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  1. Complete the sentence about Azulejo with the correct year: The same techniques were introduced into Portugal by King Manuel I after a visit to Seville in ______.
  2. Complete the sentence about Azulejo with the correct year: The first Italian potter to move into Spain was Francisco Niculoso who settled in Seville in ______.
  3. Complete the sentence about Manueline with the correct year: When King Manuel I died in ______, he funded 62 construction projects.
  4. Complete the sentence about Fernando Pessoa with the correct year: While his family remained in South Africa, Pessoa returned to Lisbon in ______ to study diplomacy.
  5. Complete the sentence about José Saramago with the correct year: Saramago was a founding member of the National Front for the Defense of Culture in Lisbon in ______.
  6. Complete the sentence about José Saramago with the correct year: By that time, in ______, he met and became lover of writer Isabel da Nóbrega, the longtime partner of author and critic João Gaspar Sim…
  7. Complete the sentence about Eça de Queirós with the correct year: In ______, upon growing more pessimistic about the future of Portugal and Europe, he described himself as a "vague, saddened anarchist…
  8. Complete the sentence about Almeida Garrett with the correct year: In ______, his family fled the second French invasion carried out by Soult's troops, seeking refuge in Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira Is…
  9. Complete the sentence about Almeida Garrett with the correct year: In ______, he moved to Coimbra to study at the University law school.
  10. Complete the sentence about Almeida Garrett with the correct year: After the "Vilafrancada", a reactionary coup d'état led by the Infante Dom Miguel in ______, he was forced to seek exile in England.
  11. Complete the sentence about Almeida Garrett with the correct year: In ______, he returned to Portugal, where he settled for two years and founded the newspapers O Portuguez and O Chronista.
  12. Complete the sentence about Almeida Garrett with the correct year: Garrett died of cancer in Lisbon at 6:30 in the afternoon of 9 December ______.
  13. Complete the sentence about Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen with the correct year: Andresen was the first Portuguese woman to be awarded the Camões Prize, in ______.
  14. Complete the sentence about Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen with the correct year: Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen was born on 6 November ______ in Porto, Portugal.
  15. Complete the sentence about Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen with the correct year: In ______, Sophia's grandfather bought Quinta do Campo Alegre, now known as the Porto Botanical Garden, where he rai…
  16. Complete the sentence about Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen with the correct year: Sophia began her studies at the new Sacred Heart of Jesus College, at ______ Avenida da Boavista, Porto, entering wi…
  17. Complete the sentence about António Lobo Antunes with the correct year: In a military hospital in Angola, he became interested in the subjects of death and "the other." Lobo Antunes came back from Afr…
  18. Complete the sentence about António Lobo Antunes with the correct year: In ______, Lobo Antunes revealed that he had been operated for intestinal cancer.
  19. Complete the sentence about Gil Vicente with the correct year: The year ______, the date proposed by Queirós Veloso, is the commonly accepted year of Vicente's birth.
  20. Complete the sentence about Álvaro Siza Vieira with the correct year: In ______, following the revolution in Portugal, the city government of Évora commissioned Siza to plan a housing project in the r…
  21. Complete the sentence about Paula Rego with the correct year: The family was divided in ______ when her father was posted to work in the United Kingdom.
  22. Complete the sentence about Paula Rego with the correct year: Rego's parents left her behind in Portugal in the care of her grandmother until ______.
  23. Complete the sentence about Paula Rego with the correct year: In ______, Rego was sent to the United Kingdom to attend a finishing school called The Grove School, in Sevenoaks, Kent.
  24. Complete the sentence about Paula Rego with the correct year: In ______, Rego was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon and the Serpentine Gallery i…
  25. Complete the sentence about Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso with the correct year: In ______ he attended the classes of the painter Anglada-Camarasa at the Académie Vitti and later the Free Academies.
  26. Complete the sentence about Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso with the correct year: Amadeo met with Antoni Gaudí in Barcelona in ______, and then left for Madrid, where the shock of World War I was already und…
  27. Complete the sentence with the correct year: On 25 October ______, at the age of 30, he died in Espinho, of the Spanish flu.
  28. Complete the sentence about Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso with the correct year: Around ______, influenced both by cubism and by futurism, he became one of the first modern Portuguese painters.
  29. Complete the sentence about Júlio Pomar with the correct year: In ______, he moved to the Superior School of Fine Arts of Porto, leaving two years later after a disciplinary process.
  30. Complete the sentence about Maria Helena Vieira da Silva with the correct year: In ______ Vieira da Silva left Lisbon to study sculpture in Paris.
  31. Complete the sentence about Maria Helena Vieira da Silva with the correct year: At the onset of World War II in ______, Vieira da Silva moved to Portugal from France.
  32. Complete the sentence about Maria Helena Vieira da Silva with the correct year: Vieira da Silva received the French government's Grand Prix National des Arts in ______, the first woman so honored.
  33. Complete the sentence about Maria Helena Vieira da Silva with the correct year: In ______, Vieira da Silva exhibited in Peggy Guggenheim's show Exhibition by 31 Women at the Art of This Century galler…
  34. Complete the sentence about Manoel de Oliveira with the correct year: In ______, he completed his first film Douro, Faina Fluvial, a documentary about his home city Porto made in the city-symphony gen…
  35. Complete the sentence about Manoel de Oliveira with the correct year: In March ______, he was reported to be the oldest active film director in the world.
  36. Complete the sentence about Manoel de Oliveira with the correct year: Oliveira was born on 11 December ______ in Porto, Portugal, to Francisco José de Oliveira and Cândida Ferreira Pinto.
  37. Complete the sentence about Egas Moniz with the correct year: Then he studied medicine at the University of Coimbra, graduating in ______.
  38. Complete the sentence about Pedro Nunes with the correct year: In ______, King John III of Portugal charged Nunes with the education of his younger brothers Luís and Henry.
  39. Complete the sentence about Garcia de Orta with the correct year: Published in ______, it is the earliest treatise on the medicinal and economic plants of India.
  40. Complete the sentence about José Manuel Barroso with the correct year: Barroso became politically active in his late teens, during the Estado Novo regime in Portugal, before the Carnation Revolution o…
  41. Complete the sentence about José Manuel Barroso with the correct year: In ______, under the PSD government of Aníbal Cavaco Silva, prime minister of Portugal, Barroso was named Under-Secretary of Stat…
  42. Complete the sentence about José Manuel Barroso with the correct year: In ______, while in opposition, Barroso was elected to the Assembly of the Republic as a representative for Lisbon.
  43. Complete the sentence about Cristiano Ronaldo with the correct year: Ronaldo began his career with Sporting CP before signing with Manchester United in ______.
  44. Complete the sentence about Eusébio with the correct year: Eusébio helped Portugal reach third place at the ______ FIFA World Cup, being the top goalscorer of the tournament with nine goals.
  45. Complete the sentence about Luís Figo with the correct year: Prior to that, he won the ______ FIFA Under-20 World Championships and Under-16 European Championships with Portugal junior sides alongside…
  46. Complete the sentence about Portugal national football team with the correct year: Portugal's first participation in a major tournament finals was at the ______ FIFA World Cup, which saw a team featur…
  47. Complete the sentence about Portugal national football team with the correct year: Portugal were not invited to the ______ World Cup, which only featured a finals stage and no qualification round.
  48. Complete the sentence about Portugal national football team with the correct year: In the ______ FIFA World Cup qualification, the Seleção played one game against Switzerland held in neutral ground in…
  49. Complete the sentence about Portugal national football team with the correct year: The Second World War delayed the World Cup until ______ and subsequently, the national team rarely played.
  50. Complete the sentence about Portugal national football team with the correct year: Similar to ______, Portugal were to play a two-legged round against Spain.
  51. Complete the sentence about UEFA Euro 2016 with the correct year: For the first time, the European Championship final tournament was contested by 24 teams, having been expanded from the 16-team format…
  52. Complete the sentence about UEFA Euro 2016 with the correct year: As the winners, Portugal earned the right to compete at the ______ FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia.
  53. Complete the sentence about S.L. Benfica with the correct year: Benfica's ten European finals are a domestic record and ranked seventh all-time among UEFA clubs in ______.
  54. Complete the sentence about FC Porto with the correct year: Since ______, Porto have played their home matches at the Estádio do Dragão, which replaced the previous 51-year-old ground, the Estádio das…
  55. Complete the sentence about Sporting CP with the correct year: Founded on 1 July ______, Sporting is one of the "Big Three" clubs in Portugal that have never been relegated from Primeira Liga, along w…
  56. Complete the sentence about Rosa Mota with the correct year: In ______, she met José Pedrosa, the man who would eventually be her personal trainer for her entire career.
  57. Complete the sentence about Rosa Mota with the correct year: Rosa Mota's first marathon was at the European Championships of ______, hosted by Athens, Greece - the first Women's Marathon ever.
  58. Complete the sentence about Rosa Mota with the correct year: In ______, she returned to Boston to win for a third time, beating Uta Pippig.
  59. Complete the sentence about Carlos Lopes with the correct year: On 20 April ______, Lopes set the men's marathon world record at 2:07:12 at the Rotterdam Marathon.
  60. Complete the sentence about Carlos Lopes with the correct year: Carlos Lopes was born on 18 February ______ in Vildemoinhos, near Viseu, Portugal.
  61. Complete the sentence about Carlos Lopes with the correct year: Lopes won the World Cross Country Championships in Chepstow, Wales in ______.
  62. Complete the sentence about Fernanda Ribeiro with the correct year: The pinnacle of her career was at the ______ Summer Olympics when she won the women's 10000 m gold medal, establishing a new Olympic…
  63. Complete the sentence about Fernanda Ribeiro with the correct year: On 2 August ______ Ribeiro ran in the finals of the Olympic women's 10000 m run.
  64. Complete the sentence about Fernanda Ribeiro with the correct year: In November ______, she made a pilgrimage to Fátima as promised to thank Our Lady of Fátima for her incredible victory.
  65. Complete the sentence about Portuguese Grand Prix with the correct year: The first event was held on the Boavista street course in Porto on 17 June ______ as a sports car race.
  66. Complete the sentence about Portuguese Grand Prix with the correct year: The Grand Prix was moved to Monsanto Park, Lisbon, in ______ as a one-off.
  67. Complete the sentence about Portuguese Grand Prix with the correct year: Sportscar events continued until ______ when the following year it became part of the Formula One world championship.
  68. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The first Formula One race was held on 14 August ______ in Boavista.
  69. Complete the sentence about Estoril Circuit with the correct year: On 3 September ______, the Autódromo do Estoril held its first Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix, an event held annually.
  70. Complete the sentence about Estoril Circuit with the correct year: On 23 October ______, the circuit hosted the third round of the first ever A1 Grand Prix racing season, with both races in the event…
  71. Complete the sentence about Algarve International Circuit with the correct year: The circuit hosted the final round of the World Superbike Championship on 2 November ______.
  72. Complete the sentence with the correct year: From ______ it hosted a round of the FIA World Touring Car Championship.
  73. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______ the competition was skipped due to the Carnation Revolution.
  74. Complete the sentence about Rock in Rio Lisboa with the correct year: In ______, Rock in Rio returned to its original location, Rio de Janeiro, with a new line-up of singers and groups.
  75. Complete the sentence about Web Summit with the correct year: A court-case in the Irish Business courts between Cosgrave, Hickey and Kelly began in March ______.
  76. Complete the sentence about Lisbon Metro with the correct year: Opened in December ______, it was the first rapid transit system in Portugal.
  77. Complete the sentence about Lisbon Metro with the correct year: The idea of building a system of underground railways for the city of Lisbon first arose in ______.
  78. Complete the sentence about Lisbon Metro with the correct year: A society was formed on 26 January ______ with the purpose of studying the technical and economic feasibility of the project.
  79. Complete the sentence about Porto Metro with the correct year: The Porto Metro has received the Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design in ______…
  80. Complete the sentence about Trams in Lisbon with the correct year: In January ______ the Duke of Saldanha, a Portuguese statesman, opened a guided-rail street tramline between Lisbon and Lumiar, using…
  81. Complete the sentence about Trams in Lisbon with the correct year: The first tramway in Lisbon entered service on 17 November ______ as a horsecar line.
  82. Complete the sentence about Glória Funicular with the correct year: Tests by Mesnier du Ponsard and the city government's engineers in ______ showed that the system was sufficient to control cars with…
  83. Complete the sentence about Glória Funicular with the correct year: In ______, NCAML signed a contract with the Municipal Council of Lisbon that allowed them to electrify the lines.
  84. Complete the sentence about Glória Funicular with the correct year: In ______, NCAML was dissolved and the funicular became a property of the Companhia Carris.
  85. Complete the sentence about TAP Air Portugal with the correct year: The airline began commercial services on 19 September ______, performing an inaugural flight from Lisbon to Madrid, carrying a total…
  86. Complete the sentence about TAP Air Portugal with the correct year: In ______, the airline launched its first domestic services, commencing a route between Lisbon and Porto, as well as another interna…
  87. Complete the sentence about TAP Air Portugal with the correct year: During ______, new services to Seville and Paris were launched.
  88. Complete the sentence about TAP Air Portugal with the correct year: During ______, the airline broke new ground with a successful long-distance experimental transatlantic trip to Rio de Janeiro, Brazi…
  89. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The first jet aircraft flight was an Air France Caravelle in ______.
  90. Complete the sentence about Humberto Delgado Airport with the correct year: The first direct flight to New York was operated by TWA with a Boeing 707, who later operated the first Boeing 747 service i…
  91. Complete the sentence about Galp Energia with the correct year: Galp was founded in ______ through the merger of Petrogal, Gás de Portugal and Transgás.
  92. Complete the sentence about Galp Energia with the correct year: In ______, SACOR participated in the establishment of another oil company, MOÇACOR, in the Portuguese overseas province of Mozambique.
  93. Complete the sentence about EDP Group with the correct year: China Three Gorges Corporation, a SOE, won in December ______ the bidding for the Portuguese government's 21.35% interest in the company.
  94. Complete the sentence about EDP Group with the correct year: In late ______ the largest shareholder, China Three Gorges Corporation, proposed a hostile takeover of EDP.
  95. Complete the sentence about EDP Group with the correct year: In ______, EDP agreed to buy Viesgo, more than doubling its presence in Spain's electricity distribution market.
  96. Complete the sentence about Jerónimo Martins with the correct year: JMR has been run as a 51%-49% joint venture with the Dutch firm Ahold Delhaize since ______.
  97. Complete the sentence about Jerónimo Martins with the correct year: In ______, Jerónimo Martins Group started its operations in Colombia with the opening of the first Ara stores as well as its first d…
  98. Complete the sentence about Sonae with the correct year: Sonae was founded in ______ by the entrepreneur, banker and patron from Arouca, Afonso Pinto de Magalhães.
  99. Complete the sentence about Sonae with the correct year: In ______, Sonae Investimentos SGPS, S.A. was created and the group entered the Lisbon Stock Exchange.
  100. Complete the sentence about Corticeira Amorim with the correct year: Corticeira Amorim has issued its first Sustainability Report in ______, the first of its kind in the cork industry.

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