Singapore Trivia
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EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
Completed in 2008, Marina Barrage also shields low-lying neighborhoods by controlling water levels; during high tides and heavy rain, it helps prevent what problem?
Flooding
In the Redhill (Bukit Merah) legend, which sea creatures repeatedly slashed at fishermen along Singapore’s southern coast before a banana-trunk barricade saved the day?
Swordfish
During the 2009 global financial crisis, Singapore—with the President’s approval—withdrew $4.9 billion for Jobs Credit and credit support. It tapped its strong what for the first time?
Past reserves
In 1942, Allied POWs shipped north from Singapore’s Changi Prison to build what brutal World War II railway later dramatized in a famous 1957 film?
Death Railway
In which decade did authorities begin moving street hawkers into purpose-built hawker centres as part of post-independence hygiene drives?
1960s