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  1. Complete the sentence about Chiang Mai with the correct year: With the decline of Lan Na, Chiang Mai lost importance and was occupied by the Toungoo Empire in ______.
  2. Complete the sentence about Phuket with the correct year: Fernão Mendes Pinto, a Portuguese explorer, arrived in Siam in ______.
  3. Complete the sentence about Phuket with the correct year: In September ______, the French East India Company's ship arrived at the island and departed with a cargo full of tin.
  4. Complete the sentence about Phuket with the correct year: King Narai, in ______, granted the French a tin monopoly in Phuket, formalized through an agreement with the French ambassador, the Chevalier…
  5. Complete the sentence about Pattaya with the correct year: On 29 November ______, Pattaya was granted city status by the Thai government.
  6. Complete the sentence about Pattaya with the correct year: In ______, businessman Lek Viriyaphan began constructing on the Sanctuary of Truth which remains unfinished and is entirely made out of wood.
  7. Complete the sentence about Pattaya with the correct year: In the ______ mayoral election, Itthiphol Khunpluem became Pattaya's mayor.
  8. Complete the sentence about Hat Yai with the correct year: As a result of the town's continuing growth, on August 13, ______, a larger, new municipal administration building was opened.
  9. Complete the sentence about Chiang Rai with the correct year: Chiang Rai was established as a capital during the reign of King Mangrai, in ______ CE.
  10. Complete the sentence about Chiang Rai with the correct year: The city was founded by King Mangrai in ______ and became the capital of the Mangrai Dynasty.
  11. Complete the sentence about Kanchanaburi with the correct year: In ______, the town was moved about 16 km to the southeast along the river to its present site during the reign of King Rama III.
  12. Complete the sentence about Kanchanaburi with the correct year: On March 25, ______, a royal decree was issued for Ban Nuea Subdistrict and Ban Tai Subdistrict, which has an area of approximately 2.08…
  13. Complete the sentence about Krabi with the correct year: In ______, King Chulalongkorn elevated these to town status, called Krabi, a word that preserves in its meaning the monkey symbolism of the old…
  14. Complete the sentence about Krabi with the correct year: Since ______, the population of Krabi has been greatly increasing.
  15. Complete the sentence about Nakhon Si Thammarat with the correct year: An inscription found at Chaiya stated that King Sri Thammasok ruled Tambralinga in ______.
  16. Complete the sentence about Nakhon Si Thammarat with the correct year: The Ramkamhaeng Stele of Sukhothai first mentioned "Nakhon Si Thammarat" in ______, which means "The City of King Sri Thammasok"…
  17. Complete the sentence about Nakhon Si Thammarat with the correct year: Yamada Nagamasa, the Japanese adventurer, was appointed as the governor of Ligor in ______.
  18. Complete the sentence about Nakhon Si Thammarat with the correct year: After the Siamese revolution of ______, the governor of Ligor rebelled against the new King Phetracha.
  19. Complete the sentence with the correct year: King Phetracha sent troops to put down rebels in Ligor in ______.
  20. Complete the sentence about Pai, Thailand with the correct year: Ban Wiang Nuea was founded in ______ CE by Shan immigrants from the region of modern-day northern Myanmar.
  21. Complete the sentence about Pai, Thailand with the correct year: Lanna troops finally defeated the Shan in ______, forcing them to retire to Burmese territory.
  22. Complete the sentence about Phrae with the correct year: In ______, the town served as the center for the Shan-led Ngiao rebellion, which aimed to overthrow Central Thai rule over Lan Na before being…
  23. Complete the sentence about Phrae with the correct year: Central Thai authority over Phrae was reestablished on 16 August ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Nan, Thailand with the correct year: The local dynasty then regained local sovereignty and it remained semi-autonomous until ______ when Nan finally accepted full Bangkok d…
  25. Complete the sentence about Koh Samui with the correct year: Ko Samui appears on Chinese maps dating back to ______, under the name Pulo Cornam.
  26. Complete the sentence about Koh Samui with the correct year: Locals reported a large explosion around that time, which academic Paul Chambers attributed to a Japanese tanker being bombed alongside Ko…
  27. Complete the sentence about Ko Phi Phi with the correct year: Ko Phi Phi was devastated by the Indian Ocean tsunami of December ______, when nearly all of the island's infrastructure was destroyed.
  28. Complete the sentence about Ko Tao with the correct year: In his ______ book titled Narrative of a Residence in Siam. by Frederick Arthur Neale, the author describes the people and wildlife of Bardia.
  29. Complete the sentence about Ko Tao with the correct year: On 18 June ______, King Chulalongkorn visited Ko Tao and left as evidence his monogram on a huge boulder at Jor Por Ror Bay next to Sairee Bea…
  30. Complete the sentence about Ko Tao with the correct year: In ______ Khuang Abhaiwongse, prime minister at that time, pleaded and received a royal pardon for all prisoners on the island.
  31. Complete the sentence about Ko Chang with the correct year: On 15 May ______, the nation's 81 minor districts were upgraded to full districts.
  32. Complete the sentence about Similan Islands with the correct year: Specifically, the island of Ko Tachai has been indefinitely closed to tourists since 15 October ______ to facilitate environmental re…
  33. Complete the sentence about Phang Nga Bay with the correct year: Since ______, an extensive section of the bay has been protected as the Ao Phang Nga National Park.
  34. Complete the sentence about Phang Nga Bay with the correct year: Historically, in ______ when Siamese troops defeated the Burmese and the challengers were expelled, King Rama III renamed a major area…
  35. Complete the sentence about Thailand with the correct year: The Sukhothai Kingdom is regarded as the beginning of Thai history, while the Ayutthaya Kingdom, founded in ______ CE, became a regional pow…
  36. Complete the sentence about Thailand with the correct year: European contact began in ______ when Portuguese envoys arrived in Ayutthaya.
  37. Complete the sentence about Thailand with the correct year: King Rama I established the Rattanakosin Kingdom and moved the capital to Bangkok in ______.
  38. Complete the sentence about Ping River with the correct year: Evidence shows that habitation along the Ping River dates back to ______ BCE.
  39. Complete the sentence about Ping River with the correct year: Mangrai, a ruler from Ngoenyang, turned south to create an alternative "silk road" along the Ping River and captured Haripunchai in ______…
  40. Complete the sentence about Gulf of Thailand with the correct year: The term Gulf of Siam was widely used in Western cartography and geographical references for centuries until the country renamed its…
  41. Complete the sentence about Gulf of Thailand with the correct year: The term Siam was used internationally until ______, when the country officially changed its name to Thailand.
  42. Complete the sentence about Malay Peninsula with the correct year: In the Negarakertagama manuscript written in ______, this area is called Hujung Medini.
  43. Complete the sentence about Khorat Plateau with the correct year: Non Nok Tha in the Phu Wiang District of Khon Kaen yielded evidence of an Iron Age settlement dating from about ______ to 50 BCE.
  44. Complete the sentence about Doi Inthanon with the correct year: In ______, the forests around Doi Inthanon were conserved, creating Doi Inthanon National Park, as one of the original 14 national parks…
  45. Complete the sentence about Doi Suthep with the correct year: Originally, before the Doi Suthep forest was declared a national park, a royal decree in ______ designated it as a protected forest.
  46. Complete the sentence about Khao Yai National Park with the correct year: Established in ______ as Thailand's first national park, it is the third largest national park in Thailand.
  47. Complete the sentence about Khao Yai National Park with the correct year: Khao Yai National Park was established on 18 September ______, declared by royal proclamation in the Government Gazette as the…
  48. Complete the sentence about Khao Yai National Park with the correct year: The last time that tigers were seen by surveillance cameras in Khao Yai National Park was in ______.
  49. Complete the sentence about Khao Sok National Park with the correct year: The world's first known amphibious centipede, Scolopendra cataracta, was discovered on a stream bank near the national park in…
  50. Complete the sentence about Erawan National Park with the correct year: The establishment of the national park was declared the 12th national park in the Royal Gazette on 19 June ______ and came into…
  51. Complete the sentence about Doi Inthanon National Park with the correct year: The establishment of the national park was declared the 6th national park in the Royal Gazette on 2 October ______.
  52. Complete the sentence about Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary with the correct year: The park was established in ______, and is part of the largest intact seasonal tropical forest complex in Mainland…
  53. Complete the sentence about Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary with the correct year: Until ______ there were Karen villages within the wildlife sanctuary.
  54. Complete the sentence about Ban Chiang with the correct year: In August ______, Steve Young, a political science student at Harvard College, was living in the village conducting interviews for his sen…
  55. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Part of the park was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in ______.
  56. Complete the sentence about Ayutthaya Historical Park with the correct year: The following monuments are located within the inscribed core zone of the Historic City of Ayutthaya, a UNESCO World Herita…
  57. Complete the sentence about Phimai with the correct year: The region was integrated into the Khmer Empire around ______ CE.
  58. Complete the sentence about Phimai with the correct year: The weakest of the five, Prince Teppipit was the first defeated and was executed in ______.
  59. Complete the sentence about Grand Palace with the correct year: By ______, the king, the Royal Family and the government were no longer permanently settled at the palace, and had moved to other reside…
  60. Complete the sentence about Grand Palace with the correct year: The previous royal residence was the Derm Palace, constructed for King Taksin in ______.
  61. Complete the sentence about Wat Pho with the correct year: The southern section of Wat Pho used to be occupied by part of a French Star fort that was demolished by King Phetracha after the ______ Sieg…
  62. Complete the sentence about Wat Pho with the correct year: In ______, King Rama I moved the capital from Thonburi across the river to Bangkok and built the Grand Palace adjacent to Wat Pho.
  63. Complete the sentence about Wat Arun with the correct year: The temple enshrined the Emerald Buddha image before it was transferred to Wat Phra Kaew on the river's eastern bank in ______.
  64. Complete the sentence about Wat Phra That Doi Suthep with the correct year: In ______, with Lue Thai's permission, Sumanathera took the relic to what is now Lamphun, in northern Thailand.
  65. Complete the sentence about Wat Rong Khun with the correct year: The White Temple was created by master Chalermchai Kositpipat, the national artist who designed, constructed, and opened it to visitors…
  66. Complete the sentence about Wat Chedi Luang with the correct year: In ______, the Emerald Buddha was installed in the eastern niche.
  67. Complete the sentence about Wat Chedi Luang with the correct year: For the 600th anniversary of the chedi in ______, a copy of the Emerald Buddha made from black jade was placed in the reconstructed e…
  68. Complete the sentence about Jim Thompson House with the correct year: After Thompson's disappearance in Malaysia in ______, the house came under the control of The James H.
  69. Complete the sentence about Siam Paragon with the correct year: The mall opened on 9 December ______ at a cost of about 15 billion baht or US$450 million.
  70. Complete the sentence about Siam Paragon with the correct year: On 25 November ______, a man fell from an escalator traveling from floors M to G, landing on the B floor in front of the Sea Life Bangko…
  71. Complete the sentence about Chatuchak Weekend Market with the correct year: In ______, Prime Minister Plaek Phibunsongkhram had a policy that every province was required to have its own market.
  72. Complete the sentence about Chatuchak Weekend Market with the correct year: The park was fully completed in ______, when Chomanan became prime minister.
  73. Complete the sentence about Khao San Road with the correct year: In ______, the BMA announced that it would commit 48.8 million baht to transform Khaosan Road into an “international walking street".
  74. Complete the sentence about Victory Monument, Bangkok with the correct year: The monument was erected in June ______ to commemorate the Thai victory in the Franco-Thai War.
  75. Complete the sentence about Hellfire Pass with the correct year: The first dawn service was held at the Hellfire Pass on Anzac Day ______.
  76. Complete the sentence about Golden Triangle with the correct year: State Department official, in ______ in a press conference on the opium trade.
  77. Complete the sentence about Golden Triangle with the correct year: Small-scale opium production in Myanmar dated back to the Konbaung dynasty in ______, chiefly for the consumption of foreigners.
  78. Complete the sentence about Golden Triangle with the correct year: The surrender of drug lord Khun Sa's Mong Tai Army in January ______ was hailed by Yangon as a major counter-narcotics success.
  79. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Mangrai, later king of Lan Na, was born into this family in ______.
  80. Complete the sentence about Chiang Saen with the correct year: The city of Chiang Saen was founded in ______ by Saenphu, a grandson of Mangrai.
  81. Complete the sentence about Suvarnabhumi Airport with the correct year: Suvarnabhumi officially opened at 03:00 on 28 September ______, taking over all flights from Don Mueang.
  82. Complete the sentence about Don Mueang International Airport with the correct year: The first commercial flight to Don Mueang occurred in ______, marking it as one of the world's earliest commercial a…
  83. Complete the sentence about Don Mueang International Airport with the correct year: Don Mueang's IATA airport code was originally BKK, which was later reassigned to Suvarnabhumi Airport following its…
  84. Complete the sentence about Phuket International Airport with the correct year: In ______ it ranked second-busiest in total passenger traffic, after Suvarnabhumi Airport in the Bangkok metropolitan ar…
  85. Complete the sentence about Provinces of Thailand with the correct year: In ______ the ministry, which previously had many overlapping responsibilities, was reorganized with clear missions as in Weste…
  86. Complete the sentence about Provinces of Thailand with the correct year: The most notable was the Holy Man Rebellion in ______ in Isan.
  87. Complete the sentence about Northern Thailand with the correct year: The northern region, as defined by the National Geographical Committee in ______, consists of nine provinces.
  88. Complete the sentence about Lanna with the correct year: Burmese control ended with the retreat of that force, and Siam under Taksin of the Thonburi Kingdom took Lanna in ______.
  89. Complete the sentence about Lanna with the correct year: Beginning in ______, the Siamese state reorganized Lanna Kingdom as Monthon Phayap, brought under the direct control of Siam.
  90. Complete the sentence about Lanna with the correct year: By ______, when Siam settled its borders with the British and the French, Lanna had ceased to exist as a separate polity.
  91. Complete the sentence about Asian elephant with the correct year: Carl Linnaeus proposed the scientific name Elephas maximus in ______ in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, the foundational work of…
  92. Complete the sentence about Asian elephant with the correct year: Linnaeus's description heavily relied on a ______ description of an elephant skeleton by John Ray.
  93. Complete the sentence about Asian elephant with the correct year: Elephas indicus was proposed by Georges Cuvier in ______, who described an elephant from India.
  94. Complete the sentence about Asian elephant with the correct year: Coenraad Jacob Temminck named an elephant from Sumatra Elephas sumatranus in ______.
  95. Complete the sentence about Thai elephant with the correct year: The elephant became an endangered species in Thailand in ______.
  96. Complete the sentence about Siamese crocodile with the correct year: The Siamese crocodile was scientifically described by Johann Gottlob Schneider in ______ under the name Crocodilus siamensis based…
  97. Complete the sentence about Siamese crocodile with the correct year: Hall's New Guinea crocodile placement was suggested in ______.
  98. Complete the sentence about Siamese crocodile with the correct year: In March ______, conservationists found a nest containing juvenile Siamese crocodiles in the southern Lao province of Savannakhet.
  99. Complete the sentence about Siamese crocodile with the correct year: A fifth attack in ______ that was probably done by a Siamese crocodile was fatal, with the victim being a child.
  100. Complete the sentence about Malayan tapir with the correct year: The scientific name Tapirus indicus was proposed by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest in ______ who referred to a tapir described by Pierre-Méda…

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