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  1. Complete the sentence about Romanian language with the correct year: The oldest dated text in Romanian is a letter written in ______ using Cyrillic letters, the same alphabet that was used during the…
  2. Complete the sentence about Mămăligă with the correct year: Maize was introduced into Spain by Hernán Cortés from Mexico in ______ and spread in Europe in the 16th century.
  3. Complete the sentence about Mămăligă with the correct year: A Hungarian scholar documented the arrival of corn in Temesvár, Banat region, ______.
  4. Complete the sentence about Sarmale with the correct year: Koupepia arrived in Cyprus with Greek immigrants in ______ BC.
  5. Complete the sentence about Cozonac with the correct year: Cozonac was the sweet chosen to represent Romania in the Café Europe initiative of the Austrian presidency of the European Union, on Europe D…
  6. Complete the sentence about Moldovan wine with the correct year: After the Treaty of Bucharest in ______, when the region became a province of the Russian Empire, the wine industry flourished again.
  7. Complete the sentence about Moldovan folk music with the correct year: The Orchestra of Moldovan Folk Music and Dance was founded in ______; the orchestra plays Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, G…
  8. Complete the sentence about Moldovan folk music with the correct year: Music festivals in Moldova include The Faces of Friends, held in the town of Cahul; this festival was founded in ______.
  9. Complete the sentence about Doina with the correct year: Béla Bartók discovered the doina in Northern Transylvania in ______ and he believed it to be uniquely Romanian.
  10. Complete the sentence about Doina with the correct year: In ______ the doina has been included in the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
  11. Complete the sentence about Hora with the correct year: In ______, the dancer and choreographer Baruch Agadati choreographed a dance based on the Romanian hora dance that became known as "Hora Agadati…
  12. Complete the sentence about Hora with the correct year: The song "Hora", sung by Avi Toledano, who represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest ______, is based on this dance.
  13. Complete the sentence about Cimpoi with the correct year: By around ______, French literary sources recorded numerous names for the instrument, including muse, musette, cornemuse, and sacomuse.
  14. Complete the sentence about Cimpoi with the correct year: The first systematic description of Romanian folk instruments, including the cimpoi, was published in ______ by the folklorist and ethnographe…
  15. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______ she was included in the list of the 100 Greatest Romanians of all time by a nationwide poll.
  16. Complete the sentence about Maria Tănase with the correct year: In ______, she joined the "Cărăbuș" Theatre of Constantin Tănase with the help and advice of newspaper writer Sandu Eliad, who, at that…
  17. Complete the sentence about Maria Tănase with the correct year: In the fall of ______ she recorded her first folk songs at the Columbia studio in Bucharest.
  18. Complete the sentence about Maria Tănase with the correct year: On 20 February ______ her voice was heard for the first time on the radio.
  19. Complete the sentence about O-Zone with the correct year: O-Zone first formed as a duo of Dan Bălan and Petru Jelihovschi in ______.
  20. Complete the sentence about O-Zone with the correct year: In ______, O-Zone moved from Moldova to Bucharest, Romania, hoping to gain more recognition.
  21. Complete the sentence about Dan Bălan with the correct year: Dan Bălan was born on 6 February ______ in Chișinău, to Mihai Balan, a diplomat, and Ludmila Balan, a TV presenter.
  22. Complete the sentence about Dan Bălan with the correct year: After Bălan formed the band, Inferialis held its first concert in ______ in a concert hall in one of Chișinău's factories.
  23. Complete the sentence about Numa Numa with the correct year: The video was featured on Channel 4's Virtually Famous, and ranked No. 1 in VH1's "40 Greatest Internet Superstars" in March ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Dragostea Din Tei with the correct year: At the ______ Echo Music Prize ceremony in Germany, "Dragostea din tei" was awarded Single of the Year.
  25. Complete the sentence about Dragostea Din Tei with the correct year: Multiple observers have credited the song's international breakthrough to a dance cover released in December ______ by Italy-based…
  26. Complete the sentence about Dragostea Din Tei with the correct year: O-Zone was a Moldovan Eurodance group formed in ______ by Dan Balan.
  27. Complete the sentence about SunStroke Project with the correct year: Anton Ragoza was born on 6 January ______ in Tiraspol, Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic.
  28. Complete the sentence about SunStroke Project with the correct year: In an interview at the ______ Eurovision Song Contest, he identified Russian saxophonist Igor Butman as his musical inspiration.
  29. Complete the sentence about Epic Sax Guy with the correct year: Sergey graduated in ______ from Transnistrian State Arts Institute of Tiraspol.
  30. Complete the sentence about Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest with the correct year: Moldova's debut at the ______ contest was successful, with "Boonika bate doba" by Zdob și Zdub finishing sixth…
  31. Complete the sentence about Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest with the correct year: TRM had previously planned to debut at the Eurovision Song Contest in ______, but the planned entry failed to…
  32. Complete the sentence about Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the correct year: Moldova was drawn to compete in the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 9…
  33. Complete the sentence about Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 with the correct year: Moldova was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest ______ with the song "Trenulețul" performed by the…
  34. Complete the sentence about Pasha Parfeni with the correct year: In ______, Parfeni continued his musical studies at the State Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts.
  35. Complete the sentence about Pasha Parfeni with the correct year: In ______, Parfeni met and joined the creators of the band SunStroke Project, Anton Ragoza and Sergey Stepanov, who were in need of a v…
  36. Complete the sentence about Nelly Ciobanu with the correct year: Ciobanu graduated from music college of the city of Tiraspol and later made her debut on stage in ______, with her brother as part of d…
  37. Complete the sentence with the correct year: On 24 December ______ her daughter, Mirela Christiana was born.
  38. Complete the sentence about Sofia Rotaru with the correct year: The area was part of Kingdom of Romania before ______, when Soviet Union occupied and annexed it after an ultimatum.
  39. Complete the sentence about Sofia Rotaru with the correct year: Injured, he returned home only in ______, and was the first person to join the Communist Party in the village.
  40. Complete the sentence about Emil Loteanu with the correct year: In ______, Loteanu directed a motion picture about the Moldavian shepherds titled Red Meadows.
  41. Complete the sentence about Emil Loteanu with the correct year: In ______, the film Gypsies Are Found Near Heaven won the Grand Prix – the "Golden Shell" – at the International Film Festival in San Se…
  42. Complete the sentence about Emil Loteanu with the correct year: A waltz by Eugene Doga from the ______ film A Hunting Accident became world-famous.
  43. Complete the sentence about Emil Loteanu with the correct year: One of the producers of his ______ film Anna Pavlova was Michael Powell.
  44. Complete the sentence about Emil Loteanu with the correct year: In ______, Loteanu married actress Galina Belyayeva, who starred in his films A Hunting Accident and Anna Pavlova.
  45. Complete the sentence about Lăutarii with the correct year: The film received the Special Jury Award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in ______.
  46. Complete the sentence about Ștefan Neaga with the correct year: In ______ he entered the class of piano at the National University of Music Bucharest.
  47. Complete the sentence about Ștefan Neaga with the correct year: In ______ he entered again the Academy of Music, Theater and Fine arts in the class of composition of Dimitrie Cuclin.
  48. Complete the sentence about Ștefan Neaga with the correct year: In ______, a street was named after him in the Sectorul Buiucani of the capital.
  49. Complete the sentence about National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Moldova with the correct year: In ______, it was given the name of the renowned opera singer Maria Bieșu.
  50. Complete the sentence about National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Moldova with the correct year: The Chişinău National Opera, the national opera company of Moldova, was founded in the mid-1940s and bec…
  51. Complete the sentence about National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Moldova with the correct year: Professional ballet began in Chişinău in ______, after a group of Moldovan dancers trained in Leningrad.
  52. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______ it brought productions of Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty to the UK.
  53. Complete the sentence about Moldova State University with the correct year: The university was founded on 1 October ______ as Chișinău State University.
  54. Complete the sentence about Moldova State University with the correct year: In ______, the State University of Moldova joined the International Association of Universities as a plenipotentiary member.
  55. Complete the sentence about Academy of Sciences of Moldova with the correct year: As early as June ______, the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences decided to establish the Moldovan Research Base…
  56. Complete the sentence about Academy of Sciences of Moldova with the correct year: In October ______, the research base was transformed into the Moldavian branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
  57. Complete the sentence about Academy of Sciences of Moldova with the correct year: The grand opening of the Academy took place on August 2, ______.
  58. Complete the sentence about Moldovan Orthodox church with the correct year: In ______, the Patriarchate of Constantinople, which had jurisdiction over the region, elected a metropolitan for the Metrop…
  59. Complete the sentence about Moldova national football team with the correct year: Shortly before the break-up of the Soviet Union, they played their first match against Georgia on 2 July ______.
  60. Complete the sentence about Moldova national football team with the correct year: The team has never qualified for the final stages of the UEFA European Championship nor the FIFA World Cup since first…
  61. Complete the sentence about Moldova national football team with the correct year: Moldova entered the ______ Jordan International Tournament, a tournament consisting of friendly matches.
  62. Complete the sentence about Moldovan Super Liga with the correct year: The competition was established in ______, when Moldova became independent from the Soviet Union.
  63. Complete the sentence about Moldovan Super Liga with the correct year: Before the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina in ______, clubs from modern Moldova competed in the Romanian fo…
  64. Complete the sentence about FC Dacia Chișinău with the correct year: The club was disbanded after the ______ Moldovan National Division season.
  65. Complete the sentence about Serghei Cleșcenco with the correct year: Aged 17, Cleșcenco made his debut for Nistru Chișinău as substitute in the 72nd minute in a ______ Soviet First League match agains…
  66. Complete the sentence about Serghei Cleșcenco with the correct year: In ______ he joined the Dutch side Go Ahead Eagles, for which he played two seasons.
  67. Complete the sentence about Serghei Cleșcenco with the correct year: After a successful period with Zimbru, Cleșcenco was taken on trial by English club Watford in early ______.
  68. Complete the sentence about Radu Rebeja with the correct year: In ______, he was awarded the Moldovan Footballer of the Year award.
  69. Complete the sentence about Radu Rebeja with the correct year: Rebeja was one of the 11 Moldovan football players to be challenged to a game of tennis by Tony Hawks and is featured in his ______ book…
  70. Complete the sentence about Radu Rebeja with the correct year: In ______, he ended his career as a professional football player and became the Vice President of the Moldovan Football Federation.
  71. Complete the sentence about Radu Rebeja with the correct year: In ______, he took up the post of Adviser for Youth and Sports to the Prime Minister of Moldova, Chiril Gaburici.
  72. Complete the sentence about Alexandru Epureanu with the correct year: Born in Chișinau, Epureanu joined FC Sheriff Tiraspol in summer ______.
  73. Complete the sentence about Moldova at the Olympics with the correct year: The Republic of Moldova first participated at the Olympic Games as an independent nation in ______ and has sent athletes to c…
  74. Complete the sentence about Moldova at the Paralympics with the correct year: Moldova's two Paralympic medals so far were both won in ______.
  75. Complete the sentence about Moldova at the 2016 Summer Olympics with the correct year: Moldova originally left Rio de Janeiro with only a bronze medal won by the younger Tarnovschi in the men's C-1 __…
  76. Complete the sentence about Moldova at the 2012 Summer Olympics with the correct year: Marathon runner Iaroslav Musinschi, who participated as a steeplechaser in the Olympics since ______, was at his…
  77. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The pair won two gold medals at the ______ Summer Olympics, as competitors for the USSR.
  78. Complete the sentence about Nicolae Juravschi with the correct year: Despite this success Reneysky and Juravschi were not selected for the Unified Team at the ______ Olympics, having been defeated in…
  79. Complete the sentence about Oină with the correct year: The oldest direct mention comes from a diet manual of ______ by medic István Mátyus, who talks about the health benefits of oina.
  80. Complete the sentence about Oină with the correct year: In ______, Spiru Haret, the Romanian minister of education, decided that oină was to be played in schools in physical education classes.
  81. Complete the sentence about Moldova national rugby union team with the correct year: Moldova played their first international on October 10, ______ against Lithuania.
  82. Complete the sentence about Moldova national rugby union team with the correct year: Moldova played Hungary in ______, which they won, by three points, 17 to 14.
  83. Complete the sentence about Moldova national rugby union team with the correct year: Moldova played twice in ______, defeating Norway and losing to Croatia.
  84. Complete the sentence about Moldova national rugby union team with the correct year: The national rugby team was designated by the members of Moldova's Sports Press Association as the best Moldovan te…
  85. Complete the sentence about Moldova national rugby union team with the correct year: Following this, they played in qualifying tournaments for the ______ Rugby World Cup European qualifiers.
  86. Complete the sentence about Rugby union in Moldova with the correct year: Rugby union was played in the Russian Empire as early as in ______.
  87. Complete the sentence about Rugby union in Moldova with the correct year: Rugby union appears to have been introduced to the Moldavian SSR in ______.
  88. Complete the sentence about Rugby union in Moldova with the correct year: Since ______, the number of Moldovan rugby players has more than doubled, due to the national team's growing international rep…
  89. Complete the sentence about Air Moldova with the correct year: The enterprise received status of Ministry of Civil Aviation in ______, and new Antonov An-10, An-12 and An-24 aircraft expanded its flee…
  90. Complete the sentence about Moldtelecom with the correct year: On 1 April ______, following the restructuring of the telecommunications sector in the Republic of Moldova, ‘Moldtelecom’ State-Owned Ent…
  91. Complete the sentence about Moldtelecom with the correct year: On 5 January ______, the company has been reorganized and became a joint-stock company with the State being the unique founder and stockh…
  92. Complete the sentence about Moldtelecom with the correct year: In ______ the first internet service using dial-up technology was launched in the Republic of Moldova.
  93. Complete the sentence about Moldtelecom with the correct year: On 1 November ______ the ‘MaxDSL’, broadband internet via ADSL technology, was launched.
  94. Complete the sentence about Moldtelecom with the correct year: On 16 April ______, the FTTx fiber optic network began to expand and the ‘MaxFiber’ broadband Internet access service was launched with s…
  95. Complete the sentence about Moldcell with the correct year: On April 28, ______, Moldcell opened its first sales office in Chisinau, at the address: 55, Tighina Street.
  96. Complete the sentence about Moldcell with the correct year: In ______, Moldcell became the first mobile telephony operator to accept electronic payments.
  97. Complete the sentence about Calea Ferată din Moldova with the correct year: In ______, Governor-General of Novorossiya and Bessarabia Count Mikhail Vorontsov has developed a project of a railway, conn…
  98. Complete the sentence about Calea Ferată din Moldova with the correct year: On 28 August ______, the railway linking Tiraspol with Chișinău was officially opened.
  99. Complete the sentence about Calea Ferată din Moldova with the correct year: In the first months of the war the Tighina-Basarabeasca-Reni-Giurgiulești line was hastily built; it opened in November ____…
  100. Complete the sentence about Calea Ferată din Moldova with the correct year: During World War I, in ______, the Bălți-Ungheni section was built, which finally connected the Northern and the Southern li…

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