Romanian Science, Arts and Culture

Science Arts And Culture

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  1. Complete the sentence about Gabriela Szabo with the correct year: Szabo is remembered for a collision with German long-jumper Kofi Amoah Prah during an indoor meeting at Stuttgart in ______.
  2. Complete the sentence about Iolanda Balaș with the correct year: Balaș tried to reunite the family and move to Hungary, but although she managed to obtain a Hungarian passport in ______, she was not a…
  3. Complete the sentence about Ecaterina Szabo with the correct year: With her four gold medals and a silver medal, Szabo was the most successful athlete at the ______ Summer Olympics.
  4. Complete the sentence about Ecaterina Szabo with the correct year: After the Károlyis' defection to the United States in ______, she was coached by Adrian Goreac, Adrian Stan and Maria Cosma at Cetate…
  5. Complete the sentence about Ecaterina Szabo with the correct year: Szabo's first major international event was the ______ European Championships in Goteborg.
  6. Complete the sentence about Ecaterina Szabo with the correct year: At the ______ World Championships she placed third all around after Olga Mostepanova and Natalia Yurchenko.
  7. Complete the sentence about Lavinia Miloșovici with the correct year: Miloșovici made her debut as a senior in ______, winning her first all-around title at the Romanian National Championships.
  8. Complete the sentence about Lavinia Miloșovici with the correct year: Miloșovici won her second individual world title on uneven bars at the ______ World Championships.
  9. Complete the sentence about Lavinia Miloșovici with the correct year: At the ______ Olympics in Barcelona, Miloșovici won a total of four medals.
  10. Complete the sentence about Cătălina Ponor with the correct year: In ______, she was discovered training in Constanța by the Romanian national team coaches, Octavian Bellu and Mariana Bitang, who invi…
  11. Complete the sentence about Cristian Mungiu with the correct year: Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest to study film directing, graduating in ______.
  12. Complete the sentence about Cristian Mungiu with the correct year: In ______, he made his feature debut with Occident, which was selected for the Directors' Fortnight of the 55th Cannes Film Festival.
  13. Complete the sentence about Cristian Mungiu with the correct year: In ______, Mungiu wrote and directed his second feature, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.
  14. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In May ______, he served as a jury member at the 66th Cannes Film Festival.
  15. Complete the sentence about 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days with the correct year: The film won three awards at the ______ Cannes Film Festival, including the Palme d'Or.
  16. Complete the sentence about 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days with the correct year: In ______, two university students in an unnamed Romanian town, Otilia Mihărtescu and Gabriela "Găbița" Drăguț, are room…
  17. Complete the sentence about 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days with the correct year: Romanian Communist Party General Secretary Nicolae Ceaușescu enacted the abortion law Decree 770 in ______ in order to i…
  18. Complete the sentence about Cristi Puiu with the correct year: With Anca Puiu and Alex Munteanu, he founded the cinema production company Mandragora in ______.
  19. Complete the sentence about Cristi Puiu with the correct year: In ______, he was admitted as a student to the Painting Department of École Supérieure d'Arts Visuels in Geneva.
  20. Complete the sentence about Cristi Puiu with the correct year: In ______ this film gained 47 prizes, several nominations in the American Critics' Top 10 lists and in French magazines such as Telerama…
  21. Complete the sentence about Radu Jude with the correct year: The film was selected in ACID Programme at ______ Cannes Film Festival.
  22. Complete the sentence about Johnny Weissmuller with the correct year: Johann Peter Weißmüller was born on June 2, ______, in Szabadfalva, in the Kingdom of Hungary into an ethnically Banat Swabian fam…
  23. Complete the sentence about Johnny Weissmuller with the correct year: An ancestor had immigrated from Baden, Holy Roman Empire c. ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Elvira Popescu with the correct year: In ______ she became artistic director of the Excelsior Theatre.
  25. Complete the sentence about Elvira Popescu with the correct year: In ______, Popescu started Teatrul Mic, which she managed in parallel with the Excelsior.
  26. Complete the sentence about Elvira Popescu with the correct year: In ______, she starred in the movie Țigăncușa de la iatac, directed by Alfred Halm.
  27. Complete the sentence about Elvira Popescu with the correct year: At the urging of Louis Verneuil, the French playwright, Popescu moved in ______ to Paris.
  28. Complete the sentence about Elvira Popescu with the correct year: Shortly after her debut in ______, Popescu married comedian Aurel Athanasescu and they had a daughter named Tatiana.
  29. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, he built a missile-aeroplane for the Romanian Army.
  30. Complete the sentence about Henri Coandă with the correct year: In ______ Coandă returned to Romania to serve as an active officer in the Second Artillery Regiment.
  31. Complete the sentence about Coandă-1910 with the correct year: The Coandă-______, designed by Romanian inventor Henri Coandă, was an unconventional sesquiplane aircraft powered by a ducted fan.
  32. Complete the sentence about Coandă-1910 with the correct year: In ______, Coandă brought drawings forward to prove his claim of combustion ducting, but these were shown to be reworked, differing subst…
  33. Complete the sentence about Coandă-1910 with the correct year: At the European Parliament, an exhibition commemorated the building and testing of the Coandă-______.
  34. Complete the sentence about Traian Vuia with the correct year: Undeterred, Vuia applied for a French patent on 15 May ______, and obtained patent No. 332106 for his design.
  35. Complete the sentence about Traian Vuia with the correct year: By December ______, Vuia had finished construction of his first airplane, the "Vuia I".
  36. Complete the sentence about Hungarians in Romania with the correct year: With the defeat of the Ottomans at the Second Battle of Vienna in ______, the Habsburg monarchy gradually began to impose their…
  37. Complete the sentence about Transylvanian Saxons with the correct year: After the collapse of the Ceaușescu regime in ______ and the fall of the East German communist government, many of them continue…
  38. Complete the sentence about Transylvanian Saxons with the correct year: In ______, King Andrew II of Hungary invited the Teutonic Knights to settle and defend the Burzenland in the southeastern corner…
  39. Complete the sentence about Ion Țiriac with the correct year: The highlight of his ice hockey career was participating as a defenseman in the Romanian national team at the ______ Winter Olympics.
  40. Complete the sentence about Ion Țiriac with the correct year: In ______, he was elected as contributor into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
  41. Complete the sentence about Gică Hagi with the correct year: In ______, he was named by Pelé as one of the 125 Greatest Living Footballers at a FIFA Awards Ceremony.
  42. Complete the sentence about Marius Lăcătuș with the correct year: In the final of the ______ European Cup, he took Steaua's first penalty in the shoot-out against Barcelona and converted it.
  43. Complete the sentence about Adrian Mutu with the correct year: After the ______ Italian football scandal and the relegation of Juventus to Serie B, Mutu decided to join Fiorentina, where he played con…
  44. Complete the sentence about Cristian Chivu with the correct year: A defender, he began his career with hometown club CSM Reșița before moving to Universitatea Craiova in ______, leaving Romania to joi…
  45. Complete the sentence about Cristian Chivu with the correct year: Chivu won the Coppa Italia in his last of four seasons in Rome before a transfer to Inter Milan, where he spent the rest of his career…
  46. Complete the sentence about Cristian Chivu with the correct year: After recovering from a fractured skull, Chivu wore a distinctive protective headgear from ______ onwards.
  47. Complete the sentence about Dorinel Munteanu with the correct year: In ______ he was close to a move to Politehnica Timișoara but eventually stayed in Divizia B, going to CSM Reșița.
  48. Complete the sentence about Dorinel Munteanu with the correct year: Munteanu's childhood favorite team Dinamo București bought him and Gheorghe Mihali from Inter Sibiu in ______.
  49. Complete the sentence about Ilie Dumitrescu with the correct year: Born in Bucharest, Dumitrescu joined the Steaua București academy in ______ at the age of 8 and made his way through the youth system…
  50. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In April ______, he made his debut in Divizia A at the age of 18.
  51. Complete the sentence about Ilie Dumitrescu with the correct year: After the ______ World Cup in Italy, the best of his club teammates got contracts abroad, but Dumitrescu remained with Steaua and bec…
  52. Complete the sentence about Gheorghe Popescu with the correct year: And the people will love me more than him!" He started to play in the Romanian lower leagues for Dunărea's senior squad in ______.
  53. Complete the sentence about Gheorghe Popescu with the correct year: In ______, his talent was noticed by Nicolae Zamfir who brought him to play for Universitatea Craiova.
  54. Complete the sentence about Florin Răducioiu with the correct year: In the summer of ______, Italian club Bari transferred Răducioiu after paying Dinamo $3 million.
  55. Complete the sentence about Costică Ștefănescu with the correct year: In August ______, he died after he jumped from the fifth floor of a hospital in Bucharest, where he had been receiving treatment f…
  56. Which place completes this sentence about Mihai Eminescu? Giurescu's research and adopted his conclusion regarding the date and place of Mihai Eminescu's birth, as being 15 January 1850, in ______.
  57. Which place completes this sentence about Constantin Brâncuși? After spending some time with his half-brother Ion, who ran an inn in Peștișani, Brâncuși moved to ______ in 1889.
  58. Which place completes this sentence about Ștefan Luchian? Luchian was born in Ștefănești, a village of ______ County, as the son of Major Dumitru Luchian and of Elena Chiriacescu.
  59. Which place completes this sentence about Victor Brauner? When his family returned to Romania in 1914, he continued his studies at the Lutheran school in ______.
  60. Which place completes this sentence about Gheorghe Hagi? In 2009, he founded Romanian club Viitorul ______, which he has coached between 2014 and 2020.
  61. Which place completes this sentence about Cătălina Ponor? Ponor was born in ______ and started gymnastics when she was four years old.
  62. Which place completes this sentence about George Emil Palade? George Emil Palade was born on November 19, 1912, in ______, Romania.
  63. Which place completes this sentence about Ford Romania? Ford Otosan Romania SRL, commonly referred to as Ford Romania, is an automobile manufacturing company operated by Ford Otosan, located in ______…
  64. Which place completes this sentence about Banca Transilvania? Banca Transilvania was established on 16 February 1993 at the initiative of 46 Romanian entrepreneurs, most of them based in ______.
  65. Which place completes this sentence about Dedeman? Dedeman was founded in 1992 by two brothers named Adrian and Dragoș Pavăl, in ______, Romania.
  66. Which place completes this sentence about Politehnica University of Bucharest? Born in Avrig, Transylvania, Gheorghe Lazăr studied in ______, Cluj, and Vienna.
  67. Which place completes this sentence about Untold Festival? Untold Festival is the largest electronic music festival held in Romania, taking place in ______ at the Cluj Arena.
  68. Which place completes this sentence about Untold Festival? During the four days of the festival, more than 240,000 people attended the concerts held on several stages in the centre of ______.
  69. Which place completes this sentence about Untold Festival? The festival took place during four days in the centre of ______ and involved 10 stages.
  70. Which place completes this sentence about Adrian Mutu? After two more brief spells with Pune City and ASA ______, Mutu retired from professional football in 2016.
  71. Which place completes this sentence about Dorinel Munteanu? In 1987 he was close to a move to Politehnica ______ but eventually stayed in Divizia B, going to CSM Reșița.

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