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Myanmar Quiz: Test Your Knowledge on Myanmar
Quiz Questions
- What is the capital city of Myanmar?
- What is the official language of Myanmar?
- What is the predominant religion in Myanmar?
- Which Burmese politician won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991?
- Which major river flows through Myanmar and plays a crucial role in its agriculture and culture?
- What is the name of the second-largest city in Myanmar, which is also the title of a poem by Rudyard Kipling?
- What is the largest city in Myanmar?
- What was Myanmar known as before it changed its name in 1989?
- The flag of Myanmar features a horizontal tricolour with a five-pointed star in the centre of which colour?
- What is the official currency of Myanmar?
- Which marginal sea off the northeastern coast of the Indian Ocean borders Myanmar's coastline?
- Which ancient city in Myanmar is renowned for its thousands of Buddhist temples and pagodas?
- Which Burmese diplomat served as the third Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971?
- Which 1952 fictional novel by Pierre Boulle is set against the backdrop of the Burma Railway?
- What is the name of the most sacred Buddhist pagoda in Myanmar?
Answers
- Naypyidaw
- Burmese
- Buddhism
- Aung San Suu Kyi, sometimes abbreviated to Suu Kyi
- Irrawaddy River
- Mandalay
- Yangon, or Rangoon
- Burma
- White
- The Kyat
- The Andaman Sea
- Bagan
- U Thant
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
- The Shwedagon (also known as the Great Dagon Pagoda and the Golden Pagoda)