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  1. Complete the sentence about Frisian languages with the correct year: ISO 639-1 code fy and ISO 639-2 code fry were assigned to "Frisian", but that was changed in November ______ to "Western Frisian".
  2. Complete the sentence about West Frisian language with the correct year: Until the 16th century, West Frisian was widely spoken and written, but from ______ onwards it became an almost exclusively ora…
  3. Complete the sentence about West Frisian language with the correct year: Therefore, the New Frisian period is considered to have begun at this time, around ______.
  4. Complete the sentence about Limburgish with the correct year: In the Netherlands, Limburgish has been officially recognized as a regional language by the Dutch government since ______.
  5. Complete the sentence about Limburgish with the correct year: The request to recognize Limburgish there as well was ultimately rejected in ______.
  6. Complete the sentence about Stroopwafel with the correct year: By ______, there were 17 factories in Gouda alone, of which four are still open.
  7. Complete the sentence about Poffertjes with the correct year: The first mention of poffertjes is credited to a ______ appendix to the cookbook Volmaakte Hollandsche keuken-meid.
  8. Complete the sentence about Hagelslag with the correct year: Dieperink, the director of the liquorice sweet company Venco, in ______.
  9. Complete the sentence about Hagelslag with the correct year: Venz, the Netherlands' largest producer of hagelslag products, has been making chocolate hagelslag since ______.
  10. Complete the sentence about Stamppot with the correct year: The origin of stamppot is unknown, although legend attributes the invention of hutspot to the ______ Siege of Leiden.
  11. Complete the sentence about Erwtensoep with the correct year: A soup of this sort made with yellow split peas is called "London particular", after the thick yellow smogs for which London was famous un…
  12. Complete the sentence about Oliebol with the correct year: The Oliebollen in this painting from around ______ are very similar to today's oliebol.
  13. Complete the sentence about Speculaas with the correct year: The earliest known attestation is the form speculatie in the bakers' ordinance from the Dutch city of Haarlem in ______.
  14. Complete the sentence about Jenever with the correct year: Furthermore, prior to Sylvius's tenth birthday, jenever appeared in Philip Massinger's ______ play, The Duke of Milan, which referred to the…
  15. Complete the sentence about Amstel Brewery with the correct year: The brewery's symbolic first stone was laid on 11 June ______.
  16. Complete the sentence about Amstel Brewery with the correct year: In ______ a special export bottling plant was built, where "tropical" beers for the Dutch East Indies and other overseas markets were…
  17. Complete the sentence about Grolsch with the correct year: In ______, the Canadian Sleeman Breweries purchased the rights to distribute Grolsch in Canada.
  18. Complete the sentence about Delftware with the correct year: From about ______ Delft potters began using personal monograms and distinctive factory marks.
  19. Complete the sentence about Rembrandt with the correct year: In ______, Rembrandt opened a studio in Leiden, which he shared with friend and colleague Jan Lievens.
  20. Complete the sentence about Rembrandt with the correct year: In ______, Rembrandt began to accept students, among them Gerrit Dou and Isaac de Jouderville.
  21. Complete the sentence about Rembrandt with the correct year: Joan Huydecoper is mentioned as the first buyer of a Rembrandt painting in ______.
  22. Complete the sentence about Rembrandt with the correct year: In ______, Rembrandt was discovered by the statesman Constantijn Huygens who procured for Rembrandt important commissions from the court of…
  23. Complete the sentence about Rembrandt with the correct year: At the end of ______, Rembrandt moved to Amsterdam, a city rapidly expanding as the business and trade capital.
  24. Complete the sentence about Johannes Vermeer with the correct year: Johannes Vermeer was baptized within the Reformed Church on 31 October ______.
  25. Complete the sentence about Johannes Vermeer with the correct year: The city had previously been looted and burned in ______ by Spanish soldiers, who killed thousands of residents.
  26. Complete the sentence about Johannes Vermeer with the correct year: The couple moved to Delft and had a daughter named Gertruy who was baptized in ______.
  27. Complete the sentence about Johannes Vermeer with the correct year: In ______, Reijnier was involved in a fight with a soldier named Willem van Bylandt who died from his wounds five months later.
  28. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, he leased an inn, which he called "The Flying Fox".
  29. Complete the sentence about Vincent van Gogh with the correct year: In ______, he moved to Paris, where he met members of the avant-garde, including Émile Bernard and Paul Gauguin, who were reacting a…
  30. Complete the sentence about Frans Hals with the correct year: In ______, Hals became a member of the Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke, and he started to earn money as an art restorer for the town council.
  31. Complete the sentence about Frans Hals with the correct year: Frans Hals married his first wife Anneke Harmensdochter around ______.
  32. Complete the sentence about Frans Hals with the correct year: Unfortunately, the exact date is unknown because the older marriage records of the Haarlem city hall before ______ have not been preserved…
  33. Complete the sentence about Frans Hals with the correct year: Anneke died in ______, shortly after the birth of their third child and, of the three, Harmen survived infancy and one had died before Hal…
  34. Complete the sentence about Piet Mondrian with the correct year: Mondrian's arrival in Paris from the Netherlands in ______ marked the beginning of a period of profound change.
  35. Complete the sentence about Piet Mondrian with the correct year: After a strict Protestant upbringing, in ______, Mondrian entered the Academy for Fine Art in Amsterdam.
  36. Complete the sentence about M. C. Escher with the correct year: Maurits Cornelis Escher was born on 17 June ______ in Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands, in a house that forms part of the Princess…
  37. Complete the sentence about M. C. Escher with the correct year: In ______, an important year of his life, Escher traveled through Italy, visiting Florence, San Gimignano, Volterra, Siena, and Ravello.
  38. Complete the sentence about Hieronymus Bosch with the correct year: Bosch first appears in the municipal record on 5 April ______, when he is named along with two brothers and a sister.
  39. Complete the sentence about Hieronymus Bosch with the correct year: An entry in the accounts of the Brotherhood of Our Lady records Bosch's death in ______.
  40. Complete the sentence about Jan Steen with the correct year: In ______ Jan Steen and Gabriël Metsu founded the painters' Guild of Saint Luke at Leiden.
  41. Complete the sentence about Jan Steen with the correct year: On 3 October ______, he married van Goyen's daughter Margriet, with whom he would have eight children.
  42. Complete the sentence about Jan Steen with the correct year: After the explosion in Delft in ______ the art market was depressed, but Steen painted A Burgomaster of Delft and his daughter.
  43. Complete the sentence about Jacob van Ruisdael with the correct year: From ______ he painted Dutch countryside scenes of remarkable quality for a young man.
  44. Complete the sentence with the correct year: After a trip to Germany in ______, his landscapes took on a more heroic character.
  45. Complete the sentence about Kees van Dongen with the correct year: In ______, at age 16, Kees van Dongen started his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam, working with J.
  46. Complete the sentence about Kees van Dongen with the correct year: In ______, Van Dongen lived in Paris for several months, where there was a large emigre community.
  47. Complete the sentence about Kees van Dongen with the correct year: In December ______, he returned from Rotterdam to Paris, where Preitinger had moved before him and found work.
  48. Complete the sentence about Kees van Dongen with the correct year: Around that time, Van Dongen produced a painting of Fernande Olivier, which was the reason why — according to Gertrude Stein in her _…
  49. Complete the sentence about Kees van Dongen with the correct year: Guus took Dolly to see their families in Rotterdam in the summer of ______, where they were caught by the outbreak of World War I.
  50. Complete the sentence about Karel Appel with the correct year: Christiaan Karel Appel was born on 25 April ______ in his parents' house at Dapperstraat 7 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
  51. Complete the sentence about Karel Appel with the correct year: In ______ he participated with the other CoBrA artists in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; this generated a huge scandal and many objectio…
  52. Complete the sentence about Karel Appel with the correct year: By ______, Danish artists had already started to make spontaneous art and one of their sources of inspiration was Danish and Nordic mytho…
  53. Complete the sentence about Karel Appel with the correct year: Appel used this very intensively; his ______ fresco 'Questioning Children' in Amsterdam City Hall caused controversy and was covered up f…
  54. Complete the sentence about De Stijl with the correct year: Around ______, Van Doesburg started meeting the artists who would eventually become the founders of the journal.
  55. Complete the sentence about De Stijl with the correct year: In ______ the cooperation of these artists, together with his friend the poet and musician Antony Kok, resulted in the founding of De Stijl.
  56. Complete the sentence about Theo van Doesburg with the correct year: On 6 November ______, he wrote in the same journal: "Mondrian realizes the importance of line.
  57. Complete the sentence about Theo van Doesburg with the correct year: In ______ Van Doesburg moved to Paris, together with his later wife Nelly van Moorsel.
  58. Complete the sentence about Gerrit Rietveld with the correct year: Rietveld was born in Utrecht on August ______ as the son of a joiner.
  59. Complete the sentence about Gerrit Rietveld with the correct year: By the time he opened his own furniture workshop in ______, Rietveld had taught himself drawing, painting and model-making.
  60. Complete the sentence about Gerrit Rietveld with the correct year: Rietveld designed his Red and Blue Chair in ______ which has become an iconic piece of modern furniture.
  61. Complete the sentence about Gerrit Rietveld with the correct year: In ______, Walter Gropius invited Rietveld to exhibit at the Bauhaus.
  62. Complete the sentence about Dutch Golden Age painting with the correct year: The full development of this specialization is seen from the late 1620s, and the period from then until the French invasion…
  63. Complete the sentence about Dutch Golden Age painting with the correct year: Such is the generall Notion, enclination and delight that these Countrie Native have to Painting" reported an English trave…
  64. Complete the sentence about The Night Watch with the correct year: The Night Watch was completed in ______ at the peak of the Dutch Golden Age.
  65. Complete the sentence about The Night Watch with the correct year: In ______, the painting was moved to the Amsterdam Town Hall, for which it was trimmed on all four sides.
  66. Complete the sentence about The Night Watch with the correct year: Napoleon ordered it returned, but after the occupation ended in ______, the painting again moved to the Trippenhuis, which now housed…
  67. Complete the sentence about Girl with a Pearl Earring with the correct year: The work has been in the collection of the Mauritshuis in The Hague since ______ and has been the subject of various litera…
  68. Complete the sentence about Girl with a Pearl Earring with the correct year: Des Tombe had no heirs and by a bequest donated this and other paintings to the Mauritshuis in ______.
  69. Complete the sentence about Girl with a Pearl Earring with the correct year: Pietersberg caves near Maastricht until the liberation of the Netherlands in May ______.
  70. Complete the sentence about Girl with a Pearl Earring with the correct year: The painting has since been widely exhibited about the world until ______, when it returned to the Mauritshuis permanently…
  71. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Van Gogh had first experimented with lithography in The Hague in the year ______.
  72. Complete the sentence about The Potato Eaters with the correct year: Thieves stole the early version of The Potato Eaters, the Weaver's Interior, and Dried Sunflowers from the Kröller-Müller Museum in…
  73. Complete the sentence about The Potato Eaters with the correct year: In April ______, the thieves returned Weaver's Interior in an attempt to gain a $2.5 million ransom.
  74. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The police recovered the other two on 14 July ______; no ransom was paid.
  75. Complete the sentence about The Potato Eaters with the correct year: On 14 April ______, the Vincent van Gogh National Museum was robbed of twenty major paintings including the final version of The Po…
  76. Complete the sentence about Starry Night with the correct year: During this period, he produced some of the best-known works of his career, including the Irises from May ______, now in the J.
  77. Complete the sentence about Starry Night with the correct year: Paul Getty Museum, and the blue self-portrait from September ______, in the Musée d'Orsay.
  78. Complete the sentence about Christiaan Huygens with the correct year: In ______, Huygens derived geometrically the formula in classical mechanics for the centrifugal force in his work De Vi Centrifuga…
  79. Complete the sentence about Christiaan Huygens with the correct year: Huygens invented and patented the pendulum clock in ______, which was manufactured in Paris by Isaac II Thuret.
  80. Complete the sentence about Christiaan Huygens with the correct year: In ______, Huygens began grinding lenses with his brother Constantijn to build refracting telescopes.
  81. Complete the sentence about Christiaan Huygens with the correct year: In ______, he developed what is now called the Huygenian eyepiece, a telescope with two lenses to diminish the amount of dispersio…
  82. Complete the sentence about Christiaan Huygens with the correct year: Christiaan Huygens was born into a wealthy, influential Dutch family in The Hague on 14 April ______, the second son of Constantij…
  83. Complete the sentence about Antonie van Leeuwenhoek with the correct year: Raised in Delft, Dutch Republic, Van Leeuwenhoek worked as a draper in his youth and founded his own shop in ______.
  84. Complete the sentence about Antonie van Leeuwenhoek with the correct year: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was born in Delft, Dutch Republic, on 24 October ______.
  85. Complete the sentence about Hendrik Lorentz with the correct year: In ______, after his mother's death, his father married Luberta Hupkes.
  86. Complete the sentence about Pieter Zeeman with the correct year: After passing the qualification exams in ______, Zeeman entered Leiden University to study physics under Kamerlingh Onnes and Hendrik L…
  87. Complete the sentence about Pieter Zeeman with the correct year: In ______, he became Lorentz's assistant, which allowed him to participate in a research programme on the Kerr effect.
  88. Complete the sentence about Pieter Zeeman with the correct year: In ______, he submitted his doctoral thesis on the Kerr effect, the reflection of polarized light on a magnetized surface.
  89. Complete the sentence about Pieter Zeeman with the correct year: In ______, he returned to Leiden to become a Privatdozent in mathematics and physics.
  90. Complete the sentence with the correct year: For this work, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in ______.
  91. Complete the sentence about Heike Kamerlingh Onnes with the correct year: In ______, he entered the University of Groningen, where he obtained a candidate degree the following year.
  92. Complete the sentence about Heike Kamerlingh Onnes with the correct year: In ______, he received a Doctor of Philosophy for a thesis on Earth's rotation.
  93. Complete the sentence about Heike Kamerlingh Onnes with the correct year: In ______, he succeeded Pieter Rijke as Professor of Experimental Physics and Meteorology at Leiden University.
  94. Complete the sentence about Gerard 't Hooft with the correct year: After 't Hooft passed his secondary-school exams in ______, he enrolled in the physics program at Utrecht University.
  95. Complete the sentence about Gerard 't Hooft with the correct year: In ______, 't Hooft began his doctoral research under the guidance of Martinus Veltman.
  96. Complete the sentence about Gerard 't Hooft with the correct year: When 't Hooft mentioned his results at a small conference at Marseille in June ______, Kurt Symanzik encouraged him to publish them.
  97. Complete the sentence about Willem Einthoven with the correct year: In ______, Einthoven received a medical degree from the University of Utrecht.
  98. Complete the sentence about Willem Einthoven with the correct year: In ______, he became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  99. Complete the sentence about Willem Einthoven with the correct year: Beginning in ______, Einthoven completed a series of prototypes of a string galvanometer.
  100. Complete the sentence about Willem Einthoven with the correct year: In ______, Einthoven was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for inventing the first practical system of electrocardio…

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