Peruvian Science, Arts and Culture

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  1. Complete the sentence about Aymara language with the correct year: In ______ a full writing system was developed for Aymara using the Korean script Hangeul.
  2. Complete the sentence about Ceviche with the correct year: The first documented evidence of the term ceviche is from ______, in the patriotic song "La Chicha," considered the first Peruvian national a…
  3. Complete the sentence about Lomo saltado with the correct year: In a ______ video interview for the Peruvian newspaper El Comercio, Peruvian chef Gastón Acurio demonstrates how he makes his version of…
  4. Complete the sentence about Lomo saltado with the correct year: The ______ cookbook is not an all-inclusive list of old Peruvian dishes available in the country, and it does not contradict the Chinese…
  5. Complete the sentence about Pisco with the correct year: The oldest use of the word pisco to denote Peruvian aguardiente dates from ______.
  6. Complete the sentence about Pisco with the correct year: By ______, Peru was already producing wine for commerce; over time, a significant wine industry arose in the region.
  7. Complete the sentence about Pisco with the correct year: In ______, Santa Maria Magdalena, a town in Peru, had a port by the name Pisco.
  8. Complete the sentence about Inca Kola with the correct year: In ______, an immigrant English family founded a small bottling company under their family name Lindley in Lima's neighborhoods Rímac.
  9. Complete the sentence about Inca Kola with the correct year: The company was officially incorporated in Peru in ______ as Corporación José R.
  10. Complete the sentence about Inca Kola with the correct year: In ______, Coca-Cola held a 32% share of the Peruvian soft drink market, while Inca Kola held 32.9%.
  11. Complete the sentence about Inca Kola with the correct year: The Peruvian fast-food chain Bembos switched from serving Coca-Cola to Inca Kola in ______.
  12. Complete the sentence about Cusqueña with the correct year: The Backus and Johnston brewery was founded in ______ by the Americans Jacob Backus and John Howard Johnston in the Rímac District in Lima.
  13. Complete the sentence about Cusqueña with the correct year: The company operated as a British corporation until ______, when the company management transferred the company assets and incorporation to…
  14. Complete the sentence about Nikkei cuisine with the correct year: The Japanese first began their journey through Peru in ______.
  15. Complete the sentence about Nikkei cuisine with the correct year: In ______, this type of food became recognized and since then has been seen as a fusion of Japanese and Peruvian ingredients.
  16. Complete the sentence about Maca with the correct year: Antonio Vázquez de Espinosa described the plant following his visit to Peru circa ______, and Bernabé Cobo described this plant in the early 17t…
  17. Complete the sentence about Chicha with the correct year: Chicha was outlawed in Colombia in ______ and remains formally illegal, but brewing continued underground and the drink is openly available in…
  18. Complete the sentence about Marinera with the correct year: The city of Trujillo has been recognized as the national birthplace of the marinera since ______.
  19. Complete the sentence about Marinera with the correct year: The first Marinera to be written in musical notation was La Concheperla composed by Abelardo Gamarra Rondó and José Alvarado, by Rosa Merced…
  20. Complete the sentence about Chabuca Granda with the correct year: Granda was born on 3 September ______, in Las Cotabambas Province, in the region of Apurímac.
  21. Complete the sentence about Chabuca Granda with the correct year: In ______, her family moved to Lima, and she started studying in the school Colegio Sagrado Corazón.
  22. Complete the sentence about Chabuca Granda with the correct year: Granda's song "La Flor de la Canela" has become an anthem for the city of Lima, since it was made popular by the Peruvian group Los Ch…
  23. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, a monument dedicated to her was inaugurated in Barranco.
  24. Complete the sentence about Yma Sumac with the correct year: In ______, Sumac became the first Latin American and Peruvian female singer to debut on Broadway.
  25. Complete the sentence about Yma Sumac with the correct year: In ______, she became the first Latin American woman to get a phonograph record star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
  26. Complete the sentence about Yma Sumac with the correct year: Sumac was born Zoila Emperatriz Chávarri Castillo on September 13, ______, in Callao, Peru.
  27. Complete the sentence about Los Mojarras with the correct year: Los Mojarras are a band from the province of El Agustino Lima Peru that formed in ______.
  28. Complete the sentence about Susana Baca with the correct year: Baca has contributed much to its international popularity, which began in ______ with the release of the compilation CD Afro-Peruvian Cla…
  29. Complete the sentence about Susana Baca with the correct year: In ______, she won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Folk Album, for her album Lamento Negro.
  30. Complete the sentence about Juan Diego Flórez with the correct year: In ______ the Peruvian tenor, Ernesto Palacio invited him to Italy to work on a recording of Vicente Martín y Soler's opera Il Tuto…
  31. Complete the sentence about Juan Diego Flórez with the correct year: Flórez's first breakthrough and professional debut came in ______ at the Rossini Festival in the Italian city of Pesaro, Rossini's…
  32. Complete the sentence about Daniel Alomía Robles with the correct year: Daniel Alomía Robles was born in Huánuco, Peru, on January 3, ______ to Micaela Robles and Marcial Alomía, a French immigrant.
  33. Complete the sentence about Daniel Alomía Robles with the correct year: Alomía Robles attended primary school at La Mineria in Huánuco and moved with his family to Lima, Peru in ______.
  34. Complete the sentence about Daniel Alomía Robles with the correct year: In ______, Alomía Robles decided to study medicine at University of San Marcos.
  35. Complete the sentence about Andean music with the correct year: By ______, an influential group called Los Jairas formed in La Paz, Bolivia; the quartet fused native sounds into forms suitable for urb…
  36. Complete the sentence about Charango with the correct year: In his book The Motorcycle Diaries, Che Guevara described a charango he saw near Temuco, Chile, in ______.
  37. Complete the sentence about Cajón with the correct year: In ______, the cajón was declared National Heritage by the Peruvian National Institute of Culture.
  38. Complete the sentence about Mario Vargas Llosa with the correct year: In ______, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the indivi…
  39. Complete the sentence about César Vallejo with the correct year: Clayton Eshleman and José Rubia Barcia's translation of The Complete Posthumous Poetry of César Vallejo won the National Book Award for…
  40. Complete the sentence about José María Arguedas with the correct year: José Maria Arguedas was born on 18 January ______ in Andahuaylas, a province in the southern Andes.
  41. Complete the sentence about José María Arguedas with the correct year: Arguedas' depression became a crisis in ______, leading him to a first suicide attempt by overdose on April 11 of that year.
  42. Complete the sentence about Inca Garcilaso de la Vega with the correct year: Gómez Suárez de Figueroa was born on April 12, ______ in Cuzco, Peru, during the early years of the Spanish conquest.
  43. Complete the sentence about Julio Ramón Ribeyro with the correct year: In ______ he immigrated to Paris where he worked as a journalist in France Presse and then as cultural advisor and ambassador to…
  44. Complete the sentence about Julio Ramón Ribeyro with the correct year: In ______ he won a journalism fellowship awarded by the Institute of Hispanic Culture, which allowed him to travel to Spain.
  45. Complete the sentence about Julio Ramón Ribeyro with the correct year: By the end of his fellowship in ______, he traveled to Paris to prepare a thesis on French literature at the Sorbonne University.
  46. Complete the sentence about Alfredo Bryce Echenique with the correct year: Alfredo Bryce Echenique was born in Lima on 19 February ______, to a family of bankers.
  47. Complete the sentence about José Santos Chocano with the correct year: After the coup which deposed Estrada Cabrera in ______, Chocano was briefly imprisoned, and subsequently returned to Peru, where…
  48. Complete the sentence about Nobel Prize in Literature with the correct year: In ______, the Nobel Foundation's newly created statutes were promulgated by King Oscar II.
  49. Complete the sentence about The Time of the Hero with the correct year: In ______ it appeared on El Pais list "Favorite Books of 100 Spanish Authors".
  50. Complete the sentence about Peruvian cinema with the correct year: The first all-talking picture, Buscando Olvido, was finally released in ______.
  51. Complete the sentence with the correct year: By ______ the conflict had reached Lima, the capital city of Peru.
  52. Complete the sentence about Claudia Llosa with the correct year: On February 2, ______, Llosa's The Milk of Sorrow was nominated for the Academy Award in the Best Foreign Film Category.
  53. Complete the sentence about Claudia Llosa with the correct year: In ______, Claudia Llosa's short film Loxoro, produced by Oscar winner Juan José Campanella was shortlisted for the Berlin Internationa…
  54. Complete the sentence about Magaly Solier with the correct year: Magaly Solier Romero was born on 11 June ______ in to a Quechua family, the province of Huanta, in the region of Ayacucho in Peru.
  55. Complete the sentence about Cusco School with the correct year: Marcos Ribera, born in Cusco in ______, is the major exponent of this tendency.
  56. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, he became a professor of art at Cornell University.
  57. Complete the sentence about Retablo with the correct year: In ______ the Spanish Colonial Arts Society was formed, and since then these unique traditions of New Mexico have been preserved.
  58. Complete the sentence about Tapestry with the correct year: According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest use in English was in a will of ______, mentioning a "Lectum meum de tapstriwerke c…
  59. Complete the sentence about Tapestry with the correct year: Thomas Campbell argues that in documents relating to the Tudor royal collection from ______ onwards "arras" specifically meant tapestries us…
  60. Complete the sentence about Peruvian architecture with the correct year: Fortunately, a series of examples of Incan architecture have staye intact, which was developed until the beginning of the Spani…
  61. Complete the sentence about National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History of Peru with the correct year: Without a fixed location, The collection settled in various places until ______, whe…
  62. Complete the sentence about National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History of Peru with the correct year: Leguía purchased from him in ______ and formed, together with the Paracas de Tello c…
  63. Complete the sentence about National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History of Peru with the correct year: Another important task was the publication of a periodical magazine, the Revista del…
  64. Complete the sentence about National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History of Peru with the correct year: Finally in ______ they merged again, creating the current museum, and passing under…
  65. Complete the sentence about Hiram Bingham III with the correct year: In ______, he publicized the existence of the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu which he rediscovered with the guidance of local indigen…
  66. Complete the sentence about Hiram Bingham III with the correct year: Bingham went to the United States in his teens in order to undertake higher education, entering Phillips Academy in Andover, Massac…
  67. Complete the sentence about Julio C. Tello with the correct year: Tello completed his bachelor's degree in medicine at the National University of San Marcos in Peru in ______.
  68. Complete the sentence about Rose of Lima with the correct year: For eleven years, she lived this way, with intervals of ecstasy, and eventually died on 24 August ______, at the young age of 31, after…
  69. Complete the sentence about Saint Martin de Porres with the correct year: Martin was born in the city of Lima, Viceroyalty of Peru, Spanish Empire, on 9 December ______.
  70. Complete the sentence about Saint Martin de Porres with the correct year: When Martin was 24, he was allowed to profess religious vows as a Dominican lay brother in ______.
  71. Complete the sentence about Virgen de la Candelaria with the correct year: The statue itself was lost when a tsunami carried it out to sea in ______; the present statue is a copy by Fernando Estévez.
  72. Complete the sentence about Carnival in Peru with the correct year: In ______, in festivities sponsored by Pope Paul II, Jews were forced to race naked through the streets of the city of Rome.
  73. Complete the sentence about Nolberto Solano with the correct year: Solano signed his first professional contract with the Peruvian Primera División side Sporting Cristal in ______ at the age of 17.
  74. Complete the sentence about Claudio Pizarro with the correct year: Pizarro began his professional career in Peru with Deportivo Pesquero and Alianza Lima before joining Werder Bremen in ______.
  75. Complete the sentence about Hugo Sotil with the correct year: Sotil made his professional debut in ______, standing out with Deportivo Municipal and became one of the most popular players in Peru.
  76. Complete the sentence about Hugo Sotil with the correct year: In ______ he joined the starting team of the America national team that faced the Europe team of Johan Cruyff, Eusébio and Giacinto Facche…
  77. Complete the sentence about Héctor Chumpitaz with the correct year: Chumpitaz spent most of his club career with Universitario de Deportes, winning five Peruvian League titles and finishing runner-up…
  78. Complete the sentence about Héctor Chumpitaz with the correct year: Chumpitaz is considered one of the greatest South American defenders of all-time and was named to the list of best World Cup players…
  79. Complete the sentence about Héctor Chumpitaz with the correct year: Chumpitaz captained the Universitario de Deportes side to a runner-up place in the Copa Libertadores ______, losing 2–1 to Independi…
  80. Complete the sentence about Universitario de Deportes with the correct year: The club won its first Peruvian title in ______, one year after its debut in the first division.
  81. Complete the sentence about Universitario de Deportes with the correct year: Since then, Universitario has won twenty-nine first-division titles and was the first Peruvian club, and the Pacific, to re…
  82. Complete the sentence about Universitario de Deportes with the correct year: Universitario and Alianza Lima participate in the Peruvian Clásico, which has its roots in the club's first participation i…
  83. Complete the sentence about Alianza Lima with the correct year: The club was founded under the name of Sport Alianza on 15 February ______ by working-class youth in the Chacaritas neighbourhood of Lim…
  84. Complete the sentence about Sporting Cristal with the correct year: The team has played in the Peruvian Primera División since ______, where it obtained the title that year.
  85. Complete the sentence about Sporting Cristal with the correct year: In ______, they were runners-up of the Copa Libertadores, losing the final to Brazilian side Cruzeiro.
  86. Complete the sentence about Peruvian Primera División with the correct year: The Peruvian Football League was founded on an amateur basis and organized in ______ into the two tiers of Primera División…
  87. Complete the sentence about 1982 FIFA World Cup with the correct year: Spain was chosen as the host nation by FIFA in London on 6 July ______.
  88. Complete the sentence about 1982 FIFA World Cup with the correct year: As a result, West Germany withdrew its bid for the ______ edition.
  89. Complete the sentence about Peru at the Olympics with the correct year: Peru's first official appearance at the Olympic Games was at the ______ Summer Olympics in Berlin.
  90. Complete the sentence about Peru at the Olympics with the correct year: The first silver medal was won by Francisco Boza in Trap at the ______ Summer Olympics.
  91. Complete the sentence about Sofía Mulánovich with the correct year: On 27 July ______, Mulánovich was inducted into the Surfers Hall of Fame in Huntington Beach, California, United States.
  92. Complete the sentence about Gabriela Pérez del Solar with the correct year: In ______, Pérez del Solar was inducted into the International Volleyball Hall of Fame.
  93. Complete the sentence about Gabriela Pérez del Solar with the correct year: While representing Peru at just 16 years old, she finished in fourth place in the ______ Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
  94. Complete the sentence about Paleta frontón with the correct year: Paleta frontón is a Peruvian sport that was born in the capital, Lima, in ______.
  95. Complete the sentence about Paleta frontón with the correct year: Paleta frontón premiered at the ______ Pan American Games in Lima under the category of Basque pelota.
  96. Complete the sentence about Peruvian Paso with the correct year: Horses arrived in South America during the Spanish Conquest, beginning with the arrival of Pizarro in ______.
  97. Complete the sentence about Peruvian Paso with the correct year: Importations increased after ______, when the Spanish created the Viceroyalty of New Castilla.
  98. Complete the sentence about Plaza de Acho with the correct year: The site was called “el Hacho,” a Quechua word meaning “elevated place with view of the sea.” Construction on the plaza officially bega…
  99. Complete the sentence about Plaza de Acho with the correct year: The inaugural run took place on 30 January ______, and showcased the bullfighters Pisí, Maestro de España, and Gallipavo.
  100. Complete the sentence about Pontifical Catholic University of Peru with the correct year: The Catholic University of Lima began activities in ______ with two schools: Letters and Laws.

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