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  1. Complete the sentence about Dobos torte with the correct year: Dobos torte was introduced at the National General Exhibition of Budapest in ______; Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth were am…
  2. Complete the sentence about Dobos torte with the correct year: Near the end of his career, in ______, Dobos donated his recipe to the Pastry and Honey-Makers' Guild.
  3. Complete the sentence about Chimney cake with the correct year: The present variant "kürtőskalács" was first used in print in a cookbook, published in ______ by the book department of 'Brassói Lapok'…
  4. Complete the sentence about Tokaji with the correct year: According to legend, the first aszú was made by Laczkó Máté Szepsi in ______.
  5. Complete the sentence about Unicum with the correct year: According to legend the liqueur was created in ______ and is today produced by Zwack using a secret formula of more than forty herbs; the drin…
  6. Complete the sentence about Pálinka with the correct year: The earliest verifiable reference to pálinka dates back to ______, when it was used as medicine in the Hungarian royal court.
  7. Complete the sentence about Pálinka with the correct year: The earliest verifiable reference to pálinka dates back to ______, in the court of King Charles Robert of Hungary.
  8. Complete the sentence about Bull's Blood with the correct year: Legends grew up around the name, which tied it to the ______ siege of Eger as related by Gárdonyi Géza.
  9. Complete the sentence about Bull's Blood with the correct year: Hungary did not escape the effects of the phylloxera epidemic in ______, after which Kékfrankos and small amounts of the Bordeaux variet…
  10. Complete the sentence about Túró Rudi with the correct year: Túró Rudi is the name of a curd snack which has been popular in Hungary since ______.
  11. Complete the sentence about Hungarian folk art with the correct year: Statehood began in the late ninth century with the Principality of Hungary, which became a medieval Christian kingdom under King S…
  12. Complete the sentence about Hungarian folk art with the correct year: After a brief Soviet occupation, the Hungarian People's Republic was established in ______ as a satellite state inside the Warsaw…
  13. Complete the sentence about Hungarian folk art with the correct year: Subsequent political repression and economic stagnation led to the unsuccessful Hungarian Revolution of ______, though communist r…
  14. Complete the sentence about Hungarian folk art with the correct year: During the Revolutions of ______, Hungary peacefully transitioned into a democratic parliamentary republic.
  15. Complete the sentence about Herend Porcelain Manufactory with the correct year: Founded in ______, it is based in the town of Herend near the city of Veszprém.
  16. Complete the sentence about Herend Porcelain Manufactory with the correct year: Stingl ran out of funds and subsequently went bankrupt; his creditor Mór Fischer took control of the factory in ______.
  17. Complete the sentence about Herend Porcelain Manufactory with the correct year: In ______ Francis Joseph I gave a noble title to Fischer, in appreciation of his work in porcelain art.
  18. Complete the sentence about Zsolnay with the correct year: In ______, the Zsolnay Porcelain Manufacture became a stock company, and five years later it was bought by a private equity enterprise.
  19. Complete the sentence about Franz Liszt with the correct year: Liszt's public debut in Vienna on 1 December ______ was a great success.
  20. Complete the sentence about Zoltán Kodály with the correct year: In ______, he wrote a thesis on Hungarian folk song, "Strophic Construction in Hungarian Folksong".
  21. Complete the sentence about Ferenc Erkel with the correct year: The Hungarian State Opera House in Budapest was opened in ______, of which he was the musical director.
  22. Complete the sentence about Kodály method with the correct year: In ______, the method was inscribed as an item of UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.
  23. Complete the sentence about Budapest Festival Orchestra with the correct year: After having recorded on Hungaroton, Teldec, Decca Records, Berlin Classics, the orchestra signed an exclusive recording…
  24. Complete the sentence about Hungarian Radio with the correct year: Created in ______ and named after Lajos Kossuth, the channel is the official radio station of Hungary.
  25. Complete the sentence with the correct year: After the start of World War I, The People's Opera was shut down in ______.
  26. Complete the sentence about Erkel Theatre with the correct year: The theatre was renamed to Erkel Theatre in ______ after the composer Ferenc Erkel.
  27. Complete the sentence about Sziget Festival with the correct year: In ______, Sziget was ranked one of the 5 best festivals in Europe by The Independent.
  28. Complete the sentence about Sziget Festival with the correct year: Following the end of the Communist era in ______, the formerly lively summer festival scene in Budapest faced a crisis due to a sudde…
  29. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, he studied at the Academy of Vienna under Karl Rahl.
  30. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, he travelled to Paris to see the Universal Exposition.
  31. Complete the sentence about Mihály Munkácsy with the correct year: In ______, Munkácsy painted his much acclaimed work The Last Day of a Condemned Man, considered his first masterpiece.
  32. Complete the sentence about Mihály Munkácsy with the correct year: The picture was rewarded with the Gold Medal of the Paris Salon in ______.
  33. Complete the sentence about Victor Vasarely with the correct year: In ______, he abandoned medicine to learn traditional academic painting at the private Podolini-Volkmann Academy.
  34. Complete the sentence about Victor Vasarely with the correct year: In October ______, designer Will Burtin invited Vasarely to make a presentation to Burtin's Vision '67 conference, held at New York U…
  35. Complete the sentence about Victor Vasarely with the correct year: In ______, the second Hungarian Vasarely museum was established in Zichy Palace in Budapest with more than 400 works.
  36. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Starting in ______, he studied law at the University of Budapest.
  37. Complete the sentence about László Moholy-Nagy with the correct year: In ______, during World War I, he enlisted in the Austro-Hungarian army as an artillery officer.
  38. Complete the sentence about László Moholy-Nagy with the correct year: After his discharge from the military in October ______, Moholy-Nagy abandoned his law studies and attended the private art school…
  39. Complete the sentence about Ödön Lechner with the correct year: After finishing his studies in Berlin, Lechner departed on a one-year tour and study in Italy in ______ with his wife Irma Primayer, who…
  40. Complete the sentence about Ödön Lechner with the correct year: After ______, Lechner and Pártos dissolved their partnership, with each continuing on in independent practice.
  41. Complete the sentence about Marcel Breuer with the correct year: In ______, at Gropius's suggestion, Breuer relocated to London.
  42. Complete the sentence about Gyula Illyés with the correct year: Due to illegal political activities he was forced to escape to Vienna in December that year, moving on to Berlin and the Rhineland in __…
  43. Complete the sentence about Gyula Illyés with the correct year: For a while he studied at the Sorbonne and published his first articles and translations in ______.
  44. Complete the sentence about Gyula Illyés with the correct year: In ______ he married his first wife, Irma Juvancz, a physical education teacher, whom he later divorced.
  45. Complete the sentence about Gyula Illyés with the correct year: Illyés was invited to the Soviet Union in ______ to take part in the 1st Congress of the Soviet Writers' Union where he met André Malrau…
  46. Complete the sentence about Attila József with the correct year: From ages seven to fourteen, Attila returned to living with his mother until she died of cancer in ______, aged only 43.
  47. Complete the sentence about Attila József with the correct year: In ______, Attila entered Franz Joseph University to study Hungarian and French literature, with the intention of becoming a secondary…
  48. Complete the sentence about Attila József with the correct year: In ______, he was expelled from the Hungarian Communist Party due to his independence and interest in Freud.
  49. Complete the sentence about Imre Kertész with the correct year: Kertész was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 9 November ______, the son of Aranka Jakab and László Kertész, a middle-class Jewish couple.
  50. Complete the sentence about Imre Kertész with the correct year: During World War II, in ______ at the age of 14, Kertész was deported with other Hungarian Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and…
  51. Complete the sentence about Imre Kertész with the correct year: After the camp was liberated in ______, Kertész returned to Budapest.
  52. Complete the sentence about Sándor Márai with the correct year: In ______, as a young man, enthusiastically supported the Hungarian Soviet Republic and worked as a journalist.
  53. Complete the sentence about Sándor Márai with the correct year: Contrary to his earlier beliefs, he disliked the communist regime that seized power after World War II, and imposed on himself self exil…
  54. Complete the sentence about Sándor Márai with the correct year: Márai was extremely disappointed in the Western powers for not helping the Hungarian Revolution of ______.
  55. Complete the sentence about Sándor Márai with the correct year: The English version of this memoir was published posthumously in ______.
  56. Complete the sentence about Mór Jókai with the correct year: In ______, he moved to Pest where Petőfi introduced him to literary circles.
  57. Complete the sentence about Mór Jókai with the correct year: After the re-establishment of the Hungarian constitution by the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of ______, Jókai took an active part in politic…
  58. Complete the sentence about Mór Jókai with the correct year: In ______, King Francis Joseph appointed him a member of the Upper House.
  59. Complete the sentence about Mór Jókai with the correct year: In ______, he caused a country-wide scandal by marrying Bella Nagy, a twenty-year-old actress.
  60. Complete the sentence about Endre Ady with the correct year: On 22 March ______, he published his first poem in the Zilah newspaper Szilágy.
  61. Complete the sentence about Endre Ady with the correct year: In ______ Ady decided to leave the country and went to Paris again.
  62. Complete the sentence about Ferenc Molnár with the correct year: Ferenc Molnár was born in Budapest on January 12, ______, to Dr.
  63. Complete the sentence about Ferenc Molnár with the correct year: Upon completing secondary school, Molnár studied law at the University of Budapest in ______.
  64. Complete the sentence about Péter Esterházy with the correct year: After the regime change in ______, Péter Esterházy refused to accept the return of any land or valuables nationalized by the communis…
  65. Complete the sentence about László Krasznahorkai with the correct year: László Krasznahorkai was born into a middle-class family on 5 January ______ in Gyula, eastern Hungary.
  66. Complete the sentence about Magda Szabó with the correct year: In ______ she was awarded the Baumgarten Prize, which was immediately withdrawn when Szabó was labelled an enemy to the Communist Party.
  67. Complete the sentence about Magda Szabó with the correct year: In ______, Szabó began a series of autobiographical works, which depict her family history.
  68. Complete the sentence about Péter Nádas with the correct year: In ______, he emerged on the literary scene with an anthology of short stories titled The Bible.
  69. Complete the sentence about Péter Nádas with the correct year: In ______, he was elected member of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts.
  70. Complete the sentence about Albert Szent-Györgyi with the correct year: Szent-Györgyi was born in Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary, on September 16, ______.
  71. Complete the sentence about Albert Szent-Györgyi with the correct year: Szent-Györgyi began his studies at the Semmelweis University in ______, and then began research in his uncle's anatomy lab.
  72. Complete the sentence about Albert Szent-Györgyi with the correct year: In ______, disgusted with the war, Szent-Györgyi shot himself in the arm, claimed to be wounded from enemy fire, and was sent ho…
  73. Complete the sentence about Albert Szent-Györgyi with the correct year: Szent-Györgyi accepted a position at the University of Szeged in Hungary in ______.
  74. Complete the sentence about Georg von Békésy with the correct year: In ______, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the function of the cochlea in the mammalian…
  75. Complete the sentence about Georg von Békésy with the correct year: In ______, he left Hungary to follow this line of research at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.
  76. Complete the sentence about Georg von Békésy with the correct year: In ______ he was elected a Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
  77. Complete the sentence about Georg von Békésy with the correct year: After his lab was destroyed by fire in ______, he was invited to lead a research laboratory of sense organs in Honolulu, Hawaii.
  78. Complete the sentence about Dennis Gabor with the correct year: During his time in Rugby, he met Marjorie Louise Butler, and they married in ______.
  79. Complete the sentence about Eugene Wigner with the correct year: Wigner Jenő Pál was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary on November 17, ______, to middle class Jewish parents, Elisabeth Elsa Einhorn an…
  80. Complete the sentence about John von Neumann with the correct year: On February 20, ______, Emperor Franz Joseph elevated John's father to the Hungarian nobility for his service to the Austro-Hungaria…
  81. Complete the sentence about John von Neumann with the correct year: Von Neumann entered the Lutheran Fasori Evangélikus Gimnázium in ______.
  82. Complete the sentence about Edward Teller with the correct year: Born in Austria-Hungary in ______, Teller emigrated to the US in the 1930s, one of the many so-called "Martians", a group of Hungarian…
  83. Complete the sentence about Edward Teller with the correct year: Ede Teller was born on January 15, ______, in Budapest, then part of Austria-Hungary, into a Jewish family.
  84. Complete the sentence about Edward Teller with the correct year: Teller left Hungary for Germany in ______, partly due to the discriminatory numerus clausus rule under Miklós Horthy's regime.
  85. Complete the sentence about Edward Teller with the correct year: In ______, while still a student at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, he fell under a streetcar and his right foot was nearly…
  86. Complete the sentence about Leo Szilard with the correct year: After Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany in ______, Szilard urged his family and friends to flee Europe while they still could.
  87. Complete the sentence about Leo Szilard with the correct year: Together with Enrico Fermi, he applied for a nuclear reactor patent in ______.
  88. Complete the sentence about Theodore von Kármán with the correct year: In ______ he accepted a position as director of the Aeronautical Institute at RWTH Aachen University, a leading German university…
  89. Complete the sentence about Ányos Jedlik with the correct year: In ______ he became a Benedictine, and from that time continued his studies at the schools of that order, where he was known by his Lati…
  90. Complete the sentence about Ányos Jedlik with the correct year: In ______, the Benedictine Order decided that he should teach at the grammar school of Győr, and later at the Physics Department of the…
  91. Complete the sentence about Ányos Jedlik with the correct year: From ______, he was appointed professor of physics-mechanics at the Budapest University of Sciences.
  92. Complete the sentence about Ernő Rubik with the correct year: By ______, Rubik's Cube was marketed throughout the world, and over 100 million authorized units were sold, mostly during its subsequent t…
  93. Complete the sentence about Ernő Rubik with the correct year: Following his cube's popularity, Rubik opened a studio to develop designs in ______; among its products was another popular puzzle toy, Ru…
  94. Complete the sentence about Ernő Rubik with the correct year: Ernő Rubik was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 13 July ______, during World War II, and has lived all of his life in Hungary.
  95. Complete the sentence about Rubik's Cube with the correct year: The Rubik's Cube was inducted into the US National Toy Hall of Fame in ______.
  96. Complete the sentence about George Soros with the correct year: Born in Budapest to a Jewish family, Soros survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary as a teenager and moved to the United Kingdom in ____…
  97. Complete the sentence about George Soros with the correct year: Soros started his career working in British and American merchant banks, before setting up his first hedge fund, Double Eagle, in ______…
  98. Complete the sentence about George Soros with the correct year: Profits from this fund provided the seed money for Soros Fund Management, his second hedge fund, in ______.
  99. Complete the sentence about George Soros with the correct year: At its founding, Quantum Fund had $12 million in assets under management, and as of ______ it had $25 billion, the majority of Soros's o…
  100. Complete the sentence about Harry Houdini with the correct year: In ______, thousands watched as Houdini tried to escape from special handcuffs commissioned by London's Daily Mirror, keeping them in s…

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