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  1. Complete the sentence about Dhaka with the correct year: In ______, after the end of British rule, the city became the administrative capital of East Pakistan.
  2. Complete the sentence about Chittagong with the correct year: The Mughal Empire expelled the Portuguese and Arakanese in ______.
  3. Complete the sentence about Rajshahi with the correct year: The foundation of the city dates to ______, according to epigraphic records at the mausoleum of Sufi saint Shah Makhdum.
  4. Complete the sentence about Rajshahi with the correct year: When Nawab Murshid Quli Khan divided the Bengal Subah into 13 divisions in ______, Rajshahi was included as one of the divisions.
  5. Complete the sentence about Rajshahi with the correct year: Most of the public buildings were severely damaged by the earthquake of 12 June ______.
  6. Complete the sentence about Rajshahi with the correct year: The region came to be known as Rampur Boalia after the establishment of an administrative office in ______.
  7. Complete the sentence about Sylhet with the correct year: In ______, the Sultan of Lakhnauti Shamsuddin Firoz Shah conquered Sylhet by defeating Gour Govinda.
  8. Complete the sentence about Sylhet with the correct year: Sylhet emerged after ______ as the Mughals' most significant imperial outpost in Bengal east of Dhaka, and its importance remained as such thr…
  9. Complete the sentence about Comilla with the correct year: In ______, it became the centre of the Bengal-backed domain of Jagat Manikya.
  10. Complete the sentence about Comilla with the correct year: The Peasants' Movement against the king of Tripura in ______, which originally formed under the leadership of Shamsher Gazi is a notable hist…
  11. Complete the sentence about Comilla with the correct year: Communal tension spread over Comilla when a Muslim was shot in the town during the partition of Bengal in ______.
  12. Complete the sentence about Comilla with the correct year: On 21 November ______, Kazi Nazrul Islam composed patriotic songs and tried to awaken the townspeople by protesting the Prince of Wales's vis…
  13. Complete the sentence about Narayanganj with the correct year: The Bank of Bengal introduced the first telephone service in ______.
  14. Complete the sentence about Narayanganj with the correct year: The Narayanganj Municipality was incorporated on 8 September ______.
  15. Complete the sentence about Narayanganj with the correct year: The first hospital in the area of Narayanganj Victoria Hospital was established in ______ by the Municipality with financial contribution…
  16. Complete the sentence about Mymensingh with the correct year: The city was constituted by the British East India Company on 1 May ______.
  17. Complete the sentence about Mymensingh with the correct year: The cadet college established in Tangail in ______ was called Momenshahi Cadet College.
  18. Complete the sentence about Mymensingh with the correct year: Mymensingh is one of the sixteen old districts of Bangladesh which was constituted by the British East India Company on 1 May ______.
  19. Complete the sentence about Cox's Bazar with the correct year: During the early 9th century, the greater Chittagong area, including Cox's Bazar, was under the rule of Arakan kings until its conquest b…
  20. Complete the sentence about Cox's Bazar with the correct year: After the Indian Rebellion of ______, Company rule in India came to an end and was replaced by the British Crown.
  21. Complete the sentence about Bogra with the correct year: In ______, the name of the city was officially changed from "Bogra" to "Bogura" by the Bangladeshi government, in order to reflect their pronun…
  22. Complete the sentence about Jessore with the correct year: The name originally applied to the town now called Ishwaripur, which was founded sometime after ______-74 by Vikramaditya, father of Pratapad…
  23. Complete the sentence about Savar with the correct year: On 24 November ______, a garment factory fire killed at least 112 people.
  24. Complete the sentence about Tangail with the correct year: In ______, Tangail became the 4th ranking area of the Greater Mymensingh District due to its fertile land near the Louhajong River.
  25. Complete the sentence about Tangail with the correct year: The first city election was held in November ______, when the citizens elected eight ward commissioners from four wards.
  26. Complete the sentence about Sundarbans with the correct year: In May ______, Cyclone Aila devastated the Sundarbans with massive casualties.
  27. Complete the sentence about Sundarbans with the correct year: The coal-fired Rampal Power Station is anticipated to further damage this unique mangrove forest according to a ______ report by UNESCO.
  28. Complete the sentence about Sundarbans with the correct year: The first Forest Management Division to have jurisdiction over the Sundarbans was established in ______.
  29. Complete the sentence about Sundarbans with the correct year: A Forest Division, which is the basic forest management and administration unit, was created in ______ with the headquarters in today Khul…
  30. Complete the sentence about Lalbagh Fort with the correct year: The Mughal prince Muhammad Azam Shah, third son of Aurangzeb, started the work of the fort in ______ during his vice-royalty in Bengal.
  31. Complete the sentence about Lalbagh Fort with the correct year: In ______, the daughter of Shaista Khan, named Iran Dukht Pari Bibi, died there.
  32. Complete the sentence about Ahsan Manzil with the correct year: Around ______, his son, Sheikh Matiullah, sold the property to French traders, who erected a trading house beside the property.
  33. Complete the sentence about Ahsan Manzil with the correct year: On 7 April ______, a tornado severely damaged Ahsan Manzil and it was temporarily abandoned.
  34. Complete the sentence about Star Mosque with the correct year: In ______, the prayer hall was extended by the Department of Architecture to include two more domes.
  35. Complete the sentence about Star Mosque with the correct year: In ______, the Ministry of Religious Affairs commissioned Giasul Huque and Zahiruddin to make additions to the prayer hall, which was ext…
  36. Complete the sentence about Somapura Mahavihara with the correct year: Somapura was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in ______.
  37. Complete the sentence about Mahasthangarh with the correct year: A limestone slab bearing six lines in Prakrit in Brahmi script recording a land grant, discovered in ______, dates Mahasthangarh to at…
  38. Complete the sentence about Mahasthangarh with the correct year: In ______, an administrative decree mentioned the place as Mastangarh, a mixture of Sanskrit and Persian, meaning fortified place of an…
  39. Complete the sentence about Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban with the correct year: In ______, commander-in-chief Ayub Khan seized power in Pakistan through a military coup and imposed martial law.
  40. Complete the sentence about Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban with the correct year: When the liberation war of Bangladesh started in ______, the construction of the building stopped.
  41. Complete the sentence about Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban with the correct year: In ______, three years after the independence of Bangladesh, the third Mujib ministry decided to continue construction without…
  42. Complete the sentence about Curzon Hall with the correct year: The building was originally intended to be a town hall and is named after Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India who laid its foundation stone…
  43. Complete the sentence about Curzon Hall with the correct year: Upon the establishment of Dacca University in ______, it became the base of the university's science faculty.
  44. Complete the sentence about Curzon Hall with the correct year: After the abolition of the Partition of Bengal in ______, Dhaka College classes started in Curzon Hall.
  45. Complete the sentence about Curzon Hall with the correct year: After the establishment of the University of Dhaka in ______, Curzon Hall was transferred to the university and it included in the scienc…
  46. Complete the sentence about Dhaka University with the correct year: Established in ______, it is the oldest active university in Bangladesh.
  47. Complete the sentence about Cox's Bazar Beach with the correct year: From the early 9th century, the greater Chittagong area including Cox's Bazar was under the rule of Arakan kings until its conquest…
  48. Complete the sentence about Cox's Bazar Beach with the correct year: Just after the end of British rule in ______, Cox's Bazar became part of East Pakistan.
  49. Complete the sentence about Lawachara National Park with the correct year: In a ______ census, only 62 individuals in 17 groups were found in Lawachara and in the greater West Bhanugach Reserved Fores…
  50. Complete the sentence about Jamuna River with the correct year: The huge earthquake on 2 April ______ of estimated magnitude 8 on the moment magnitude scale caused tectonic uplift of the Madhupur trac…
  51. Complete the sentence about Jamuna River with the correct year: The Jamuna was a barrier in establishing a direct road link between the capital Dhaka and northern part of Bangladesh, better known as R…
  52. Complete the sentence about Jamuna River with the correct year: Before the Partition of Bengal in ______, passenger steamers used to ply up to Dibrugarh in the state of Assam in the Indian Union.
  53. Complete the sentence about Brahmaputra with the correct year: The terrain of this area made it logistically ideal for the Battle of Saraighat, the military confrontation between the Mughal Empire and…
  54. Complete the sentence about Karnaphuli River with the correct year: The Kaptai Dam is the location of the Karnafuli Hydroelectric Power Station, constructed in Kaptai in ______ and the only hydroelect…
  55. Complete the sentence about Teesta River with the correct year: The Teesta changed course as a result of the flooding of ______, turning southeast to become part of the Brahmaputra.
  56. Complete the sentence about Teesta River with the correct year: In ______, a temporary arrangement was reached: Bangladesh would receive 36%, India 39% while, and the remainder would remain unallocate…
  57. Complete the sentence about Tanguar Haor with the correct year: Bangladesh declared it an Ecologically Critical Area in ______, considering its critical condition as a result of overexploitation of it…
  58. Complete the sentence about Sylhet Division with the correct year: In ______, the current Sylhet Division, which included Karimganj District, was entirely known as the 'Sylhet district'.
  59. Complete the sentence about Sylhet Division with the correct year: In ______, Sylhet district rejoined Bengal as a part of the new Surma Valley Division of Eastern Bengal and Assam.
  60. Complete the sentence about Sylhet Division with the correct year: In ______, the then Sylhet district was once again moved to the newly created Assam Province alongside the other districts of the Sur…
  61. Complete the sentence about Sylhet Division with the correct year: During the partition of India in ______, a plebiscite was held to determine whether the Sylhet region would remain in India or join E…
  62. Complete the sentence about Sylhet Division with the correct year: Following the independence of Bangladesh in ______, Sylhet became part of the new nation.
  63. Complete the sentence about Sylhet Division with the correct year: In ______, the four subdivisions of Sylhet District were upgraded to districts as part of Chief Martial Law Administrator Hussain Muh…
  64. Complete the sentence about Sylhet Division with the correct year: The four districts remained part of Chittagong Division until ______, when they formed the new Sylhet Division.
  65. Complete the sentence about Dhaka Division with the correct year: During that period Taj Khan Karrani and another Afghan chieftain helped Isa Khan to obtain an estate in Sonargaon and Mymensingh in __…
  66. Complete the sentence about Dhaka Division with the correct year: By winning the grace of the Afghan chieftain, Isa Khan gradually increased his strength and status and by ______, the Mughal Court des…
  67. Complete the sentence about Chittagong Division with the correct year: In East Pakistan, the division's Tippera district was renamed as Comilla District in ______.
  68. Complete the sentence about Chittagong Division with the correct year: Sylhet, Habiganj, Moulvibazar and Sunamganj districts were moved from the Chittagong Division to create the newly established Syl…
  69. Complete the sentence about Khulna Division with the correct year: Before ______, the Presidency division included six major districts: Murshidabad, Calcutta, 24 Parganas, Khulna, undivided Jessore, a…
  70. Complete the sentence about Khulna Division with the correct year: In ______, The Partition of India divided this division into two.
  71. Complete the sentence about Khulna Division with the correct year: In ______, Nadia district of East Bengal formed a new district called Kushtia.
  72. Complete the sentence about Khulna Division with the correct year: In ______, the Barisal Division was formed from the Khulna division.
  73. Complete the sentence about Barisal Division with the correct year: After ______, when Mughal naval forces cleared the Meghna estuary of such external threats, the Barisal interior lay ripe for coloni…
  74. Complete the sentence about Rangpur Division with the correct year: Mansingh, commander of Emperor Akbar, conquered part of Rangpur in ______.
  75. Complete the sentence about Mymensingh Division with the correct year: On 14 September ______, Mymensingh was officially announced as a division consisting of four districts.
  76. Complete the sentence about Bengal tiger with the correct year: Felis tigris was the scientific name used by Carl Linnaeus in ______ for the tiger.
  77. Complete the sentence about Bengal tiger with the correct year: The validity of several tiger subspecies in continental Asia was questioned in ______.
  78. Complete the sentence about Bengal tiger with the correct year: The extinct and living tiger populations in continental Asia have been subsumed to P. t. tigris since the revision of felid taxonomy in…
  79. Complete the sentence about Gangetic dolphin with the correct year: The Ganges river dolphin was formally classified as Delphinus gangeticus two separate times in ______ by Heinrich Julius Lebeck and…
  80. Complete the sentence about Geography of Bangladesh with the correct year: Average daily humidity ranged from March lows of between 55 and 81% to July highs of between 94 and 100%, based on readings t…
  81. Complete the sentence about Cyclone Sidr with the correct year: The storm eventually made landfall in Bangladesh on November 15, ______, leading to large-scale evacuations.
  82. Complete the sentence about Padma Bridge with the correct year: The foundation stone for the Padma Bridge was laid by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on 4 July ______.
  83. Complete the sentence about Bangabandhu Bridge with the correct year: The government of Bangladesh finalized funding arrangements for the bridge with IDA, ADB, and OECF of Japan in ______.
  84. Complete the sentence about Dhaka Metro Rail with the correct year: In ______, the executive committee of the National Economic Council approved the project.
  85. Complete the sentence about Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport with the correct year: During the ______ Indo-Pakistani war, the then abandoned airstrip was bombed by Indian Air Force, thinking it…
  86. Complete the sentence about Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport with the correct year: In December ______, Biman Bangladesh Airlines launched a route to New York City via Delhi, Dubai and Amsterdam…
  87. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The port had a congestion rate of 84.3 hours between January and July in ______.
  88. Complete the sentence about Chittagong Port with the correct year: In ______, Al-Idrisi noted that merchants from Baghdad and Basra regularly travelled to Chittagong.
  89. Complete the sentence about Mongla Port with the correct year: The port was founded in ______ to serve the southwestern region of East Bengal.
  90. Complete the sentence about Payra Port with the correct year: In October ______, Bangladesh Navy was awarded the construction contract for a four-lane road connecting the port to the main highway in P…
  91. Complete the sentence about Payra Port with the correct year: As of ______, Payra was primarily a governmental route for import and export.
  92. Complete the sentence about Karnaphuli Tunnel with the correct year: On 14 October ______, the Bangladesh Prime Minister and Chinese President Xi Jinping laid the foundation stone of the project.
  93. Complete the sentence about Karnaphuli Tunnel with the correct year: Hasina officially inaugurated the construction of the tunnel and inaugurated the tunnel boring phase on 24 February ______.
  94. Complete the sentence about Karnaphuli Tunnel with the correct year: On 28 October ______, Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the tunnel as Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel and was made available for t…
  95. Complete the sentence about Karnaphuli Tunnel with the correct year: In October ______, during the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Dhaka, the loan agreement for the construction of the Karnap…
  96. Which place completes this sentence about Khulna? Khulna is also the second largest port city of Bangladesh after ______, due to being adjacent to Port of Mongla.
  97. Which place completes this sentence about Sylhet? Sylhet emerged after 1612 as the Mughals' most significant imperial outpost in Bengal east of ______, and its importance remained as such throughout t…
  98. Which place completes this sentence about Narayanganj? A post office was set up in 1866, and ______-Narayanganj telegraph service was started in 1877.
  99. Which place completes this sentence about Mymensingh? The cadet college established in ______ in 1963 was called Momenshahi Cadet College.
  100. Which place completes this sentence about Cox's Bazar? During the early 9th century, the greater ______ area, including Cox's Bazar, was under the rule of Arakan kings until its conquest by the Mughal…

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