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  1. Complete the sentence about Swiss German with the correct year: In ______, about 87% of the people living in the German-speaking portion of Switzerland used Swiss German in their everyday lives.
  2. Complete the sentence about GruyĂšre cheese with the correct year: Swiss GruyĂšre still has a protected certification mark in the US as "Le GruyĂšre Switzerland AOC", secured in ______.
  3. Complete the sentence about Raclette with the correct year: Dishes of melted cheese were mentioned in medieval texts from Swiss convents as early as ______.
  4. Complete the sentence about Raclette with the correct year: Melting raclette-type cheese in front of a fire is attested in Valais as early as ______.
  5. Complete the sentence about Raclette with the correct year: Since ______, the French term raclette is commonly used for this dish.
  6. Complete the sentence about Raclette with the correct year: At the ______ Cantonal Exhibition of Sion, raclette was promoted as a national dish of Valais.
  7. Complete the sentence about ZĂŒrcher Geschnetzeltes with the correct year: The first mention of ZĂŒrcher Geschnetzeltes is in a cookbook from ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about Swiss chocolate with the correct year: Brought from Mexico to Europe by Hernån Cortés in ______, cocoa beans and chocolate finally reached Switzerland in the 17th century.
  9. Complete the sentence about Swiss chocolate with the correct year: In the 18th century, hydraulic mills were already used in the production of chocolate in Switzerland, for instance the SchermenmĂŒhle

  10. Complete the sentence about Toblerone with the correct year: In ______, Emil Baumann, the cousin of Theodor Tobler, created the unique recipe consisting of milk chocolate including white nougat, almon

  11. Complete the sentence about Toblerone with the correct year: Theodor Tobler applied for a patent for the Toblerone manufacturing process in Bern in ______.
  12. Complete the sentence about Toblerone with the correct year: A Toblerone version made of dark chocolate was launched in ______.
  13. Complete the sentence about Toblerone with the correct year: In ______, it merged with Suchard, the makers of Milka, to become Interfood.
  14. Complete the sentence about Nestlé with the correct year: The company's first British operation was opened at Chippenham, Wiltshire in ______.
  15. Complete the sentence about Cailler with the correct year: Shortly before, Cailler opened its main factory at Broc in ______.
  16. Complete the sentence about Cailler with the correct year: The company was finally bought by Nestlé in ______ and became a brand.
  17. Complete the sentence about Cailler with the correct year: François-Louis Cailler was born in Vevey, Switzerland in ______.
  18. Complete the sentence about Cailler with the correct year: Cailler soon opened his first chocolate factory in neighbouring Corsier-sur-Vevey in ______.
  19. Complete the sentence about Rivella with the correct year: In ______, Migros replaced it with Rivella as it did not enjoy the same popularity among customers as the original drink.
  20. Complete the sentence about Rivella with the correct year: In ______ Rivella began sponsoring the Swiss National Ski team.
  21. Complete the sentence about Absinthe with the correct year: The medical use of wormwood dates back to ancient Egypt and is mentioned in the Ebers Papyrus from around ______ BC.
  22. Complete the sentence about Swiss watch with the correct year: Use of the Swiss made label for watches is covered by an ordinance of the Federal Council dated 29 December ______.
  23. Complete the sentence about Rolex with the correct year: The company registered Rolex as the brand name of its watches in ______ and became Rolex Watch Co.
  24. Complete the sentence about Rolex with the correct year: Since ______, the company has been owned by the Hans Wilsdorf Foundation, a private family trust.
  25. Complete the sentence about Rolex with the correct year: Alfred Davis and his brother-in-law Hans Wilsdorf founded Wilsdorf and Davis, the company that would eventually become Rolex SA, in London in _

  26. Complete the sentence about Rolex with the correct year: In ______, Wilsdorf registered the trademark "Rolex", which became the brand name of watches from Wilsdorf and Davis.
  27. Complete the sentence about Rolex with the correct year: In November ______, the company changed its name to Rolex Watch Co.
  28. Complete the sentence about Swatch with the correct year: Swatch is a Swiss watch company founded in ______ by Ernst Thomke, Elmar Mock, and Jacques MĂŒller.
  29. Complete the sentence about Swatch with the correct year: The first collection of twelve Swatch models was introduced on 1 March ______ in ZĂŒrich, Switzerland.
  30. Complete the sentence about Omega SA with the correct year: In ______, the company officially changed its name to Omega SA and opened its museum in Biel/Bienne to the public.
  31. Complete the sentence about Omega SA with the correct year: Britain's Royal Flying Corps used Omega watches in ______ for its combat units, followed by the U.S.
  32. Complete the sentence about Omega SA with the correct year: Omega is the current official timekeeper of the Olympics, having first done so in ______, in addition to being the timekeeper of the America

  33. Complete the sentence about Omega SA with the correct year: In ______, Louis Brandt founded the company that would become Omega in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
  34. Complete the sentence about Omega SA with the correct year: In ______, his sons Louis-Paul and CĂ©sar joined him, and the company name was changed to Louis Brandt & Fils.
  35. Complete the sentence about Omega SA with the correct year: In ______, his two sons Louis-Paul and CĂ©sar developed their own in-house manufacturing and total production control system that allowed com

  36. Complete the sentence about Omega SA with the correct year: By ______, the success of the Omega brand led Louis Brandt & Frere to rename their company to the Omega Watch Co.
  37. Complete the sentence about TAG Heuer with the correct year: Heuer was founded in ______ by Edouard Heuer in St-Imier, Switzerland.
  38. Complete the sentence about TAG Heuer with the correct year: In ______, Heuer received a patent for the "Time of Trip", the first dashboard chronograph.
  39. Complete the sentence about TAG Heuer with the correct year: In ______ Edward Heuer's son, Charles-Auguste, introduced the "Mikrograph", the first stopwatch accurate to 1/100 of a second.
  40. Complete the sentence about Tissot with the correct year: The company was founded in Le Locle, Switzerland, by Charles-FĂ©licien Tissot and his son, Charles-Émile Tissot, in ______.
  41. Complete the sentence about Tissot with the correct year: Tissot was founded in ______ by Charles-FĂ©licien Tissot and his son Charles-Émile Tissot in the Swiss city of Le Locle, in the NeuchĂątel canto

  42. Complete the sentence about Tissot with the correct year: Charles-Emile Tissot left for Russia in ______ and succeeded in selling their savonnette pocket watches across the Russian Empire.
  43. Complete the sentence about Tissot with the correct year: Tissot's first engagement as an official timekeeper was in ______ where they timed a series of ski races in Villars-sur-Ollon, near the compan

  44. Complete the sentence about Victorinox with the correct year: Since its acquisition of rival Wenger in ______, it has become the sole supplier of multi-purpose knives to the Swiss army.
  45. Complete the sentence about Victorinox with the correct year: The company was founded in ______ as Messerfabrik Carl Elsener, the workshop of Karl Elsener in Ibach.
  46. Complete the sentence about Victorinox with the correct year: In ______, Elsener co-founded Schweizerischer Messerschmiedverband an association of Swiss knife manufacturers.
  47. Complete the sentence about Victorinox with the correct year: In ______, most of Elsener's knife craftsmen left knives manufacturing as it became apparent that Solingen manufacturers could deliver at

  48. Complete the sentence about Victorinox with the correct year: Elsener's Schweizer Offiziers- und Sportmesser was patented in ______, and was later marketed internationally as the Original Swiss Army K

  49. Complete the sentence about Victorinox with the correct year: Upon the death of his mother in ______, Elsener named the brand "Victoria" in her honor.
  50. Complete the sentence about Wenger with the correct year: Founded in ______, it was best known as one of two companies to manufacture Swiss Army knives.
  51. Complete the sentence about Wenger with the correct year: Since ______ Wenger Swiss Army knives have been integrated in the Victorinox collection as the "Delémont collection".
  52. Complete the sentence about Wenger with the correct year: In ______, after Theo Wenger's death, Kaspar Oertli gained the majority share in the company.
  53. Complete the sentence about Wenger with the correct year: In ______, Wenger started producing watches, one year before Victorinox.
  54. Complete the sentence about Yodeling with the correct year: The earliest record of a yodel is in ______, where it is described as "the call of a cowherd from Appenzell".
  55. Complete the sentence about Yodeling with the correct year: Sir Walter Scott wrote in his June 4, ______, journal entry that "Anne wants me to go hear the Tyrolese Minstrels but...
  56. Complete the sentence about Yodeling with the correct year: In ______, ethnomusicologist Hugh Tracey recorded their songs and they have been released on compact discs.
  57. Complete the sentence about Alphorn with the correct year: The first documented use of the German word Alphorn is in a payment recorded in the ______ accounts ledger of Saint Urban's Abbey in Pfaffnau

  58. Complete the sentence about Alphorn with the correct year: For Clara's birthday in ______ Brahms sent her a greeting that was to be sung with the melody.
  59. Complete the sentence about Hornussen with the correct year: The earliest reference to Hornuss is found in the records of ______ of the consistory of Lauperswil, canton Bern, in a complaint about the

  60. Complete the sentence about Hornussen with the correct year: The first recorded competitive Hornussen game occurred in ______ in Trub.
  61. Complete the sentence about Hornussen with the correct year: The sport appears in the ______ Jeremias Gotthelf novel Uli, der Knecht.
  62. Complete the sentence about Hornussen with the correct year: In ______, the federal Hornussen association was founded, which organises a competition every three years.
  63. Complete the sentence about FĂȘte des Vignerons with the correct year: Since ______, the FĂȘte des Vignerons has been included in UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage.
  64. Complete the sentence about FĂȘte des Vignerons with the correct year: In ______ the Abbaye de l'Agriculture was only a small association.
  65. Complete the sentence about FĂȘte des Vignerons with the correct year: The archives of the ConfrĂ©rie des Vignerons first record a parade in ______, but it is probable that the parades started before th

  66. Complete the sentence about FĂȘte des Vignerons with the correct year: In ______ the parade included a small boy on top of a wine barrel playing the role of Bacchus.
  67. Complete the sentence about SechselÀuten with the correct year: The combination of the SechselÀuten parade and the burning of an official Böögg was introduced in ______.
  68. Complete the sentence about SechselÀuten with the correct year: The square where the Böögg was burnt was called Tonhalleplatz until ______, when it was renamed into SechselÀuten Square.
  69. Complete the sentence about Montreux Jazz Festival with the correct year: The Montreux Jazz Festival opened was founded in ______ by Claude Nobs, Géo Voumard and René Langel with considerable help fro

  70. Complete the sentence about Montreux Jazz Festival with the correct year: Since ______, the festival has allowed a Swiss or international artist to design the official poster every year.
  71. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, it moved to its current location, at the Plaine de l'Asse.
  72. Complete the sentence about Locarno Film Festival with the correct year: The inaugural evening took place on 23 August ______, at the Grand Hotel of Locarno with the screening of the movie O sole mio

  73. Complete the sentence about Locarno Film Festival with the correct year: Since ______, every year the festival has screened features from Eastern Germany, the USSR, etc.
  74. Complete the sentence about Locarno Film Festival with the correct year: Under Vinicio Beretta, LFF director since ______, the festival finally procured state financial support.
  75. Complete the sentence about Art Basel with the correct year: The inaugural Miami fair was originally scheduled for ______, but was delayed after the 9/11 attacks.
  76. Complete the sentence about Le Corbusier with the correct year: Charles-Édouard Jeanneret was born on 6 October ______ in La Chaux-de-Fonds, a city in the Neuchñtel canton in the Romandie region of Sw

  77. Complete the sentence about Mario Botta with the correct year: After three years, he went to the Art College in Milan for his baccalaureate, and then to Università Iuav di Venezia for his professional

  78. Complete the sentence about Mario Botta with the correct year: Botta started his own architectural practice in Lugano in ______.
  79. Complete the sentence about Mario Botta with the correct year: On 1 January ______ he received the Grand Officer award from President of the Italian Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.
  80. Complete the sentence about Mario Botta with the correct year: In ______, he designed his first-ever spa, the Bergoase Spa in Arosa, Switzerland.
  81. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The spa opened in December ______ and cost an estimated CHF 35 million.
  82. Complete the sentence about Mario Botta with the correct year: Mario Botta participated in the Stock Exchange of Visions project in ______.
  83. Complete the sentence about Mario Botta with the correct year: In ______, he was awarded with the Prize Javier Carvajal by the Universidad de Navarra.
  84. Complete the sentence about Peter Zumthor with the correct year: In ______, Zumthor studied industrial design and architecture as an exchange student at Pratt Institute in New York.
  85. Complete the sentence about Peter Zumthor with the correct year: In ______, he became conservationist architect for the Department for the Preservation of Monuments of the canton of GraubĂŒnden.
  86. Complete the sentence about Peter Zumthor with the correct year: Since ______, he has been a professor at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio.
  87. Complete the sentence about Peter Zumthor with the correct year: In ______, Zumthor won the competition for a museum and documentation center on the horrors of Nazism to be built on the site of Gestap

  88. Complete the sentence about Herzog & de Meuron with the correct year: Founded in ______ by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, the practice's portfolio includes more than 600 projects in 40 countries

  89. Complete the sentence about Herzog & de Meuron with the correct year: Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron established Herzog & de Meuron in Basel in ______.
  90. Complete the sentence about Paul Klee with the correct year: Hans Wilhelm Klee was active as a music teacher at the Bern State Seminary in Hofwil near Bern until ______.
  91. Complete the sentence about Paul Klee with the correct year: With his parents' reluctant permission, in ______ Klee began studying art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Heinrich Knirr and Fra

  92. Complete the sentence about Ferdinand Hodler with the correct year: After the death of his mother from tuberculosis in ______, Hodler was sent to Thun to apprentice with a local painter, Ferdinand Som

  93. Complete the sentence about Ferdinand Hodler with the correct year: In ______, at the age of 18, Hodler travelled on foot to Geneva to start his career as a painter.
  94. Complete the sentence about Hans Holbein the Younger with the correct year: Holbein travelled to England in ______ in search of work with a recommendation from Erasmus.
  95. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Fuseli was born on 7 February ______ in ZĂŒrich, the second of 18 children.
  96. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In early ______, he returned to Britain, visiting ZĂŒrich on the way.
  97. Complete the sentence about Johann Heinrich FĂŒssli with the correct year: In ______, he became a full academician, presenting Thor Battering the Midgard Serpent as his diploma work.
  98. Complete the sentence about Meret Oppenheim with the correct year: By ______, Oppenheim was introduced to the writings of Carl Jung through her father and was inspired to record her dreams.
  99. Complete the sentence about Meret Oppenheim with the correct year: In ______, after receiving her father's permission to quit high school, she faced the choice between going to Paris or Munich to stud

  100. Complete the sentence about Meret Oppenheim with the correct year: In May ______, at the age of 18, Oppenheim moved to Paris from Basel, Switzerland, and sporadically attended the Académie de la Grand


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