GREAT CITY GUIDE QUIZ!
Find all the answers at expatliving.sg/cityguidequiz#1 Singapore’s first MRT station,
Toa Payoh, opened in what decade?
#2 Old Chang Kee is best known
for what type of snack?
#3 The coldest temperature ever
recorded in Singapore was 22.6,
19.4 or 14.8 degrees Celsius?
#4 When President Obama visited
Singapore in 2016, what local dish
did he reference in his introductory
remarks? (Hint: it starts with “r”.)
#5 Approximately how many
passengers passed through Changi
Airport last year, 60 million, 600
million or 6 billion?
#6 What Singlish word refers to
the practice of claiming a table at
a food centre by leaving a packet
of tissues on it?#7 Which island just off
Singapore’s coast is said to have
been formed by an elephant and
a pig turning to stone?
#8 What is written in microtext
on the back of the S$1,000 note?
(Yes, there’s a $1,000 note!)
#9 What Singapore attraction
was renovated in 2008 – at great
expense – after feng shui experts
deemed it was moving in an
unlucky direction?
#10 If you stretched all of
Singapore’s roads end to end,
would they reach Kuala Lumpur,
Hong Kong or the Moon?
#11 What MRT stations have the
anagrams Trauma Pork, Gender
Kit and Siri Raps?THE
Whether you’re fresh off the plane or a Singapore
“old hand”, we want to fi nd out what you know about
the place – So, go ahead and try our quiz! (And
don’t fret if you fi nd it too hard; you’ll learn loads
more about the Lion City in the pages of our Guide.)#12 If you order a cup of “Kopi
C”, does it come black or white?
#13 What tasty-sounding road is
Singapore’s longest?
#14 Approximately how many
high-rise buildings does Singapore
have: 180; 1,165; or 4,300?
#15 What’s another term for
Singapore’s Peranakan community?
#16 What hill was previously
known at various times as
Forbidden Hill, Government Hill,
Sir Bonham’s Hill and Flag Hill?
#17 What is Singapore’s biggest
export?
#18 Was Lau Pa Sat hawker centre
built in 1825, 1898 or 1944?
#19 Which ingredient is not found
in a traditional Singapore Sling
cocktail: vodka, pineapple juice
or cherry brandy?
#20 What 2018 Disney/Marvel
blockbuster has already become
the highest grossing film in
Singapore box-office history?SINGAPORE HACKS26 CITY GUIDE 2018