Croatian Science, Arts and Culture

Science Arts And Culture

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  1. Which place completes this sentence about Croatia men's national basketball team? Croatia played its first unofficial friendly game on 2 June 1964 in ______.
  2. Which place completes this sentence about Maraschino? The valuable Salghetti-Drioli archive, which dates from the second half of the 18th century up to 1943, stands as testimony to the history of theā€¦
  3. Which place completes this sentence about Tamburica? In honour of him, a festival called tamburitzan is held every year in ______.
  4. Which place completes this sentence about Rijeka Carnival? The start is a part of ______ called Paris after the restaurant located there, and the end is in city of Bakar, located about 20 km south easā€¦
  5. Which place completes this sentence about Jadrolinija? Jadrolinija was founded in ______ on 20 January 1947 as a continuation of various smaller shipping companies which had operated along the Croatiaā€¦
  6. Which place completes this sentence about Croatian Olympic Committee? In 2006, the COC organized the first Croatian World Games in ______.
  7. Complete the sentence about Marko Marulić with the correct year: More recently, Pope John Paul II quoted from a Marulić poem during his ______ apostolic visit to Solin, Croatia.
  8. Complete the sentence about Janica Kostelić with the correct year: Since ______, Kostelić has been the State Secretary for Science, Education and Sports in the Croatian Government.
  9. Complete the sentence about Zvonimir Boban with the correct year: The team won third place at the ______ FIFA World Cup, securing the country's first World Cup medal.
  10. Complete the sentence about Ivan Rakitić with the correct year: In June ______, Barcelona and Sevilla reached an agreement on the transfer of Rakitić.
  11. Complete the sentence about Plavac Mali with the correct year: In ______, while researching the origins of Zinfandel through DNA fingerprinting, Dr.
  12. Complete the sentence about Museum of Broken Relationships with the correct year: In ______, the museum was awarded the Kenneth Hudson Award for European Museum of the Year, for Europe's most innovatiā€¦
  13. Complete the sentence about Ivan Ljubičić with the correct year: Ljubičić served as the ATP Players' Council president and in ______ became one of the few active players to serve on the ATP Board of Dā€¦
  14. Complete the sentence about Mirko Filipović with the correct year: Filipović was born on 10 September ______ in Vinkovci in eastern Croatia, then part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
  15. Complete the sentence about Mirko Filipović with the correct year: Filipović's father died in ______ when Mirko was 19 years old and after Filipović had joined the Croatian Army as a radio telegraphisā€¦
  16. Complete the sentence about Mirko Filipović with the correct year: Filipović started his professional career in ______ as a kickboxer, following in the footsteps of his compatriot Branko Cikatić.
  17. Complete the sentence about Mirko Filipović with the correct year: Filipović took part in the ______ World Amateur Boxing Championships, losing his first round match-up against Olympic medalist Alexeiā€¦
  18. Complete the sentence about Ivano Balić with the correct year: Balić began his senior handball career with RK Brodomerkur Split in ______, which competed in the top-tier Croatian First A League.
  19. Complete the sentence about Robert Prosinečki with the correct year: Prosinečki began his senior career at Red Star Belgrade, winning three Yugoslav First League titles and the European Cup in ______.
  20. Complete the sentence about Domagoj Vida with the correct year: On 24 September ______, he was thrown out of the first team and the team bus after he opened up a beer while the team were on their wayā€¦
  21. Complete the sentence about Mateo Kovačić with the correct year: Born in Austria, Kovačić played for Croatia at multiple youth levels before making his debut for the senior national team in ______.
  22. Complete the sentence about Josip Šimunić with the correct year: Šimunić moved to Hertha BSC in ______ after having fallen out with Hamburg coach Frank Pagelsdorf.
  23. Complete the sentence about Dominik Livaković with the correct year: Internationally, Livaković has represented Croatia since ______, a product of their youth academy.
  24. Complete the sentence about Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger with the correct year: In ______ he became head of the Geological-Paleontological Department of the Croatian National Museum.
  25. Complete the sentence about Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger with the correct year: In ______, he founded the Geological Commission for Croatia and Slavonia, with the goal of carrying out geological mapā€¦
  26. Complete the sentence about Franjo Hanaman with the correct year: Hanaman and Just were granted the Hungarian Patent #34541 on December 13, ______ in Budapest.
  27. Complete the sentence about Ivan Supek with the correct year: Increasingly interested in quantum physics and its philosophical consequences, he moved to Leipzig where in ______ he obtained his PhD inā€¦
  28. Complete the sentence about Ivan Supek with the correct year: In March ______ he was arrested by the Gestapo for being involved in antifascist activity and held in prison for many months.
  29. Complete the sentence about Ivan Supek with the correct year: In ______ he became a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Zagreb.
  30. Complete the sentence about Ivan Supek with the correct year: In ______ he advocated the construction of the Ruđer BoÅ”ković institute in Zagreb and became one of its founders.
  31. Complete the sentence about Ivan Supek with the correct year: In ______ he founded the Institute for the Philosophy of Science and Peace, as a section of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts.
  32. Complete the sentence about Zagorski Å”trukli with the correct year: In ______, Zagorski Å”trukli was added to the list of Croatia's intangible cultural heritage maintained by Croatia's Ministry of Cultā€¦
  33. Complete the sentence about Sarma with the correct year: Koupepia arrived in Cyprus with Greek immigrants in ______ BC.
  34. Complete the sentence about Fritule with the correct year: Frittelle are included in the British Museum Cookbook by Michelle Berriedale-Johnson and a book about Venice from ______.
  35. Complete the sentence about KremÅ”nita with the correct year: The cake recipe was brought to the local Hotel Park in ______ by IÅ”tvan Lukačević, chef of the hotel's confectionery store.
  36. Complete the sentence about Ožujsko with the correct year: Lobe brewery was shut down in ______. and it's machines of the production plant were transferred to today's Zagrebačka pivovara.
  37. Complete the sentence about Pelinkovac with the correct year: Badel's Antique Pelinkovac, a Croatian brand, was created in ______ by chemist Franjo Pokorny as a digestif.
  38. Complete the sentence about Travarica with the correct year: The first legal and official rakija distillery, Bojkovčanka, was established in ______ about 10 miles south of Belgrade.
  39. Complete the sentence about Dingač with the correct year: The wine region was established in ______ and was the first protected Croatian wine region.
  40. Complete the sentence about ProŔek with the correct year: Croatia filed a complaint, as a Croatian winegrower claimed that the wine had been produced "for at least ______ years".
  41. Complete the sentence about Bećarac with the correct year: In ______, Croatia submitted the bećarac among others for inclusion in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists.
  42. Complete the sentence about Bećarac with the correct year: In ______, the attempt was again unsuccessful, and English translations were made for better reference.
  43. Complete the sentence about Bećarac with the correct year: In ______, it was announced that a museum dedicated to bećarac would be opening in the town of Pleternica, Croatia.
  44. Complete the sentence about Pula Film Festival with the correct year: In ______, when it was established, it was known as the Festival of Yugoslav Film, and it quickly became the most important nationā€¦
  45. Complete the sentence about Pula Film Festival with the correct year: In ______ the festival was cancelled because of the outbreak of the war and the related breakup of Yugoslavia.
  46. Complete the sentence about Pula Film Festival with the correct year: In ______, the festival was rebooted by the new artistic team comprising Hrvoje Puksec, Mike Downey and Tanja Milicic.
  47. Complete the sentence about Motovun Film Festival with the correct year: In ______, the Motovun Maverick Award was introduced, given to notable filmmakers for lifetime achievement.
  48. Complete the sentence about Zagreb County with the correct year: The Zagreb County once included the city of Zagreb, but in ______ they separated, when the City was given a special status.
  49. Complete the sentence about Istria County with the correct year: In ______, with the Treaty of Campo Formio written by Napoleon, the peninsula with the whole Republic of Venice passed to the Habsburgsā€¦
  50. Complete the sentence about Istria County with the correct year: The Treaty of Pressburg in ______ handed Istria to the Kingdom of Italy.
  51. Complete the sentence about Istria County with the correct year: The Treaty of Schƶnbrunn in ______ transferred Istria to France.
  52. Complete the sentence about Counties of Croatia with the correct year: After year ______, all those considerations have contributed to an ongoing debate in Croatia on the need of consolidation or abolā€¦
  53. Complete the sentence about Counties of Croatia with the correct year: Engel further noted that Tvrtko I of Bosnia may have surrendered the seat of the county to Hungarian rule by a treaty of ______.
  54. Complete the sentence about Zagreb Fair with the correct year: The first international exhibition in Zagreb was held in ______.
  55. Complete the sentence about Zagreb Fair with the correct year: The Assembly was one of the co-founding institutions of The Global Association of the Exhibition Industry in ______.
  56. Complete the sentence about Zagreb Fair with the correct year: In June ______ the Croatian fascist, ultranationalist UstaŔe regime established a transit camp for Yugoslav Jews in the area.
  57. Complete the sentence about Zagreb Fair with the correct year: At the ascent of the communist regime, in ______, Zagreb Assembly was disbanded and its property and role was taken over by the newly incā€¦
  58. Complete the sentence about Zagreb Fair with the correct year: In ______ it was relocated to the newly constructed Novi Zagreb part of the city south of the river Sava.
  59. Complete the sentence about Zagreb Main Station with the correct year: The first major expansion of Zagreb Main Railway Station after its completion took place in ______, when six additional station tā€¦
  60. Complete the sentence about Ban Jelačić Square with the correct year: In ______, on the eve of Croatian independence, the square regained its historic name, and the statue was returned to its originalā€¦
  61. Complete the sentence about Ban Jelačić Square with the correct year: The history of Ban Jelačić Square begins in ______, when a new marketplace was established on a plain below Gradec and Kaptol, neaā€¦
  62. Complete the sentence about Dolac Market with the correct year: The daily market, on a raised square a set of stairs up from Jelačić, has been the cityā€™s major trading place since ______.
  63. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Since ______, the Croatian Parliament has taken up the east side of St.
  64. Complete the sentence about Upper Town, Zagreb with the correct year: In ______, Gornji Grad was closed to car traffic except for residents, making it a primarily pedestrian zone.
  65. Complete the sentence about LotrŔčak Tower with the correct year: The name is derived from Latin campana latrunculorum, meaning "thieves' bell", referring to a bell hung in the tower in ______ to signā€¦
  66. Complete the sentence about LotrŔčak Tower with the correct year: The gate was demolished in ______ during the redevelopment of the southern promenade, which is now known as Strossmayer Promenade.
  67. Complete the sentence about LotrŔčak Tower with the correct year: The most significant modifications were made in ______, during a period of Romantic-era restoration of medieval buildings.
  68. Complete the sentence with the correct year: But he was rejected in ______ because his plans were too much in the style of the Renaissance.
  69. Complete the sentence about Rector's Palace, Dubrovnik with the correct year: The History Department of the Museum of Dubrovnik has operated in the palace since ______.
  70. Complete the sentence about Trsat Castle with the correct year: In October ______, the Venetians withdrew for good and Rijeka returned to the possessions of Maximilian of Habsburg.
  71. Complete the sentence about Trsat Castle with the correct year: In the year ______, during the Napoleonic Wars, Captain Hoste in pursuit of the French, arrived with his frigate at Fiume where he madeā€¦
  72. Which place completes this sentence about Marko Marulić? The palazzo in which he was born still stands on Papalić Street in ______.
  73. Which place completes this sentence about Marko Marulić? Owing to his work, he became the most distinguished member of ______'s humanist circle.
  74. Which place completes this sentence about Miroslav Krleža? In 1947, he became vice-president of the Yugoslav Academy of Science and Arts in ______ and, from 1958 to 1961, he was president of the Yugosā€¦
  75. Which place completes this sentence about Vladimir Prelog? In ______ he graduated from elementary school and, from 1916 to 1919, attended gymnasium there.
  76. Which place completes this sentence about Slavoljub Penkala? Penkala died in ______ at the age of 50, after catching pneumonia on a business trip.
  77. Which place completes this sentence about Hajduk Split? The club was founded in its city of ______ after the idea to form a football club came to the founders during their time studying in Prague.
  78. Which place completes this sentence about Dubrovnik Summer Festival? On more than 70 open-air venues of Renaissance-Baroque city of ______ a rich programme of classical music, theatre, opera and danceā€¦
  79. Which place completes this sentence about Dubrovnik Summer Festival? Many famous artists and orchestras performed at the ______ Summer Festival, contributing to its prestige worldwide.
  80. Which place completes this sentence about PeljeŔac? The peninsula is part of the ______-Neretva County and is the second largest peninsula in Croatia.
  81. Which place completes this sentence about Ivica Olić? Olić was born and raised in the village of Davor near ______, Croatia.
  82. Which place completes this sentence about Pula Film Festival? The ______ Film Festival is the largest and oldest Croatian film festival and is usually held in the summer, in July or August.
  83. Which place completes this sentence about Zagreb Main Station? Following the opening ceremony, the first departing train left for ______ at 10:35 a.m.
  84. Which place completes this sentence about Sea organ? Chaotic reconstruction work was undertaken to repair the devastation ______ suffered in the Second World War.
  85. Which place completes this sentence about Greeting to the Sun? The monument is located at the entrance to the port of the Croatian town of ______ on the western point of the Zadar Peninsula.
  86. Which place completes this sentence about Greeting to the Sun? The entire system annually produces about 46,500 kWh, producing half the energy needed by the ______ waterfront.
  87. Which place completes this sentence about Trsat Castle? In October 1509, the Venetians withdrew for good and ______ returned to the possessions of Maximilian of Habsburg.
  88. Which place completes this sentence about Zvonimir Boban? Born in ______, Boban started his career with Dinamo Zagreb.
  89. Which place completes this sentence about Marin Čilić? On 28 April 2018, Čilić married his long-time girlfriend, Kristina Milković in ______.
  90. Which place completes this sentence about Kajkavian? The major cities in northern Croatia are located in what was historically a Kajkavian-speaking area, mainly Zagreb, Koprivnica, ______, Križevci, Vā€¦
  91. Which place completes this sentence about Sinjska alka? Sinjska Alka was created in the early 18th century as a continuation of knightly competitions that were held across the Venetian Dalmatia: Zadarā€¦
  92. Which place completes the sentence? From the isthmus that begins at ______, to the top of Cape LoviŔta, it is 65 km or 40 mi long.
  93. Which place completes this sentence about PeljeŔac? The old ______ was located on the slopes of the hills of Gorica and St.
  94. Which place completes this sentence about Mirko Filipović? Filipović was born on 10 September 1974 in ______ in eastern Croatia, then part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
  95. Which place completes this sentence about Krapina Neanderthal site? Called the Heritage Museum of ______, it showcased the total history of the area, beginning with select prehistoric Neanderthal findā€¦
  96. Which place completes this sentence about KremŔnita? In Croatia, the two most popular variants are Samoborska kremŔnita from the town of ______ and Zagrebačka kremŔnita from the capital, Zagreb.
  97. Which place completes this sentence about Bećarac? Friedrich Salomon Krauss, an ethnographer born in ______, studied and collected around two thousand bećarac songs.
  98. Which place completes this sentence about Motovun Film Festival? For the 2022 festival, the last one held exclusively in ______, the skipped numbering was abandoned, so that it was officially designatā€¦
  99. Which place completes this sentence about Motovun Film Festival? In 2008, the ______ Maverick Award was introduced, given to notable filmmakers for lifetime achievement.

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