received his diploma in chemical engineering from the Czech Technical Uni…
Complete the sentence about Lavoslav Ružička with the correct year: Studying within Staudinger's department, he obtained his doctoral degree in ______, then moved to Zürich as Staudinger's assistant.
Complete the sentence about Slavoljub Penkala with the correct year: On 24 January ______ he registered the patent for an automatic pencil.
Complete the sentence about Andrija Mohorovičić with the correct year: From ______, he taught for nine years at the Royal Nautical School in Bakar, near Rijeka.
Complete the sentence about Andrija Mohorovičić with the correct year: In ______ he became a full member of what was then the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb, where he was a private do…
Complete the sentence about Andrija Mohorovičić with the correct year: On 13 March ______, he observed the tornado in Novska, which picked up a 13-ton railway carriage with fifty passengers and threw…
Complete the sentence about Dražen Petrović with the correct year: In ______, he received the Golden Badge award for the best athlete of Yugoslavia.
Complete the sentence about Dražen Petrović with the correct year: Seeking a bigger arena after his career started in Europe, Petrović joined the NBA in ______, as a member of the Portland Trail Blaze…
Complete the sentence about Dražen Petrović with the correct year: On 7 June ______, Petrović's career and life were cut short after he died in a car accident in Germany at the age of 28.
Complete the sentence about Dražen Petrović with the correct year: In ______, Petrović's jersey number 3 was retired by the Nets, and the Dražen Petrović Basketball Hall was named in his honor.
Complete the sentence about Dražen Petrović with the correct year: In ______, he was posthumously enshrined into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Complete the sentence about Goran Ivanišević with the correct year: Ivanišević won 22 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including the ______ Wimbledon Championships.
Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, as a qualifier he made the quarterfinals of the Australian Open.
Complete the sentence about Janica Kostelić with the correct year: Following a year away from competition, Kostelić announced her retirement from racing in April ______, at just 25 years old.
Complete the sentence about Ivica Kostelić with the correct year: Kostelić made his first World Cup start in October ______ in Sölden, Austria, at the age of 18, but failed to qualify for a second run…
Complete the sentence with the correct year: A move to Arsenal saw him support their run to the UEFA Cup final of ______.
Complete the sentence about Mario Mandžukić with the correct year: After winning a domestic double the following season, he left Bayern for La Liga club Atlético Madrid in ______, and a season later w…
Complete the sentence about Blanka Vlašić with the correct year: The daughter of Croatian decathlon record holder Joško Vlašić, she was a talented junior athlete and attended her first Olympic Games i…
Complete the sentence about Blanka Vlašić with the correct year: A hyperthyroid condition hindered her second Olympic appearance in Athens and she spent the ______ season recuperating from surgery.
Complete the sentence about Blanka Vlašić with the correct year: Blanka Vlašić was born on 8 November ______ in Split, Croatia.
Complete the sentence about Marin Čilić with the correct year: When the first tennis courts in the town were built in ______, Marin and his friends were among the first to play on them.
Complete the sentence about Mate Rimac with the correct year: At 19 years old, Rimac started to convert a ______ BMW 3 Series into an electric car in his garage.
Complete the sentence about Croatia national football team with the correct year: The side played 15 friendly matches from its re-activation in FIFA in ______ until the end of World War II.
Complete the sentence about Dinamo Zagreb with the correct year: Upon the independence of Croatia, the club joined the Croatian football league system in ______.
Complete the sentence about Hajduk Split with the correct year: Hajduk Split fans are called Torcida Split, who are the oldest organized firm in Europe, being founded in ______.
Complete the sentence with the correct year: The club was officially registered with the authorities on 13 February ______.
Complete the sentence about Hajduk Split with the correct year: The first international match against an eminent opponent was held in ______ against Czech club Slavia Prague, which at that time were o…
Complete the sentence about Croatia men's national basketball team with the correct year: The biggest success Croatia has achieved was at the ______ Barcelona Olympics when the team reached the final…
Complete the sentence about Croatia men's national basketball team with the correct year: Croatia played its first unofficial friendly game on 2 June ______ in Karlovac.
Complete the sentence about Croatia men's national basketball team with the correct year: The next competition for Croatia was the ______ EuroBasket in Germany.
Complete the sentence with the correct year: Tragically, before the tournament Dražen Petrović died in a car accident on 7 June ______ at the age of 28.
Complete the sentence about Shtokavian with the correct year: The first major comprehensive vernacular Shtokavian text is the Vatican Croatian Prayer Book, written in Dubrovnik a decade or two before…
Complete the sentence about Štrukli with the correct year: In ______, Zagorski štrukli was added to the list of Croatia's intangible cultural heritage maintained by Croatia's Ministry of Culture.
Complete the sentence about Rakija with the correct year: The first legal and official rakija distillery, Bojkovčanka, was established in ______ about 10 miles south of Belgrade.
Complete the sentence about Croatian wine with the correct year: A statute of the town and island of Korčula in ______ contains strict rules protecting the vineyards.
Complete the sentence about Malvasia with the correct year: English historical tradition associates Malmsey wine with the ______ death of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, brother of King Edward I…
Complete the sentence about Maraschino with the correct year: By ______ Vittorio had already resumed production and soon recaptured the company's traditional markets worldwide, in particular the Engli…
Complete the sentence about Maraschino with the correct year: In ______ the Board of Directors decided to cease production and the company went into liquidation.
Complete the sentence about Maraschino with the correct year: The valuable Salghetti-Drioli archive, which dates from the second half of the 18th century up to ______, stands as testimony to the histo…
Complete the sentence about Maraschino with the correct year: The section preserved by the family in Vicenza was designated of "great historical interest" by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage in _____…
Complete the sentence about Sinjska alka with the correct year: The oldest written mention of Alka are in the three sonnets and an ode written by the Italian poet Julije Bajamonti in ______.
Complete the sentence about Klapa with the correct year: In ______, Croatian Ministry of Culture proclaimed it Croatian Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Complete the sentence about Tamburica with the correct year: During the autumn of ______, after a rebellion in Bosnia had broken out, many refugees arrived in Sremski Karlovci.
Complete the sentence about Dubrovnik Summer Festival with the correct year: The history of operatic performances began in ______, when the Sarajevo Opera made a guest appearance with five of its prod…
Complete the sentence about Dubrovnik Summer Festival with the correct year: In ______, the first festival opera production, Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea, directed and conducted by Lovro Mata…
Complete the sentence about Rijeka Carnival with the correct year: Established in ______, it has become the biggest carnival in Croatia.
Complete the sentence about Dalmatian with the correct year: A German study of ______ dogs from 169 different kennels found 19.6% of Dalmatians to be deaf in one or both ears.
Complete the sentence about Croatian Sheepdog with the correct year: The breed was definitively accepted by the Fédération Cynologique Internationale in ______.
Complete the sentence about Truffle with the correct year: The genome sequence of the black truffle was published in March ______.
Complete the sentence about University of Zagreb with the correct year: The decree was accepted at the Council of the Croatian Kingdom on 3 November ______.
Complete the sentence about University of Zagreb with the correct year: The Academy was run by the Jesuits for more than a century until the order was dissolved by Pope Clement XIV in ______.
Complete the sentence about University of Zagreb with the correct year: In ______, Empress Maria Theresa issued a decree founding the Royal Academy of Science which succeeded the previous Jesuit Acade…
Complete the sentence about University of Zagreb with the correct year: Bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer proposed the founding of a University to the Croatian Parliament in ______.
Complete the sentence about University of Zagreb with the correct year: Emperor Franz Joseph signed the decree on the establishment of the University of Zagreb in ______.
Complete the sentence about University of Zagreb with the correct year: On 19 October ______ the Royal University of Franz Joseph I was officially opened.
Complete the sentence about Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts with the correct year: After some years of deliberations by the Croatian Parliament and the emperor Franz Joseph, it was finally sanct…
Complete the sentence about Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts with the correct year: The academy started publishing the academic journal Rad in ______.
Complete the sentence about Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts with the correct year: In ______, the academy published the first Ljetopis as a year book, as well as several other publications in hi…
Complete the sentence about Zagreb Airport with the correct year: In ______, commercial operations were transferred to the new airport at Pleso, southeast of Zagreb.
Complete the sentence about Zagreb Airport with the correct year: On June 23, ______, his mechanic Dragutin Novak took off with Penkala's aircraft and went down in history as the first Croatian pilot.
Complete the sentence about Croatian Radiotelevision with the correct year: By the law enacted by the Croatian Parliament on 29 June ______, Radio Television Zagreb was renamed Croatian Radiotelevisio…
Complete the sentence about Croatian Radiotelevision with the correct year: On 25 May ______, HRT's archive of the television and radio program and its collection of musical production was given the s…
Complete the sentence about Croatian Radiotelevision with the correct year: The station was initially a private company, before Radio Zagreb was nationalized on 1 May ______.
Complete the sentence about Croatian Radiotelevision with the correct year: On the 30th anniversary of the establishment of Zagreb Radio Station, on 15 May ______, the first television programme was b…
Complete the sentence about Croatian Radiotelevision with the correct year: Television Zagreb's first live broadcast aired on 7 September ______, making Croatia the first Yugoslav republic to have tel…
Complete the sentence with the correct year: Repairs lasted four and half years, and it was put back in operation on July 26, ______.
Complete the sentence about Mirogoj Cemetery with the correct year: The Mirogoj Cemetery was built on a plot of land owned by the linguist Ljudevit Gaj, purchased by the city in ______, after his deat…
Complete the sentence about Maksimir Park with the correct year: Zagreb Zoo opened its doors on June 27, ______, at the initiative of engineer Mijo Filipović, and with the support of the then mayor of…
Complete the sentence about Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb with the correct year: Located on the centre of Republic of Croatia Square, it is the oldest Croatian theatre institution, officially op…
Complete the sentence about Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb with the correct year: The theatre evolved out of the first city theatre opened in ______, housed in the present-day Old City Hall, in t…
Complete the sentence about Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb with the correct year: The first play, Niklas Graf von Zriny by Körner, was performed by a German troupe on 4 October ______.
Complete the sentence about Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb with the correct year: German and Italian troupes performed, and from ______, with the expulsion of German actors, Croatian plays became…
Complete the sentence about Zagreb Zoo with the correct year: The zoo opened its doors on June 27, ______, at the initiative of engineer Mijo Filipović, and with the support of the then mayor of Zagre…
Complete the sentence about Zagreb Zoo with the correct year: In the summer of ______, the zoo was temporarily moved to an address at Jelačić Square No. 15 to earn money for its support and repay a lo…
Complete the sentence about Zagreb Zoo with the correct year: By October ______, first part of the zoo reconstruction and modernization was finished.
Complete the sentence about Pelješac with the correct year: In ______, the Dukedom and Zahumlje were conquered by Grand Prince of Serbia Stefan Nemanja.
Complete the sentence about Pelješac with the correct year: King Tvrtko II confirmed purchase of the Bosansko Primorje to Dubrovnik on 24 June ______.
Complete the sentence about Croatian Railways with the correct year: The company ceased to exist in ______ and its assets were taken over by the newly founded company Hrvatske Željeznice Holding d.o.o…
Complete the sentence about Croatian Football Federation with the correct year: The federation reemerged on 6 August ______ when the Banovina of Croatia was created as an administrative region within…
Complete the sentence about Croatian Football Federation with the correct year: In April ______ Yugoslavia was invaded by Axis Powers and was effectively dissolved.
Complete the sentence about Croatian Football Federation with the correct year: On 13 May ______ an infamous riot occurred at Maksimir in Zagreb and interrupted the Dinamo Zagreb – Red Star league fix…
Complete the sentence about Croatian Olympic Committee with the correct year: In ______, the COC organized the first Croatian World Games in Zadar.
Complete the sentence about Croatian Olympic Committee with the correct year: The Croatian Olympic Committee was founded on 10 September ______ in Zagreb.
Complete the sentence about Croatian Olympic Committee with the correct year: IOC temporally recognised the Committee on 17 January ______, which led the way to Croatian athletes to participate in the…
Which place completes this sentence about Vladimir Prelog? From 1919 to 1921 his father got a job in ______, so family moved there, and Prelog spent those two years attending Osijek gymnasium.
Which place completes this sentence about Vladimir Prelog? Prelog and Kuria became friends, and continued communicating by letters after Prelog left ______..
Which place completes this sentence about Lavoslav Ružička? Chemistry was his choice, probably because he hoped to get a position at the newly opened sugar refinery built in ______.
Which place completes this sentence about Andrija Mohorovičić? From 1882, he taught for nine years at the Royal Nautical School in Bakar, near ______.
Which place completes this sentence about Davor Šuker? Šuker began his footballing career in his hometown for local first division team NK ______ at 16-year-old, later departing as the league's top go…

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