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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 Sarmale with the correct year: Koupepia arrived in Cyprus with Greek immigrants in ______ BC.
  3. 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.
  4. Complete the sentence about Mămăligă with the correct year: A Hungarian scholar documented the arrival of corn in Temesvár, Banat region, ______.
  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 Palincă with the correct year: The earliest verifiable reference to pálinka dates back to ______, when it was used as medicine in the Hungarian royal court.
  7. Complete the sentence about Palincă with the correct year: The earliest verifiable reference to pálinka dates back to ______, in the court of King Charles Robert of Hungary.
  8. Complete the sentence about Ursus Breweries with the correct year: In ______, the Cluj Court registered the company Sigmond Brothers, which carried on the business empire, with Dezső and his brother Á…
  9. Complete the sentence about Ursus Breweries with the correct year: The ______ Cluj guide published by the Transylvanian Carpathian Association mentioned the Sigmond Brewery among the city’s notable sp…
  10. Complete the sentence about Romanian folk music with the correct year: Taraf de Haïdouks is an especially famous taraf and have achieved international attention since their ______ debut with the label…
  11. 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.
  12. Complete the sentence about Doina with the correct year: In ______ the doina has been included in the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
  13. Complete the sentence about Dracula with the correct year: Dracula is an ______ Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.
  14. Complete the sentence about Dracula with the correct year: Following the novel's publication in May ______, some reviewers praised its terrifying atmosphere while others thought Stoker included too mu…
  15. Complete the sentence about Bram Stoker with the correct year: While a theatre critic, Stoker founded the "Dublin Sketching Club" in ______, which dealt mostly with art collections.
  16. Complete the sentence about Bram Stoker with the correct year: Stoker was born on 8 November ______ at 15 Marino Crescent, Clontarf, in Dublin, Ireland.
  17. Complete the sentence about Vampire folklore with the correct year: A rare story found in Sefer Hasidim #______ tells of an old vampire named Astryiah who uses her hair to drain the blood from her vic…
  18. Complete the sentence about Mihai Eminescu with the correct year: Giurescu's research and adopted his conclusion regarding the date and place of Mihai Eminescu's birth, as being 15 January ______, in…
  19. Complete the sentence about Mihai Eminescu with the correct year: Petrea died in Blaj in ______, and Agafia accompanied the family of her son, Vasile, to Bukovina.
  20. Complete the sentence about Mihai Eminescu with the correct year: The eldest of his sons, Gheorghe, born in ______ was the father of Mihai Eminescu.
  21. Complete the sentence about Ion Creangă with the correct year: According to his own recollection, the future writer was born on March 1, ______—a date which has since been challenged.
  22. Complete the sentence about Ion Creangă with the correct year: A colleague of future philosopher Vasile Conta in the class of priest and theologian Isaia "Popa Duhu" Teodorescu, Creangă was sent to th…
  23. Complete the sentence about Tudor Arghezi with the correct year: Arghezi stayed behind in occupied Bucharest after the Romanian Debacle of ______, collaborating with the German Empire in a manner that…
  24. Complete the sentence about Tudor Arghezi with the correct year: By ______, he was a virtual client of Carol II, Romania's authoritarian king.
  25. Complete the sentence about George Coșbuc with the correct year: In ______ he was elected titular member of the Romanian Academy.
  26. Complete the sentence about George Coșbuc with the correct year: Coșbuc began attending courses at Franz Joseph University in ______, while collecting fairy tales and popular stories, which he rewrote…
  27. Complete the sentence about George Coșbuc with the correct year: The Romanian Academy deemed him an "outstanding member" in ______.
  28. Complete the sentence about George Coșbuc with the correct year: After more than a decade of tremendous success as an author, he experienced personal tragedy in August ______, when his only son, Alexa…
  29. Complete the sentence about Liviu Rebreanu with the correct year: At the request of the Austro-Hungarian government, he was arrested in February ______; after being held at Văcărești Prison, he was ex…
  30. Complete the sentence about Liviu Rebreanu with the correct year: In ______ Rebreanu published his novel Ion, the first modern Romanian novel, in which he depicted the struggles over land ownership in…
  31. Complete the sentence about Liviu Rebreanu with the correct year: For Ion, Rebreanu received a Romanian Academy award; he became a full member of the institution in ______.
  32. Complete the sentence about Liviu Rebreanu with the correct year: In ______ he was awarded the Order of the Crown of Romania, Grand Cross rank.
  33. Complete the sentence about Liviu Rebreanu with the correct year: In ______, aged 59, he died of a lung disease in his country house in Valea Mare-Podgoria, Argeș County.
  34. Complete the sentence about Mihail Sadoveanu with the correct year: Beginning in ______, Sadoveanu attended primary school in Pașcani.
  35. Complete the sentence about Mihail Sadoveanu with the correct year: Sadoveanu left for Bucharest in ______, intending to study law at the University's Faculty of Law, but withdrew soon after, deciding…
  36. Complete the sentence about Marin Preda with the correct year: The teachers were satisfied with him, and he got along well with his Transylvanian colleagues; in ______ he spent the winter holiday with…
  37. Complete the sentence about Mircea Eliade with the correct year: In ______ he was elected a posthumous member of the Romanian Academy.
  38. Complete the sentence about Eugène Ionesco with the correct year: With his family, he returned to France in ______ to complete his doctoral thesis.
  39. Complete the sentence about Tristan Tzara with the correct year: In ______, he was among the intellectuals who protested against French actions in the Algerian War.
  40. Complete the sentence about Tristan Tzara with the correct year: In the 1960s, Rosenstock's collaborator and later rival Ion Vinea claimed that he was responsible for coining the Tzara part of his pse…
  41. Complete the sentence about Tristan Tzara with the correct year: Samy Rosenstock legally adopted his new name in ______, after filing a request with Romania's Ministry of the Interior.
  42. Complete the sentence about Paul Celan with the correct year: Celan returned to Cernăuți in ______ to study literature and Romance languages.
  43. Complete the sentence about Paul Celan with the correct year: Following the Soviet occupation of Bukovina in June ______, deportations to Siberia started.
  44. Complete the sentence about Paul Celan with the correct year: On arrival in Cernăuți in July ______, the German SS Einsatzkommando and their Romanian allies set the city's Great Synagogue on fire.
  45. Complete the sentence about Herta Müller with the correct year: Müller was elected to membership in the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung in ______, and other honorary positions followed.
  46. Complete the sentence about Nichita Stănescu with the correct year: Stănescu married Magdalena Petrescu in ______, but the couple separated a year later.
  47. Complete the sentence about Mircea Cărtărescu with the correct year: Born in Bucharest in ______, he attended Cantemir Vodă National College during the early 1970s.
  48. Complete the sentence about Mircea Cărtărescu with the correct year: In ______, he became a lecturer at the Chair of Romanian Literary History, part of the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Letters…
  49. Complete the sentence about Constantin Brâncuși with the correct year: Constantin Brâncuși was born on February 19, ______, in the village of Hobița, in Gorj County.
  50. Complete the sentence about Constantin Brâncuși with the correct year: After spending some time with his half-brother Ion, who ran an inn in Peștișani, Brâncuși moved to Craiova in ______.
  51. Complete the sentence about Constantin Brâncuși with the correct year: For the entrance examination, he made a charcoal drawing of a plaster reproduction of Laocoön and His Sons, which he studied agai…
  52. Complete the sentence about Constantin Brâncuși with the correct year: In ______, he was commissioned to make a monument to the physician and general Carol Davila.
  53. Complete the sentence about Endless Column with the correct year: The ensemble was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in ______.
  54. Complete the sentence about Endless Column with the correct year: The monument was commissioned by the National League of Gorj Women to honor those soldiers who had defended Târgu Jiu in ______ from t…
  55. Complete the sentence about Endless Column with the correct year: Brâncuși had experimented with this form as early as ______, with an oak version now found in the collection of the Museum of Modern A…
  56. Complete the sentence about Nicolae Grigorescu with the correct year: In the autumn of ______, young Grigorescu left for Paris, where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts.
  57. Complete the sentence about Theodor Aman with the correct year: In ______, he went to Paris, where he studied briefly with Michel Martin Drolling then, after Drolling's death, with François-Édouard Pi…
  58. Complete the sentence about Theodor Aman with the correct year: In ______ he has his first display at the Salon in Paris, showing his Autoportrait.
  59. Complete the sentence about Theodor Aman with the correct year: As a result of his strong patriotic sentiments, he participated in the Romanian Revolution of ______ along with Ioan Maiorescu, Eugeniu…
  60. Complete the sentence about Theodor Aman with the correct year: In ______, he presented one of his best-known works, depicting the Battle of Alma, at the Exposition Universelle.
  61. Complete the sentence about Ștefan Luchian with the correct year: In ______, the Luchian family moved to Bucharest, where he attended the Cantemir High School.
  62. Complete the sentence about Ștefan Luchian with the correct year: In ______, Luchian contributed two pastels to Romania's Pavilion at the World Fair, and in the same year experiencing the first sympto…
  63. Complete the sentence about Victor Brauner with the correct year: When his family returned to Romania in ______, he continued his studies at the Lutheran school in Brăila.
  64. Complete the sentence about Victor Brauner with the correct year: On 26 September ______, the Mozart Galleries in Bucharest hosted his first personal exhibition.
  65. Complete the sentence about Victor Brauner with the correct year: In ______, he settled in Paris, where he met Constantin Brâncuși, who instructed him in methods of art photography.
  66. Complete the sentence about Victor Brauner with the correct year: In ______ André Breton wrote an introduction to the catalogue for Brauner's first Parisian solo exhibition at the Pierre Gallery.
  67. Complete the sentence about George Enescu with the correct year: In ______, the ten-year-old Enescu gave a private concert at the Court of Vienna, in the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph.
  68. Complete the sentence about Ciprian Porumbescu with the correct year: Iraclie Gołęmbiowski called himself Iraclie Porumbescu from his youth, but he did not officially change his name until ______, whe…
  69. Complete the sentence about Gheorghe Zamfir with the correct year: The movie received several awards, including the Top Foreign Film from the National Board of Review in ______.
  70. Complete the sentence about Gheorghe Zamfir with the correct year: In ______, Zamfir was appointed conductor of the "Ciocîrlia Orchestra", one of the most prestigious state ensembles of Romania, desti…
  71. Complete the sentence about Gheorghe Zamfir with the correct year: Epic Records released the tune as a single in ______, and it climbed to number four on the UK Singles chart.
  72. 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…
  73. 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.
  74. Complete the sentence about Maria Tănase with the correct year: On 20 February ______ her voice was heard for the first time on the radio.
  75. Complete the sentence about Nadia Comăneci with the correct year: In ______, at age 14, Comăneci was the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the Olympic Games.
  76. Complete the sentence about Nadia Comăneci with the correct year: At the ______ Summer Olympics in Moscow, Comăneci won two more gold medals and achieved two more perfect 10s.
  77. Complete the sentence about Nadia Comăneci with the correct year: Comăneci has lived in the United States since ______, when she defected from then-Communist Romania, before its revolution in December…
  78. Complete the sentence about Ilie Năstase with the correct year: At the beginning of his career in ______, Năstase traveled around the world competing with Ion Țiriac.
  79. Complete the sentence about Ilie Năstase with the correct year: In singles, Năstase won his first tournament at Cannes on 16 April ______.
  80. Complete the sentence about Ilie Năstase with the correct year: In ______, Năstase was the runner-up at the French Open, where he lost the final in four sets to Jan Kodeš.
  81. Complete the sentence about Gheorghe Hagi with the correct year: Hagi was nominated six times for the Ballon d'Or, his best performance being a 4th place in ______.
  82. Complete the sentence about Romania national football team with the correct year: Romania played their first international match on 8 June ______, a 2–1 win over Yugoslavia in Belgrade, being coached…
  83. Complete the sentence about Romania national football team with the correct year: Several temporary coaches were employed, before Moraru resumed control in August ______, managing the side for nearly…
  84. Complete the sentence about FCSB with the correct year: The original Steaua București football team was founded in ______ and belonged to the Ministry of National Defence, through the namesake CSA Ste…
  85. Complete the sentence about FCSB with the correct year: Internationally, they have won the European Cup and European Super Cup, both in ______.
  86. Complete the sentence about Dinamo București with the correct year: The club was founded in the spring of ______, being subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior.
  87. Complete the sentence about CFR Cluj with the correct year: In ______, the team won the newly organized Championship of Transylvania.
  88. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The club was founded as Asociația Culturală și Sportivă CFR in ______.
  89. Complete the sentence about Romania at the Olympics with the correct year: Romania first participated at the Olympic Games in ______, with a single participant.
  90. Complete the sentence about Romania at the Olympics with the correct year: The National Olympic Committee for Romania is the Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee, and was created and recognized in __…
  91. Complete the sentence about Romania at the Olympics with the correct year: The nation first sent a team to compete at the Games in ______, and has only missed two editions each of the Summer Olympic G…
  92. Complete the sentence about Romania at the Olympics with the correct year: Notably, Romania was the lone Eastern Bloc nation to participate in the ______ Summer Olympics, which the other nations boyco…
  93. Complete the sentence about Romania at the Olympics with the correct year: At the winter Olympics Romania has won only one medal, at the ______ Winter Olympics with two-man bobsleigh team led by Ion P…
  94. Complete the sentence about Ivan Patzaichin with the correct year: In ______, aged 18, he moved to the Romanian capital Bucharest, where he joined the club Dinamo.
  95. Complete the sentence about Ivan Patzaichin with the correct year: One year later, in ______, he was included in the national team and won an Olympic gold medal, paddling with Covaliov.
  96. Complete the sentence about Ivan Patzaichin with the correct year: At the ______ Olympics, Patzaichin broke his paddle and placed last in the singles heats.
  97. Complete the sentence about Elisabeta Lipă with the correct year: Lipă made her debut at the age of 19 at the ______ Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, where she won her first gold medal in t…
  98. Complete the sentence about Elisabeta Lipă with the correct year: In ______, she became the first female rower and the second rower overall to compete at six Olympics.
  99. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In May ______ she retired from competitions due to exhaustion.
  100. Complete the sentence about Gabriela Szabo with the correct year: As of 19 August ______ she held the honorific title of Romanian Tourism Ambassador, together with 7 other cultural and sport personali…

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