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  1. Complete the sentence about Austrian German with the correct year: Until ______, the spoken standard in Austria was the Schönbrunner Deutsch, a sociolect spoken by the imperial Habsburg family and the…
  2. Complete the sentence about Wiener schnitzel with the correct year: The designation Wiener Schnitzel first appeared in the 19th century, with the first known mention in a cookbook from ______.
  3. Complete the sentence about Wiener schnitzel with the correct year: According to a tale, Field Marshal Joseph Radetzky von Radetz brought the recipe from Italy to Vienna in ______.
  4. Complete the sentence about Sachertorte with the correct year: In one story, Sacher invented Sachertorte in ______ for Metternich and his friends, at which point Sacher was 15 or 16 and in his second…
  5. Complete the sentence about Apple strudel with the correct year: The oldest known strudel recipe is from ______, a handwritten recipe housed at the Wienbibliothek im Rathaus.
  6. Complete the sentence about Grüner Veltliner with the correct year: The current name appeared in a document for the first time in ______; before that time it was known as Weißgipfler.
  7. Complete the sentence about Grüner Veltliner with the correct year: In recent years, Grüner Veltliner has seen an uptick in interest following the results of a ______ wine tasting organized by Masters…
  8. Complete the sentence about Grüner Veltliner with the correct year: Only when it was threatened to be ripped out in ______ additional samples were taken and later analyzed at Klosterneuburg.
  9. Complete the sentence about Austrian wine with the correct year: Rudolf IV introduced the first wine tax, Ungeld, in ______, as Vienna established itself as a centre for wine trading on the Danube.
  10. Complete the sentence about Almdudler with the correct year: Klein promoted the popularity of Almdudler through advertising and sponsoring at major sporting events, such as the ______ Winter Olympics…
  11. Complete the sentence about Almdudler with the correct year: Since ______, the Almdudler company only functions as a license supplier.
  12. Complete the sentence about Red Bull with the correct year: In ______, the two founded Red Bull GmbH in Fuschl am See, Salzburg, Austria.
  13. Complete the sentence about Red Bull with the correct year: In ______, Thai entrepreneur Chaleo Yoovidhya introduced a drink called Krating Daeng in Thailand, which means "red gaur" in English.
  14. Complete the sentence about Red Bull with the correct year: In ______, Mateschitz co-founded Red Bull GmbH with Chaleo and turned it into an international brand.
  15. Complete the sentence about Gösser with the correct year: Back in the Middle Ages, beer brewing was common at Göss Abbey in Styria, where a first brewmaster was documented in a ______ deed.
  16. Complete the sentence about Gösser with the correct year: In ______, Gösser with Brau Union was taken over by Heineken International Zoeterwoude.
  17. Complete the sentence about Gösser with the correct year: The Spezial is proudly noted by the company as having been served at the gala dinner at the signing of the ______ Austrian State Treaty.
  18. Complete the sentence about Schnapps with the correct year: Peppermint was among the first commercially available American schnapps, introduced by Minneapolis-based Ed Phillips & Sons in ______.
  19. Complete the sentence about Schnapps with the correct year: In ______, the first full year Peachtree schnapps was sold, its manufacturer moved 1.3 million cases.
  20. Complete the sentence about Salzburger Nockerl with the correct year: The character David Slater reminisces about the dish cooked by his ex-wife in the ______ film Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach.
  21. Complete the sentence about Linzer torte with the correct year: For a long time, the recipe from ______ in the Wiener Stadt- und Landesbibliothek was the oldest one known.
  22. Complete the sentence about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with the correct year: While he was visiting Vienna in ______, Mozart's quarrels with his Salzburg employers came to a head and he was dismissed.
  23. Complete the sentence about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with the correct year: First, there are about ______ pages of family letters, often vivid and entertaining, mostly written when travel separated Moz…
  24. Complete the sentence about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with the correct year: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on 27 January ______ to Leopold Mozart and Anna Maria, née Pertl, at Getreidegasse 9 in Salz…
  25. Complete the sentence about Joseph Haydn with the correct year: With the death of his patron Nikolaus Esterházy in ______, Haydn became free to travel, and augmented his fame as a performer before the…
  26. Complete the sentence about Joseph Haydn with the correct year: By ______, Haydn had matured physically to the point that he was no longer able to sing high choral parts.
  27. Complete the sentence about Franz Schubert with the correct year: In ______, Schubert was admitted to the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde as a performing member, which helped establish his name among th…
  28. Complete the sentence about Anton Bruckner with the correct year: After Bruckner received his confirmation in ______, Bruckner's father sent him to another school in Hörsching.
  29. Complete the sentence about Anton Bruckner with the correct year: Around ______ Bruckner wrote his first composition, a Pange lingua – one of the compositions which he revised at the end of his life.
  30. Complete the sentence about Anton Bruckner with the correct year: Bruckner's father died in ______, when Bruckner was 13 years old.
  31. Complete the sentence about Gustav Mahler with the correct year: The International Gustav Mahler Society was established in ______ to honour the composer's life and achievements.
  32. Complete the sentence about Gustav Mahler with the correct year: Two years later, on 7 July ______, their second son, Gustav, was born.
  33. Complete the sentence about Johann Strauss I with the correct year: Contrary to a story later told by his son Johann Strauss II, Strauss successfully completed his bookbinder apprenticeship in ______.
  34. Complete the sentence about Johann Strauss I with the correct year: Strauss became deputy conductor of the orchestra to assist Lanner in commissions after it became so popular during the Fasching of _…
  35. Complete the sentence about Johann Strauss I with the correct year: The conducting reins and management of this Strauss Orchestra would eventually be passed on to the hands of his sons until its disba…
  36. Complete the sentence about Johann Strauss I with the correct year: When her husband openly acknowledged his paternity of a daughter born to Emilie in ______, Anna sued for divorce.
  37. Complete the sentence about Arnold Schoenberg with the correct year: The Israel Conservatory and Academy of Music elected him honorary president in ______.
  38. Complete the sentence about Arnold Schoenberg with the correct year: While largely self-taught, Schoenberg began studying counterpoint with Alexander von Zemlinsky around ______.
  39. Complete the sentence about Arnold Schoenberg with the correct year: In ______, he converted to Lutheran Christianity, in keeping with patterns of Jewish assimilation of the time.
  40. Complete the sentence about Arnold Schoenberg with the correct year: Schoenberg married Zemlinsky's sister Mathilde in October ______.
  41. Complete the sentence about Alban Berg with the correct year: With Marie Scheuchl, a maid in the family estate of Berghof in Carinthia and fifteen years his senior, he fathered a daughter, Albine, bor…
  42. Complete the sentence about Alban Berg with the correct year: With little prior music education, Berg began studying counterpoint, music theory, and harmony under Arnold Schoenberg in October ______.
  43. Complete the sentence about Anton Webern with the correct year: By ______, he had close Jewish friends like fellow student Heinrich Jalowetz, likely altering his views.
  44. Complete the sentence about Franz Liszt with the correct year: Liszt's public debut in Vienna on 1 December ______ was a great success.
  45. Complete the sentence about Johannes Brahms with the correct year: In ______, Johann Jakob was appointed as a horn player in the Hamburg militia.
  46. Complete the sentence about Johannes Brahms with the correct year: From ______ he studied piano with Otto Friedrich Willibald Cossel.
  47. Complete the sentence about Antonio Salieri with the correct year: Antonio Salieri was born on 18 August ______ to Antonio Salieri and his wife, Anna Maria.
  48. Complete the sentence about Joseph Lanner with the correct year: The success of this string quartet led to its gradual expansion, and in ______ Lanner was able to conduct a small string orchestra play…
  49. Complete the sentence about Joseph Lanner with the correct year: Lanner succumbed to a typhus infection that racked Vienna in ______ and died at Döbling on Good Friday, 14 April, in the same year.
  50. Complete the sentence about Falco with the correct year: In ______, Hölzel began his schooling at a Roman Catholic public school; four years later, at age ten, he switched to the Rainergymnasium in Ma…
  51. Complete the sentence about Falco with the correct year: In May ______, he recorded demos and early sketches in a recording studio, from which a single was released posthumously 28 years later.
  52. Complete the sentence about Falco with the correct year: In ______, with his large ego interfering with group performances, Falco became a solo artist.
  53. Complete the sentence about Falco with the correct year: In ______, Falco brought his intended first single "Helden von heute" to manager Horst Bork, but received a lukewarm reception.
  54. Complete the sentence about Conchita Wurst with the correct year: Neuwirth was born on 6 November ______ in Gmunden and raised in the small town of Bad Mitterndorf, in the Styrian countryside in Austr…
  55. Complete the sentence about Udo Jürgens with the correct year: In ______, he won a composer contest organized by Austria's public broadcasting channel ORF with the song "Je t'aime".
  56. Complete the sentence about Udo Jürgens with the correct year: Jürgens' version alone sold over one million copies, and he was awarded a gold disc by Deutsche Vogue in ______.
  57. Complete the sentence about Udo Jürgens with the correct year: In ______, he invited The Supremes to appear as guests on his televised and recorded gala concert.
  58. Complete the sentence about Udo Jürgens with the correct year: In ______, he released a disco album entitled Udo '80, which spawned the hit single "Ich weiß was ich will".
  59. Complete the sentence about Arnold Schwarzenegger with the correct year: In ______, he was elected governor of California in a special recall election to replace Gray Davis.
  60. Complete the sentence about Waltz with the correct year: The French philosopher Michel de Montaigne wrote of a dance he saw in ______ in Augsburg, where the dancers held each other so closely that the…
  61. Complete the sentence about Waltz with the correct year: According to contemporary singer Michael Kelly, it reached England in ______.
  62. Complete the sentence about Waltz with the correct year: During the Napoleonic Wars, infantry soldiers of the King's German Legion introduced the dance to the people of Bexhill, Sussex, from ______.
  63. Complete the sentence about The Sound of Music with the correct year: The original Broadway production, starring Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel, opened in ______ and won five Tony Awards, including Be…
  64. Complete the sentence about The Sound of Music with the correct year: The first London production opened at the Palace Theatre in ______.
  65. Complete the sentence about The Sound of Music with the correct year: The real Maria and Georg married at the Nonnberg Abbey in ______.
  66. Complete the sentence about Vienna New Year's Concert with the correct year: The origin of this tradition stems from the New Year's Concert of ______, when the audience interrupted three pieces by ent…
  67. Complete the sentence about Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with the correct year: Cyprus and Serbia returned after a one-year absence, while the Czech Republic returned after its last participation in _…
  68. Complete the sentence about Sigmund Freud with the correct year: Auden's ______ poetic tribute to Freud describes him as "no more a person now but a whole climate of opinion / under whom we conduct ou…
  69. Complete the sentence about Gustav Klimt with the correct year: Gustav Klimt was born in Baumgarten, near Vienna, in the Austrian Empire on 14 July ______.
  70. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The family's struggles worsened in ______ when five-year-old Anna died after a long illness.
  71. Complete the sentence about Egon Schiele with the correct year: Egon Leo Adolf Ludwig Schiele was born on 12 June ______ in Tulln, Lower Austria.
  72. Complete the sentence about Egon Schiele with the correct year: In ______, Schiele sought out Gustav Klimt, who generously mentored younger artists.
  73. Complete the sentence about Egon Schiele with the correct year: In ______, Schiele had his first exhibition, in Klosterneuburg.
  74. Complete the sentence about Oskar Kokoschka with the correct year: Kokoschka entered a Realschule in ______, a type of secondary school, where emphasis was placed on the study of modern subjects such…
  75. Complete the sentence about Oskar Kokoschka with the correct year: In ______ Kokoschka was offered the opportunity of submitting works to the first Vienna Kunstschau.
  76. Complete the sentence about Friedensreich Hundertwasser with the correct year: In ______ Hundertwasser acquired a farm on the edge of Normandy.
  77. Complete the sentence about Friedensreich Hundertwasser with the correct year: Hundertwasser married Herta Leitner in ______ but they divorced two years later.
  78. Complete the sentence about Vienna Secession with the correct year: The movement took its name from Munich Secession movement that was founded in ______.
  79. Complete the sentence about Vienna Secession with the correct year: The 14th Secession exhibition in ______, designed by Josef Hoffmann and dedicated to Ludwig van Beethoven, was especially famous.
  80. Complete the sentence about Otto Wagner with the correct year: Beginning in ______, with his designs of Vienna Metro stations, his style became floral and Art Nouveau, with decoration by Koloman Moser…
  81. Complete the sentence about Otto Wagner with the correct year: In ______, at the age of 22, he joined the architectural firm of Ludwig von Förster, whose studio had designed much of the new architectu…
  82. Complete the sentence about Otto Wagner with the correct year: During this period, which lasted until about ______, he described his own style as "a sort of free Renaissance".
  83. Complete the sentence about Adolf Loos with the correct year: In ______, Loos began his studies at the Stiftsgymnasium Melk for only a few months after failing an exam.
  84. Complete the sentence about Adolf Loos with the correct year: Loos ultimately did not receive any academic degree due to his sporadic education pursuits, poor academics, and his enrollment in the Aust…
  85. Complete the sentence about Hans Hollein with the correct year: Hollein was born in Vienna, and graduated in ______ from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he studied in the master class of Clemen…
  86. Complete the sentence about Hans Hollein with the correct year: In ______ he exhibited, Architecture, along with Walter Pichler at Galerie nächst St.
  87. Complete the sentence about Hans Hollein with the correct year: Afterwards, he worked for various architectural firms in Sweden and the United States before returning to Vienna, founding his own offic…
  88. Complete the sentence about Hans Hollein with the correct year: In ______, Hollein designed a series of glasses for the American Optical Corps.
  89. Complete the sentence about Kunsthistorisches Museum with the correct year: The Kunsthistorisches Museum, insisted that it had owned the painting since the 17th century, and that the artwork seized by…
  90. Complete the sentence about Albertina with the correct year: When his grandson Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen lived there until his death in ______ it was called the Palais Erzherzog Albrecht.
  91. Complete the sentence about Wiener Werkstätte with the correct year: The enterprise evolved from the Vienna Secession, founded in ______ as a progressive alliance of artists and designers.
  92. Complete the sentence about Wiener Werkstätte with the correct year: The latter's cubist sculpture created in ______ marked a break into independence for many Viennese artists.
  93. Complete the sentence about Wiener Werkstätte with the correct year: Dresses by Eduard Josef Wimmer-Wisgrill inspired Paul Poiret's when the latter visited the Workshop's Berlin exhibition in ______.
  94. Complete the sentence about Wiener Werkstätte with the correct year: The Wiener Werkstatte had about 100 employees in ______, of whom 37 were masters of their trade.
  95. Complete the sentence about Stefan Zweig with the correct year: Zweig studied philosophy at the University of Vienna, and in ______ earned a doctoral degree with a thesis on "The Philosophy of Hippoly…
  96. Complete the sentence about Stefan Zweig with the correct year: In September ______, Zweig married his secretary Elisabet Charlotte "Lotte" Altmann in Bath, England.
  97. Complete the sentence about Stefan Zweig with the correct year: But England was not far enough away from the Nazi threat for Zweig; in ______ he and his second wife crossed the Atlantic to the United…
  98. Complete the sentence about Franz Kafka with the correct year: Valli was deported to the Łódź Ghetto in occupied Poland in ______, but that is the last documentation of her; it is assumed she did not…
  99. Complete the sentence about Franz Kafka with the correct year: In November ______, the family moved into a bigger apartment, even though Ellie and Valli had married and moved out of the first apartmen…
  100. Complete the sentence about Rainer Maria Rilke with the correct year: Rilke met and fell in love with the widely travelled and intellectual woman of letters Lou Andreas-Salomé in ______ in Munich.

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