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  1. Complete the sentence about Serbian Cyrillic alphabet with the correct year: The reformed Serbian Cyrillic alphabet was officially adopted in Principality of Serbia in ______ and remained the sole off…
  2. Complete the sentence about Serbian Cyrillic alphabet with the correct year: The first printed book in Serbian was the Cetinje Octoechos, published in ______.
  3. Complete the sentence about Serbian Cyrillic alphabet with the correct year: During the Serbian Revolution, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić fled Serbia in ______ and settled in Vienna, where he met Jernej Kop…
  4. Complete the sentence about Gaj's Latin alphabet with the correct year: The alphabet was initially devised by Croatian linguist Ljudevit Gaj in ______ during the Illyrian movement in ethnically Croati…
  5. Complete the sentence about Gaj's Latin alphabet with the correct year: In ______ Đuro Daničić proposed a replacement of the digraphs ⟨dž⟩, ⟨dj⟩, ⟨lj⟩ and ⟨nj⟩ with single letters: ⟨ģ⟩, ⟨đ⟩, ⟨ļ⟩ and ⟨…
  6. Complete the sentence about Serbian cuisine with the correct year: The Orthodox monk Jerotej of Krušedol wrote the oldest modern Serbian cookbook in ______.
  7. Complete the sentence about Ćevapi with the correct year: Leskovac, in Ottoman territory until ______, developed a particular reputation for grilled minced-meat dishes.
  8. Complete the sentence about Ćevapi with the correct year: By ______ ćevapčići were described as a local speciality in southern Serbia, Skopje and Peja.
  9. 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.
  10. Complete the sentence about Karađorđeva šnicla with the correct year: Stojanović later presented his work, which he had renamed Karađorđeva šnicla, at a Belgrade food competition in ______.
  11. Complete the sentence about Gibanica with the correct year: The largest gibanica ever made was in the town of Mionica in ______.
  12. 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.
  13. Complete the sentence about Šljivovica with the correct year: UNESCO put it in a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists in ______ on request of the country of geographic origin Serbia.
  14. Complete the sentence about Šljivovica with the correct year: In ______, the Monastery's spirit was presented at a spirits competition in Antwerp, Belgium, where it won a bronze medal.
  15. Complete the sentence about Serbian 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…
  16. Complete the sentence about Serbian 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".
  17. Complete the sentence about Serbian coffee with the correct year: Already in ______ several ships were ordered to be sunk in Istanbul harbour for importing coffee.
  18. Complete the sentence about Plum with the correct year: The fame of the Victoria plum, first sold in ______, has been put down to good marketing rather than any inherent quality.
  19. Complete the sentence about Tamburica with the correct year: During the autumn of ______, after a rebellion in Bosnia had broken out, many refugees arrived in Sremski Karlovci.
  20. Complete the sentence about Turbo-folk with the correct year: While he coined the term, according to Rambo Amadeus, the origin of the turbo-folk sound came with the ______ album Der Osten ist Rot.
  21. Complete the sentence about Serbian rock with the correct year: Rock and roll influences reached schlager singers, most notably Đorđe Marjanović, who released the first popular music solo album in Ser…
  22. Complete the sentence about Serbian rock with the correct year: Korni Grupa was the first Serbian rock act to release a full-length album, in ______, and one of the first bands to move towards progres…
  23. Complete the sentence about Serbian rock with the correct year: Pekinška Patka was the first Serbian punk rock band to release an album, in ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Bajaga i Instruktori with the correct year: Momčilo Bajagić "Bajaga" started his musical career in ______, at age 14, as vocalist for the band TNT.
  25. Complete the sentence about Bajaga i Instruktori with the correct year: Bajagić and musicians working on the album held their first concert in Zagreb club Kulušić on 12 April ______.
  26. Complete the sentence about Bajaga i Instruktori with the correct year: On 19 July ______ Bajagić was, alongside Rajko Kojić, excluded from the band.
  27. Complete the sentence about Bajaga i Instruktori with the correct year: During the summer of ______ Bajaga i Instruktori went on a tour, with experienced musician Rade Radivojević on keyboards, playin…
  28. Complete the sentence about Riblja Čorba with the correct year: On 15 August ______, in the kafana Šumatovac in Belgrade, Đorđević and SOS members made an agreement to form a new band together.
  29. Complete the sentence about Riblja Čorba with the correct year: Riblja Čorba had its first concert in Elemir on 8 September ______.
  30. Complete the sentence about Partibrejkers with the correct year: The band's first recording, the song "Radio Utopia", was released on the various artists compilation Ventilator 202 in ______ by PGP-RT…
  31. Complete the sentence about Partibrejkers with the correct year: The album was recorded at the O Studio in Belgrade in June ______ and the album cover was designed by Antonijević.
  32. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The album was rereleased by Hi-Fi Centar and VTC Wien on CD in ______.
  33. Complete the sentence about Partibrejkers with the correct year: On summer of ______, Bulatović left the band, being temporarily replaced by Disciplina Kičme drummer Nenad Krasovac "Kele", and in Dece…
  34. Complete the sentence about Partibrejkers with the correct year: The band recorded the material for the second studio album in June ______ at the Barbaro Studio in Bukovac.
  35. Complete the sentence about Električni Orgazam with the correct year: The band was officially formed on 13 January ______ and was completed with guitarist Goran Sinadinović and bassist Marina Vulić.
  36. Complete the sentence about Električni Orgazam with the correct year: In June ______, the band played as an opening act for Hipnotisano Pile in front of the crowd of about 300 people.
  37. Complete the sentence about Električni Orgazam with the correct year: After the album release, in autumn ______, Marina Vulić left the band, being replaced by Jovan Jovanović "Grof", and Čavajda retur…
  38. 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.
  39. Complete the sentence about Marija Šerifović with the correct year: Born in Kragujevac, she is best known for winning the Eurovision Song Contest ______ with "Molitva", becoming Serbia's first and to…
  40. Complete the sentence about Marija Šerifović with the correct year: In ______, she made her recording debut with a television performance of the song "Moje bube", which she recorded with her mother.
  41. Complete the sentence about Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest with the correct year: Serbia has been represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 18 times since making its debut in ______.
  42. Complete the sentence about Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest with the correct year: Before the country became independent on 5 June ______, entries from Serbia had participated in the contest as…
  43. Complete the sentence about Serbia in the Eurovision Song Contest with the correct year: In ______, Serbia selected Marko Kon and Milaan to represent them in the second semi-final on 14 May.
  44. Complete the sentence about Molitva with the correct year: On 24 May ______, Šerifović sang "Molitva" as the opening act of the grand final.
  45. Complete the sentence about Željko Joksimović with the correct year: Joksimović was born on 20 April ______ in Belgrade and grew up in the city of Valjevo.
  46. Complete the sentence about Eurovision Song Contest 2024 with the correct year: Romania opted not to participate, and Luxembourg competed for the first time since ______.
  47. Complete the sentence about Eurovision Song Contest 2024 with the correct year: Croatia won the televote and finished in second place, achieving its best result to date as an independent country, havi…
  48. Complete the sentence about Guča trumpet festival with the correct year: The inaugural festival was held on 16 October ______ in the churchyard of the Church of St.
  49. Complete the sentence about Guča trumpet festival with the correct year: On 10 August ______, a monument to Perišić was dedicated on the new roundabout at the entrance into Guča from Lučani direction.
  50. Complete the sentence about Belgrade International Film Festival with the correct year: The festival was founded by the Politika newspaper in ______ at the behest of film critic Milutin Čolić.
  51. Complete the sentence about Serbian cinema with the correct year: André Carr, a representative of the Lumière brothers, was the first to project a motion picture in the Balkans and Central Europe in B…
  52. Complete the sentence about Serbian cinema with the correct year: The first permanent cinema was opened in Belgrade in ______; more cinemas opened shortly thereafter across the country.
  53. Complete the sentence about Serbian cinema with the correct year: Cinema developed in the province at the same time as it did in Serbia, with the first cinema being opened in Sombor in ______.
  54. Complete the sentence about Emir Kusturica with the correct year: Among other accolades, Kusturica became a UNICEF ambassador in ______ and eight years later he was made a chevalier of the Legion of H…
  55. 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…
  56. 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.
  57. Complete the sentence about Underground with the correct year: In ______, Blacky is in town to celebrate Jovan's birthday at a communist hangout.
  58. Complete the sentence about Underground with the correct year: Days later on Easter ______, Marko and Natalija, now a couple, watch a comatose Blacky.
  59. Complete the sentence about Underground with the correct year: In ______, Marko is one of Tito's closest associates and advisors.
  60. 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.
  61. 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…
  62. 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.
  63. 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".
  64. Complete the sentence about Dušan Makavejev with the correct year: Makavejev's most internationally successful film was the ______ political satire W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism, which he both direc…
  65. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______ he was a member of the jury at the 20th Berlin International Film Festival.
  66. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______ he was a member of the jury at the 17th Moscow International Film Festival.
  67. Complete the sentence about Dušan Makavejev with the correct year: In ______ Makavejev wrote and appeared in a half hour televised Opinions lecture in Britain, produced by Open Media for Channel 4 and…
  68. Complete the sentence about Goran Paskaljević with the correct year: The rise of nationalism during the breakup of Yugoslavia forced him to leave his country in ______.
  69. Complete the sentence about Goran Paskaljević with the correct year: In ______ he returned to Yugoslavia to make Cabaret Balkan, which won the FIPRESCI prize at the Venice Film Festival and at the Eur…
  70. Complete the sentence about Srdjan Dragojevic with the correct year: Back home on the political front, Dragojević supported the ______-97 anti-government demonstrations by speaking at rallies and taki…
  71. Complete the sentence about Pretty Village, Pretty Flame with the correct year: The film closes on 21 July ______ with a newsreel, showing the re-opening of the reconstructed tunnel under the new name…
  72. Complete the sentence about Pretty Village, Pretty Flame with the correct year: The shooting of the film under the working title Tunel began on 19 April ______.
  73. Complete the sentence about Pretty Village, Pretty Flame with the correct year: In July ______, after 85 shooting days, the production was put on hold due to lack of funds, some 7 planned shooting day…
  74. Complete the sentence about Mileva Marić with the correct year: Marić and Einstein were study colleagues and lovers, and had a daughter Lieserl in ______, who likely died of scarlet fever at one and a…
  75. Complete the sentence about Mileva Marić with the correct year: Marić was born into a wealthy Serbian family on 19 December ______ in Titel, a town in Bács-Bodrog County, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hu…
  76. Complete the sentence about Mileva Marić with the correct year: Beginning in ______, Marić attended the Royal Serbian Grammar School in Šabac.
  77. Complete the sentence about Mileva Marić with the correct year: In ______, her father obtained special permission to enroll Marić as a private student at the all-male Royal Classical High School in Za…
  78. Complete the sentence about Ivan Đaja with the correct year: Đaja was born on 21 July ______ in Le Havre, a major port in Normandy, France.
  79. Complete the sentence about Ivan Đaja with the correct year: After graduating at First Belgrade Gymnasium in ______, he moved back to France, spending one year as a student at the Lycée Pierre-Corneil…
  80. Complete the sentence about Ivan Đaja with the correct year: In ______ he enrolled at the Sorbonne, where one of his fellow students and best friends was Émile Herzog, later famous French author under…
  81. Complete the sentence about Ivan Đaja with the correct year: In ______, he became the youngest foreign correspondent of Serbian daily Politika.
  82. Complete the sentence about Ivan Đaja with the correct year: Starting in ______, he worked there with Yves Delage and Albert Dastre, beginning his career as a researcher.
  83. Complete the sentence about Mihailo Petrović Alas with the correct year: At the time when he finished his studies in Serbia in ______, several Serbian mathematicians who had acquired their doctorate d…
  84. Complete the sentence about Mihailo Petrović Alas with the correct year: Subsequently, in September ______, he too went abroad, to Paris to receive further education, and to prepare for the entrance e…
  85. Complete the sentence about Mihailo Petrović Alas with the correct year: In ______, he became an associate member of the Serbian Royal Academy and associate member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences…
  86. Complete the sentence about Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts with the correct year: The names of the first academics were announced by King Milan on 5 April ______.
  87. Complete the sentence about Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts with the correct year: Affirmed architect of domestic architecture Кonstantin Jovanović was hired to make the design in ______.
  88. Complete the sentence about Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts with the correct year: Dealing with the problem of permanent location, in ______ SRA got to use the space in the building of Sima Iguma…
  89. Complete the sentence about University of Belgrade with the correct year: The predecessor to the University of Belgrade was established in ______ as the Belgrade Higher School by Dositej Obradović, a…
  90. Complete the sentence about University of Belgrade with the correct year: The first woman graduated from the University of Belgrade's Law School in ______.
  91. Complete the sentence about University of Novi Sad with the correct year: The seat of Matica Srpska, the oldest cultural and scientific institution of the Serbian people, was relocated to Novi Sad in…
  92. Complete the sentence about University of Novi Sad with the correct year: The development of legal sciences and education on the territory of today's Vojvodina was particularly influenced by the Facul…
  93. Complete the sentence about University of Niš with the correct year: The University of Niš was incorporated as an independent degree-granting institution on 15 June ______.
  94. Complete the sentence about University of Niš with the correct year: In ______ the first undergraduate programs commenced in Niš under the academic patronage of the University of Belgrade.
  95. Complete the sentence about University of Niš with the correct year: The building was constructed in ______, in the city center, on the right bank of the river Nisava.
  96. Complete the sentence about University of Kragujevac with the correct year: Lyceum was the first higher education institution in Serbia, established in Kragujevac by the decree of Prince Milos Obrenov…
  97. Complete the sentence about National Museum of Serbia with the correct year: The National Museum of Serbia building was declared a Monument of Culture of Great Importance in ______.
  98. Complete the sentence about Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade with the correct year: The museum collects and displays art works produced since ______ in Serbia and Yugoslavia.
  99. Complete the sentence about Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade with the correct year: The architects received the October Prize from the City of Belgrade on 20 October ______, the same day the museu…
  100. Complete the sentence about Museum of Yugoslavia with the correct year: On 16 November ______, the "Josip Broz Tito" Memorial Centre was founded and the 25 May Museum became part of the centre.

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