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  1. Complete the sentence about Polish alphabet with the correct year: Microsoft's format for encoding the Polish alphabet is Windows-______.
  2. Complete the sentence about Polish cuisine with the correct year: The word "vodka" was recorded for the first time ever in ______ in Akta Grodzkie, the court documents from the Palatinate of Sandomier…
  3. Complete the sentence about Pierogi with the correct year: The recipe itself dates back to at least ______, when Poland's first cookbook, Compendium ferculorum, albo Zebranie potraw, was published.
  4. Complete the sentence about Oscypek with the correct year: The first mention of cheese production in the Tatra Mountains dates back to the 15th century, in a document from the village of Ochotnica in…
  5. Complete the sentence about Oscypek with the correct year: The first recorded recipe for Oscypek was issued in ______ in the Żywiec area.
  6. Complete the sentence about Sernik with the correct year: Cheesecakes made with soft cheese were recorded in England as early as ______, when the account books of the Countess of Leicester listed "che…
  7. Complete the sentence about Vodka with the correct year: In ______, William Tooke glossed vodka as "rectified corn-spirits", using the traditional English sense of the word corn to refer to any grain…
  8. Complete the sentence about Vodka with the correct year: The process was well known among European medieval chemists by about ______.
  9. Complete the sentence about Żubrówka with the correct year: While it is claimed that the recipe dates back as far as the 14th century, commercial production of Bison Grass Vodka first began at the dis…
  10. Complete the sentence about Żywiec with the correct year: The brewery started operating in ______ in the town of Żywiec, which was then part of Austrian Poland.
  11. Complete the sentence about Żywiec with the correct year: Żywiec Brewery began distribution to other towns of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in ______.
  12. Complete the sentence about Tyskie with the correct year: Tyskie sales accounted for 18% of the Polish market in ______.
  13. Complete the sentence about Wedel with the correct year: The first known mention of Wedel in a text is in a ______ document naming the "brothers from Wedel" as witnesses.
  14. Complete the sentence about Wedel with the correct year: The castle of the Schauenburgs, built in ______ and known as the Hatzburg, was located in Holm which is today a small village close to Wedel.
  15. Complete the sentence about Wedel with the correct year: The first Roland erected here around ______ was probably a simple wooden statue.
  16. Complete the sentence about Mead with the correct year: The Rigveda predates the Indo-Iranian separation, dated to roughly ______ BCE, so this mention may originate from the Western Steppe or Eastern…
  17. Complete the sentence about Bagel with the correct year: Bagels have been widely associated with Ashkenazi Jews since the 17th century; they were first mentioned in ______ in Jewish community ordinanc…
  18. Complete the sentence about Bagel with the correct year: Obwarzanek, a boiled-then-baked ring-shaped bread, was made by the 13th century Kraków baker's guild for Lent, as seen in royal family accounts…
  19. Complete the sentence about Bagel with the correct year: Around ______, the "bagel brunch" became popular in New York City.
  20. Complete the sentence about Obwarzanek krakowski with the correct year: In ______, King John Albert granted the bakers' guild of the city of Kraków a monopoly on baking white bread, including obwarzan…
  21. Complete the sentence about Obwarzanek krakowski with the correct year: On 22 January ______, a decree was signed which stipulated that any baker had the right to bake obwarzanki when it was his turn…
  22. Complete the sentence about Śmigus-dyngus with the correct year: The Buffalo dyngus celebrations started in ______, introduced by the Chopin Singing Society, a Polish-American organization led by marr…
  23. Complete the sentence about Andrzejki with the correct year: Before ______, the Scottish Government followed the UK Government's flag days and would fly the Saltire on Saint Andrew's Day only.
  24. Complete the sentence about Lajkonik with the correct year: Another version recalls that the Tatars arrived at the city gates at night in ______, but chose not to attack the city until morning and ins…
  25. Complete the sentence about Lajkonik with the correct year: Since ______, seats in public transport in Kraków are upholstered in a Lajkonik pattern.
  26. Complete the sentence about Polonaise with the correct year: Sousa wrote it in ______ after a suggestion from then-President of the United States Chester A.
  27. Complete the sentence about Mazurka with the correct year: In ______, Maria Szymanowska wrote the largest collection of piano mazurkas published before Chopin.
  28. Complete the sentence about Kujawiak with the correct year: In ______, Leon Zienkowicz described the kujawiak as a "regional variety of the mazurka relying on the domination of the minor key".
  29. Complete the sentence about Frédéric Chopin with the correct year: In poor health most of his life, Chopin died in Paris in ______ at age 39.
  30. Complete the sentence about Chopin International Piano Competition with the correct year: In ______ the competition became one of the founding members of the World Federation of International Music Co…
  31. Complete the sentence about Ignacy Jan Paderewski with the correct year: As a politician and diplomat, Paderewski was vital to securing international recognition of the newly formed Second Polish Repu…
  32. Complete the sentence about Stanisław Moniuszko with the correct year: In ______, he married Aleksandra Mueller, with whom he had ten children, and settled down in Vilnius, taking up the position of o…
  33. Complete the sentence about Stanisław Moniuszko with the correct year: In ______, he established St Cecilia's Society with the assistance of Achilles Bonoldi, its amateur members giving two public con…
  34. Complete the sentence about Stanisław Moniuszko with the correct year: In ______, he moved with his family to Warsaw where he was appointed conductor at the Warsaw Opera.
  35. Complete the sentence about Henryk Górecki with the correct year: Henryk Górecki was born on 6 December ______, in the village of Czernica, in present-day Silesian Voivodeship, southwest Poland.
  36. Complete the sentence about Krzysztof Penderecki with the correct year: After graduating from the Academy of Music in Krakow, he became a teacher there and began his career as a composer in ______ dur…
  37. Complete the sentence about Krzysztof Penderecki with the correct year: Penderecki was born on 23 November ______ in Dębica, the son of Zofia and Tadeusz Penderecki, a lawyer.
  38. Complete the sentence about Witold Lutosławski with the correct year: In ______, Lutosławski was awarded Poland's highest honour, the Order of the White Eagle.
  39. Complete the sentence about Witold Lutosławski with the correct year: Witold Roman Lutosławski was born on 25 January ______, in Warsaw, Poland.
  40. Complete the sentence about Wojciech Kilar with the correct year: In ______ he took part in the International New Music Summer Course in Darmstadt.
  41. Complete the sentence about Wojciech Kilar with the correct year: In ______ Kilar was one of the founding members of the Karol Szymanowski Society, based in the mountain town of Zakopane.
  42. Complete the sentence about Wojciech Kilar with the correct year: In ______ Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi made a biographical film about the composer titled Wojciech Kilar.
  43. Complete the sentence about Henryk Wieniawski with the correct year: In ______, he published his first opus, a Grand Caprice Fantastique, the start of a catalogue of 24 opus numbers.
  44. Complete the sentence about Henryk Wieniawski with the correct year: Wieniawski replaced Henri Vieuxtemps as violin professor at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles in ______.
  45. Complete the sentence about Mieczysław Karłowicz with the correct year: Karłowicz died at the age of 32 in an avalanche while skiing on an excursion in the Tatra Mountains in ______.
  46. Complete the sentence about Andrzej Panufnik with the correct year: In ______, he was appointed chief conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, a post he relinquished after two years to…
  47. Complete the sentence about Andrzej Panufnik with the correct year: Panufnik travelled to Vienna in ______ for his studies with Weingartner.
  48. Complete the sentence about Czesław Niemen with the correct year: In ______ at Congress Hall, Warsaw, Niemen, together with his group, played as a support act to Marlene Dietrich during her concert.
  49. Complete the sentence about Czesław Niemen with the correct year: In ______ he changed his musical style to progressive rock while recording the monumental album Enigmatic.
  50. Complete the sentence about Czesław Niemen with the correct year: In ______ he recorded Mourner's Rhapsody with Jan Hammer and Rick Laird from Mahavishnu Orchestra.
  51. Complete the sentence about Marek Grechuta with the correct year: In ______, he won several awards at the Festival of Polish Music in Opole.
  52. Complete the sentence about Marek Grechuta with the correct year: In ______, Grechuta played a minor role in Andrzej Wajda's film Hunting Flies.
  53. Complete the sentence about Edyta Górniak with the correct year: Górniak was Poland's first representative in the Eurovision Song Contest in ______ with the song "To nie ja".
  54. Complete the sentence about Edyta Górniak with the correct year: After taking singing lessons, in ______, aged 16, she gave her first public appearance on a Polish television talent show where she won…
  55. Complete the sentence about Edyta Górniak with the correct year: In ______ she performed on the Opole Polish Song Festival in a contest for debuting singers with an honourable mention.
  56. Complete the sentence about Edyta Górniak with the correct year: In ______ Górniak took part in the Baltic Song Contest in Sweden and finished in third place.
  57. Complete the sentence about Edyta Górniak with the correct year: In ______ she signed a contract in London with EMI International for five albums.
  58. Complete the sentence about Doda with the correct year: In ______, she made her acting debut in the feature film Pitbull.
  59. Complete the sentence about Doda with the correct year: In ______, Helen Pidd of The Guardian named Doda one of the most successful and one of the most controversial Polish musical artists of all time…
  60. Complete the sentence about Behemoth with the correct year: Behemoth is a Polish blackened death metal band from Gdańsk, formed in ______.
  61. Complete the sentence about Behemoth with the correct year: Behemoth was formed in ______ as a trio, with Nergal on lead guitar and vocals, Baal on drums, and Desecrator on rhythm guitar.
  62. Complete the sentence about Behemoth with the correct year: A year later, they recorded their second album, Grom, released in ______.
  63. Complete the sentence about Behemoth with the correct year: After another extensive tour, Behemoth signed a two-album deal with Italy's Avantgarde Music in the fall of ______.
  64. Complete the sentence about Vader with the correct year: Formed in ______, the group was founded by then-bassist Piotr "Peter" Wiwczarek and guitarist Zbigniew "Vika" Wróblewski.
  65. Complete the sentence about Vader with the correct year: Vader was formed in ______, the same year as the very first death metal pioneers Possessed and Death.
  66. Complete the sentence about Myslovitz with the correct year: Upon its release in ______, the album received euphoric reviews and was declared "Debut of the Year" by several music magazines.
  67. Complete the sentence about Myslovitz with the correct year: In ______, Myslovitz were joined by a third guitarist and keyboarder, Przemek Myszor, and released the second album Sun Machine on Sony Mus…
  68. Complete the sentence about Myslovitz with the correct year: In November ______ Myslovitz signed a new contract with EMI's Polish outlet Pomaton.
  69. Complete the sentence about Maanam with the correct year: Maanam was formed by Marek Jackowski and Milo Kurtis in ______ as guitar band M-a-M.
  70. Complete the sentence about Maanam with the correct year: Originally an acoustic outfit, the band went electric in ______, and since then has recorded some of Poland's best-selling singles and albums…
  71. Complete the sentence about Maanam with the correct year: In ______, Maanam's "Sie ściemnia" became the first Polish music video to air on the international MTV.
  72. Complete the sentence about Kombi with the correct year: Kombi was a Polish funk rock band, founded in ______ in Gdańsk by Sławomir Łosowski.
  73. Complete the sentence about Kombi with the correct year: The band previously performed as Akcenty, and played their first live gig as Kombi in August ______.
  74. Complete the sentence about Kombi with the correct year: In ______, they released their first single "Wspomnienia z pleneru" and published three songs on a compilation Muzyka młodej generacji.
  75. Complete the sentence about Kombi with the correct year: At the 21st National Festival of Polish Song in Opole in ______, Kombi won the audience award for "Słodkiego miłego życia".
  76. Complete the sentence about Kombi with the correct year: The band released their next album Kombi 4 in ______, and the LP included hits "Nasze randez-vous" and "Black and White".
  77. Complete the sentence about Śląsk Song and Dance Ensemble with the correct year: The first performance by "Slask" in the autumn of ______ in Warsaw was something of a revelation for the whole country.
  78. Complete the sentence about Opole Festival with the correct year: Established in ______, its traditional patrons include Polskie Radio and Telewizja Polska, as well as the Society of Friends of Opole.
  79. Complete the sentence about Opole Festival with the correct year: The only year the Festival did not take place was ______, due to martial law in Poland.
  80. Complete the sentence about Adam Mickiewicz with the correct year: In ______ Mickiewicz founded the French-language newspaper La Tribune des Peuples, writing in support of democracy, socialism and nat…
  81. Complete the sentence about Adam Mickiewicz with the correct year: In ______, his remains were repatriated from Montmorency, Val-d'Oise, in France, to Wawel Cathedral in Kraków, Poland.
  82. Complete the sentence about Adam Mickiewicz with the correct year: In September ______, Mickiewicz enrolled at the Imperial University of Vilnius, studying to be a teacher.
  83. Complete the sentence about Pan Tadeusz with the correct year: The book, written in Polish alexandrines, was first published by Aleksander Jełowicki on 28 June ______ in Paris.
  84. Complete the sentence about Pan Tadeusz with the correct year: A film version, directed by Andrzej Wajda, was released in ______.
  85. Complete the sentence about Pan Tadeusz with the correct year: The earliest translation of Pan Tadeusz was into Belarusian by the Belarusian writer and dramatist Vintsent Dunin-Martsinkyevich, in Viln…
  86. Complete the sentence about Dziady with the correct year: On October 30, ______, the first mass gathering was organized, not by the authorities but by activists, to commemorate the victims in 20th cen…
  87. Complete the sentence about Juliusz Słowacki with the correct year: During the November ______ Uprising, he was a courier for the Polish revolutionary government.
  88. Complete the sentence about Juliusz Słowacki with the correct year: In January ______ he joined the diplomatic staff of the revolutionary Polish National Government, led by Prince Adam Jerzy Czartorys…
  89. Complete the sentence about Juliusz Słowacki with the correct year: In ______, Słowacki left Switzerland and embarked on a journey that started in Italy.
  90. Complete the sentence about Cyprian Norwid with the correct year: In ______ Norwid received inheritance funds as well as a private scholarship to study sculpture and left Poland, never to return.
  91. Complete the sentence about Cyprian Norwid with the correct year: After he settled in Rome in ______, where for several years he became a regular at Caffè Greco, his fiancée Kamila broke off their eng…
  92. Complete the sentence about Cyprian Norwid with the correct year: After being forced to leave Prussia in ______, Norwid went to Brussels.
  93. Complete the sentence about Zygmunt Krasiński with the correct year: By ______ his health had worsened, but that did not stop his constant travels around Europe.
  94. Complete the sentence about Zygmunt Krasiński with the correct year: In ______ his parents moved to Warsaw, then part of the Duchy of Warsaw, ruled by Frederick Augustus I of Saxony, as a client state…
  95. Complete the sentence about Henryk Sienkiewicz with the correct year: The Trilogy and Quo Vadis have been filmed, the latter several times, with Hollywood's ______ version receiving the most internati…
  96. Complete the sentence about Quo Vadis with the correct year: The novel contributed to Sienkiewicz's Nobel Prize in Literature in ______.
  97. Complete the sentence about Quo Vadis with the correct year: Stanislaus Stange adapted the novel into a stage play of the same name which premiered in Chicago at McVicker's Theater's on 13 December __…
  98. Complete the sentence about With Fire and Sword with the correct year: The novel was initially translated by Jeremiah Curtin in ______.
  99. Complete the sentence about The Teutonic Knights with the correct year: The combined forces of Poland and Lithuania under the command of Polish King Ladislaus Jagiello destroy the Teutonic Order in th…
  100. Complete the sentence about Bolesław Prus with the correct year: Aged 15, Aleksander Głowacki joined the Polish ______ Uprising against Imperial Russia.

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