Bulgarian Science, Arts and Culture

Science Arts And Culture

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  1. Complete the sentence about Bulgarian Red Cross with the correct year: The two Bulgarian provinces, Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia, became unified on September 20, ______.
  2. Complete the sentence with the correct year: BNT was founded in ______ and started broadcasting on December 26 of the same year.
  3. Complete the sentence about Bulgarian National Television with the correct year: On December 26, ______, the official opening of Bulgarian Television took place.
  4. Complete the sentence about Bulgarian National Television with the correct year: In ______, the General Directorate of Bulgarian Television and Radio was established within the Ministry of Culture.
  5. Complete the sentence about Bulgarian National Television with the correct year: From ______, BNT began broadcasting news, programmes and movies in monochrome to serve the rising number of viewers in…
  6. Complete the sentence about Bulgarian National Radio with the correct year: On 25 January ______, Boris III of Bulgaria signed a Decree nationalising Rodno Radio and making all broadcasting in Bulgari…
  7. Complete the sentence about Bulgarian National Radio with the correct year: Since 4 January ______, the first station of Bulgarian Radio has been called "Horizont".
  8. Complete the sentence about Bulgarian National Radio with the correct year: On 28 May ______, the Orpheus programme was broadcast stereophonically for the first time in Bulgaria.
  9. Complete the sentence about Bulgarian National Radio with the correct year: In ______, the new building of the Bulgarian Radio in Sofia, at 4 Dragan Tsankov Boulevard, was opened.
  10. Complete the sentence about Bulgarian National Radio with the correct year: For the first time on 11 November ______, Petko Georgiev gave the national address "Ladies and gentlemen, good day".
  11. Complete the sentence about Bulgarian National Radio with the correct year: With the merger of EBU and OIRT on 1 January ______, BNR was admitted to full active membership of the European Broadcasting…
  12. Complete the sentence about Bulgarian National Radio with the correct year: In ______, the regional programme "Efir Sofia", broadcasting from 13:05 to 14:00 on 68.05 MHz and 774 kHz in Sofia, was clos…
  13. Complete the sentence about Bulgarian Football Union with the correct year: On 27 June ______, the organization was renamed the Bulgarian Football Union, the name that it carries today.
  14. Complete the sentence about Bulgarian Football Union with the correct year: On 12 October ______, Mihaylov won the elections despite the fact few voting violations were noted.
  15. Complete the sentence about Sofia Zoo with the correct year: Sofia Zoo in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, was founded by royal decree on 1 May ______, and is the oldest and largest zoological garden i…
  16. Complete the sentence about Sofia Zoo with the correct year: In January ______ the zoo received eight Humboldt penguins on loan from Germany.
  17. Complete the sentence about Vitosha Boulevard with the correct year: According to a ______ Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. study, Vitosha Boulevard is the world's 22nd most expensive trade street.
  18. Complete the sentence about Vitosha Boulevard with the correct year: In March ______, reconstruction works on the boulevard started.
  19. Complete the sentence about Saint Sophia Church, Sofia with the correct year: In ______ CE, the town of Serdica was renamed as Sofia, after the church.
  20. Complete the sentence about Banya Bashi Mosque with the correct year: The mosque was designed by the famous Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan and completed in ______, during the years the Ottomans had con…
  21. Complete the sentence about Sofia Synagogue with the correct year: Completed in ______, the synagogue is the largest synagogue in Southeastern Europe, the third-largest in Europe, and one of two activ…
  22. Complete the sentence about Sofia Synagogue with the correct year: The synagogue was officially opened on 9 September ______ in the presence of King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria.
  23. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Construction of the new building started on 23 February ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Monument to the Soviet Army, Sofia with the correct year: The monument was built in ______ on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the liberation by the Soviet Army.
  25. Complete the sentence about Monument to the Soviet Army, Sofia with the correct year: The paint was removed three days later, in the late hours of June 20, ______, though later it was declared that it…
  26. Complete the sentence about Monument to the Soviet Army, Sofia with the correct year: The pink colour is a reference to the painting of the Monument to Soviet Tank Crews in Prague by David Černý in __…
  27. Which place completes this sentence about Bulgarian cuisine? Traditionally, the regions of Yablanitsa and ______ are famous manufacturers of halva.
  28. Which place completes this sentence about Nikola Vaptsarov? Vaptsarov was trained as a machine engineer at the Naval Machinery School, which was later named after him, in ______.
  29. Which place completes this sentence about Nikola Vaptsarov? In April and May 1932, Vaptsarov visited Istanbul, Famagusta, Alexandria, Beirut, Port Said, and Haifa as a crew member of the ______ vessel…
  30. Which place completes this sentence about Elias Canetti? Born in ______, Bulgaria, to a Sephardic Jewish family, he later lived in England, Austria, Germany, and Switzerland.
  31. Which place completes this sentence about Elias Canetti? In ______, Canetti's father and grandfather were successful merchants who operated out of a commercial building, which they had built in 1898.
  32. Which place completes this sentence about Elias Canetti? Before settling in ______, they had migrated to Italy and lived in Livorno in the 17th century.
  33. Which place completes this sentence about Julia Kristeva? Born in ______, Bulgaria to Christian parents, Kristeva is the daughter of a church accountant.
  34. Which place completes this sentence about Ghena Dimitrova? Ghena Dimitrova was born in the Bulgarian village of Beglezh, some 25 km from ______, in 1941.
  35. Which place completes this sentence about John Atanasoff? Atanasoff's father, Ivan Atanasov, was of Bulgarian origin, born in 1876 in the village of Boyadzhik, close to ______, then in the Ottoman Emp…
  36. Which place completes this sentence about Hristo Stoichkov? Stoichkov began his football career playing for his hometown club Maritsa ______ at the age of 11.
  37. Which place completes this sentence about Yordan Letchkov? Between 2002 and 2004 he became player-coach of OFC ______, a club in the second division of Bulgarian football.
  38. Which place completes this sentence about Naim Süleymanoğlu? Süleymanoğlu was born in Ptichar, ______ Province, Bulgaria.
  39. Which place completes this sentence about Trakia motorway? The interchange is situated between ______ and Chirpan, roughly 5 km north of Parvomay.
  40. Which place completes this sentence about Trakia motorway? In 1984 the motorway reached ______, the second largest city in Bulgaria.
  41. Which place completes this sentence about Trakia motorway? In 1995 a 32 km section between ______ and Plodovitovo interchange was completed with EBRD co-financing.
  42. Which place completes this sentence about Trakia motorway? The motorway reached ______ in 2007, and lot 5 entered in service in 2006.
  43. Which place completes this sentence about Trakia motorway? The concession was granted for 35 years without tender procedure and included 433 km from the Serbian border, at Kalotina border checkpoint…
  44. Complete the sentence about Tsvetana Pironkova with the correct year: Following an injury in ______, Pironkova announced a sabbatical from the sport - which was later extended to accommodate her mater…
  45. Complete the sentence about Bulgarian Academy of Sciences with the correct year: The BAS was awarded the Japanese Foreign Minister's Commendation for their contributions to promotion of mutual underst…
  46. Complete the sentence about Banya Bashi Mosque with the correct year: On 21 May ______, the mosque was stage of the Banya Bashi Mosque clashes between the Muslims and the Far-right party Ataka.
  47. Complete the sentence about Bulgarian literature with the correct year: As the Bulgarian Empire was subjugated by the Byzantines in ______, Bulgarian literary activity declined.
  48. Complete the sentence about Bulgarian literature with the correct year: The fall of the Second Bulgarian Empire to the Ottomans in ______ was a serious blow for Bulgarian literature and culture in gen…
  49. Complete the sentence about Horo with the correct year: In ______, the dancer and choreographer Baruch Agadati choreographed a dance based on the Romanian hora dance that became known as "Hora Agadati…
  50. Complete the sentence about Horo with the correct year: The song "Hora", sung by Avi Toledano, who represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest ______, is based on this dance.
  51. Complete the sentence about Valya Balkanska with the correct year: Balkanska has been working with the Rodopa State Ensemble for Folk Songs and Dances from Smolyan, of which she is a soloist, since __…
  52. Complete the sentence about Yanka Rupkina with the correct year: The trio gained prominence through their inclusion in the ______ world music compilation "Balkana: The Music of Bulgaria", released thr…
  53. Complete the sentence about Yanka Rupkina with the correct year: In ______, the ensemble released their studio album, "The Forest Is Crying", produced by Joe Boyd.
  54. Complete the sentence about Ivo Papazov with the correct year: In ______, due to Papazov's origins and popularity among the Turkish population in Bulgaria, he was arrested, beaten and held in custody.
  55. Complete the sentence about Ivo Papazov with the correct year: Once the People's Republic of Bulgaria fell in ______, Papazov could focus on the rest of the world which led to collaborations with musi…
  56. Complete the sentence about Lili Ivanova with the correct year: Ivanova's album "Camino" was recorded by the Bulgarian Balkanton in ______.
  57. Complete the sentence about Lili Ivanova with the correct year: Ivanova won her first prize "Golden Key" in ______ in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.
  58. Complete the sentence about Kristian Kostov with the correct year: On 7 October ______, his debut single "Ne si za men" was released by Virginia Records.
  59. Complete the sentence about Sofi Marinova with the correct year: Sofi Marinova was born 5 December ______ in Sofia, Bulgaria, although lived with her family in Etropole until the age of 15.
  60. Complete the sentence about Sofi Marinova with the correct year: Marinova made her recording debut in ______ with the release of the Romani-language album Мечта in collaboration with the band Super Ex…
  61. Complete the sentence about Poli Genova with the correct year: Genova began her career in ______, at the age of four, as a member of the Bulgarian children's ensemble Bon-Bon.
  62. Complete the sentence about Poli Genova with the correct year: As of ______, Genova is Bulgaria's third highest placing participant.
  63. Complete the sentence about Poli Genova with the correct year: In ______, Bon-Bon took part in the Slavianski Bazaar festival in Vitebsk.
  64. Complete the sentence about Maria Ilieva with the correct year: In ______ she finished second in the 8th season of the Bulgarian version of Your Face Sounds Familiar.
  65. Complete the sentence about Maria Ilieva with the correct year: The launch of Maria Ilieva's solo career is marked by the release of her first single "Moon Dream" in the summer of ______.
  66. Complete the sentence about Raina Kabaivanska with the correct year: In ______ she made her debut at La Scala in Milan as Agnese in Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda, opposite Joan Sutherland.
  67. Complete the sentence about Raina Kabaivanska with the correct year: In ______ she made her debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as Desdemona in Verdi's Otello, and at the Metropolitan Opera…
  68. Complete the sentence about Raina Kabaivanska with the correct year: In ______ she sang Elena in Verdi's I vespri siciliani in Turin in a production directed by Maria Callas and Giuseppe Di Stefano.
  69. Complete the sentence about Anna Tomowa-Sintow with the correct year: Upon graduation, she joined the Opera Studio of the Leipzig Opera, where, in ______, she made her professional debut as Abigaille…
  70. Complete the sentence about Anna Tomowa-Sintow with the correct year: In ______, she was invited to join the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, where she was named Kammersängerin during her very first year.
  71. Complete the sentence about Anna Tomowa-Sintow with the correct year: In ______, Tomowa-Sintow auditioned for conductor Herbert von Karajan for the upcoming world premiere of Carl Orff's De temporum f…
  72. Complete the sentence about Anna Tomowa-Sintow with the correct year: In ______, Anna Tomowa-Sintow marked 45 years of artistic activity with a gala concert in her native Stara Zagora, opening the 43r…
  73. Complete the sentence about Zlatyu Boyadzhiev with the correct year: Born in the village of Brezovo, Boyadzhiev graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia in ______.
  74. Complete the sentence about Ivan Milev with the correct year: On 18 November ______, the same year that he finished high school in his hometown, he arranged an exhibition in Kazanlak.
  75. Complete the sentence about Ivan Milev with the correct year: In ______, he was admitted to the National Academy of Art in Sofia, where he studied under Prof.
  76. Complete the sentence about Ivan Milev with the correct year: In the summer of ______, he visited Turkey, Greece and Italy with a group of fellow students.
  77. Complete the sentence about Ivan Milev with the correct year: In ______, he graduated in set decoration from the National Academy and worked for the Ivan Vazov National Theatre as a stage designer.
  78. Complete the sentence about Ivan Milev with the correct year: Milev died of Influenza in Sofia on 25 January ______, shortly before his thirtieth birthday.
  79. Complete the sentence about Ivan Milev with the correct year: Milev is portrayed on the obverse of the current 5 Bulgarian leva banknote issued in ______, with some of his works depicted on the revers…
  80. Complete the sentence about Yordan Radichkov with the correct year: In ______, Radichkov was decorated with the high government prize the Order of the Balkan Mountains.
  81. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, he graduated from the high school in the town of Berkovitsa.
  82. Complete the sentence about Yordan Radichkov with the correct year: Radichkov's works have been translated in more than 30 languages and in ______ he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
  83. Complete the sentence about Valeri Petrov with the correct year: In ______, Petrov wrote the children's musical Button for Sleep.
  84. Complete the sentence about Blaga Dimitrova with the correct year: Dimitrova was born on 2 January ______ in Byala Slatina, Bulgaria.
  85. Complete the sentence about Blaga Dimitrova with the correct year: Kliment Ohridski, where she studied Slavic philology until graduation in ______.
  86. Complete the sentence about Blaga Dimitrova with the correct year: In February ______ Blaga Dimitrova was one of 102 Bulgarian intellectuals to sign an appeal in defence of Václav Havel.
  87. Complete the sentence about Blaga Dimitrova with the correct year: On 5 May ______, her husband was arrested because he was the chief editor of the journal Democracy, an organ of the Association of De…
  88. Complete the sentence about Blaga Dimitrova with the correct year: On 20 January ______, she was invited, together with a group of intellectuals, to a meeting known as the “breakfast” with French Pres…
  89. Complete the sentence about Blaga Dimitrova with the correct year: In the presidential elections held on 19 January ______, Dimitrova was elected vice-president and Zhelyu Zhelev was elected president…
  90. Complete the sentence about Blaga Dimitrova with the correct year: Disappointed and oppressed by the way the presidency and the government work, on 6 July ______ she left the vice-presidential post wi…
  91. Complete the sentence about Dimcho Debelyanov with the correct year: In ______, Debelyanov began sending poetry to Bulgarian literary magazines at the urging of friend and fellow poet Pencho Slaveikov…
  92. Complete the sentence about Dimcho Debelyanov with the correct year: Though he considered himself a pacifist, Debelyanov would later volunteer to join the army in ______.
  93. Complete the sentence about Peyo Yavorov with the correct year: In ______, Lora shot herself and Yavorov tried to commit suicide.
  94. Complete the sentence about Peyo Yavorov with the correct year: In despair over the trial provoked by Lora's death and the rumor that he had killed her, Yavorov poisoned and then shot himself in autum…
  95. Complete the sentence about Aleko Konstantinov with the correct year: Konstantinov is portrayed on the obverse of the Bulgarian 100 levs banknote, issued in ______.
  96. Complete the sentence about Konstantin Konstantinov with the correct year: In ______, during the Polish uprising, Constantine Pavlovich left Poland for Russia, but fell ill with cholera on the way and…
  97. Complete the sentence about Konstantin Konstantinov with the correct year: Konstantinov graduated from Mikhailovskoye Artillery School in St.Petersburg in ______.
  98. Complete the sentence about Konstantin Konstantinov with the correct year: In ______, Konstantinov created a ballistic rocket pendulum, which would allow to establish a law of changing rocket motion i…
  99. Complete the sentence about Konstantin Konstantinov with the correct year: In ______, he supervised the construction of a rocket factory in Nikolayev, which he would head six years later.
  100. Complete the sentence about Bulgarian Wikipedia with the correct year: In ______ Bulgarian Wikipedia added its 20,000th article and was the 21st largest Wikipedia at the time.

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