Brazilian Science, Arts and Culture

Science Arts And Culture

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  1. Complete the sentence about Kaká with the correct year: In ______, at age 18, Kaká made his professional debut at Brazilian club São Paulo.
  2. Complete the sentence about Kaká with the correct year: After six years with Milan, Kaká joined Real Madrid in ______ for a transfer fee of €67 million, which was the second highest transfer fee at th…
  3. Complete the sentence about Roberto Carlos with the correct year: Roberto Carlos made his debut for the Brazil national team in ______.
  4. Complete the sentence about Marta with the correct year: In ______, she was a UEFA Women's Champions League runner-up with Tyresö FF.
  5. Complete the sentence about 1950 FIFA World Cup with the correct year: The ______ FIFA World Cup was the fourth edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football championship for s…
  6. Complete the sentence about 2014 FIFA World Cup with the correct year: With the ______ FIFA World Cup hosted in South Africa, it would be the second consecutive World Cup outside Europe, which was a f…
  7. Complete the sentence about Maracanazo with the correct year: The match between Uruguay and Brazil was the decisive match of the final stage at the ______ FIFA World Cup.
  8. Complete the sentence about Maracanazo with the correct year: The road to the title in the ______ World Cup was unique; instead of a knockout stage, the preliminary group stage was followed by another…
  9. Complete the sentence about Flamengo with the correct year: Flamengo was founded on 17 November ______, by a group of rowers gathered at club member Nestor de Barros's manor on Flamengo Beach in Rio d…
  10. Complete the sentence about Flamengo with the correct year: The team debuted on 6 October ______, when they sailed off the Caju Point toward Flamengo Beach.
  11. Complete the sentence about Palmeiras with the correct year: In ______, Palestra Italia captured the São Paulo State championship with a victory over the rugged Paulistano squad in the deciding match.
  12. Complete the sentence about Santos FC with the correct year: The club was founded in ______ by three sports enthusiasts from Santos: Raimundo Marques, Mário Ferraz de Campos, and Argemiro de Souza Jún…
  13. Complete the sentence about Santos FC with the correct year: Then, my cousins and I founded Santos Futebol Clube, which was registered in ______.
  14. Complete the sentence about Grêmio FBPA with the correct year: The club was founded in ______ by businessman Cândido Dias da Silva and 32 other men, mostly from the large community of German immigrant…
  15. Complete the sentence about Grêmio FBPA with the correct year: Prior to that, Grêmio played at Estádio Olímpico Monumental since ______.
  16. Complete the sentence about Sport Club Internacional with the correct year: The club was founded in ______ by the Poppe brothers, with the clear goal of being a democratic institution without prejudic…
  17. Complete the sentence about Sport Club Internacional with the correct year: Thus, in ______, it moved to Campo da Várzea, now called Parque da Redenção.
  18. Complete the sentence about Sport Club Internacional with the correct year: The time at Bom Fim neighborhood wouldn't last long, though, and by ______, Inter had leased Chácara dos Eucaliptos.
  19. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Since ______, its principal home ground has been the Mineirão.
  20. Complete the sentence about Cruzeiro Esporte Clube with the correct year: Cruzeiro was founded on 2 January ______ as Società Sportiva Palestra Italia by members of the Italian immigrant community of…
  21. Complete the sentence about Brazil at the Olympics with the correct year: Brazil first participated at the Olympic Games in ______, after missing the previous five Summer editions.
  22. Complete the sentence about Brazil at the Olympics with the correct year: The country has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since then, except for the ______ Games.
  23. Complete the sentence about 2016 Summer Olympics with the correct year: The first step for each city was to submit an initial application to the International Olympic Committee by 13 September ______…
  24. Complete the sentence about 2016 Summer Olympics with the correct year: Completed official bid files containing answers to a 25-question IOC form were to be submitted by each city by the deadline of 1…
  25. Complete the sentence about Rio 2016 with the correct year: Rio de Janeiro was announced as the host city at the 121st IOC Session in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 2 October ______.
  26. Complete the sentence about Ayrton Senna with the correct year: Senna signed for Toleman in ______, making his Formula One debut at the Brazilian Grand Prix.
  27. Complete the sentence about Ayrton Senna with the correct year: Senna took seven victories, including his home Grand Prix in Brazil, as he secured his third title in ______.
  28. Complete the sentence about Ayrton Senna with the correct year: Senna negotiated a move to Williams for his ______ campaign, replacing the retired Prost to partner Damon Hill.
  29. Complete the sentence about Ayrton Senna with the correct year: During the ______ San Marino Grand Prix at Imola, Senna was killed in a crash whilst leading the race, driving the Williams FW16.
  30. Complete the sentence about Emerson Fittipaldi with the correct year: In American open-wheel racing, Fittipaldi won the IndyCar World Series in ______ with Patrick, and is a two-time winner of the Ind…
  31. Complete the sentence about Emerson Fittipaldi with the correct year: Moving up from Formula Two, Fittipaldi made his race debut for Team Lotus as a third driver at the ______ British Grand Prix.
  32. Complete the sentence about Emerson Fittipaldi with the correct year: After Jochen Rindt was killed at the ______ Italian Grand Prix, the Brazilian became Lotus's lead driver in only his fifth Grand P…
  33. Complete the sentence about Nelson Piquet with the correct year: Piquet took his third and final championship in ______ during a heated battle with teammate Nigel Mansell which left the pair's relatio…
  34. Complete the sentence about Brazilian Grand Prix with the correct year: A Brazilian Grand Prix was first held in ______ at Interlagos, although it was not part of the Formula One World Championship.
  35. Complete the sentence about Brazilian Grand Prix with the correct year: In ______ the Brazilian Grand Prix moved to Jacarepaguá in Rio de Janeiro.
  36. Complete the sentence about Brazil men's national volleyball team with the correct year: In ______, Brazil finished second in the World League after losing the title at home idc in the match against R…
  37. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The beginning of the ______ season was very special for the World Champions.
  38. Complete the sentence about Brazilian jiu-jitsu with the correct year: The first public demonstration of jiu-jitsu in Brazil took place in ______ in the city of Manaus, the capital of Amazonas.
  39. Complete the sentence about Brazilian jiu-jitsu with the correct year: In ______, the Brazilian Navy ship Benjamin Constant rescued a group of castaways on a Pacific island, among them a Japanese jiu…
  40. Complete the sentence about Futsal with the correct year: Futsal started in ______ in Montevideo, Uruguay, when a physical education teacher named Juan Carlos Ceriani created a version of indoor footb…
  41. Complete the sentence about Futsal with the correct year: Originally developed for basketball courts, a rule book for the sport was published in September ______.
  42. Complete the sentence about Beach soccer with the correct year: FIFA has held the Beach Soccer World Cup biennially since ______.
  43. Complete the sentence about Beach soccer with the correct year: By ______, the first professional beach soccer competition was organized at Miami Beach with teams from the United States, Brazil, Argen…
  44. Complete the sentence about Universidade de São Paulo with the correct year: In ______, the Heart Institute of the University of São Paulo was founded.
  45. Complete the sentence about University of Campinas with the correct year: The School of Medicine of Campinas was created by law in ______, but actual implementation never took place.
  46. Complete the sentence about Federal University of Rio de Janeiro with the correct year: The Medicine School, Faculdade Nacional de Medicina, traces back to April 2, ______, when Dom João VI founded it…
  47. Complete the sentence about Oswaldo Cruz Foundation with the correct year: The organization started in ______ as the Federal SeroTherapy Institute with the objective of developing serum and vaccines a…
  48. Complete the sentence about Oswaldo Cruz Foundation with the correct year: The institute's activities, however, changed from simple production into research and experimental medicine, especially after…
  49. Complete the sentence about Oswaldo Cruz Foundation with the correct year: In ______, the hospital was renamed Hospital Evandro Chagas, in honor of its then-director, Evandro Chagas.
  50. Complete the sentence about Santos-Dumont with the correct year: In ______, the family moved to the small town of Cabangu, in the municipality of João Aires, for Henrique Dumont to work on the constru…
  51. Complete the sentence about Carlos Chagas with the correct year: In ______, a political turmoil erupted as Emperor Dom Pedro II declared abolition of slavery.
  52. Complete the sentence about Carlos Chagas with the correct year: Chagas entered the School of Mining Engineering at Ouro Preto, but suffered from beri-beri in ______ that incapacitated him from contin…
  53. Complete the sentence about Instituto Butantan with the correct year: The Fundação Butantan is a non-profit corporation established in ______ by Prof.
  54. Complete the sentence about National Institute for Space Research with the correct year: Since ______, the Brazilian Space Agency has been responsible for Brazil's space program.
  55. Complete the sentence about Brazilian Space Agency with the correct year: Brazil successfully launched its first rocket into space, the VSB-30, on 23 October ______ from the Alcântara Launch Center; s…
  56. Complete the sentence about Brazilian Space Agency with the correct year: The then president Jânio Quadros in ______ established a commission that elaborated a national program for the space explorati…
  57. Complete the sentence about Embraer E-Jet family with the correct year: On 19 February ______, the first E-Jet prototype completed its maiden flight, and production began later that year.
  58. Complete the sentence about Embraer E-Jet family with the correct year: The first E170 was delivered to LOT Polish Airlines on 17 March ______.
  59. Complete the sentence about Itaú Unibanco with the correct year: In November ______, Banco Itaú bought BankBoston's assets in Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay.
  60. Complete the sentence about Itaú Unibanco with the correct year: On November 16 ______, Banco Itaú and Unibanco announced the merger that resulted in Banco Itaú Unibanco.
  61. Complete the sentence about Banco do Brasil with the correct year: The oldest bank in Brazil, and among the oldest banks in continuous operation in the world, it was founded by John VI, King of Portug…
  62. Complete the sentence about Ambev with the correct year: Ambev was born from the merger between the then competitors Companhia Antarctica Paulista and Companhia Cervejaria Brahma, from Rio de Janeiro…
  63. Complete the sentence about Ambev with the correct year: In ______, Ambev went public on the São Paulo Stock Exchange, raising approximately R…
  64. Complete the sentence about JBS S.A. with the correct year: JBS was founded in ______ by José Batista Sobrinho, a rancher from Anápolis, as a small slaughterhouse business.
  65. Complete the sentence about Folha de S.Paulo with the correct year: Folha was founded on 19 February ______, by a group of journalists led by Olival Costa and Pedro Cunha, under the name Folha da Noit…
  66. Complete the sentence about Folha de S.Paulo with the correct year: In October ______, when Vargas led a victorious revolution, newspapers that opposed him were attacked by Aliança Liberal supporters.
  67. Complete the sentence about Folha de S.Paulo with the correct year: Alves de Lima's initial goal, when he took over the newspapers in ______, was defending the "agricultural interests", meaning rural…
  68. Complete the sentence about O Globo with the correct year: When Irineu died weeks after the founding of the newspaper in ______, it was inherited by his son Roberto.
  69. Complete the sentence about Veja with the correct year: In ______ it declared that the Loch Ness Monster was real before ultimately recognizing the news were fake.
  70. Complete the sentence about Veja with the correct year: In ______, it re-published an April Fools' Day prank from the British magazine New Science as real.
  71. Complete the sentence about Veja with the correct year: In ______, it published a controversial piece about singer Cazuza, who was terminally ill from AIDS.
  72. Complete the sentence about Veja with the correct year: On ______, as part of its growing right-wing agenda, Veja defended the rejection of the prohibition of firearms in that year's referendum.
  73. Complete the sentence about Indigenous peoples in Brazil with the correct year: The ______ Brazil census recorded 305 Indigenous ethnic groups.
  74. Complete the sentence about Tupi people with the correct year: In ______, their population was estimated at 1 million people, nearly equal to the population of Portugal at the time.
  75. Complete the sentence about Tupi people with the correct year: In his account published in ______, he tells that the Tupi carried him to their village where they declared that they would devour him at…
  76. Complete the sentence about Yanomami with the correct year: The first report of the Yanomami is from ______, when a Spanish expedition under Apolinar Diaz de la Fuente visited some Ye'kuana people liv…
  77. Complete the sentence about Afro-Brazilians with the correct year: In subsequent censuses, pardo was formalized as its own category, while Indigenous peoples gained a separate category only in ______.
  78. Complete the sentence about Japanese Brazilians with the correct year: Immigration to Brazil ceased by ______, with the arrival of the last immigrant ship, the Nippon Maru.
  79. Complete the sentence about Italian Brazilians with the correct year: Therefore, Italians and their children were, at most, just over 3.8% of Brazil's population in ______.
  80. Complete the sentence about German Brazilians with the correct year: In ______, Born and Dickgiesser estimated the number of German descendants in Brazil at 3.6 million.
  81. Complete the sentence about German Brazilians with the correct year: In ______, Deutsche Welle cited the number of 5 million Brazilians of German descent.
  82. Complete the sentence about Demographics of Brazil with the correct year: In some states in the North and Northeast, the fertility rate was higher than the national average in ______.
  83. Complete the sentence about Education in Brazil with the correct year: By ______, and reflecting a larger transformation of the Portuguese Empire, the Jesuits had decisively shifted from the East Indi…
  84. Complete the sentence about Education in Brazil with the correct year: In ______, the first botanic institute was founded in Salvador, Bahia.
  85. Complete the sentence about Women in Brazil with the correct year: In ______, the year of its publishing, Brazil signed and ratified CEDAW, a convention by the United Nations that aims to eliminate al…
  86. Complete the sentence about Women in Brazil with the correct year: Women in Brazil enjoy the same legal rights and duties as men, which is clearly expressed in the 5th article of Brazil's ______ Const…
  87. Complete the sentence about Brazilian wine with the correct year: The first vines were brought to Brazil by the Portuguese in ______, who planted them in the state São Paulo.
  88. Complete the sentence about Brazilian wine with the correct year: Jesuits brought Spanish vines to Rio Grande do Sul in ______, and 18th century settlers from the Azores brought vine cuttings from Mad…
  89. Complete the sentence about Brazilian coffee with the correct year: The first coffee bush in Brazil was planted by Francisco de Melo Palheta in Pará in ______.
  90. Complete the sentence about Agriculture in Brazil with the correct year: Following the arrival of Columbus to the Americas, the Jesuits, members of a branch of Catholicism landed in the Amazon in ____…
  91. Which place completes this sentence about Clarice Lispector? Born to a Jewish family in Podolia in Western Ukraine, she grew up in ______, the capital of the northeastern state of Pernambuco, where he…
  92. Which place completes this sentence about José de Alencar? José Martiniano de Alencar was born in Messejana, ______, Ceará, on May 1, 1829, to politician José Martiniano Pereira de Alencar and his cou…
  93. Which place completes this sentence about Tarsila do Amaral? The song remained unknown until November 2021, when its sheet music was discovered at her grandniece's house in ______.
  94. Which place completes this sentence about Elis Regina? Elis Regina was born in ______, where she began her career as a singer at an early age on the children's radio show Clube de Guri.
  95. Which place completes this sentence about Grêmio FBPA? The club was founded in 1903 by businessman Cândido Dias da Silva and 32 other men, mostly from the large community of German immigrants of _____…
  96. Which place completes this sentence about Cruzeiro Esporte Clube? Cruzeiro was founded on 2 January 1921 as Società Sportiva Palestra Italia by members of the Italian immigrant community of ______.
  97. Which place completes this sentence about Brazilian jiu-jitsu? The first public demonstration of jiu-jitsu in Brazil took place in 1906 in the city of ______, the capital of Amazonas.
  98. Which place completes this sentence about University of Campinas? In parallel, a medical school was being planned in ______, a demand from the local population that dated from the early 1940s.
  99. Which place completes this sentence about University of Campinas? The School of Medicine of ______ was created by law in 1959, but actual implementation never took place.

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