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  1. Complete the sentence about Lithuanian cuisine with the correct year: In the sale contract made in ______ by Elisabeth Sophie von Brandenburg, wife of Jonušas Radvila and Jonušas Kiška, she sold a gar…
  2. Complete the sentence about Cepelinai with the correct year: Originally called didžkukuliai, or dumb-bells, they were renamed modishly in honour of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, pioneer of the rigid a…
  3. Complete the sentence about Šaltibarščiai with the correct year: One of his later books, published in Vilnius in ______, included chłodnik among the characteristic dishes of the region.
  4. Complete the sentence about Šaltibarščiai with the correct year: In Wincenta Zawadzka's Kucharka litewska, first published in Vilnius in ______, cold beet soup appears as a local regional specialty.
  5. Complete the sentence about Švyturys with the correct year: The latter received an award in the Klaipėda International Business Fair back in ______.
  6. Complete the sentence about Sutartinės with the correct year: The tradition of mass Song Festivals was inscribed in the UNESCO list of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity in _…
  7. Complete the sentence about Sutartinės with the correct year: Recognizing their uniqueness and value, UNESCO inscribed sutartinės into the representative list of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intan…
  8. Complete the sentence about Sutartinės with the correct year: Johan Maletius is purported to have written down the first lament in ______, in a combination of the Belarusian and Lithuanian languages.
  9. Complete the sentence about Kanklės with the correct year: The word "kanklės" is first used in writing in ______ by Jonas Bretkūnas in his Bible translation.
  10. Complete the sentence about Kanklės with the correct year: Kanklės are taught at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre since ______.
  11. Complete the sentence about Kanklės with the correct year: In the 1960s they followed the lead of Latvian concert kokles which had first been constructed in ______.
  12. Complete the sentence about Lithuanian Song and Dance Festival with the correct year: The event has been a national celebration throughout the interwar and upon Lithuania regaining its independence in…
  13. Complete the sentence about Lithuanian Song and Dance Festival with the correct year: The 17 February ______ is recorded in history as the debut of the first Lithuanian choir.
  14. Complete the sentence about Lithuanian Song and Dance Festival with the correct year: On 6 June ______, the first Lithuanian Song Festival of Klaipėda Region took place. 12 choirs comprising 800 singe…
  15. Complete the sentence about Lithuanian Song and Dance Festival with the correct year: In ______, the Second Song Festival of Klaipėda was organized in Šilutė.
  16. Complete the sentence about Lithuanian National Philharmonic Society with the correct year: The society was designated a national cultural institution in July ______.
  17. Complete the sentence about Lithuanian National Philharmonic Society with the correct year: The Society's headquarters are a historic building in Vilnius Old Town, which previously was used to hold th…
  18. Complete the sentence about Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis with the correct year: For his graduation, in ______, he wrote a cantata for mixed chorus and symphonic orchestra titled De Profundis, and…
  19. Complete the sentence about Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre with the correct year: The first ballet, Léo Delibes' Coppélia, was performed on 4 December ______.
  20. Complete the sentence about Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre with the correct year: In ______, the Opera and Ballet Theatre moved from Kaunas into an existing theatre building on J.
  21. Complete the sentence about Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre with the correct year: On 1 July ______, the theatre was declared a national institution, and was officially renamed the Lithua…
  22. Complete the sentence about Jonas Mekas with the correct year: In ______, Mekas left Lithuania with his brother, Adolfas Mekas.
  23. Complete the sentence about Jonas Mekas with the correct year: By the end of ______ his brother and he had both secured sponsorship through a job in Chicago and emigrated to the United States.
  24. Complete the sentence about Czesław Miłosz with the correct year: Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the ______ Nobel Prize in Literature.
  25. Complete the sentence about Czesław Miłosz with the correct year: After World War I broke out in ______, Miłosz's father was conscripted into the Russian army, tasked with engineering roads and bridge…
  26. Complete the sentence about Czesław Miłosz with the correct year: Miłosz and his mother were sheltered in Vilnius when the German army captured it in ______.
  27. Complete the sentence about Romain Gary with the correct year: Training on Potez 25 and Goëland Léo-20 aircraft, and with 250 hours flying time, only after three months' delay was he made a sergeant o…
  28. Complete the sentence about Romain Gary with the correct year: Lightly wounded on 13 June ______ in a Bloch MB.210, he was disappointed with the armistice; after hearing General de Gaulle's radio appe…
  29. Complete the sentence about Romain Gary with the correct year: On 25 January ______, his pilot was temporarily blinded, and Gary talked him to the bombing target and back home, the third landing being…
  30. Complete the sentence about Emmanuel Levinas with the correct year: Levinas was born on 12 January ______, into a middle-class Litvak family in Kaunas, in present-day Lithuania, then Kovno district, a…
  31. Complete the sentence about Emmanuel Levinas with the correct year: Levinas began his philosophical studies at the University of Strasbourg in ______, and his lifelong friendship with the French philo…
  32. Complete the sentence about Emmanuel Levinas with the correct year: In ______, he went to the University of Freiburg for two semesters to study phenomenology under Edmund Husserl.
  33. Complete the sentence about Emmanuel Levinas with the correct year: During the German invasion of France in ______, his military unit was surrounded and forced to surrender.
  34. Complete the sentence about Marija Gimbutas with the correct year: In ______, Gimbutas settled with her parents in Kaunas, the temporary capital of Lithuania.
  35. Complete the sentence about Marija Gimbutas with the correct year: From ______, Gimbutas participated in ethnographic expeditions to record traditional folklore and studied Lithuanian beliefs and ritu…
  36. Complete the sentence about Algirdas Julien Greimas with the correct year: In July ______, he gave speeches urging Lithuanians to elect leaders who would vote in favor of annexation by the Soviet Unio…
  37. Complete the sentence about Algirdas Julien Greimas with the correct year: In March ______, Greimas's friend, Vladas Pauža, a boy scout and fellow teacher, enlisted him in the Lithuanian Activist Fron…
  38. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Nazi Germany's invading forces entered Šiauliai on 26 June ______.
  39. Complete the sentence about Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas with the correct year: In ______, Mykolaitis enrolled to the Sejny Priest Seminary, after few years he published his first poem.
  40. Complete the sentence about Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas with the correct year: In Saint Petersburg, Mykolaitis published his first collection of poems in ______.
  41. Complete the sentence about Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas with the correct year: After Saint Petersburg, Mykolaitis continued his studies at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and received doctoral…
  42. Complete the sentence about Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas with the correct year: The 3-part novel was published in ______ and caused a scandal in Lithuania as it described a priest doubting and eventually…
  43. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, he started to work at Vilnius University, there he became professor.
  44. Complete the sentence about Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas with the correct year: Mykolaitis died in ______ in Kačerginė near Kaunas and was buried in Rasos Cemetery, Vilnius.
  45. Complete the sentence about Maironis with the correct year: In ______, he entered the Kiev University to study literature.
  46. Complete the sentence about Kristijonas Donelaitis with the correct year: In ______, Donelaitis began attending the cathedral school in Kneiphof, a section of Königsberg.
  47. Complete the sentence about Kristijonas Donelaitis with the correct year: After graduation, he received a scholarship in ______ to study at the University of Königsberg.
  48. Complete the sentence about Kristijonas Donelaitis with the correct year: In ______, he passed the required examination to become a pastor in Tollmingkehmen.
  49. Complete the sentence about Antanas Baranauskas with the correct year: In ______, Karolina's family tried to separate the couple by sponsoring Baranauskas' entry into the Catholic Seminary of Varniai.
  50. Complete the sentence about Žemaitė with the correct year: In ______, she moved to Vilnius where she worked as an administrator and on the editorial staff of several publications, including Lietuvos ž…
  51. Complete the sentence about Ričardas Gavelis with the correct year: After completing high school in Druskininkai, he moved back to Vilnius to pursue a degree in theoretical physics, graduating in ____…
  52. Complete the sentence about Ričardas Gavelis with the correct year: Gavelis' grandfather was a pedantic farmer who mortgaged his farm immediately after inheriting it, after which he traveled to South…
  53. Complete the sentence about Ričardas Gavelis with the correct year: In ______, at the age of eleven, he and his parents moved to Druskininkai – both Gavelis' parents worked as teachers there previousl…
  54. Complete the sentence about Jurga Ivanauskaitė with the correct year: While studying at the Vilnius Art Academy, she wrote her first book, The Year of the Lilies of the Valley, published in ______.
  55. Complete the sentence about Ieva Simonaitytė with the correct year: Simonaitytė bought a summer house in Priekulė near Klaipėda in ______ and spent most of her summers there.
  56. Complete the sentence about Justinas Marcinkevičius with the correct year: Marcinkevičius was born in ______ in Važatkiemis, Prienai District.
  57. Complete the sentence about Justinas Marcinkevičius with the correct year: In ______, he graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of Vilnius University with a degree in Lithuanian language…
  58. Complete the sentence about Tomas Venclova with the correct year: In ______, following his dissident activities, he was forced to emigrate and was deprived of his Soviet citizenship.
  59. Complete the sentence about Tomas Venclova with the correct year: Since ______, he has taught Russian and Polish literature at Yale University.
  60. Complete the sentence about Tomas Venclova with the correct year: In Lithuania he was forbidden to publish his own work, except in samizdat, although one volume appeared in ______, entitled A Sign of…
  61. Complete the sentence about Ričardas Berankis with the correct year: In ______, Berankis dominated the U14 circuit of the Tennis Europe Junior Tour, winning six junior events, Leeuwarden, Piešťany, Ši…
  62. Complete the sentence about Šarūnas Marčiulionis with the correct year: In the ______ Summer Olympics, together with teammate Arvydas Sabonis, Marčiulionis led the senior USSR national team to the gol…
  63. Complete the sentence about Šarūnas Marčiulionis with the correct year: While Marčiulionis attended college, he rarely played basketball, but he eventually attracted a scout from Statyba, of the USSR…
  64. Complete the sentence about Šarūnas Marčiulionis with the correct year: During a ______ game against Athletes in Action, in Vilnius, Marčiulionis struck up a friendship with one of the opposing player…
  65. Complete the sentence about Jonas Valančiūnas with the correct year: Valančiūnas started playing professionally for Perlas in ______.
  66. Complete the sentence about Jonas Valančiūnas with the correct year: On 17 January ______, Valančiūnas finally moved to Lietuvos rytas.
  67. Complete the sentence about Domantas Sabonis with the correct year: Domantas was born on May 3, ______, in Portland, Oregon, when his father, Arvydas Sabonis, was playing for the Portland Trail Blazer…
  68. Complete the sentence about Domantas Sabonis with the correct year: In ______, Domantas' father retired from basketball, and whole family moved from Portland to Málaga, Spain.
  69. Complete the sentence about Lithuania at the Olympics with the correct year: In ______ Summer Olympics Lithuania had 12 representatives for 4 sports: 2 boxers, 4 cyclists, and 5 athletics and one weig…
  70. Complete the sentence about Lithuania at the Olympics with the correct year: In ______ Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Lithuania did not participate due to economic difficulties and political controve…
  71. Complete the sentence about Lithuania at the Olympics with the correct year: In ______ Summer Olympics in Berlin, Lithuania was not invited by Germany due to German territorial claims over Klaipėda re…
  72. Complete the sentence about Virgilijus Alekna with the correct year: Alekna was awarded the title of the Athlete of the Year for ______ by Track and Field News.
  73. Complete the sentence about Virgilijus Alekna with the correct year: Since ______ Alekna has served as a bodyguard of the Lithuanian Prime Minister.
  74. Complete the sentence about Virgilijus Alekna with the correct year: In ______ Alekna was awarded the European Athletics Lifetime Achievement award.
  75. Complete the sentence about Austra Skujytė with the correct year: On 15 April ______ in Columbia, Missouri, she broke the women's decathlon world record, with a score of 8358.
  76. Complete the sentence about Daina Gudzinevičiūtė with the correct year: Trap shooting for women was first introduced in the ______ Summer Olympics in Sydney.
  77. Complete the sentence about Rūta Meilutytė with the correct year: Meilutytė competed at the ______ World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona and achieved world records in the 50 and 100 metre breastst…
  78. Complete the sentence about Edgaras Ulanovas with the correct year: In ______, Ulanovas was named the LKL Finals MVP for a second time in his career.
  79. Complete the sentence about Edgaras Ulanovas with the correct year: On 9 July ______, Ulanovas transferred to the Turkish EuroLeague powerhouse Fenerbahçe, after a full decade with Žalgiris.
  80. Complete the sentence about Lithuanian Football Federation with the correct year: LFF became a member of FIFA in ______, but following Lithuania's annexation by the Soviet Union it was disbanded.
  81. Complete the sentence about FK Žalgiris with the correct year: The club is thought to have been founded in ______ when it was moved from Kaunas to Vilnius and its name was changed to Dinamo Vilnius.
  82. Complete the sentence about FK Žalgiris with the correct year: The next year club changed its name to Spartakas Vilnius and used this name until the end of ______ season.
  83. Complete the sentence about Vilnius Airport with the correct year: The airport resumed its activity as a civil airport as of 17 July ______.
  84. Complete the sentence about Vilnius Airport with the correct year: At one point, airBaltic operated to 19 destinations from Vilnius but, in ______, the network covered only three destinations served b…
  85. Complete the sentence about Kaunas Airport with the correct year: Wizzair operated a Kaunas - Warsaw - London Luton route for a short period of time in ______.
  86. Complete the sentence about Kaunas Airport with the correct year: Two temporary terminals were in operation in ______, when Vilnius Airport was closed for reconstruction and flights transferred to Kau…
  87. Complete the sentence about Kaunas Airport with the correct year: LOT Polish Airlines started operating six weekly flights to Kaunas International from Warsaw Chopin Airport on 21 May ______.
  88. Complete the sentence about Kaunas Airport with the correct year: In ______, Kaunas Airport became the first airline's base in Eastern Europe and this resulted a more-than-doubled-route network expans…
  89. Complete the sentence about Klaipėda Port with the correct year: In August ______, it was announced that ~115 million euros will be invested in the infrastructure of offshore wind power plants in the…
  90. Complete the sentence about Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant with the correct year: The Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant contained two Soviet-designed RBMK-______ water-cooled graphite-moderated channel-type…
  91. Complete the sentence about Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant with the correct year: Originally, Unit 2 was scheduled for launch in ______, but its commissioning was postponed for a year because of the Che…
  92. Complete the sentence about Lietuvos Energija with the correct year: In ______, Lietuvos Energija bought Lithuanian wind park operators UAB Vejo Vatas and UAB Vejo Gusis with a 34-MW wind portfolio.
  93. Complete the sentence about Vilnius TV Tower with the correct year: Since ______ the tower has been decorated to look like a Christmas tree each Christmas season.
  94. Complete the sentence about Vilnius TV Tower with the correct year: During the ______ World Basketball Championship it was decorated with a large basketball net.
  95. Complete the sentence about Vilnius TV Tower with the correct year: Vilnius TV Tower became the biggest basketball hoop in the world during the ______ FIBA European Basketball Championship.
  96. Complete the sentence about Vilnius University Astronomical Observatory with the correct year: In ______, Poczobutt created a constellation entitled Taurus Poniatovii to honor Stanisław August Poniato…
  97. Complete the sentence about Kaunas University of Technology with the correct year: KTU traces its origins to the University of Lithuania, established in ______.
  98. Complete the sentence about Kaunas University of Technology with the correct year: The origins of the KTU go back to the University of Lithuania, which was established on 16 February ______.
  99. Complete the sentence about Kaunas University of Technology with the correct year: The university was renamed, Vytautas Magnus University on 8 June ______.
  100. Complete the sentence about Kaunas University of Technology with the correct year: The beginning of ______ saw the reorganization of the Vytautas Magnus University with The Faculties of Law and Humani…

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