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Myanmar Quiz: Test Your Knowledge on Myanmar



Quiz Questions


  1. What is the capital city of Myanmar?
  2. What is the official language of Myanmar?
  3. What is the predominant religion in Myanmar?
  4. Which Burmese politician won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991?
  5. Which major river flows through Myanmar and plays a crucial role in its agriculture and culture?
  6. What is the name of the second-largest city in Myanmar, which is also the title of a poem by Rudyard Kipling?
  7. What is the largest city in Myanmar?
  8. What was Myanmar known as before it changed its name in 1989?
  9. The flag of Myanmar features a horizontal tricolour with a five-pointed star in the centre of which colour?
  10. What is the official currency of Myanmar?
  11. Which marginal sea off the northeastern coast of the Indian Ocean borders Myanmar's coastline?
  12. Which ancient city in Myanmar is renowned for its thousands of Buddhist temples and pagodas?
  13. Which Burmese diplomat served as the third Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971?
  14. Which 1952 fictional novel by Pierre Boulle is set against the backdrop of the Burma Railway?
  15. What is the name of the most sacred Buddhist pagoda in Myanmar?


Answers



  1. Naypyidaw
  2. Burmese
  3. Buddhism
  4. Aung San Suu Kyi, sometimes abbreviated to Suu Kyi
  5. Irrawaddy River
  6. Mandalay
  7. Yangon, or Rangoon
  8. Burma
  9. White
  10. The Kyat
  11. The Andaman Sea
  12. Bagan
  13. U Thant
  14. The Bridge on the River Kwai
  15. The Shwedagon (also known as the Great Dagon Pagoda and the Golden Pagoda)