LOCAL HISTORY QUIZ

V A LJ E V O

1. Valjevo was first mentioned in the written documents in:a) 1393 b) 1560c) 1792

2. The documents in which Valjevo was first mentioned are kept in the historical archive of:a) Viennab) Dubrovnik c) Washington

3. Valjevo had ______ houses in the second half of the 17th century.a) 90b) 870 c) 4300

4. The oldest building on the left bank of the Kolubara river in Valjevo from the 18th century is that of:a) The Grammar schoolb) The Churchc) Musellim' s Lodgings

5. At the beginning of 1804 several prominent people were executed in Valjevo. The "Beheading of Headmen", as this event was recorded in history, took place on a bridge over the river:a) Jablanicab) Obnicac) Kolubara

6. One of the executed national leaders in the "Beheading of Headmen" was:a) Tanasko Rajicb) Ilija Bircanin c) Brigand Veljko

7. The famous Nenadovic Tower, one of the landmarks of Valjevo, was used in the past as:a) gunpowder magazine b) schoolc) hospital

8. Headman Aleksa Nenadovic, archpriest Matija Nenadovic and writer Ljubomir Nenadovic are actually grandfather, father and son in the same family from the following village near Valjevo:a) Brankovina b) Gola glavac) Kamenica

9. Valjevo Printing Shop, where the first Valjevo newspaper "Glasonosha" (Clarion) was printed, was founded in:a) 1825b) 1885 c) 1905

10. Valjevo Grammar School began work in:a) 1870 b) 1910c) 1940

11. The first industrial enterprise in Valjevo, founded in 1860, was:a) "Uzor" Ready-Made Clothesb) "Srbijanka" Fruit Processing Plantc) Valjevo Brewery

12. Zivojin Mishich, a Serbian commander from the First World War, went in for marksmanship and horseback riding in his youth, so he found himself in that role at the first modern olympic games which were held in 1896 in:a) Londonb) Athens c) Moscow

13. The railway line, which connected Valjevo with Obrenovac, was started up in :a) 1848b) 1908 c) 1938

14. During the Serbian army retreat at the beginning of the First World War, the government of the Kingdom of Serbia held sessions in the District Court building in Valjevo for some time. The government sessions were chaired by:a) Nikola Pasic b) Svetozar Markovicc) Mirko Marijanovic

15. The famous poetess Desanka Maksimovic, moved by the firing-squad execution of the citizens of Kragujevac, which included even children, wrote the following poem:a) Pitb) Motherc) Bloody Fairy Tale

16. The Monument of Revolution Fighters on the hill Vidrak above Valjevo is represented by the figure of the antifashist partisan:a) Sava Kovacevicb) Ivan Milutinovicc) Stevan Filipovic

17. After the Second World War, Valjevo developed very quickly. The special contribution to this was given by the Krusik company. In about 1985, Krusik employed _______ people from Valjevo and its surroundings.a) 11500 b) 6500c) 2500

18. The Science Center, the famous institution for research and education, is situated near Valjevo in the village of :a) Divcib) Robajec) Petnica

19. The famous painter from Valjevo, Ljuba Popovic, lives and works in :a) Tokyob) Paris c) New York

20. The only Valjevo monastery where the frescoes from the beginning of the 17th century have been completely preserved is called:a) Pustinja b) Celijec) Bogovadja

unknown words:

• lodgings = a room in someone's house that you pay money to live in

• bank = sloping raised land, especially along the sides of a river

• prominent = very well known and important

• behead = to cut off someone's head

• headman = the chief (= leader) of a village or tribe

• brigand = an armed thief, especially one of a group living in the countryside and stealing from people travelling through the area

• archpriest = archpriest is the title of a priest who has supervisory duties over a number of parishes (parish = an area cared for by one priest and which has its own church, or (in England) the smallest unit of local government.). The term is most often used in Eastern Orthodoxy and Eastern Catholic Churches.

• marksmanship = skill in shooting

• army retreat = withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the

enemy’s superior forces or after a defeat

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