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  1. Complete the sentence about Ćevapi with the correct year: Leskovac, in Ottoman territory until ______, developed a particular reputation for grilled minced-meat dishes.
  2. Complete the sentence about Ćevapi with the correct year: By ______ ćevapčići were described as a local speciality in southern Serbia, Skopje and Peja.
  3. Complete the sentence about Ćevapi with the correct year: A ______ letter from the Caru cu Bere restaurant in Bucharest describing the recipe for mititei stated that the dish had come from Serbia.
  4. Complete the sentence about Baklava with the correct year: The word baklava is first attested in English in ______, a borrowing from Ottoman Turkish: باقلاوه /bɑːklɑvɑː/.
  5. Complete the sentence about Baklava with the correct year: Written in ______ in today's Iraq, the cookbook was based on an earlier collection of 9th century Persian-inspired recipes.
  6. Complete the sentence about Bosnian coffee with the correct year: Coffee was in use in Istanbul by ______; a legal document mentions that Ottoman admiral Barbaros Hayreddin Pasha's house had a coffee…
  7. Complete the sentence about Bosnian coffee with the correct year: A ______ Danish expedition recorded that "northern and eastern Arabs" prepared bean coffee "in the same way as with the Turks".
  8. Complete the sentence about Bosnian coffee with the correct year: Already in ______ several ships were ordered to be sunk in Istanbul harbour for importing coffee.
  9. Complete the sentence about Japrak with the correct year: Koupepia arrived in Cyprus with Greek immigrants in ______ BC.
  10. Complete the sentence about Somun with the correct year: The first mention of the word in English cited in the Oxford English Dictionary was in ______.
  11. Complete the sentence about Rakia with the correct year: The first legal and official rakija distillery, Bojkovčanka, was established in ______ about 10 miles south of Belgrade.
  12. Complete the sentence about Sevdalinka with the correct year: In ______, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić referred to such material as "Bosnian songs", while the term sevdalinka became established only toward…
  13. Complete the sentence about Bosnian folk music with the correct year: In the mid '80s, two metal bands were formed in capital Sarajevo: Bombarder and Parasite from which D.throne emerged as next gener…
  14. Complete the sentence about Dino Merlin with the correct year: Born in Sarajevo in ______, Dino founded and led the band Merlin, one of the best-selling rock groups in Southeast Europe.
  15. Complete the sentence about Dino Merlin with the correct year: During the Bosnian War, he wrote and composed "Sva bol svijeta", performed by Fazla as Bosnia and Herzegovina's first-ever entry in the E…
  16. Complete the sentence about Zdravko Čolić with the correct year: In the summer of ______, Novi ambasadori scored a month-long gig with Indexi in Dubrovnik, which was their first tour-like experience.
  17. Complete the sentence about Hari Mata Hari with the correct year: Hari Mata Hari is a Bosnian pop band, formed in ______ in Sarajevo.
  18. Complete the sentence about Hari Mata Hari with the correct year: Hari Mata Hari was the representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Eurovision Song Contest ______ held in Athens, Greece.
  19. Complete the sentence about Hari Mata Hari with the correct year: In ______, Pjer Žalica - "Badžo" and Zoran Kesić left the group.
  20. Complete the sentence about Bijelo Dugme with the correct year: In ______, the band's debut studio album Kad bi' bio bijelo dugme brought them nationwide popularity with its Balkan folk-influenced har…
  21. Complete the sentence about Bijelo Dugme with the correct year: After the departure of Bebek in ______, the band hired vocalist Mladen Vojičić Tifa, with whom the band recorded only one, albeit highly…
  22. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The band's next and final vocalist, Alen Islamović, joined the band in ______.
  23. Complete the sentence about Bijelo Dugme with the correct year: The group disbanded in ______ due to the political crisis in Yugoslavia following the death of Josip Broz Tito, which would end up escal…
  24. Complete the sentence about Bijelo Dugme with the correct year: The foursome of Bebek, Bregović, Redžić and Vukašinović stayed on the island of Capri and in ______ relocated back to Naples.
  25. Complete the sentence about Goran Bregović with the correct year: For Silent Gunpowder, Bregović won the Golden Arena for Best Film Music at the ______ Pula Film Festival, among other awards.
  26. Complete the sentence about Goran Bregović with the correct year: Spotting him at a Beštije gig in ______, Željko Bebek invited eighteen-year-old Bregović to play bass guitar in his band Kodeksi, whic…
  27. Complete the sentence about Indexi with the correct year: Indexi formed in ______, and their name was derived from the "Indeks" which was a student's grade log.
  28. Complete the sentence about Crvena jabuka with the correct year: In ______, Žerić, Jelčić and Bratoš reformed Crvena Jabuka in Zagreb.
  29. Complete the sentence about Divlje jagode with the correct year: Despite making demo recording, the lineup featuring Stipišić never made any official releases, and Divlje Jagode disbanded in ______.
  30. Complete the sentence about Divlje jagode with the correct year: In ______, Lipovača reformed the group, long-time bass guitarist Zlatan Čehić taking over the vocals.
  31. Complete the sentence about Zabranjeno pušenje with the correct year: Kurtović, vocalist Marin Gradac, a guest on the ______ album bassist Dragan Bobić, guitarist Sejo Kovo and violinist Bruno Urlić.
  32. Complete the sentence about Zabranjeno pušenje with the correct year: After one temporary drummer, Branko Trajkov joined the group in ______.
  33. Complete the sentence about Plavi orkestar with the correct year: The band was started in ______ by four teenagers – vocalist Saša Lošić "Loša", guitarist Srđan Krošnjar, bass guitarist Gordan Džamonj…
  34. Complete the sentence about Plavi orkestar with the correct year: In ______, the four were joined by experienced guitarist Mladen Pavičić "Pava".
  35. Complete the sentence about Plavi orkestar with the correct year: With the album Sunce na prozoru, released in ______, the band turned to sentimental pop rock sound.
  36. Complete the sentence about Plavi orkestar with the correct year: Despite not repeating the nationwide success of the group's first album, Sunce na prozoru and Simpatija, released in ______, brought a…
  37. Complete the sentence about Plavi orkestar with the correct year: The outbreak of the Bosnian War forced the band members to end their activity in ______.
  38. Complete the sentence about Damir Imamović with the correct year: In ______, when Imamović was 14, his hometown of Sarajevo was besieged as part of the ongoing Bosnian War.
  39. Complete the sentence about Damir Imamović with the correct year: Imamović would remain trapped in Sarajevo with the rest of its residents until ______.
  40. Complete the sentence about Damir Imamović with the correct year: Imamović held his first concert in The Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Sarajevo, in ______.
  41. Complete the sentence about Safet Isović with the correct year: Safet became a war refugee at the age of five in ______ when Yugoslavia was invaded by Nazi Germany.
  42. Complete the sentence about Safet Isović with the correct year: After a year of study, he was invited to record two songs, which were released on 6 April ______.
  43. Complete the sentence about Zaim Imamović with the correct year: Zaim Imamović died in Sarajevo during the Siege of Sarajevo, on 2 February ______.
  44. Complete the sentence about Himzo Polovina with the correct year: Polovina was born on 11 March ______ in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  45. Complete the sentence about Himzo Polovina with the correct year: From ______ until he left for Sarajevo, he was a member of the folk ensemble "Abrašević", with whom he toured cities and villages acro…
  46. Complete the sentence about Meša Selimović with the correct year: Selimović was born to a prominent Bosnian Muslim family on 26 April ______ in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he graduated from e…
  47. Complete the sentence about Meša Selimović with the correct year: In ______, he returned to Tuzla to teach at the Tuzla Gymnasium, that today bears his name.
  48. Complete the sentence about Ivo Andrić with the correct year: After the war, he studied South Slavic history and literature at universities in Zagreb and Graz, eventually attaining his PhD. in Graz in…
  49. Complete the sentence about Ivo Andrić with the correct year: In ______, the Nobel Committee awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature, selecting him over writers such as J.
  50. Complete the sentence about Ivo Andrić with the correct year: Andrić's health declined substantially in late ______ and he died in Belgrade the following March.
  51. Complete the sentence about Mak Dizdar with the correct year: Mak Dizdar died aged 53 in ______, having outlived his parents and both siblings.
  52. Complete the sentence about Aleksa Šantić with the correct year: In ______ Šantić became a member of the Serbian Royal Academy.
  53. Complete the sentence about Aleksa Šantić with the correct year: Aleksa Šantić was born ______ into a Herzegovinian Serb family, in Mostar, at the time, under the Ottoman Empire.
  54. Complete the sentence about Aleksa Šantić with the correct year: In ______, he returned to Mostar with a knowledge of Italian and German languages.
  55. Complete the sentence about Aleksa Šantić with the correct year: Šantić presided over the Serbian Singing Society "Gusle" established in ______.
  56. Complete the sentence about Jovan Dučić with the correct year: Jovan Dučić had a sister, Mileva, who died in March ______ at the age of twenty-two, leaving behind a small daughter.
  57. Complete the sentence about Jovan Dučić with the correct year: Dučić suffered deeply after the death of his sister Mila; in ______, he published the poem “To My Sister at the Grave” in Bosanska vila.
  58. Complete the sentence about Branko Ćopić with the correct year: Ćopić was born into a Bosnian Serb family on 1 January ______ in the village of Hašani, near Bosanska Krupa in the Bosanska Krajina regi…
  59. Complete the sentence about Branko Ćopić with the correct year: During the uprising in Bosanska Krajina in ______, he joined the Partisans and remained in their ranks until the end of World War II.
  60. Complete the sentence about Semezdin Mehmedinović with the correct year: When war broke out in ______, Mehmedinović remained in Sarajevo with his family.
  61. Complete the sentence about Semezdin Mehmedinović with the correct year: In ______, during the Bosnian War, Semezdin and Benjamin Filipović co-wrote and co-directed the film "Mizaldo, kraj Teatra".
  62. Complete the sentence about Semezdin Mehmedinović with the correct year: In ______, after the end of the siege of Sarajevo and the conclusion of the Bosnian war, Mehmedinović emigrated to the United S…
  63. Complete the sentence about Semezdin Mehmedinović with the correct year: In ______, Mehmedinović published another book of poems entitled "Devet Alexandrija".
  64. Complete the sentence about Aleksandar Hemon with the correct year: Since ______ he has lived in the United States, where he found himself as a tourist and became stranded at the outbreak of the war i…
  65. Complete the sentence about Aleksandar Hemon with the correct year: In ______ Hemon published his first book, The Question of Bruno, which included short stories and a novella.
  66. Complete the sentence about Danis Tanović with the correct year: Tanović was born on 20 February ______ in Zenica, a city in SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia.
  67. Complete the sentence about Danis Tanović with the correct year: In late ______, Tanović left the film crew he had worked with for over two years.
  68. Complete the sentence about Danis Tanović with the correct year: In ______, he completed his studies in Brussels, graduating at the top of his class.
  69. Complete the sentence about Emir Kusturica with the correct year: As he writes in ______, his father's mother was "strongly tied to Muslim rites" while his father "did not belong to any cult, he was n…
  70. Complete the sentence about Emir Kusturica with the correct year: Kusturica primarily defined himself as Yugoslavian at least until the year ______.
  71. Complete the sentence about Underground with the correct year: Underground received widespread critical acclaim, and won the Palme d'Or at the ______ Cannes Film Festival.
  72. Complete the sentence about Underground with the correct year: In ______, Blacky is in town to celebrate Jovan's birthday at a communist hangout.
  73. Complete the sentence about Underground with the correct year: Days later on Easter ______, Marko and Natalija, now a couple, watch a comatose Blacky.
  74. Complete the sentence about Underground with the correct year: In ______, Marko is one of Tito's closest associates and advisors.
  75. Complete the sentence about Underground with the correct year: In ______, at the height of the Yugoslav Wars, Ivan re-emerges with Soni with whom he was recently reunited.
  76. Complete the sentence about When Father Was Away on Business with the correct year: When Father Was Away on Business won the Palme d'Or at the ______ Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Aca…
  77. Complete the sentence about When Father Was Away on Business with the correct year: In June ______, a local neighbourhood drunk, Čika Franjo, serenades field workers.
  78. Complete the sentence about When Father Was Away on Business with the correct year: In his ______ Movie Guide, Leonard Maltin awarded it three and a half stars, praising it as "Captivating".
  79. Complete the sentence about Jasmila Žbanić with the correct year: On 15 March ______, Žbanić's film was nominated for Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards.
  80. Complete the sentence about Sarajevo Film Festival with the correct year: In October ______, a ten-day Sarajevo International Film Festival was held, directed by Haris Pašović of MESS.
  81. Complete the sentence about Sarajevo Film Festival with the correct year: The first Sarajevo Film Festival was held from 25 October to 5 November ______.
  82. Complete the sentence about Sarajevo Film Festival with the correct year: By ______, the European Film Association made the Sarajevo Film Festival one of the eleven festivals that could nominate a fil…
  83. Complete the sentence about National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the correct year: Under their administration, a Museum Society was formed on February 1, ______, in order to further this age…
  84. Complete the sentence about National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the correct year: Construction on the new building completed in ______ and the museum was officially opened on October 4 of t…
  85. Complete the sentence about National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the correct year: Two years later in ______, as World War I began, the museum suspended its operations.
  86. Complete the sentence about Bosniak Institute with the correct year: The entire stock was moved to Sarajevo after the aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina and opened in ______.
  87. Complete the sentence about Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra with the correct year: The outbreak of World War II disrupted the activities of the orchestra, which was re-established in October ______.
  88. Complete the sentence about Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra with the correct year: The Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra performed on 19 June ______, amongst the ruins of Sarajevo City Hall.
  89. Complete the sentence about Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra with the correct year: In October ______, Yehudi Menuhin came to Sarajevo and conducted the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra.
  90. Complete the sentence about Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra with the correct year: In ______, by the invitation of UNESCO's Director-General, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchest…
  91. Complete the sentence about Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra with the correct year: In March ______, the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra recorded its first CD, 'Sarajevo Renaissance'.
  92. Complete the sentence about University of Sarajevo with the correct year: The University of Sarajevo entered the phase of post-war physical and academic renewal and reconstruction in ______.
  93. Complete the sentence about University of Banja Luka with the correct year: The first Pedagogical School in Banja Luka was established in ______ when it enrolled its first 38 students.
  94. Complete the sentence about University of Banja Luka with the correct year: The University of Banja Luka was established on 7 November ______ as the second university established in the Socialist Repu…
  95. Complete the sentence about University of Tuzla with the correct year: The Mining School developed into a Faculty of Mining in ______.
  96. Complete the sentence about University of Mostar with the correct year: Croatian nationalists claim the university's roots date back to ______, when the Franciscan theological school was established i…
  97. Complete the sentence about Islamic Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the correct year: The Islamic Community was established in ______ during the Austrian-Hungarian rule over Bosnia and Herzeg…
  98. Complete the sentence about Reis-ul-ulema with the correct year: On 17 October ______, emperor Franz Joseph issued an imperial decree in which he proclaimed Hadžiomerović a reis-ul-ulema of Bosnia and…
  99. Complete the sentence about Serbian Orthodox Church with the correct year: The church attained autocephalous status as an archbishopric in ______ under Saint Sava, its first archbishop.
  100. Complete the sentence about Serbian Orthodox Church with the correct year: In ______, it was elevated to the rank of a patriarchate and subsequently became known as the Patriarchate of Peć.

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