Science, Arts and Culture

Science Arts And Culture

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  1. Complete the sentence about Robert Musil with the correct year: In March ______, Musil underwent treatment for syphilis with mercury ointment.
  2. Complete the sentence about Robert Musil with the correct year: During this time, his several years of relationship began with Hermine Dietz, the 'Tonka' of his own novel, published in ______.
  3. Complete the sentence about Robert Musil with the correct year: In ______, Musil visited Prague and met Franz Kafka, whose work he held in high esteem.
  4. Complete the sentence about Thomas Bernhard with the correct year: Thomas Bernhard was born on 9 February ______ in Heerlen, the Netherlands, where his unmarried Austrian mother, Herta Bernhard, worke…
  5. Complete the sentence about Thomas Bernhard with the correct year: In ______, Herta's parents moved with Thomas to Seekirchen, near Salzburg.
  6. Complete the sentence about Thomas Bernhard with the correct year: In ______, Herta married Emil Fabjan and the following year moved with him and Thomas to Traunstein, Bavaria, in Nazi Germany.
  7. Complete the sentence about Thomas Bernhard with the correct year: Herta's parents moved to the nearby village of Ettendorf in ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about Elfriede Jelinek with the correct year: The following year, in February and March ______, the Women's Project in New York staged the North American premiere of Jackie, one…
  9. Complete the sentence about Peter Handke with the correct year: In ______, he won the Georg Büchner Prize, the most important literary prize for German-language literature.
  10. Complete the sentence about Peter Handke with the correct year: In ______, as a protest against the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, Handke returned the prize money for the Büchner Prize to the German Acad…
  11. Complete the sentence about Peter Handke with the correct year: In ______, Handke was sent to the Catholic Marianum boys' boarding school at Tanzenberg Castle in Sankt Veit an der Glan.
  12. Complete the sentence about Ingeborg Bachmann with the correct year: In ______, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature by German philologist Harald Patzer.
  13. Complete the sentence about Ingeborg Bachmann with the correct year: After Bachmann's death in ______, Austrian writers such as Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke and Elfriede Jelinek continued the traditi…
  14. Complete the sentence about Arthur Schnitzler with the correct year: Schnitzler died on 21 October ______ in Vienna of a brain haemorrhage.
  15. Complete the sentence about Arthur Schnitzler with the correct year: Reigen was made into a French language film in ______ by the German-born director Max Ophüls as La Ronde.
  16. Complete the sentence about Franz Grillparzer with the correct year: Franz's father wished him to become a lawyer, and he entered the University of Vienna in ______ as a student of jurisprudence.
  17. Complete the sentence about Franz Grillparzer with the correct year: In ______, he unsuccessfully applied to the position of scribe at the Imperial Library, and later that same year, he was relocated…
  18. Complete the sentence about Franz Grillparzer with the correct year: Fortunately for him, his admirer Heinrich Laube became artistic director of Vienna's court theater in ______.
  19. Complete the sentence about Joseph Roth with the correct year: So, too, did the collapse in ______ of the Habsburg Empire, which marked the beginning of a pronounced sense of "homelessness" that was t…
  20. Complete the sentence about Joseph Roth with the correct year: In ______ he met Andrea Manga Bell, born in Hamburg and unhappily married to Alexandre Douala Manga Bell, Prince of Douala in Cameroon.
  21. Complete the sentence about Joseph Roth with the correct year: Being a prominent liberal Jewish journalist, Roth left Germany when Adolf Hitler became Reich Chancellor on 30 January ______.
  22. Complete the sentence about Hugo von Hofmannsthal with the correct year: In ______ Hofmannsthal met the composer Richard Strauss for the first time.
  23. Complete the sentence about Hugo von Hofmannsthal with the correct year: In ______ he adapted the 15th century English morality play Everyman as Jedermann, and Einar Nilson wrote the music for it.
  24. Complete the sentence about Hugo von Hofmannsthal with the correct year: In ______, Hofmannsthal, along with Max Reinhardt, founded the Salzburg Festival.
  25. Complete the sentence about Bertha von Suttner with the correct year: Bertha's mother and aunt, regarding themselves as clairvoyant, went to gamble at Wiesbaden in the summer of ______, hoping to retu…
  26. Complete the sentence about Bertha von Suttner with the correct year: In ______, the family spent the summer at Bad Homburg, a fashionable gambling destination among the aristocracy of the era.
  27. Complete the sentence about Erwin Schrödinger with the correct year: Schrödinger shared the ______ Nobel Prize in Physics with Paul Dirac "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory".
  28. Complete the sentence about Erwin Schrödinger with the correct year: In ______, he succeeded Max Planck at the University of Berlin.
  29. Complete the sentence about Lise Meitner with the correct year: After completing her doctoral research in ______, Meitner became the second woman to earn a doctorate in physics from the University of…
  30. Complete the sentence about Lise Meitner with the correct year: On 13 January ______, Frisch replicated the process Hahn and Strassmann had observed.
  31. Complete the sentence about Lise Meitner with the correct year: In Meitner and Frisch's report in the February ______ issue of Nature, they gave the process the name "fission".
  32. Complete the sentence about Ludwig Boltzmann with the correct year: Starting in ______, Boltzmann studied mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna.
  33. Complete the sentence about Ludwig Boltzmann with the correct year: In ______, long before women were admitted to Austrian universities, he met Henriette von Aigentler, an aspiring teacher of mathemat…
  34. Complete the sentence about Christian Doppler with the correct year: Upon his recommendation, Doppler took a break from high school to attend the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna in ______.
  35. Complete the sentence about Christian Doppler with the correct year: Doppler returned to Salzburg in ______ to finish his secondary education.
  36. Complete the sentence about Christian Doppler with the correct year: In ______, he was chosen for an assistant position to Professor Adam von Burg at the Polytechnic Institute of Vienna, where he cont…
  37. Complete the sentence about Christian Doppler with the correct year: In ______, he decided to immigrate to the United States to pursue a position in academia.
  38. Complete the sentence about Christian Doppler with the correct year: In ______, Doppler married Mathilde Sturm, the daughter of goldsmith Franz Sturm.
  39. Complete the sentence about Christian Doppler with the correct year: Doppler's research was interrupted by the Hungarian Revolution of ______.
  40. Complete the sentence about Gregor Mendel with the correct year: Erich von Tschermak, Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns independently verified several of Mendel's experimental findings in ______, usherin…
  41. Complete the sentence about Wolfgang Pauli with the correct year: To preserve the conservation of energy in beta decay, Pauli proposed the existence of a small neutral particle, dubbed the "neutrino"…
  42. Complete the sentence about Wolfgang Pauli with the correct year: Pauli attended the Döblinger-Gymnasium in Vienna, graduating with distinction in ______.
  43. Complete the sentence about Wolfgang Pauli with the correct year: In ______, Pauli was appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.
  44. Complete the sentence about Kurt Gödel with the correct year: Born into a wealthy German-speaking family in Brno, Gödel emigrated to the United States in ______ to escape the rise of Nazi Germany.
  45. Complete the sentence about Kurt Gödel with the correct year: In February ______, he was granted release from his Czechoslovak citizenship and then, in April, granted Austrian citizenship.
  46. Complete the sentence about Kurt Gödel with the correct year: When Germany annexed Austria in ______, Gödel automatically became a German citizen at age 32.
  47. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, after World War II, at age 42, he became a U.S. citizen.
  48. Complete the sentence about Ludwig Wittgenstein with the correct year: The first and best-known of this posthumous series is the ______ book Philosophical Investigations.
  49. Complete the sentence about Karl Popper with the correct year: In ______, Popper became attracted by Marxism and subsequently joined the Association of Socialist School Students.
  50. Complete the sentence about Friedrich Hayek with the correct year: Hayek was appointed a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in ______ for his academic contributions to economics.
  51. Complete the sentence about Konrad Lorenz with the correct year: In ______, he met Tinbergen, and the two collaborated in developing ethology as a separate sub-discipline of biology.
  52. Complete the sentence about Konrad Lorenz with the correct year: Lorenz's work was interrupted by the onset of World War II, and in ______ he was recruited into the German Army as a medic.
  53. Complete the sentence about Konrad Lorenz with the correct year: In ______, he was sent to the Eastern Front, where he was captured by the Soviet Red Army and spent four years as a German prisoner of…
  54. Complete the sentence about Karl von Frisch with the correct year: In ______ he went to Rostock University as a professor of zoology and director of an institute.
  55. Complete the sentence about Karl von Frisch with the correct year: Karl Ritter von Frisch married Margarete, née Mohr, who died in ______.
  56. Complete the sentence about Max Perutz with the correct year: Overcoming his parents' objections he enrolled as a chemistry undergraduate at the University of Vienna and completed his degree in ______…
  57. Complete the sentence about Max Perutz with the correct year: When Hitler took over Austria in ______, Perutz's parents managed to escape to Switzerland, but they had lost all of their money.
  58. Complete the sentence about Max Perutz with the correct year: Perutz's new unit attracted researchers who realised that the field of molecular biology had great promise; among them were Francis Crick…
  59. Complete the sentence about Anton Zeilinger with the correct year: Anton Zeilinger was born in ______ in Ried im Innkreis, Upper Austria, Austria.
  60. Complete the sentence about Anton Zeilinger with the correct year: Zeilinger became professor emeritus at the University of Vienna in ______.
  61. Complete the sentence about Ferdinand Porsche with the correct year: In ______, either Adolf Hitler or Joseph Goebbels made Porsche a naturalized German citizen.
  62. Complete the sentence about Ferdinand Porsche with the correct year: Jakob Lohner had begun construction of automobiles in ______ under Ludwig Lohner in the trans-Danubian suburb of Floridsdorf.
  63. Complete the sentence about Ferdinand Porsche with the correct year: Though over 300 Lohner-Porsche chassis were sold up to ______, most of them were two-wheel drive; either front- or rear-wheel drive…
  64. Complete the sentence about Viktor Frankl with the correct year: After graduation from high school in ______, he studied medicine at the University of Vienna.
  65. Complete the sentence about Viktor Frankl with the correct year: In ______, Frankl's first scientific paper was published in the Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse.
  66. Complete the sentence about Viktor Frankl with the correct year: After earning his M.D. in ______, Frankl gained extensive experience at Steinhof Psychiatric Hospital, where he was responsible for the…
  67. Complete the sentence about Viktor Frankl with the correct year: In ______, he joined Rothschild Hospital, the only hospital in Vienna still admitting Jews, as head of the neurology department.
  68. Complete the sentence about Alfred Adler with the correct year: A Review of General Psychology survey, published in ______, ranked Adler as the 67th most eminent psychologist of the 20th century.
  69. Complete the sentence about Alfred Adler with the correct year: After graduating from the University of Vienna in ______, specialized as an eye doctor, and later in neurology and psychiatry.
  70. Complete the sentence about Martin Buber with the correct year: In ______, he joined the Zionist movement, participating in congresses and organizational work.
  71. Complete the sentence about Niki Lauda with the correct year: Lauda moved to BRM for the ______ season, scoring his maiden points finish in Belgium and earning a seat with Ferrari the following year a…
  72. Complete the sentence about Niki Lauda with the correct year: After winning five Grands Prix in his ______ campaign, Lauda won his first title, becoming the first Ferrari-powered World Drivers' Champi…
  73. Complete the sentence about Niki Lauda with the correct year: Lauda remained at Ferrari in ______, winning several races on the way to his second championship and clinching the title at the United Sta…
  74. Complete the sentence about Jochen Rindt with the correct year: In endurance racing, Rindt won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in ______ with NART.
  75. Complete the sentence about Jochen Rindt with the correct year: Born in Germany and raised in Austria, Rindt started motor racing in ______.
  76. Complete the sentence about Jochen Rindt with the correct year: Switching to single-seaters in ______, he was successful in both Formula Junior and Formula Two.
  77. Complete the sentence about Gerhard Berger with the correct year: Berger retired in ______ with ten wins, 12 pole positions, 21 fastest laps and 48 podiums in Formula One.
  78. Complete the sentence about Gerhard Berger with the correct year: Berger, a multiple race winner in European Formula Three, moved up to Formula One in ______ driving for the ATS team.
  79. Complete the sentence about Gerhard Berger with the correct year: A week after the ______ season ended, he was driving home in his BMW 323i through the hills above Salzburg.
  80. Complete the sentence about Toto Wolff with the correct year: Torger Christian Wolff was born on 12 January ______ in Vienna to a Polish mother and a Romanian father.
  81. Complete the sentence about Toto Wolff with the correct year: Since ______, Wolff has concentrated on strategic investments in medium-sized industrial and listed companies.
  82. Complete the sentence about Dietrich Mateschitz with the correct year: Mateschitz was born on 20 May ______, in Sankt Marein im Mürztal, Styria, Austria, to a family of Slovene-Styrian or Croatian anc…
  83. Complete the sentence about Franz Klammer with the correct year: Klammer first showed signs of promise in the second half of the ______ World Cup season, finishing second in the St.
  84. Complete the sentence about Hermann Maier with the correct year: Maier made his World Cup debut at age 23 on 10 February ______, and finished 26th in the giant slalom at Hinterstoder, Austria.
  85. Complete the sentence about Hermann Maier with the correct year: A year later in February ______, he won his first World Cup event – a super-G race in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
  86. Complete the sentence about Toni Sailer with the correct year: At age 20, he won all three gold medals in alpine skiing at the ______ Winter Olympics.
  87. Complete the sentence about Toni Sailer with the correct year: A phenomenon as a teenager, he won the downhill and combined at the Grand Prix at Megève in ______ at age 16.
  88. Complete the sentence about Toni Sailer with the correct year: Through ______, Sailer remains the youngest male gold medalist in Olympic alpine skiing.
  89. Complete the sentence about Karl Schranz with the correct year: At age 18, he won the first of three consecutive Arlberg-Kandahar downhill and combined titles at Chamonix in March ______.
  90. Complete the sentence about Thomas Muster with the correct year: Muster won 44 ATP Tour-level singles titles, including the ______ French Open and eight Masters titles.
  91. Complete the sentence about Thomas Muster with the correct year: Muster first came to prominence when he reached the final of the French Open junior tournament and the Orange Bowl juniors tournament i…
  92. Complete the sentence about Thomas Muster with the correct year: In ______, he played his first match for Austria in the Davis Cup.
  93. Complete the sentence about Thomas Muster with the correct year: Muster won his first top-level tournament at the Dutch Open in Hilversum in ______.
  94. Complete the sentence about Dominic Thiem with the correct year: Thiem reached his first major semifinal at the ______ French Open.
  95. Complete the sentence about Gregor Schlierenzauer with the correct year: Gregor Schlierenzauer was born on 7 January ______ in Innsbruck, Tyrol, to Paul and Angelika Schlierenzauer.
  96. Complete the sentence about Gregor Schlierenzauer with the correct year: Schlierenzauer began competing professionally in the ______/06 season in the Continental Cup, then only fifteen years old.
  97. Complete the sentence about Gregor Schlierenzauer with the correct year: On 3 December ______, Schlierenzauer took his first World Cup victory in Lillehammer, Norway, and became one of the youngest ju…
  98. Complete the sentence about Anton Innauer with the correct year: In ______, he graduated from the University of Graz with a degree in philosophy, psychology, and sports science.
  99. Complete the sentence about Felix Baumgartner with the correct year: In ______, he claimed the world record for the highest parachute jump from a building when he jumped from the Petronas Towers in Ku…
  100. Complete the sentence about Felix Baumgartner with the correct year: On 20 July ______, Baumgartner became the first person to skydive across the English Channel using a specially made carbon fiber wi…

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