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  1. Complete the sentence about Culture of Brazil with the correct year: Catholicism was introduced and spread largely by the Portuguese Jesuits, who arrived in ______ during the colonization with the mis…
  2. Complete the sentence about Languages of Brazil with the correct year: On December 9, ______, the National Inventory of Linguistic Diversity was created, which will analyze proposals for revitalizing…
  3. Complete the sentence about Languages of Brazil with the correct year: Before the first Portuguese explorers arrived in ______, what is now Brazil was inhabited by several Amerindian peoples that spok…
  4. Complete the sentence about Caipirinha with the correct year: Although the origin of the drink is unknown, there is a consensus in the academic community that Caipirinha was invented in the interior o…
  5. Complete the sentence about Cachaça with the correct year: The process dates from ______, when one of the Portuguese colonists brought the first cuttings of sugar cane to Brazil from Madeira.
  6. Complete the sentence about Pão de queijo with the correct year: With the discovery of mines near Ouro Preto in around ______, some 20% of the Brazilian population at that time, mainly slaves, occupie…
  7. Complete the sentence about Brigadeiro with the correct year: The origin of the name "brigadeiro" is linked to the presidential campaign of Brigadier Eduardo Gomes, UDN candidate for the Presidency of…
  8. Complete the sentence about Tapioca with the correct year: The word "tapioca" is derived from tipi'óka, its name in the Tupi language spoken by natives when the Portuguese first arrived in the Northea…
  9. Complete the sentence about Carnival in Rio de Janeiro with the correct year: In ______, the very first Rio masquerade took place, and polka and waltz took center stage.
  10. Complete the sentence about Carnival in Rio de Janeiro with the correct year: Estácio de Sá, together with Portela and Estação Primeira de Mangueira paraded for the first time in the city in ______.
  11. Complete the sentence about Brazilian Carnival with the correct year: The Carnival was first suspended in ______, following the death of the Baron of Rio Branco, at the time Brazilian Minister of Exte…
  12. Complete the sentence about Samba with the correct year: A traditionalist view that defends that the etymon comes from the Bantu was in the Diário de Pernambuco in ______.
  13. Complete the sentence about Samba school with the correct year: Samba players from a group called Estácio were the pioneers of present-day samba schools, with the founding of "Deixa Falar", or Let Me…
  14. Complete the sentence about Bossa nova with the correct year: In ______, João Gilberto's bossa album was released, containing the tracks "Chega de Saudade", "Bim Bom" and "Desafinado" which entered th…
  15. Complete the sentence about Bossa nova with the correct year: With the LP Chega de Saudade, released in ______, Gilberto consolidated the bossa nova as a new style of playing samba.
  16. Complete the sentence about Bossa nova with the correct year: On 21 November ______, the Consulate-General of Brazil presented Bossa Nova at Carnegie Hall.
  17. Complete the sentence about Bossa nova with the correct year: In ______, João Gilberto, Stan Getz and Tom Jobim released the Grammy Awards-winning album Getz/Gilberto.
  18. Complete the sentence about Tropicália with the correct year: The idea was originally put forth by poet Oswald de Andrade in his Manifesto Antropófago, published in ______, and was developed further b…
  19. Complete the sentence about Tropicália with the correct year: The ______ album Tropicália: ou Panis et Circencis is regarded as the musical manifesto of the tropicália movement.
  20. Complete the sentence about Axé with the correct year: Another example is in ______, Luiz Caldas released his LP record called Magia, which included the track Fricote.
  21. Complete the sentence about Axé with the correct year: When Daniela Mercury released O Canto da Cidade in ______, axé entered the mainstream pop music scene and became one of the most popular genres i…
  22. Complete the sentence about Baile funk with the correct year: According to DJ Marlboro, the main influence for the emergence of funk carioca was the single "Planet Rock" by Afrika Bambaataa and Soulso…
  23. Complete the sentence about Baile funk with the correct year: Starting in ______, styles like bailes da pesada, black soul, shaft, band funk started to emerge in Rio de Janeiro.
  24. Complete the sentence about Capoeira with the correct year: In ______, Mestre Pastinha founded his school where he cultivated the traditional capoeira Angola, distinguishing it from reformed capoeira…
  25. Complete the sentence about Festa Junina with the correct year: In Caruaru, Pernambuco, approximately 1.5 million people attended a celebration of the festival in ______, a Guinness World Record for t…
  26. Complete the sentence about Brazilian literature with the correct year: Brazilian literature is the literature written in the Portuguese language by Brazilians or in Brazil, including works written pr…
  27. Complete the sentence about Machado de Assis with the correct year: In ______, he founded and became the first President of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
  28. Complete the sentence about Machado de Assis with the correct year: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis was born on 21 June ______ in Rio de Janeiro, then capital of the Empire of Brazil.
  29. Complete the sentence about Jorge Amado with the correct year: Amado was born on Saturday, 10 August ______, on a farm near the inland city of Itabuna, in the south of the Brazilian state of Bahia.
  30. Complete the sentence about Jorge Amado with the correct year: Amado published his first novel, The Country of Carnival, in ______, aged 18.
  31. Complete the sentence about Clarice Lispector with the correct year: In ______, Lispector spent the next decade and a half in Europe and the United States due to her marriage to a Brazilian diplomat.
  32. Complete the sentence about Paulo Coelho with the correct year: Paulo Coelho was born on 24 August ______ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and attended a Jesuit school.
  33. Complete the sentence about Paulo Coelho with the correct year: In ______, Coelho was arrested for "subversive" activities and was tortured while in custody.
  34. Complete the sentence about Paulo Coelho with the correct year: In ______, Coelho published his first book, Hell Archives, which was not very successful.
  35. Complete the sentence about Paulo Coelho with the correct year: In ______, he contributed to the Practical Manual of Vampirism, although he later tried to take it off the shelves since he considered i…
  36. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In an interview with George Starbuck in ______, she said, "I didn't know him at all.
  37. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The book inspired the ______ Dutch documentary film O Amor Natural.
  38. Complete the sentence about José de Alencar with the correct year: José Martiniano de Alencar was born in Messejana, Fortaleza, Ceará, on May 1, ______, to politician José Martiniano Pereira de Alenca…
  39. Complete the sentence about José de Alencar with the correct year: Alencar would compile all the chronicles he wrote for these newspapers in ______, under the name Ao Correr da Pena.
  40. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Maria Augusta died in ______, due to troubles during childbirth.
  41. Complete the sentence about Monteiro Lobato with the correct year: For his libertarian views, he was arrested by the then dictatorial government of Getúlio Vargas in ______.
  42. Complete the sentence about Cecília Meireles with the correct year: In the summer of ______, she gave lectures at the University of Texas, Austin.
  43. Complete the sentence about Cecília Meireles with the correct year: The book had received the annual Poetry Prize from the Brazilian Academy of Letters in ______.
  44. Complete the sentence about Cecília Meireles with the correct year: In ______ she participated in a symposium on the work of Gandhi, and India had a great influence on her work.
  45. Complete the sentence about Brazilian cinema with the correct year: In ______, during a period coined Brazil's "golden age" of Cinema, the country saw its first widely popular film, titled Os Estrangu…
  46. Complete the sentence about City of God with the correct year: Following the success of City of God, Meirelles and Lund created the City of Men TV series and its ______ film adaptation.
  47. Complete the sentence about Central Station with the correct year: Central Station premiered in Switzerland on 16 January ______, in Brazil on 3 April, and in France on 2 December.
  48. Complete the sentence about Central Station with the correct year: Central Station had its world premiere at a regional film festival in Switzerland on 16 January ______.
  49. Complete the sentence about Walter Salles with the correct year: Walter Moreira Salles Júnior was born on 12 April ______, in Rio de Janeiro.
  50. Complete the sentence about Walter Salles with the correct year: In ______, Salles was voted one of the 40 Best Directors in the World by The Guardian.
  51. Complete the sentence about Cinema Novo with the correct year: According to Randal Johnson and Robert Stam, Cinema Novo officially began in ______, with the start of its first phase.
  52. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, he was a member of the jury at the 6th Moscow International Film Festival.
  53. Complete the sentence about Fernanda Montenegro with the correct year: In ______, she was voted the 15th most influential celebrity in Brazil by Forbes magazine.
  54. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In December ______, she confirmed her retirement from her career in film.
  55. Complete the sentence about Fernanda Montenegro with the correct year: In ______ she became a TV pioneer in Brazil, working for Rio de Janeiro's TV Tupi – the second TV station of South America.
  56. Complete the sentence about Candido Portinari with the correct year: In ______, the first São Paulo Art Biennial dedicated a special room for his works.
  57. Complete the sentence about Tarsila do Amaral with the correct year: Beginning in ______, Tarsila do Amaral studied painting in São Paulo.
  58. Complete the sentence about Tarsila do Amaral with the correct year: The song remained unknown until November ______, when its sheet music was discovered at her grandniece's house in Campinas.
  59. Complete the sentence about Tarsila do Amaral with the correct year: Returning to São Paulo from Paris in ______, Tarsila was exposed to many things after meeting Anita Malfatti, Oswald de Andrade, Má…
  60. Complete the sentence about Tarsila do Amaral with the correct year: During a brief return to Paris in ______, Tarsila was exposed to Cubism, Futurism, and Expressionism while studying with André Lhot…
  61. Complete the sentence about Aleijadinho with the correct year: With his father's death in ______, Aleijadinho, as a bastard son, was not contemplated in the will.
  62. Complete the sentence about Aleijadinho with the correct year: Still in ______, on 5 August, he was received as a brother in the Brotherhood of São José de Ouro Preto.
  63. Complete the sentence about Vik Muniz with the correct year: Vik Muniz was born in ______ in São Paulo, Brazil, as the only child of Maria Celeste, a telephone operator, and Vincente Muniz, a restaura…
  64. Complete the sentence about Museu de Arte de São Paulo with the correct year: The museum was founded in ______ by Assis Chateaubriand and Pietro Maria Bardi, and is maintained as a non-profit institut…
  65. Complete the sentence about Museu de Arte de São Paulo with the correct year: Prior to that time, São Paulo's role in modern art had been marked by the Week of Modern Art of ______.
  66. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, it was incorporated into the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
  67. Complete the sentence about Museum of Tomorrow with the correct year: The museum was part of the city's port area renewal for the ______ Summer Olympics.
  68. Complete the sentence about Teatro Amazonas with the correct year: In ______, the State legislature approved some limited financing, but this was considered insufficient.
  69. Complete the sentence about Teatro Amazonas with the correct year: By ______, construction was ready to begin under the Italian architect Celestial Sacardim.
  70. Complete the sentence about Antônio Carlos Jobim with the correct year: Antônio Carlos Jobim was born at 23:15 BRT on 25 January ______ in the middle-class district of Tijuca in Rio de Janeiro.
  71. Complete the sentence about João Gilberto with the correct year: In ______, the album Getz/Gilberto was the first jazz record to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
  72. Complete the sentence about João Gilberto with the correct year: Gilberto's Amoroso was nominated for a Grammy in ______ in the category Best Jazz Vocal Performance.
  73. Complete the sentence about Heitor Villa-Lobos with the correct year: When his father died suddenly in ______, he earned a living for his family by playing in cinema and theatre orchestras in Rio.
  74. Complete the sentence about Heitor Villa-Lobos with the correct year: Around ______ Villa-Lobos started explorations of Brazil's "dark interior", absorbing the native Brazilian musical culture.
  75. Complete the sentence about Heitor Villa-Lobos with the correct year: On November 12, ______, Villa-Lobos married the pianist Lucília Guimarães, ended his travels, and began his career as a serious mu…
  76. Complete the sentence about Heitor Villa-Lobos with the correct year: In ______ Sergei Diaghilev made an impact on tour in Brazil with his Ballets Russes.
  77. Complete the sentence about Heitor Villa-Lobos with the correct year: In about ______ Villa-Lobos abandoned the use of opus numbers for his compositions as a constraint to his pioneering spirit.
  78. Complete the sentence about Elis Regina with the correct year: In ______ she had her first son with first husband Ronaldo Bôscoli.
  79. Complete the sentence about Elis Regina with the correct year: On January 19, ______, Regina died at the age of 36, from cardiac arrest, after consuming vermouth, cocaine and tranquilizers.
  80. Complete the sentence about Milton Nascimento with the correct year: In ______, Nascimento was married to a student named Lurdeca in Tijuca.
  81. Complete the sentence about Milton Nascimento with the correct year: One composition was "Canção do Sal", which was first covered by singer Elis Regina in ______, and led to a television appearance wi…
  82. Complete the sentence about Sérgio Mendes with the correct year: Mendes was born in Niterói, east across Guanabara Bay from Rio de Janeiro, on 11 February ______.
  83. Complete the sentence about Brazilian Football Confederation with the correct year: The football confederation, as known today, separated from other sports associations on 24 September ______.
  84. Complete the sentence about Brazilian Football Confederation with the correct year: On 16 January ______, Ricardo Teixeira, then son-in-law of João Havelange, another Brazilian who was at the time the…
  85. Complete the sentence about Campeonato Brasileiro Série A with the correct year: In ______, the Torneio Rio-São Paulo was expanded to include teams from other states, becoming the Torneio Roberto Gome…
  86. Complete the sentence about Copa Libertadores with the correct year: In ______, the runners-up of the South American leagues began to join.
  87. Complete the sentence about Pelé with the correct year: In ______, he was named Athlete of the Century by the International Olympic Committee and was included in the Time list of the 100 most importan…
  88. Complete the sentence about Garrincha with the correct year: In ______, when Pelé was injured, Garrincha led Brazil to a World Cup victory with a dominating performance throughout the tournament.
  89. Complete the sentence about Garrincha with the correct year: In ______, he came seventh in the FIFA Player of the Century grand jury vote.
  90. Complete the sentence about Garrincha with the correct year: Garrincha was born in Pau Grande, a district of Magé, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, in ______.
  91. Complete the sentence about Garrincha with the correct year: Garrincha's younger brother, Jimmy dos Santos, played 20 games for Série A side Vasco da Gama in ______.
  92. Complete the sentence about Romário with the correct year: Romário starred for Brazil in their ______ FIFA World Cup triumph, receiving the Golden Ball as player of the tournament.
  93. Complete the sentence about Romário with the correct year: At club level, after developing his early career in Brazil, Romário moved to PSV Eindhoven in the Netherlands in ______.
  94. Complete the sentence about Romário with the correct year: In ______, he moved to Barcelona and became part of Johan Cruyff's "Dream Team", forming an exceptional strike partnership with Hristo Stoich…
  95. Complete the sentence about Ronaldo with the correct year: Ronaldo started his career at Cruzeiro and moved to PSV in ______.
  96. Complete the sentence about Ronaldo with the correct year: In ______, Inter Milan broke the world record fee to sign Ronaldo, making him the first player since Diego Maradona to break the world transf…
  97. Complete the sentence about Ronaldinho with the correct year: Aged 20, he moved to Paris Saint-Germain in France, where he established himself as one of the club's key players and helped them reach th…
  98. Complete the sentence about Ronaldinho with the correct year: Ronaldinho received the ______ Ballon d'Or and his second World Player of the Year in the process.
  99. Complete the sentence about Ronaldinho with the correct year: After a decline in form and fitness the following season, Barcelona sold him to AC Milan in ______.
  100. Complete the sentence about Neymar with the correct year: In ______, he led Santos to the Copa Libertadores title and was named the tournament's best player.

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