Bangladesh Culture, Economy and Society

Culture Economy And Society

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  1. Complete the sentence about University of Chittagong with the correct year: Chittagong University Museum was established in ______ with artifacts from the History Department, including fossils found a…
  2. Complete the sentence about University of Chittagong with the correct year: In ______, The Daily Star donated a Chittagong history archive to the museum.
  3. Complete the sentence about University of Chittagong with the correct year: At the inauguration of the university in November ______, the library started with only 300 books.
  4. Complete the sentence about Jahangirnagar University with the correct year: But after the independence of Bangladesh, its name changed to Jahangirnagar University under the Jahangirnagar University Ac…
  5. Complete the sentence about Dhaka Medical College with the correct year: The college's original building was built prior to the Partition of Bengal of ______.
  6. Complete the sentence about Dhaka Medical College with the correct year: In ______, it was turned over to the University of Dhaka, which was founded that year.
  7. Complete the sentence about Dhaka Medical College with the correct year: In ______, the Dhaka University Council requested the British government to establish a separate medical college in Dhaka.
  8. Complete the sentence about ICDDR,B with the correct year: When Bangladesh became independent in ______, activities were scaled down due to a scarcity of funds.
  9. Complete the sentence about ICDDR,B with the correct year: Until ______, there were number research accomplishments such as ORS, Patho-Physiology of shigellosis, Rotavirus, uplifting family planning p…
  10. Complete the sentence about ICDDR,B with the correct year: The organisation was established in its current form via an ordinance promulgated by President Ziaur Rahman and then that was ratified in par…
  11. Complete the sentence about Religion in Bangladesh with the correct year: After ______, East Pakistan became the sovereign nation of the People's Republic of Bangladesh.
  12. Complete the sentence about Islam in Bangladesh with the correct year: Muslim nationalism rose during British rule which ultimately led to the establishment of East Pakistan in ______.
  13. Complete the sentence about Islam in Bangladesh with the correct year: Following the ______ Liberation War, East Pakistan seceded from Pakistan and modern Bangladesh was established.
  14. Complete the sentence about Islam in Bangladesh with the correct year: Founded as a constitutionally secular state, Islam was declared as the state religion of Bangladesh in ______.
  15. Complete the sentence about Buddhism in Bangladesh with the correct year: Buddhism in various forms appears to have been prevalent at the time of the Turkic conquest in ______.
  16. Complete the sentence about Christianity in Bangladesh with the correct year: Christianity did not have a presence in Bangladesh until the arrival of the Portuguese in ______ with individuals like Alf…
  17. Complete the sentence about Christianity in Bangladesh with the correct year: By ______, the Portuguese had obtained the right to preach Christianity in Bengal, thanks to the agreement between the Cat…
  18. Complete the sentence about Christianity in Bangladesh with the correct year: In ______, the first Protestant, Reverend John Zachariah Kiernander, arrived in Bangladesh.
  19. Complete the sentence about Christianity in Bangladesh with the correct year: In ______, he funded and built a Protestant church called "Mission Church" in West Bengal.
  20. Complete the sentence about Baitul Mukarram with the correct year: On 27 April ______, Abdul Latif Ibrahim Bawani, owner of then Bawani Jute Mills, held a meeting at his house with G.A.
  21. Complete the sentence about Baitul Mukarram with the correct year: The pond was filled up and on 27 January ______, then president of Pakistan Ayub Khan inaugurated the work.
  22. Complete the sentence about Baitul Mukarram with the correct year: Prayers took place for the first time on Friday, 25 January ______.
  23. Complete the sentence about Baitul Mukarram with the correct year: On 28 March ______, the Government of Bangladesh entrusted the management of the mosque to the Islamic Foundation Bangladesh.
  24. Complete the sentence about Baitul Mukarram with the correct year: In ______, the mosque was extended, financed by a donation from the government of Saudi Arabia.
  25. Complete the sentence about Dhakeshwari Temple with the correct year: By ______, the businessman Debendranath Chaudhary built the temple of Goddess in Kumortuli area and established some of the Goddes…
  26. Complete the sentence about Dhakeshwari Temple with the correct year: In ______, the descendants of that family came to Calcutta and were re-appointed, where they still serve the Goddess continuously.
  27. Complete the sentence about Bengali people with the correct year: In ______, Muslim nobleman Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah united the region into a single political entity known as the Bengal Sultanate.
  28. Complete the sentence about Santhal people with the correct year: In the latter half of the 18th century, the Santals entered the historical record in ______ when they are recorded as "Soontars".
  29. Complete the sentence about Santhal people with the correct year: Therefore, when the Permanent Settlement was enacted in ______, the Company looked for agriculturalists to clear the lands.
  30. Complete the sentence about Santhal people with the correct year: In ______, a large number of area of the Raj Mahal hills demarcated as Damin-i-koh.
  31. Complete the sentence about Garo people with the correct year: In December ______, the Government of India dispatched a military expedition to the Garo Hills to establish control over the region.
  32. Complete the sentence about Garo people with the correct year: In ______, the group called "Risi Jilma" was founded to safeguard the ancient Garo Songsarek religion.
  33. Complete the sentence about Amar Sonar Bangla with the correct year: Prashanta Kumar Paul, in his biography on Rabindranath Tagore Rabi Jibani, claimed that the song was first sung on 25 August ______…
  34. Complete the sentence about Amar Sonar Bangla with the correct year: The lyrics first appeared in public in the September issues of Bongodorshon and Baul simultaneously in ______.
  35. Complete the sentence about Amar Sonar Bangla with the correct year: The first ten lines of the original poem constitute the most commonly sung version of Bangladesh's national anthem, adopted in ____…
  36. Complete the sentence about Amar Sonar Bangla with the correct year: According to Ziauddin Ahmed, the song as the national anthem has been facing criticism at least since ______.
  37. Complete the sentence about Flag of Bangladesh with the correct year: The flag is based on a similar flag used during the Bangladesh Liberation War of ______, which had a yellow map of the country ins…
  38. Complete the sentence about Flag of Bangladesh with the correct year: The first version of the flag was designed and made by a group of student leaders and activists from the Swadheen Bangla Nucleus o…
  39. Complete the sentence about Flag of Bangladesh with the correct year: On 2 March ______, this initial version of the flag was hoisted in Bangladesh for the first time at Dhaka University, by student l…
  40. Complete the sentence about Flag of Bangladesh with the correct year: On 23 March ______, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman officially hoisted the flag for the first time at his house in 32 Dhanmondi.
  41. Complete the sentence about National symbols of Bangladesh with the correct year: The lyrics first appeared in the September issues of "Bongodorshon" and "Baul" simultaneously, in ______.
  42. Complete the sentence about National symbols of Bangladesh with the correct year: On 13 January ______, the ministry of Bangladesh adopted this song as a national marching song at its first meeting af…
  43. Complete the sentence about Jagadish Chandra Bose with the correct year: Established in ______, the institute was the first interdisciplinary research centre in Asia.
  44. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In a ______ BBC poll to name the Greatest Bengali of All Time, Bose placed seventh.
  45. Complete the sentence about Jagadish Chandra Bose with the correct year: In ______, he passed the entrance examination of the University of Dhaka and was admitted to St Xavier's College, Calcutta.
  46. Complete the sentence about Jagadish Chandra Bose with the correct year: In February ______, Bose married feminist and social worker Abala Bose.
  47. Complete the sentence about Satyendra Nath Bose with the correct year: A Fellow of the Royal Society, he was awarded India's second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan, in ______ by the Govern…
  48. Complete the sentence about Satyendra Nath Bose with the correct year: Bose received a Bachelor of Science in mixed mathematics from Presidency College, standing first in ______.
  49. Complete the sentence about Satyendra Nath Bose with the correct year: After completing his MSc, Bose joined the Science College, Calcutta University as a research scholar in ______ and started his st…
  50. Complete the sentence about Satyendra Nath Bose with the correct year: In ______, at age 20, Satyendra Nath Bose married Ushabati Ghosh, the 11-year-old daughter of a prominent Calcutta physician.
  51. Complete the sentence about Bangla Academy with the correct year: Established in ______, it is located in the Burdwan House in Shahbagh, Dhaka, on the grounds of the University of Dhaka and Suhrawardy…
  52. Complete the sentence about Bangla Academy with the correct year: On 3 December ______, the Chief Minister of East Bengal, Abu Hussain Sarkar, inaugurated the institute.
  53. Complete the sentence about Bangla Academy with the correct year: In ______, Muhammad Enamul Haque took over as the first director.
  54. Complete the sentence about Bangla Academy with the correct year: In ______, an act of the parliament formally established the funding source and the Government support for the institute.
  55. Complete the sentence about Ekushey Book Fair with the correct year: In ______, Muktodhara established its very first stall, which measured 8 by 8 feet.
  56. Complete the sentence about Ekushey Book Fair with the correct year: The number of visitors increased gradually each year, leading Bangla Academy to officially take charge of the fair in ______.
  57. Complete the sentence about Ekushey Book Fair with the correct year: In ______, a book fair was held in the Bangla Academy courtyard in collaboration with the Bangladesh Publishers and Booksellers Ass…
  58. Complete the sentence about Ekushey Book Fair with the correct year: In ______, the first official Amar Ekushey Grontho Mela was held under formal guidelines.
  59. Complete the sentence about Ekushey Padak with the correct year: In ______, Social Welfare Minister Enamul Haque Mostafa Shahid For the first time, Ekushey Padak was given in Liberation War.
  60. Complete the sentence about Ekushey Padak with the correct year: In ______, for the first time, Ekushey Padak was introduced in the beginning Abdul Mannan Syed Ekushey Padak in Research was given.
  61. Complete the sentence about Grameenphone with the correct year: Grameenphone was the first company to introduce GSM technology over 900 and ______ MHz in Bangladesh.
  62. Complete the sentence about Robi Axiata with the correct year: Robi Axiata has FDD spectrum on 900, ______ & 2100 and TDD spectrum on 2600 MHz bands.
  63. Complete the sentence about Beximco with the correct year: Rahman and Salman F Rahman in ______, right after the independence of Bangladesh.
  64. Complete the sentence about Beximco with the correct year: In ______, Beximco Pharma became the first Bangladeshi company to be listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange…
  65. Complete the sentence about Walton with the correct year: In ______, it was ranked as the second-largest corporate donor in Bangladesh by the CSR Centre and Sustainability Excellence.
  66. Complete the sentence about Walton with the correct year: After the Bangladesh Liberation War of ______, he started a separate business.
  67. Complete the sentence about Walton with the correct year: In ______, he founded a new company named after his eldest son S.M Nurul Alam Rezvi called Rezvi & Brothers, abbreviated as R.B.
  68. Complete the sentence about Walton with the correct year: The company made its debut in ______ as the Walton Group by starting refrigerator manufacture.
  69. Complete the sentence about Bashundhara Group with the correct year: Bashundhara Group, founded by Ahmed Akbar Sobhan, began in ______ as a real estate venture.
  70. Complete the sentence about Bashundhara Group with the correct year: In ______, Bashundhara invested $181 million in the food sector, producing flour, wheat, red meat, etc.
  71. Complete the sentence about Dhaka Bank with the correct year: The bank was founded in ______ by Bangladeshi politician Mirza Abbas.
  72. Complete the sentence about Bangladesh Biman with the correct year: The airline had signed a deal with Boeing to buy ten new aircraft and options for ten more in ______.
  73. Complete the sentence about Liberation War Museum with the correct year: The Liberation War Museum began under the initiative of an eight-person board of trustees as a means of preserving memories of…
  74. Complete the sentence about Liberation War Museum with the correct year: In ______, an architectural contest was held for the design of the newmuseum; architects Tanzim Hasan Salim and Naheed Farzana…
  75. Complete the sentence about Liberation War Museum with the correct year: In ______, land was acquired in Agargaon for the new building and construction began.
  76. Complete the sentence about Liberation War Museum with the correct year: The new premises of the Liberation War Museum were officially opened on 16 April ______.
  77. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, Mujib was assassinated with most members of his family in this residence.
  78. Complete the sentence about Bangabandhu Memorial Museum with the correct year: Until 12 October ______, Sheikh Rahman and his family lived in a government building in Shegunbagicha, Dhaka.
  79. Complete the sentence about Bangabandhu Memorial Museum with the correct year: Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was imprisoned until ______; after his release, he constructed a one-storey house there.
  80. Complete the sentence about National Museum of Bangladesh with the correct year: With an initial collection of 379 objects, it was opened to the public on 25 August ______.
  81. Complete the sentence about National Museum of Bangladesh with the correct year: In ______, the Asiatic Society of Bengal proposed establishing a museum in Dhaka, but it was postponed due to logistica…
  82. Complete the sentence about National Museum of Bangladesh with the correct year: Following this, on 20 March ______, the Dhaka Museum was formally established by the government of undivided Bengal.
  83. Complete the sentence about Dhaka Zoo with the correct year: On 5 February ______, the name was changed from Dhaka Zoo to Bangladesh National Zoo.
  84. Complete the sentence about Dhaka Zoo with the correct year: On 26 December ______, the agricultural, cooperation and aid ministry officially declared to establish a zoo in Dhaka.
  85. Complete the sentence about Ramna Park with the correct year: Notably, in ______, Queen Elizabeth II received a warm civic reception at Ramna Park during her visit to Dhaka.
  86. Complete the sentence about Suhrawardy Udyan with the correct year: On 21 March ______, the governor-general of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, delivered a speech here to a large crowd.
  87. Complete the sentence about Suhrawardy Udyan with the correct year: On 23 February ______, a civic reception was held here to honour Sheikh Mujibur Rahman upon his release from jail after sedition cha…
  88. Complete the sentence about Suhrawardy Udyan with the correct year: On 3 January ______, the Awami League politicians organised a massive public meeting, where they vowed not to betray the Bengali peo…
  89. Complete the sentence about Suhrawardy Udyan with the correct year: On 17 March ______, a massive public meeting was jointly addressed by Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Mujibur Rahman at this…
  90. Which place completes this sentence about Chomchom? Chamcham, an oval-shaped brownish variety of chomchom from Porabari in ______ District of modern-day Bangladesh, dates back to the mid-19th century.
  91. Which place completes this sentence about Mangal Shobhajatra? The procession of the festival was first observed in 1986 at ______ which was organized by Charupit a non government organization based in…
  92. Which place completes this sentence about Lalon? Born in what is now ______ Division in Bangladesh, Lalon was a disciple of his father Malam Shah and Siraj Shah.
  93. Which place completes this sentence about Zahir Raihan? Mohammad Zahirullah was born on 19 August 1935 in the village of Majupur in Sonagazi, Feni subdivision, then a part of the Bengal Presidency's _…
  94. Which place completes this sentence about Rajshahi University? Itrat Hossain Zuberi, the principal of ______ College, was appointed its first vice-chancellor.
  95. Which place completes this sentence about Rajshahi University? After independence, a new Act regarding the administration of the university came into being, the ______ University Act, 1973.

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