Science, Arts and Culture

Science Arts And Culture

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  1. Complete the sentence about Wolfgang Kempelen with the correct year: At the time of his death in ______, he owned a country estate in Gomba near Pressburg, but died in his apartment on the Alsergrund…
  2. Complete the sentence about Mechanical Turk with the correct year: The Turk made its debut in ______ at Schönbrunn Palace, about six months after Pelletier's act.
  3. Complete the sentence about Ignác Semmelweis with the correct year: The maternal mortality rate dropped from 18% to less than 2%, and he published a book of his findings, Etiology, Concept and Prophyl…
  4. Complete the sentence about Ignác Semmelweis with the correct year: In ______, the increasingly outspoken Semmelweis purportedly suffered a nervous breakdown and was committed to an asylum by his coll…
  5. Complete the sentence about Ignác Semmelweis with the correct year: Ignaz Semmelweis was born on 1 July ______ in the Tabán neighbourhood of Buda, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire.
  6. Complete the sentence about Ignác Semmelweis with the correct year: József Semmelweis was granted citizenship in Buda in ______ and, in the same year, he opened a wholesale business for spices and gen…
  7. Complete the sentence about Dionýz Štúr with the correct year: Štúr was born on 2 April ______ in Beckov into a family of teachers.
  8. Complete the sentence about Dionýz Štúr with the correct year: In ______, Štúr married the Austrian German Cecilia Artlová, with whom he had no children.
  9. Complete the sentence about Dionýz Štúr with the correct year: In ______, he matriculated at the Vienna Polytechnic where he studied mathematics and natural sciences.
  10. Complete the sentence about Dionýz Štúr with the correct year: The experience led him to receive a scholarship from the Imperial and Royal Court in ______ to study at the Mining Academy in Schemnitz.
  11. Complete the sentence about Dionýz Štúr with the correct year: In ______, the Reich Geological Institute in Vienna was established with von Haidinger leading it.
  12. Complete the sentence about Dionýz Štúr with the correct year: In ______, Štúr was appointed to an Imperial and Royal Mining Councillor.
  13. Complete the sentence about Aurel Stodola with the correct year: In ______, Stodola founded the Laboratory for Energy Conversion.
  14. Complete the sentence about Aurel Stodola with the correct year: In ______, he moved to Budapest, where he studied two semesters at the Royal Jeseph University in Budapest.
  15. Complete the sentence about Aurel Stodola with the correct year: In ______, he was appointed Professor of Machine Construction by the Polytechnikum in Zurich.
  16. Complete the sentence about Imrich Lichtenfeld with the correct year: Lichtenfeld was born on 26 May ______ to a Hungarian Jewish family in Budapest in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
  17. Complete the sentence about Imrich Lichtenfeld with the correct year: In ______, Lichtenfeld began training Haganah fighters in his areas of expertise: physical fitness, swimming, wrestling, use of th…
  18. Complete the sentence about Volkswagen Slovakia with the correct year: Volkswagen then bought the remaining shares in Škoda Auto in ______.
  19. Complete the sentence about Volkswagen Slovakia with the correct year: Since December ______ the factory has produced the Volkswagen Up, as well as its badge-engineered SEAT Mii and Škoda Citigo sibli…
  20. Complete the sentence about Slovnaft with the correct year: Acquisition of Benzinol, its domestic competitor, took place in ______.
  21. Complete the sentence about Slovnaft with the correct year: Since ______, Slovnaft has been affiliated with the MOL Group.
  22. Complete the sentence about Slovak Telekom with the correct year: Until 2 May ______, T-Mobile Slovensko operated under the name EuroTel Bratislava.
  23. Complete the sentence about Slovak Telekom with the correct year: Slovak Telekom had four strategic priorities in ______: innovations, the best connectivity, superior user experience and digital telev…
  24. Complete the sentence about Mochovce Nuclear Power Plant with the correct year: In ______ the Slovak government approved a plan to finish the first pair with additional Western safety technology.
  25. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, a heat feeder line to Leopoldov and Hlohovec was created, branching off from the Trnava line.
  26. Complete the sentence about Orange Slovensko with the correct year: Since 27 March ______, the operator has been providing services under the Orange brand name.
  27. Complete the sentence about Bratislava Airport with the correct year: As of September ______, the company is fully owned by the Slovak Republic via the Ministry of Transport, Construction and Regional…
  28. Complete the sentence about Bratislava Airport with the correct year: The first regular flight between Prague and Bratislava started in ______, by the newly formed carrier Czechoslovak Airlines.
  29. Complete the sentence about Comenius University with the correct year: The Comenius University was established in ______ with assistance from the more established University of Prague.
  30. Complete the sentence about Comenius University with the correct year: In ______, a new university building for the Faculties of Law and Philosophy was opened in the centre of Bratislava.
  31. Complete the sentence about Technical University of Košice with the correct year: The Technical University of Košice was founded in ______, but its roots must be sought much deeper in the past.
  32. Complete the sentence about Technical University of Košice with the correct year: The origins of higher technical education in Košice reach back to ______, when the M.R.Štefánik State Technical Colleg…
  33. Complete the sentence about Technical University of Košice with the correct year: The important event of the renaming of the College into the Technical University of Košice occurred on 13 February ___…
  34. Complete the sentence about Matej Bel University with the correct year: The first higher school appeared in Banská Bystrica in ______.
  35. Complete the sentence about Slovakia national football team with the correct year: Slovakia's home stadium from ______ is the reconstructed Tehelné pole in Bratislava.
  36. Complete the sentence about Slovakia national football team with the correct year: In the ______ World Cup qualifiers, Slovakia finished fourth in their six-team group with five wins, one draw, and fo…
  37. Complete the sentence about ŠK Slovan Bratislava with the correct year: Under the terms of the ______ Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia was dissolved, leading to the emergence of the Slovak Republic.
  38. Complete the sentence about ŠK Slovan Bratislava with the correct year: On 26 September ______ ŠK Bratislava played its first game at the new stadium, Tehelné pole.
  39. Complete the sentence about MŠK Žilina with the correct year: Since the league inception in ______, the club has won 7 titles and comes second in All-time table that makes them one of the most success…
  40. Complete the sentence about MŠK Žilina with the correct year: In the late 1960s the club was renamed TJ ZVL Žilina and participated in the Intertoto Cup for several years, winning the group in ______…
  41. Complete the sentence about FC Spartak Trnava with the correct year: The club was founded on 30 May ______ by the merger of Šk Čechie and ČšŠk into TSS Trnava.
  42. Complete the sentence about FC DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda with the correct year: FC DAC ______ is a Slovak professional football club based in Dunajská Streda which competes in the Slovak First Football…
  43. Complete the sentence about FC DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda with the correct year: The club survived both world wars and continued to ______ when the team won the Bratislava district one A grade premiersh…
  44. Complete the sentence about Martin Škrtel with the correct year: Škrtel played for FK AS Trenčín and Zenit Saint Petersburg, before joining Liverpool for £6.5 million in January ______.
  45. Complete the sentence about Martin Škrtel with the correct year: Škrtel made his debut for Zenit Saint Petersburg against Irtysh Omsk in a Russian Cup match on 31 July ______.
  46. Complete the sentence about Ján Ďurica with the correct year: Once the tournament ended, Ďurica hinted his desire to retire from international football after ______ FIFA World Cup.
  47. Complete the sentence about Juraj Kucka with the correct year: Kucka made his Corgoň Liga debut for Ružomberok on 11 March ______.
  48. Complete the sentence about Juraj Kucka with the correct year: The footballer eventually signed a three-year contract for said club in January ______.
  49. Complete the sentence about Juraj Kucka with the correct year: In January ______, Kucka joined Italian side Genoa for a fee of around €3.6 million, signing a contract for 4.5 years.
  50. Complete the sentence about Róbert Vittek with the correct year: With 23 goals in 82 matches since ______, Vittek is the second top scorer in the history of the Slovakia national football team.
  51. Complete the sentence about Róbert Vittek with the correct year: Vittek began his career in the youth team of hometown club Slovan Bratislava in ______.
  52. Complete the sentence about Marián Hossa with the correct year: Hossa was drafted by the Ottawa Senators in the first round, 12th overall, of the ______ NHL entry draft.
  53. Complete the sentence about Marián Hossa with the correct year: As a youth, Hossa played in the ______ Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a team from Bratislava.
  54. Complete the sentence about Marián Gáborík with the correct year: Internationally, Gáborík was a two-time Olympian with Slovakia and won a bronze medal at the ______ World Junior Championships.
  55. Complete the sentence about Pavol Demitra with the correct year: After a season with HC Dukla Trenčín in the CSL, Demitra was selected 227th overall in the ______ NHL entry draft by the Ottawa Senator…
  56. Complete the sentence about Pavol Demitra with the correct year: Louis, being selected for three NHL All-Star Games and winning the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy in ______.
  57. Complete the sentence about Pavol Demitra with the correct year: After the country split in ______, Demitra began competing for Slovakia.
  58. Complete the sentence about Miroslav Šatan with the correct year: Šatan was drafted 111th overall in the ______ NHL entry draft by the Edmonton Oilers.
  59. Complete the sentence about Miroslav Šatan with the correct year: On 2 December ______, he scored his 300th career goal, against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
  60. Complete the sentence about Peter Bondra with the correct year: Drafted by the Capitals at the age of 22 in ______, Bondra made the team in his rookie season with no time needed in the minor leagues.
  61. Complete the sentence about Peter Bondra with the correct year: Bondra helped lead the Capitals to their first ever Stanley Cup Final appearance in ______.
  62. Complete the sentence about Peter Bondra with the correct year: In the ______ IIHF World Championship, representing the Slovakia national team, he scored the game-winning goal to win the world champio…
  63. Complete the sentence about Slovakia national ice hockey team with the correct year: Slovakia's first appearance in an elite ice hockey competition was at the ______ Winter Olympics in Lillehammer.
  64. Complete the sentence about HC Slovan Bratislava with the correct year: The sports club Slovan Bratislava was founded in ______ as a football club, then called 1.CsSK Bratislava.
  65. Complete the sentence about HC Slovan Bratislava with the correct year: In ______, the name of the club was changed to Slovan Bratislava, which has been kept until today.
  66. Complete the sentence about HC Slovan Bratislava with the correct year: After the separation of Slovakia and the Czech Republic in ______, Slovan played in the Slovak Extraliga and won eight champions…
  67. Complete the sentence about HC Košice with the correct year: The club was established in Košice in ______ as an army hockey club called TJ Dukla Košice.
  68. Complete the sentence about HC Košice with the correct year: In ______, the club became the Ice Hockey Champions of Czechoslovakia for the first time, beating HC Dukla Jihlava in the finals.
  69. Complete the sentence about HC Košice with the correct year: After Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in ______, VSŽ Košice became a member of the Slovak Extraliga, which it soo…
  70. Complete the sentence about HC Košice with the correct year: On 24 February ______, Košice left Lokomotíva Košice Stadium and moved to the newly constructed Steel Aréna.
  71. Complete the sentence about Slovakia at the Olympics with the correct year: Slovakia first participated at the Olympic Games in ______, and has sent athletes to compete in every Games since then.
  72. Complete the sentence about Slovakia at the Olympics with the correct year: Prior to the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in ______, Slovak athletes competed for Czechoslovakia at the Olympics.
  73. Complete the sentence about Anastasia Kuzmina with the correct year: A professional dancer since ______, Kuzmina is best known for her participation with model and actor Andrés Gil in three Italian re…
  74. Complete the sentence about Anastasia Kuzmina with the correct year: In February ______ Kuzmina started a stage with PMI in Switzerland.
  75. Complete the sentence about Veronika Velez-Zuzulová with the correct year: At the ______ World Championships in Åre, Sweden, she scored 9th place in super combined, 13th place in slalom and 21st place…
  76. Complete the sentence about Veronika Velez-Zuzulová with the correct year: Velez-Zuzulová made her World Cup debut in a giant slalom at Sölden, Austria, on 28 October ______.
  77. Complete the sentence about Ján Zachara with the correct year: Representing Czechoslovakia, he won the gold medal in the featherweight division at the ______ Summer Olympics in Helsinki.
  78. Complete the sentence about Ján Zachara with the correct year: Zachara was born on 27 August ______ in the village of Kubrá, which is now a part of the city of Trenčín, in a family of factory workers.
  79. Complete the sentence about Ján Zachara with the correct year: Nonetheless, he was not allowed to compete at the ______ Olympics, because another boxer, who was a Communist party member, was given pre…
  80. Complete the sentence about Ján Zachara with the correct year: At the subsequent ______ Summer Olympics in Melbourne, he was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Pentti Hämäläinen.
  81. Complete the sentence about Michal Martikán with the correct year: Three months later, at age 17, Martikán was in sixth place after the first run of the canoe slalom singles event at the ______ Olympi…
  82. Complete the sentence about Michal Martikán with the correct year: Competing in his third Olympics in ______, Martikán again led the qualifying round.
  83. Complete the sentence about Slovakia national basketball team with the correct year: Slovakia is one of the newest national basketball teams in the world, having split from Czechoslovakia following th…
  84. Complete the sentence about Slovakia national basketball team with the correct year: Until ______, Slovakia was a part of Czechoslovakia, with Slovak born players taking part on the Czechoslovakia nat…
  85. Complete the sentence about Daniela Hantuchová with the correct year: Hantuchová reached her highest ranking of world No. 5 in January ______, after playing the quarterfinals of the Australian Open.
  86. Complete the sentence about Dominika Cibulková with the correct year: One of her most notable achievements was a final appearance at the ______ Australian Open.
  87. Complete the sentence about Magdaléna Rybáriková with the correct year: In ______, Rybáriková reached the girls' singles final at Wimbledon.
  88. Complete the sentence about Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovakia with the correct year: The church was established in ______ following the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empi…
  89. Complete the sentence about Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovakia with the correct year: After the Communist coup d'état of ______, the Lutheran Church lost control over its school…
  90. Complete the sentence about Christmas in Slovakia with the correct year: The Communist Regime led by Fidel Castro abolished the paid Christmas holiday in ______, citing the need for workers to continu…
  91. Complete the sentence about Slovak Jews with the correct year: In the early 15th century, a Jewish cemetery was established at Tisinec and was in use until ______.
  92. Complete the sentence about Slovak Jews with the correct year: In ______, hundreds of Jews from Moravia fled to the Hungarian Kingdom, seeking refuge from Kuruc riots and restrictions on their living…
  93. Complete the sentence about Slovak Jews with the correct year: In ______, a leading yeshiva was established in Bratislava and recognized by the government.
  94. Complete the sentence about Slovak Jews with the correct year: Following Jewish emancipation in ______, many Jews had adopted Hungarian language and customs to advance in society.
  95. Complete the sentence about Slovak Roma with the correct year: Genetic findings in ______ suggest the Romani originated in northwestern India and migrated as a group.
  96. Complete the sentence about Slovak Roma with the correct year: In February ______, during the International Roma Conference, the Indian Minister of External Affairs stated that the people of the Roma…
  97. Complete the sentence about Slovak Roma with the correct year: The first record of sightings of small groups of Romani within the area of present-day Slovakia are from ______ AD, when the region was p…
  98. Complete the sentence about Slovak Roma with the correct year: Major waves of Romani nomads were recorded from ______ onwards.
  99. Complete the sentence about Slovak Roma with the correct year: In ______ they received a decree from the Hungarian king Sigismund of Luxemburg at Szepes Castle, granting them Europe-wide right of pass…
  100. Complete the sentence about Slovak Roma with the correct year: Though these policies were partly successful, after the ______ Velvet Revolution, the Romani have once again found themselves on the marg…

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