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  1. Complete the sentence about Peter Prevc with the correct year: In ______, in Planica, Prevc became one of the few ski jumpers in history to achieve a "perfect jump", with all five judges awarding him…
  2. Complete the sentence about Maribor with the correct year: Maribor, along with the Portuguese city of Guimarães, was selected as the European Capital of Culture for ______.
  3. Complete the sentence about Melania Trump with the correct year: Trump worked to get Knauss more modeling jobs, and she supported him during his ______ presidential campaign.
  4. Complete the sentence about Borut Pahor with the correct year: In November ______, Pahor was re-elected for a second term against Marjan Šarec.
  5. Complete the sentence about Slavko Avsenik with the correct year: Slavko Avsenik was born on November 26, ______ in the village of Begunje na Gorenjskem, municipality of Radovljica, in the Upper Carni…
  6. Complete the sentence about Slavko Avsenik with the correct year: In ______, the band landed a recording contract with Telefunken-Decca.
  7. Complete the sentence about Laibach with the correct year: After Slovenia became independent in ______, Laibach's status in the country has turned from rejection by a part of the public to promotion i…
  8. Complete the sentence about Laibach with the correct year: Laibach evolved from the band Salto Mortale, formed by Dejan Knez in ______ in the mining industry town of Trbovlje.
  9. Complete the sentence about Anja Rupel with the correct year: In ______, she sang The Beatles' anthem, Across the Universe and was the first Slovene to be featured on MTV.
  10. Complete the sentence about Anja Rupel with the correct year: On 11 October ______, she gave birth to a daughter named Luna.
  11. Complete the sentence about Alenka Gotar with the correct year: Alenka Gotar is a Slovene soprano singer, born in Rodica in ______.
  12. Complete the sentence about Alenka Gotar with the correct year: In Helsinki, during the semi-final on 10 May ______, Alenka sang "Cvet z juga" and progressed to the finals, where she placed 15th with…
  13. Complete the sentence about Alenka Gotar with the correct year: In the festival Europäische Musikmonat ______ in Basel, she sang the soprano role in the opera Skamander, by the Swiss composer Beato Gy…
  14. Complete the sentence about Alenka Gotar with the correct year: In ______, Alenka worked with the well known composer György Kurtag for the Swiss radio DRC3.
  15. Complete the sentence about Slovenian literature with the correct year: The first printed books in Slovene were Catechismus and Abecedarium, written by the Protestant reformer Primož Trubar in ______…
  16. Complete the sentence about Boris Pahor with the correct year: Following Dachau, he was relocated three more times: to Mittelbau-Dora, to Harzungen, and finally to Bergen-Belsen, which was liberated o…
  17. Complete the sentence about Boris Pahor with the correct year: Following the death of Marko Feingold on 19 September ______, he became the oldest living survivor of the Holocaust.
  18. Complete the sentence about Boris Pahor with the correct year: After the annexation, and even more after Benito Mussolini came to power in ______, the forced Fascist Italianization of the Slovene mino…
  19. Complete the sentence about Boris Pahor with the correct year: In ______, he established contact with the Slovenian personalist poet and thinker Edvard Kocbek.
  20. Complete the sentence about Boris Pahor with the correct year: In ______, Pahor was drafted into the Italian army and sent to fight in Libya.
  21. Complete the sentence about Boris Pahor with the correct year: In ______, he was transferred to Lombardy, where he worked as a military translator.
  22. Complete the sentence about Alojz Rebula with the correct year: In ______, he moved back to Italy because of the pressures of the Communist regime.
  23. Complete the sentence about Alojz Rebula with the correct year: In ______, he was banned from entering Yugoslavia because of his political opposition to the Communist system.
  24. Complete the sentence about Alojz Rebula with the correct year: In ______ Rebula obtained his PhD from the University of Rome with the thesis Dante's Divine Comedy in Slovene Translations.
  25. Complete the sentence about Dimitrij Rupel with the correct year: In the elections of ______, the new party suffered a defeat, but Rupel managed to be elected a representative in the National Assembly…
  26. Complete the sentence about Dimitrij Rupel with the correct year: In ______, most of Rupel's party merged into the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia party, led by Janez Drnovšek.
  27. Complete the sentence about Dimitrij Rupel with the correct year: Rupel returned to the post of the foreign minister of Slovenia in ______ in the third cabinet of Janez Drnovšek.
  28. Complete the sentence about Ivan Tavčar with the correct year: In ______, he married Franja Košenini, who later became the leading figure in the Slovene women's associations at the time.
  29. Complete the sentence about Ivan Tavčar with the correct year: Tavčar remained in office as the mayor of Ljubljana until ______, when he withdrew from public life after being diagnosed with colorectal…
  30. Complete the sentence about Ivan Tavčar with the correct year: After ______, Tavčar became a staunch supporter of Yugoslav unitarism; that is, the merger of the Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs into one Yu…
  31. Complete the sentence about Fran Saleški Finžgar with the correct year: The ethnologist Janez Bogataj, whose mother was Finžgar's niece, spent his first 15 years in Finžgar's company and arranged his…
  32. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Slovenia declared its independence from Yugoslavia on June 25, ______.
  33. Complete the sentence about Anton Ažbe with the correct year: In ______, he relocated to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, then a "liberal" and "modern" school as opposed to the conservative Viennes…
  34. Complete the sentence about Anton Ažbe with the correct year: In ______, Vesel and Rihard Jakopič offered Ažbe the informal job of examining and correcting the students' paintings.
  35. Complete the sentence about Zoran Mušič with the correct year: Mušič's father was mobilized in ______ and served on various battlefields during the First World War.
  36. Complete the sentence about Zoran Mušič with the correct year: Mušič attended two high schools in Maribor until September ______.
  37. Complete the sentence about Zoran Mušič with the correct year: After graduating in ______, he travelled extensively around Europe.
  38. Complete the sentence about Zoran Mušič with the correct year: In October ______, he moved to Trieste and for some weeks for the first time to Venice.
  39. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, he was later sent to the Gonars concentration camp.
  40. Complete the sentence about Jakob Savinšek with the correct year: The first collections of his poems was published in ______ by the literary magazine KUD Logos, edited by the philosopher Gorazd Kocija…
  41. Complete the sentence about Slovenian Philharmonic with the correct year: The roots of the orchestra go back to ______, to the founding of the Academia Philharmonicorum, which performed oratorios and…
  42. Complete the sentence about Cankarjev Dom with the correct year: In front of the building stands a monument to Ivan Cankar, designed in ______ by the sculptor Slavko Tihec.
  43. Complete the sentence about Ljubljana Festival with the correct year: Founded in ______, it is the oldest festival in the country and one of the long-established summer festivals in Europe.
  44. Complete the sentence about Kurentovanje with the correct year: In ______ proclaimed as the 7th largest carnival in the world by Lonely Planet.
  45. Complete the sentence about Kurentovanje with the correct year: As the host of the festival, the town of Ptuj was admitted into the Federation of European Carnival Cities in ______.
  46. Complete the sentence about Kurentovanje with the correct year: The idea of an organized carnival in Ptuj was born in ______, when the carnival was organised by Svoboda, accompanied by a brass band, i…
  47. Complete the sentence about Idrija lace with the correct year: On August 10, ______, Idrija lace was registered under protected geographical indication by the Slovenian Intellectual Property Office in…
  48. Complete the sentence about Idrija lace with the correct year: Idrija lace became famous all over the world when Franc Lapajne started a lace trading business in ______ and successfully exported laces…
  49. Complete the sentence about Idrija lace with the correct year: In ______ the Idrija Lace School was opened by Ivanka Ferjančič and other lacemakers.
  50. Complete the sentence about Anže Kopitar with the correct year: Internationally, Kopitar represented the Slovenian national team in several junior and senior tournaments, as well as at the ______ Wint…
  51. Complete the sentence about Anže Kopitar with the correct year: In ______, Kopitar began playing for the youth team of his hometown, HK Acroni Jesenice.
  52. Complete the sentence about Slovenia national ice hockey team with the correct year: The team's biggest success is reaching the quarter-finals at the ______ Winter Olympics.
  53. Complete the sentence about Slovenia national ice hockey team with the correct year: Slovenia declared independence from Yugoslavia in ______, and joined the International Ice Hockey Federation the fo…
  54. Complete the sentence about Goran Dragić with the correct year: Nicknamed "the Dragon", he played professional basketball in Slovenia and Spain before entering the NBA in ______.
  55. Complete the sentence about Goran Dragić with the correct year: Dragić made his debut in ______, at the age of 17, in the Slovenian minor league with KK Ilirija.
  56. Complete the sentence about Goran Dragić with the correct year: After spending two years with Slovan, Dragic transferred to the Spanish ACB League club Saski Baskonia, who loaned him to the Spanish cl…
  57. Complete the sentence about Goran Dragić with the correct year: Dragić entered the ______ NBA draft, where he was selected in the second round, 45th overall, by the San Antonio Spurs.
  58. Complete the sentence about Slovenia men's national basketball team with the correct year: Before Slovenia's independence in ______, Slovenian players represented Yugoslavia.
  59. Complete the sentence about Slovenia at the Olympics with the correct year: Slovenian athletes first competed at the Olympics in Stockholm, at the ______ Summer Olympics, as part of the Austrian team.
  60. Complete the sentence about Slovenia at the Olympics with the correct year: The most successful winter games were the ______ Winter Olympics, where Slovenian athletes won a record eight medals, includ…
  61. Complete the sentence about Tina Maze with the correct year: Maze made her World Cup debut at age 15 in Slovenia in January ______, in a giant slalom race at Maribor.
  62. Complete the sentence about Nika Prevc with the correct year: Prevc made her official ski jumping debut on 5 August ______, at the age of 13, at the FIS Ski Jumping Alpen Cup competition in Klingentha…
  63. Complete the sentence about Nika Prevc with the correct year: In February ______, she finished on the World Cup podium for the first time after finishing third in Hinzenbach.
  64. Complete the sentence about Domen Prevc with the correct year: Prevc competed in the ______ European Youth Olympic Winter Festival.
  65. Complete the sentence about Matej Mohorič with the correct year: Born on 19 October ______, in Kranj, Slovenia, Mohorič currently resides in Šenčur, Slovenia.
  66. Complete the sentence about Matej Mohorič with the correct year: Mohorič secured his first Grand Tour stage win when he soloed to victory in Stage 7 of the ______ Vuelta a España.
  67. Complete the sentence about Slovenian PrvaLiga with the correct year: The competition was founded in ______, after Slovenia became an independent country.
  68. Complete the sentence about Slovenian PrvaLiga with the correct year: Celje and Maribor are the only two founding clubs that have never been relegated from the league since its foundation in ______.
  69. Complete the sentence about NK Maribor with the correct year: Prior to Slovenia's independence in ______, Maribor played in the Yugoslav football system.
  70. Complete the sentence about NK Maribor with the correct year: Nogometni klub Maribor was founded on 12 December ______ by officials and players of NK Branik Maribor, a club that folded a few months ea…
  71. Complete the sentence about NK Olimpija Ljubljana with the correct year: Olimpija Ljubljana was founded on 2 March ______ as NK Bežigrad, and was renamed NK Olimpija Bežigrad during their third season…
  72. Complete the sentence about Telekom Slovenije with the correct year: In ______ PTT Slovenija separated postal and telecommunication activities and transferred all telecommunication infrastructure to t…
  73. Complete the sentence about Telekom Slovenije with the correct year: In ______ the channel was sold to the Hungarian media group TV2 Csoport owned by József Vida.
  74. Complete the sentence about Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport with the correct year: Regular flights from the new airport at Brnik began in January ______.
  75. Complete the sentence about Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport with the correct year: On 27 June ______, two days after Slovenia's Independence from Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav People's Army began its militar…
  76. Complete the sentence about Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport with the correct year: On 8 December ______, the airport received its first annual millionth passenger.
  77. Complete the sentence about Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport with the correct year: In ______, the right-wing government proposed renaming the airport from Aerodrom Ljubljana to Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Air…
  78. Complete the sentence about Port of Koper with the correct year: In ______, Koper was absorbed by the Venetian Republic, and developed into the pre-eminent commercial and administrative centre of Istr…
  79. Complete the sentence about Port of Koper with the correct year: Following the fall of Venice in ______, the entire region was absorbed into the Habsburg monarchy, and, for a short while, Koper was kn…
  80. Complete the sentence about Port of Koper with the correct year: When Trieste and Rijeka were proclaimed as free ports in ______, Koper's status, trade, and influence began to ebb.
  81. Complete the sentence about Port of Koper with the correct year: Koper's maritime and commercial stagnation continued, first under Habsburg rule, and then after ______ under the Italian rule.
  82. Complete the sentence about Slovenian Army with the correct year: The Slovenian Armed Forces were formally established in ______ as a reorganization of the TORS.
  83. Which place completes this sentence about Slavko Avsenik? Slavko Avsenik was born on November 26, 1929 in the village of Begunje na Gorenjskem, municipality of ______, in the Upper Carniola region of…
  84. Which place completes this sentence about Laibach? Laibach evolved from the band Salto Mortale, formed by Dejan Knez in 1978 in the mining industry town of ______.
  85. Which place completes this sentence about Anže Kopitar? Kopitar played junior hockey for his hometown team HK Acroni ______ before moving to Sweden at age 16 to play in a more competitive league.
  86. Which place completes this sentence about Anže Kopitar? In 2002, Kopitar began playing for the youth team of his hometown, HK Acroni ______.
  87. Which place completes this sentence about Velenje? The name ______ was restored in 1990, just before the declaration of Slovenian independence in 1991.
  88. Which place completes this sentence about Velenje? The ______ Cultural Center, in the northwestern part of the square, was built in 1959 according to plans by Oton Gaspari, and opened in November 1960…
  89. Which place completes this sentence about Portorož? In the early 20th century ______ became one of the grandest seaside resorts in the Adriatic, along with Opatija, Lido and Grado, then as part of the…
  90. Which place completes this sentence about Portorož? The settlement and its surrounding areas are served by ______ International Airport which is located in the nearby village of Sečovlje.
  91. Which place completes this sentence about Portorož? The Slovene name ______ is borrowed from Italian Portorose, literally 'port of roses', which was recorded in the 12th century as Porto di rose.
  92. Which place completes this sentence about Krka? Krka was built on a long tradition of pharmacy in the ______ area.
  93. Which place completes this sentence about Gorenje? The first two models were only assembled in ______, as all parts and components came from Italy.
  94. Which place completes this sentence about Idrija? The Marof hydroelectric plant is located on the Idrijca River on the northern outskirts of ______, between Marof and Mokraška Vas.
  95. Which place completes this sentence about Idrija? In March 1511, it was affected by the forceful 1511 ______ earthquake.
  96. Which place completes this sentence about Idrija? In the 18th century, ______ gained the rights of a market town.
  97. Which place completes this sentence about Idrija lace? On August 10, 2000, ______ lace was registered under protected geographical indication by the Slovenian Intellectual Property Office in Ljubljana…
  98. Which place completes this sentence about Idrija lace? Lacemaking trade began at the end of the 17th century when miners started to lose work in the ______ Mercury Mine.

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