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Language, Religion and Traditions

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  1. Which festival, held from 13 to 15 April, is the Thai New Year, famous for water fights?
  2. Which festival has people floating small decorated baskets on rivers on the full-moon night of the twelfth lunar month?
  3. Which martial art, called the art of eight limbs, is the national sport of Thailand?
  4. What is the traditional Thai greeting made by pressing palms together called?
  5. Which dish of stir-fried rice noodles with tamarind and peanuts is famous worldwide?
  6. What is tom yum goong?
  7. Which region is the home of som tam, the spicy green papaya salad?
  8. What is Khon?
  9. The Ramakien is the Thai version of which Indian epic?
  10. In which year was traditional Thai massage, Nuad Thai, inscribed on the UNESCO list of intangible heritage?
  11. Which temple in Bangkok houses a huge reclining Buddha and is a centre of massage training?
  12. Which sacred image is kept at Wat Phra Kaew in the Grand Palace?
  13. Which Bangkok temple, on the Thonburi bank of the Chao Phraya, is nicknamed the Temple of Dawn?
  14. How many consonant letters does the standard Thai alphabet have?
  15. How many tones does standard Thai have?
  16. Which lantern festival is held in Chiang Mai around the full moon of the second month of the Lanna calendar?
  17. What does the Buddhist Lent, Khao Phansa, mean for monks?
  18. What does Visakha Bucha commemorate?
  19. Who wrote the long poem Phra Aphai Mani, a classic of Thai literature?
  20. What does the Thai concept of sanuk express?
  21. What is mango sticky rice?
  22. Which pairing of festival and month is correct?
  23. Which year of the Common Era corresponds to 2500 in the Buddhist Era?
  24. Which pair of Thai temples is correctly matched with its famous feature?
  25. Which pair of polite endings is correct in Thai?

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