Q 01/05

What is the capital and most populous city of Cambodia?

A) Battambang

B) Siem Reap

C) Vientiane

D) Phnom Penh

Answer · why

D) Phnom Penh

Phnom Penh: after capturing the city in 1975, the Khmer Rouge forced its entire population out into the countryside.

Q 02/05

Angkor Wat, built by Suryavarman II in the 12th century, is the world's largest what?

A) Religious complex

B) Buddhist monastery

C) Royal palace

D) Irrigation reservoir

Answer · why

A) Religious complex

Religious complex: built as a Hindu temple, it was gradually turned into a Buddhist shrine and has stayed a place of Buddhist worship for centuries.

Q 03/05

Which building appears on the national flag of Cambodia?

A) The Silver Pagoda

B) Its great temple at Siem Reap

C) The Bayon's smiling faces

D) The Royal Palace throne hall

Answer · why

B) Its great temple at Siem Reap

Its great temple at Siem Reap: the Khmer Rouge put Angkor Wat on their red flag too, as a yellow silhouette with three towers.

Q 04/05

Which US president launched the secret B-52 bombing of Cambodia in March 1969?

A) Lyndon B. Johnson

B) Richard Nixon

C) Gerald Ford

D) Jimmy Carter

Answer · why

B) Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon: yet US Air Force records declassified in 2000 showed American bombing of Cambodia had begun earlier, in 1965 under Lyndon Johnson.

Q 05/05

A 2007 satellite study concluded that Angkor had been the largest what in the world?

A) Walled fortress by length

B) Royal cemetery by number of tombs

C) Pre-industrial city by surface area

D) Trading port by size

Answer · why

C) Pre-industrial city by surface area

Pre-industrial city by surface area: its canals and reservoirs spread over 1,000 km2, and the strain they put on the landscape may have helped undermi...