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  1. Complete the sentence about Trdelník with the correct year: Skalický trdelník was registered in December ______ as a protected geographical indication by the European Commission.
  2. Complete the sentence about Czech beer with the correct year: In ______, the Budějovický Budvar Brewery opened as an ethnically Czech alternative to the German-dominated Budějovický měšťanský pivovar.
  3. Complete the sentence about Budweiser Budvar with the correct year: The company began shipping its beer to the United States in ______.
  4. Complete the sentence about Budweiser Budvar with the correct year: Budweiser Bürgerbräu was acquired by Anheuser-Busch InBev in ______ to aid its claim on the Budweiser trademark.
  5. Complete the sentence about Budweiser Budvar with the correct year: By ______, all Czech breweries had been nationalized by the communist government.
  6. Complete the sentence about Staropramen with the correct year: Staropramen Brewery's history begins in ______ when shares for a "Joint Stock Brewery in Smíchov" were offered for sale.
  7. Complete the sentence about Staropramen with the correct year: The Ostravar Brewery opened in ______ followed a year later by the Braník brewery; these two breweries would later merge with Staropramen…
  8. Complete the sentence about Staropramen with the correct year: Staropramen saw steady growth and in ______ was the Czech Republic's second largest beer producer with a 15.3% share of the domestic mark…
  9. Complete the sentence about Becherovka with the correct year: In ______ Prince Maxmillian Friedrich von Plettenberg arrived in Carlsbad for medical treatment, accompanied by his personal physician, Ch…
  10. Complete the sentence about Slivovitz with the correct year: In ______, the Monastery's spirit was presented at a spirits competition in Antwerp, Belgium, where it won a bronze medal.
  11. Complete the sentence about Slivovitz with the correct year: Patriarch Maxim of Bulgaria celebrated his 95th birthday in ______ in the Sofia Metropolitanate with Troyan plum spirit.
  12. Complete the sentence about Absinthe with the correct year: The medical use of wormwood dates back to ancient Egypt and is mentioned in the Ebers Papyrus from around ______ BC.
  13. Complete the sentence about Moser Glass with the correct year: In ______, Moser received a warrant to supply the Imperial Court of the Emperor of Austria and four years later became a supplier to Edwa…
  14. Complete the sentence about Moser Glass with the correct year: The Art Nouveau designs of heavily engraved lilies and the Fipop series from c. ______ were some of the most notable pieces.
  15. Complete the sentence about Moser Glass with the correct year: The depression of the early 1930s affected the company, reducing its staff to 240; eventually, Leo resigned from the company in ______.
  16. Complete the sentence about Bohemian glass with the correct year: The oldest archaeological excavations of glass-making sites in the region date to around ______ and are located in the Lusatian Mounta…
  17. Complete the sentence about Karlovy Vary International Film Festival with the correct year: The Karlovy Vary IFF first held an international film competition in ______.
  18. Complete the sentence about Karlovy Vary International Film Festival with the correct year: The Karlovy Vary competition quickly found a place among other developing festivals and by ______ FIAPF had…
  19. Complete the sentence about Karlovy Vary International Film Festival with the correct year: The social and political changes that took place after the Velvet Revolution in November ______ pushed conce…
  20. Complete the sentence about Karlovy Vary International Film Festival with the correct year: The program for ______ was saved by the release of a collection of Czechoslovak films that had been locked u…
  21. Complete the sentence about Antonín Dvořák with the correct year: In ______, after his third win, Brahms recommended Dvořák to his publisher, Simrock, who commissioned what became the Slavonic Dances…
  22. Complete the sentence about Antonín Dvořák with the correct year: In ______, Dvořák became the director of the National Conservatory of Music of America in New York City.
  23. Complete the sentence about Antonín Dvořák with the correct year: While he remained at the Conservatory for a few more years, pay cuts and an onset of homesickness led him to return to Bohemia in ____…
  24. Complete the sentence with the correct year: By far the most successful of the operas is Rusalka, premiered in ______.
  25. Complete the sentence about Leoš Janáček with the correct year: In ______, he enrolled at the Prague organ school, under František Skuherský and František Blažek.
  26. Complete the sentence about Leoš Janáček with the correct year: In February ______, he was voted Choirmaster of the Beseda brněnská Philharmonic Society.
  27. Complete the sentence about Bohuslav Martinů with the correct year: After leaving Czechoslovakia in ______ for Paris, Martinů deliberately withdrew from the Romantic style in which he had been trained…
  28. Complete the sentence about Josef Suk with the correct year: Over the span of 14 months around ______, not only did Suk's mentor Dvořák die, but so did Otilie.
  29. Complete the sentence about Josef Suk with the correct year: Suk married Dvořák's daughter, Otilie Suková, a composer in her own right, in ______.
  30. Complete the sentence about Josef Suk with the correct year: Josef Suk Jr. in turn was father of the acclaimed violinist Josef Suk, who died in ______.
  31. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______ the tune was popularly harmonized by William Scotti.
  32. 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.
  33. Complete the sentence about Gustav Mahler with the correct year: Two years later, on 7 July ______, their second son, Gustav, was born.
  34. Complete the sentence about Czech Philharmonic with the correct year: The name "Czech Philharmonic Orchestra" appeared for the first time in ______, as the title of the orchestra of the Prague Nationa…
  35. Complete the sentence about Czech Philharmonic with the correct year: The first representative concert took place on 15 October ______ conducted by Ludvík Čelanský, the first artistic director of the…
  36. Complete the sentence about Czech Philharmonic with the correct year: In ______, Gustav Mahler led the orchestra in the world premiere of his Symphony No. 7.
  37. Complete the sentence about Czech Philharmonic with the correct year: In ______, Talich and the orchestra made a controversial journey to Germany, where they performed Bedřich Smetana's My Country in…
  38. Complete the sentence about Czech Philharmonic with the correct year: Instead of remaining until Albrecht's accession, Bělohlávek resigned from the orchestra in ______.
  39. Complete the sentence about Má vlast with the correct year: The complete set premiered on 5 November ______ in Žofín Palace, Prague, under Adolf Čech.
  40. Complete the sentence about Má vlast with the correct year: The works have opened the Prague Spring International Music Festival, on the 12 May anniversary of the death of their composer, since ______…
  41. Complete the sentence about Má vlast with the correct year: In July ______ he began hearing anomalous noise and then a permanent buzzing.
  42. Complete the sentence about The Bartered Bride with the correct year: After a performance at the Vienna Music and Theatre Exhibition of ______, the opera achieved international recognition.
  43. Complete the sentence about The Bartered Bride with the correct year: In September ______ Smetana visited Liszt in Weimar, where he met Peter Cornelius, a follower of Liszt's who was working on a comi…
  44. Complete the sentence about Rusalka with the correct year: The libretto was completed by ______, when Kvapil began looking for composers interested in setting his text to music.
  45. Complete the sentence about Rusalka with the correct year: Rusalka was first performed in Prague on 31 March ______, with Růžena Maturová as the first Rusalka.
  46. Complete the sentence about Rusalka with the correct year: The UK stage premiere was given by John Lewis Opera at Peter Jones, Sloane Square in May ______.
  47. Complete the sentence about Jarmila Novotná with the correct year: A student of Emmy Destinn, Novotná made her operatic debut at the National Theatre in Prague, on June 28, ______, as Mařenka in Smeta…
  48. Complete the sentence about Jarmila Novotná with the correct year: In ______ she joined the Kroll Opera in Berlin, where she sang Violetta as well as the title roles of Puccini's Manon Lescaut and Mad…
  49. Complete the sentence about Jarmila Novotná with the correct year: In ______ she married Jiří Daubek and moved to Liteň, where his family owned the local chateau.
  50. Complete the sentence about Jarmila Novotná with the correct year: In January ______, she created the female lead in Jaromír Weinberger's new operetta Frühlingsstürme, opposite Richard Tauber at the T…
  51. Complete the sentence about Jarmila Novotná with the correct year: In ______ she left Berlin for Vienna, where she created the title role in Lehár's Giuditta opposite Richard Tauber.
  52. Complete the sentence about Karel Gott with the correct year: Gott established the Apollo Theater in ______, along with two colleagues from Semafor: Jiří and Ladislav Štaidl.
  53. Complete the sentence about Karel Gott with the correct year: In ______, Gott performed at Midem, the music industry trade fair in Cannes, France, where the applause was measured during every concert.
  54. Complete the sentence about Alfons Mucha with the correct year: In ______, on the 10th anniversary of the independence of Czechoslovakia, he presented the series to the Czech nation.
  55. Complete the sentence about Alfons Mucha with the correct year: In ______ he applied to the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, but was rejected and advised to "find a different career".
  56. Complete the sentence about Alfons Mucha with the correct year: To his misfortune, a terrible fire in ______ destroyed the Ringtheater, the major client of his firm.
  57. Complete the sentence about František Kupka with the correct year: By spring ______, Kupka had settled in Paris; there he attended the Académie Julian briefly and then studied with Jean-Pierre Laurens…
  58. Complete the sentence about František Kupka with the correct year: In ______, he settled in Puteaux, a suburb of Paris, and the same year exhibited for the first time at the Salon d'Automne.
  59. Complete the sentence about František Kupka with the correct year: In ______ he published his self-portrait The Yellow Scale, believed to be his masterpiece.
  60. Complete the sentence about František Kupka with the correct year: Kupka was deeply impressed by the first Futurist Manifesto, published in ______ in Le Figaro.
  61. Complete the sentence about Josef Čapek with the correct year: Due to his critical attitude towards national socialism and Adolf Hitler, he was arrested after the German invasion of Czechoslovakia in…
  62. Complete the sentence about Josef Čapek with the correct year: In June ______ Rudolf Margolius, accompanied by Čapek's wife Jarmila Čapková, went to Bergen-Belsen to search for him.
  63. Complete the sentence about Karel Čapek with the correct year: Karel Čapek was born in ______ in the village of Malé Svatoňovice in the Bohemian mountains.
  64. Complete the sentence about R.U.R. with the correct year: The play had its world premiere on 2 January ______ in Hradec Králové.
  65. Complete the sentence about R.U.R. with the correct year: In ______, Rossum had invented a substance like organic matter, though with a different chemical composition.
  66. 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…
  67. 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…
  68. Complete the sentence about Milan Kundera with the correct year: Before the Velvet Revolution of ______, the country's ruling Communist Party of Czechoslovakia banned his books.
  69. Complete the sentence about Milan Kundera with the correct year: At the age of eighteen, he joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in ______.
  70. Complete the sentence about Milan Kundera with the correct year: After graduating, the Film Faculty appointed Kundera a lecturer in world literature in ______.
  71. Complete the sentence about Milan Kundera with the correct year: Following the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in ______, he lost his job at the Film Faculty.
  72. Complete the sentence about Bohumil Hrabal with the correct year: Marie and František married in February ______, shortly before Bohumil's second birthday.
  73. Complete the sentence about Bohumil Hrabal with the correct year: The family moved in August ______ to Nymburk, a town on the banks of the Elbe River, where František Hrabal became the manager of a br…
  74. Complete the sentence about Bohumil Hrabal with the correct year: In June ______, Hrabal left school with a certificate that said he could be considered for a place at university on a technical course…
  75. Complete the sentence about Jaroslav Hašek with the correct year: According to some rumors, he worked with Mikhail Bakunin during his stay in Bohemia in ______.
  76. Complete the sentence about Jaroslav Hašek with the correct year: In ______, he was present at anti-German riots in Prague as a student.
  77. Complete the sentence about Jaroslav Seifert with the correct year: Born in Žižkov, a suburb of Prague in what was then part of Austria-Hungary, Seifert's first collection of poems was published in __…
  78. Complete the sentence about Jaroslav Seifert with the correct year: In ______ Seifert left journalism and began to devote himself exclusively to literature.
  79. Complete the sentence about Jaroslav Seifert with the correct year: In ______ he was one of the signatories of Charter 77 in opposition to the government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.
  80. Complete the sentence about Božena Němcová with the correct year: When her novel Babička "was published in ______, it was quickly recognized as a classic and became the foundational work of modern Cze…
  81. Complete the sentence about Karel Hynek Mácha with the correct year: Recognition came after his death: in ______, his remains were exhumed, and they were given a formal state burial at the Vyšehrad Ce…
  82. Complete the sentence about Karel Hynek Mácha with the correct year: In ______ a biographical film, Karel Hynek Mácha, was made by Zet Molas.
  83. Complete the sentence about Jan Neruda with the correct year: By ______, various groups had labeled Neruda as a "Traitor to the Nation", so he decided to spend some time away; visiting Italy, Greece…
  84. Complete the sentence about Ivan Klíma with the correct year: During the Prague Spring of ______, Klíma was a leading dissident.
  85. Complete the sentence about Ivan Klíma with the correct year: At the time of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August ______, Klíma was in London, on his way to a teaching engagement in Michiga…
  86. Complete the sentence about Ivan Klíma with the correct year: After the overthrow of communism in ______, Klíma became a prominent supporter of Václav Havel.
  87. Complete the sentence about Ivan Klíma with the correct year: In ______, Klíma married psychologist Helena Mala, with whom he had two children.
  88. Complete the sentence about Ivan Klíma with the correct year: Klíma died at his residence in Prague, on the morning of 4 October ______, at the age of 94.
  89. Complete the sentence about Josef Škvorecký with the correct year: Born the son of a bank clerk in Náchod, Czechoslovakia, Škvorecký graduated in ______ from the Reálné gymnasium in his native Náchod.
  90. Complete the sentence about Josef Škvorecký with the correct year: In ______, he and his wife founded 68 Publishers which, over the next 20 years, published banned Czech and Slovak books.
  91. Complete the sentence about Josef Škvorecký with the correct year: For providing this critical literary outlet, the president of post-Communist Czechoslovakia, Václav Havel, later awarded the couple t…
  92. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Then, in ______, he went to Prague where he studied philosophy and later law.
  93. Complete the sentence about Karel Jaromír Erben with the correct year: Two years later, in ______, he became archives' secretary of the National Museum.
  94. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Strickland, and eventually published as Panslavonic Folk-lore in ______.
  95. Complete the sentence about Alois Jirásek with the correct year: Jirásek was a high school history teacher in Litomyšl and later in Prague until his retirement in ______.
  96. Complete the sentence about Alois Jirásek with the correct year: On 3 July ______ he was elected a member of Czech Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  97. Complete the sentence about Alois Jirásek with the correct year: On 28 October ______ Izidor Zahradník and Alois took part in the reading of the declaration of Czechoslovakia's independence.
  98. Complete the sentence about Jan Švankmajer with the correct year: Soon after graduation in ______, he participated as a puppeteer in Radok's short film Johannes Doctor Faust, inspired by folk puppetee…
  99. Complete the sentence about Jan Švankmajer with the correct year: After returning from the army in ______, he founded the group Theatre of Masks, which belonged to the Semafor theatre.
  100. Complete the sentence about Jan Švankmajer with the correct year: In ______ he exhibited his drawings in the corridor of the Semafor and Vlastimil Beneš and Zbyněk Sekal, who visited the exhibition, i…

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