Sri Lankan History and Politics

History And Politics

407 practice questions, each with the answer and an explanation.

All 407 questions

  1. Complete the sentence about Culavamsa with the correct year: The British colonial government commissioned a translation into English of the CÅ«įø·avaį¹ƒsa in ______ and published it alongside George Turnouā€¦
  2. Complete the sentence about Culavamsa with the correct year: In ______, Yagirala Pannananda, a Buddhist monk, wrote Mahavamsa Part III, a further extension of the CÅ«įø·avaį¹ƒsa, in Sinhala.
  3. Complete the sentence about Dutugamunu with the correct year: New evidence to this appeared in The Island of March 27, ______.
  4. Complete the sentence about Parakramabahu I with the correct year: In ______, Parakramabahu following the death of his uncle, Kitti Sri Megha, Prince of Dakkinadesa, ascended the throne of Dakkhinadesā€¦
  5. Complete the sentence about Parakramabahu I with the correct year: In ______ AD, following the death of Vikramabāhu, his son, Gajabahu II succeeded to the throne of Rajarata.
  6. Complete the sentence about Vijayabahu I with the correct year: Following a seventeen-year-long campaign, he successfully drove the Cholas out of the island in ______, reuniting the country for the fiā€¦
  7. Complete the sentence about Vijayabahu I with the correct year: Prince Keerthi was born around ______ in Ruhuna while the country was under Chola occupation.
  8. Complete the sentence about Vijayabahu I with the correct year: Subsequently, in ______, he became king of Ruhuna and attained the name of Vijayabahu.
  9. Complete the sentence about Vijayabahu I with the correct year: Emperor Rajaraja I invaded and annexed the Kingdom of Anuradhapura in 992, while his son Rajendra invaded Ruhuna in ______, capturing kiā€¦
  10. Complete the sentence about Sri Vikrama Rajasinha with the correct year: Prior to his coronation in ______, Sri Vikrama Rajasinha was known as Prince Kannasamy Naidu.
  11. Complete the sentence about Sri Vikrama Rajasinha with the correct year: War was declared and on 22 March ______, the British entered Kandy with no resistance, Sri Vikrama Rajasinha having fled.
  12. Complete the sentence about Sri Vikrama Rajasinha with the correct year: An invasion was duly mounted and advanced to Kandy without resistance, reaching the city on 10 February ______.
  13. Complete the sentence about Sri Vikrama Rajasinha with the correct year: On 2 March ______, the Kingdom was ceded to Britain and Sri Vikrama Rajasinha was deposed and taken as a royal prisoner by theā€¦
  14. Complete the sentence about Mayadunne of Sitawaka with the correct year: Mayadunne was born in ______ in Kotte of the Kingdom of Kotte.
  15. Complete the sentence about Mayadunne of Sitawaka with the correct year: Several years later after Raigam Bandara died, in ______, Mayadunne annexed the Kingdom of Raigama to Sitawaka.
  16. Complete the sentence about Mayadunne of Sitawaka with the correct year: According to the reports of the Portuguese, in ______, the King of Portuguese sent 600 troops to help King Bhuvanaikabahu VII oā€¦
  17. Complete the sentence about Keppetipola Disawe with the correct year: Keppetipola Disawe was one of the Sinhalese leaders who signed the ā€˜ā€™Udarata Treatyā€™ā€™ at Kandy on 2 March ______, bringing the whoā€¦
  18. Complete the sentence about Keppetipola Disawe with the correct year: On 1 January ______, governor Brownrigg declared Keppetipola and sixteen others as rebels, outlaws and enemies to the crown and thā€¦
  19. Complete the sentence about Uva Rebellion with the correct year: On his way to Kehelwella, he was captured by Bootawe Rate Rala in Wellassa and was killed on Wilbawe's orders on 26 September ______.
  20. Complete the sentence about Uva Rebellion with the correct year: By September ______, two leaders, Madugalle Basnayake Nilame and Ehelepola Nilame, surrendered to the British, and Pilimatalawe led theā€¦
  21. Complete the sentence about Donoughmore Commission with the correct year: The commissioners were four British parliamentarians appointed by Sydney Webb, the first Labour Secretary of State for the Colā€¦
  22. Complete the sentence about Donoughmore Commission with the correct year: The Donoughmore Commission arrived in Sri Lanka in ______ and spent four months interviewing islanders.
  23. Complete the sentence about Donoughmore Commission with the correct year: On 25 April ______ the Jaffna Youth congress adopted the resolution that "this conference holds 'Swaraj' to be the inalienableā€¦
  24. Complete the sentence about Soulbury Commission with the correct year: The immediate basis for the appointment of a commission for constitutional reforms was the ______ draft constitution of the Boardā€¦
  25. Complete the sentence about Soulbury Commission with the correct year: Senanayake began to formulate a draft constitution following the conditions laid down by the Colonial Secretary of State in _____ā€¦
  26. Complete the sentence about Soulbury Commission with the correct year: Senanayake and his advisors worked quickly and a draft was made ready for submission to Whitehall in ______.
  27. Complete the sentence about Ceylon National Congress with the correct year: In October ______, Sir James Peiris was elected president, staunchly supported by F.
  28. Complete the sentence about Sri Lankan Tamils with the correct year: Since Sri Lanka gained independence from Britain in ______, relations between the majority Sinhalese and minority Tamil communitiesā€¦
  29. Complete the sentence about Indian Tamils of Sri Lanka with the correct year: In ______ a large percentage were repatriated to India, but left a considerable number as stateless people.
  30. Complete the sentence about Veddas with the correct year: When a systematic field study was conducted in ______, it was determined that the language was confined to the older generation of Veddas fromā€¦
  31. Complete the sentence about Sri Lankan Malays with the correct year: In ______, Baba Ounus Saldin began publishing Alamat Langkapuri, a Malay-language newspaper in Colombo.
  32. Complete the sentence about Sri Lankan Malays with the correct year: Sri Lankan Malays have been separately enumerated in national censuses since ______.
  33. Complete the sentence about Bandaranaikeā€“Chelvanayakam Pact with the correct year: Following the gaining of independence for Sri Lanka from Britain in ______, English continued to be the official langā€¦
  34. Complete the sentence about Bandaranaikeā€“Chelvanayakam Pact with the correct year: At the ______ parliamentary elections, the leader of the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna, S.
  35. Complete the sentence about Bandaranaikeā€“Chelvanayakam Pact with the correct year: The Federal Party vowed that if their demands were not met by August 20, ______, they would engage in ā€œdirect actionā€¦
  36. Complete the sentence about Bandaranaikeā€“Chelvanayakam Pact with the correct year: Bandaranaike reached out to the Federal Party leadership, who agreed to meet the Prime Minister in April ______.
  37. Complete the sentence about Bandaranaikeā€“Chelvanayakam Pact with the correct year: A second meeting took place at Bandaranaike's residence in Rosemead Place, Colombo, and a final meeting was held at tā€¦
  38. Complete the sentence about Tamil Eelam with the correct year: In the ______ Sri Lankan parliamentary election, the United Front led by Sirimavo Bandaranaike came to power.
  39. Complete the sentence about Tamil Eelam with the correct year: In ______, the first national convention of the TULF was held at Vaddukoddai, where the party adopted a unanimous resolution called the Vā€¦
  40. Complete the sentence about Jaffna Library with the correct year: Over a million books were burned in the ______ arson attack, and some ancient Tamil books and manuscripts were never recovered.
  41. Complete the sentence about Burning of Jaffna Public Library with the correct year: The Jaffna Public Library was burned by an organized mob of Sinhalese police and army on the night of 31 May ______ā€¦
  42. Complete the sentence about Burning of Jaffna Public Library with the correct year: Eventually, the first major wing of the library was opened in ______ by then Jaffna mayor Alfred Duraiappah.
  43. Complete the sentence about Sri Lanka Telecom with the correct year: SLTMobitel started its operations in ______ with the establishment of the first Telegraphic Circuit between Galle and Colombo.
  44. Complete the sentence about Sri Lanka Telecom with the correct year: Mobitel was incorporated in ______ as the third mobile telephone provider in the Sri Lankan market.
  45. Complete the sentence about Sri Lanka Telecom with the correct year: Originally a collaboration between Sri Lanka Telecom and Telstra, Mobitel has been wholly owned by SLT since November ______.
  46. Complete the sentence about Sri Lanka Telecom with the correct year: In January ______, the company launched its fully-fledged 2.5G GSM network that is EDGE/GPRS enabled and designed to operate on theā€¦
  47. Complete the sentence about Sri Lanka Ports Authority with the correct year: Founded in ______, SLPA currently operates ports in Colombo, Galle, Hambantota, Kankesanthurai, Oluvil, Point Pedro and Triā€¦
  48. Complete the sentence with the correct year: As of 31 March ______ SLPA had a 3% stake in Colombo Dockyard.
  49. Complete the sentence about Sri Lankan Airlines with the correct year: SriLankan Airlines joined the Oneworld airline alliance on 1 May ______.
  50. Complete the sentence about Sri Lanka Railways with the correct year: In ______ the company's engineer, Thomas Drane, undertook preliminary surveys for the new rail line.
  51. Complete the sentence about Ceylon Petroleum Corporation with the correct year: Established in ______ and wholly owned by the Government of Sri Lanka, it is the largest oil company in Sri Lanka.
  52. Complete the sentence about Ceylon Petroleum Corporation with the correct year: The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation was created with the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation Act of May 29, ______.
  53. Complete the sentence about Colombo Municipal Council with the correct year: The UNP as held majority in the council and post of Mayor since the party was formed in ______, with two brief exceptions.
  54. Complete the sentence about Sri Lanka Muslim Congress with the correct year: The party was formed at a meeting held at Kattankudy in ______ by a small study group of local Eastern Province political lā€¦
  55. Complete the sentence about Operation Liberation with the correct year: By ______ the army found itself restricted to its fortified bases in the Palaly, Point Pedro and the old Dutch fort of Jaffna.
  56. Complete the sentence about Operation Liberation with the correct year: In early ______ the Sri Lankan military formulated a plan to restore government control over the area dominated by the LTTE.
  57. Complete the sentence about Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission with the correct year: Tensions between the Sinhalese and Tamil communities in Sri Lanka turned into a full-scale war between tā€¦
  58. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, government and the LTTE signed a Norwegian-mediated ceasefire.
  59. Complete the sentence about Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission with the correct year: After a violent last few months, in May ______, the government killed LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaranā€¦
  60. Which place completes this sentence about Kingdom of Kotte? Founded by Parakramabahu VI with the help of the Ming, the Kingdom managed to conquer the ______ kingdom and the Vanni principalities, and bā€¦
  61. Which place completes this sentence about Kingdom of Kotte? In 1450, through his conquest of the ______ Kingdom in northern Sri Lanka, Parakramabahu VI succeeded in unifying the entire island under hiā€¦
  62. Which place completes this sentence about Kingdom of Dambadeniya? Yapahuwa, built on a 90-meter-high rock boulder in the style of ______, served as both a palace and a military stronghold against foreā€¦
  63. Which place completes this sentence about Dutch Ceylon? The Admiral then decided to send in advance of himself the Vice-Commandeur Coster with a small squadron, which arrived at ______ on April 3.
  64. Which place completes this sentence about Maithripala Sirisena? Maithripala Sirisena was born on 3 September 1951 as the eldest of a family of twelve with five brothers and six sisters, in Yagoda, a vā€¦
  65. Which place completes this sentence about Sri Lanka Air Force? By 1955, the RCyAF was operating two flying squadrons based at RAF ______, with one focused on training and the other on transport.
  66. Which place completes this sentence about Dutugamunu? Elara the Pious governed the island, then called Ratnadipa, from ______.
  67. Complete the sentence about Sri Lankan independence movement with the correct year: In ______, the British fomented a revolt by the Kandyan Sinhalese aristocracy against the last Kandyan monarch and mā€¦
  68. Complete the sentence about Sirimavo Bandaranaike with the correct year: Bandaranaike was born Sirima Ratwatte on 17 April ______ at Ellawala Walawwa, her aunt's residence in Ratnapura, in British Ceyā€¦
  69. Complete the sentence about Gotabaya Rajapaksa with the correct year: As Defence Secretary, he oversaw the military defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in ______.
  70. Complete the sentence about Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam with the correct year: The leader of the LTTE, Velupillai Prabhakaran, cited the ______ anti-Tamil pogrom as one of the factors that led hiā€¦
  71. Complete the sentence about Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam with the correct year: By ______, the LTTE had emerged as the dominant Tamil militant group in Sri Lanka.
  72. Complete the sentence about Velupillai Prabhakaran with the correct year: Peace talks eventually broke down, and the Sri Lanka Army launched a military campaign to defeat the LTTE in ______.
  73. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Sri Lanka with the correct year: A similar attempt by the Dudley Senanayake Government failed due to such a propagation on 22 June ______ too.
  74. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Sri Lanka with the correct year: Sirimavo Bandaranaike came to office as the world's first woman Prime Minister in May ______.
  75. Complete the sentence about Constitution of Sri Lanka with the correct year: Under its provisions, then Prime Minister Jayawardene automatically took office as the first Executive President of Sri Lanā€¦
  76. Complete the sentence about Central Bank of Sri Lanka with the correct year: The Central Bank of Sri Lanka was established in ______, two years after independence, succeeding the prior Board of Commisā€¦
  77. Complete the sentence about Sri Lanka Freedom Party with the correct year: Bandaranaike in ______, the party was one of Sri Lanka's two main parties from the 1950s to the 2010s, serving as the main riā€¦
  78. Complete the sentence about Sri Lanka Freedom Party with the correct year: The Sri Lanka Freedom Party was founded in ______, when long-standing United National Party stalwart S.
  79. Complete the sentence about Sri Lanka Freedom Party with the correct year: In ______ Sinhala replaced English as the sole official language of Sri Lanka, fulfilling a major election pledge.
  80. Complete the sentence about Sri Lanka Freedom Party with the correct year: In September ______, Bandaranaike was assassinated by Talduwe Somarama, an extremist Buddhist monk opposed to Bandaranaike'sā€¦
  81. Complete the sentence about Sri Lanka Freedom Party with the correct year: Afterwards, the party turned to Bandaranaike's widow Sirimavo Bandaranaike, who consequently became the world's first electedā€¦
  82. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The civil war ended in May ______ after the LTTE were defeated by the Sri Lankan military.
  83. Complete the sentence about Sri Lanka Army with the correct year: In ______ a Portuguese fleet, while operating in the Indian seas against Arab traders, was blown off course and landed at Galle, on thā€¦
  84. Complete the sentence about Sri Lanka Army with the correct year: In ______ the Portuguese re-appeared, and with the consent of the Sinhalese King established a trading post in Colombo.
  85. Complete the sentence about Colombo Port City with the correct year: The construction was set to begin in March ______, but the project was put on hold due to several circumstances.
  86. Complete the sentence about Hambantota Port with the correct year: In July ______, the agreement was signed, but CMPort was allowed a 70% stake.
  87. Complete the sentence about Hambantota Port with the correct year: The United National Front had pledged to build a seaport in Hambantota on winning the ______ Sri Lankan parliamentary election.
  88. Complete the sentence about Sri Lankan Airlines with the correct year: Following its partial acquisition in ______ by Emirates, it was re-branded and the current livery was introduced.
  89. Complete the sentence about Ceylon Electricity Board with the correct year: On 17 September ______, the USā€¦
  90. Complete the sentence about Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission with the correct year: After an 18-month inquiry, the commission submitted its report to the President on 15 November ______.
  91. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The report was made public on 16 December ______, after being tabled in the parliament.
  92. Complete the sentence about Sri Lankan presidential election, 2015 with the correct year: On 11 January ______, the new government announced a special investigation into allegations of an attempted coā€¦
  93. Complete the sentence about Sri Lankan presidential election, 2015 with the correct year: In the elections held in January ______, Rajapaksa easily secured a second term in office, defeating common opā€¦
  94. Complete the sentence about Sri Lankan parliamentary election, 2015 with the correct year: Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 17 August ______, ten months ahead of schedule, to elect 22ā€¦
  95. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 21 July ______.
  96. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The UF coalition Bandaranaike had built for the ______ elections had disintegrated.
  97. Complete the sentence about Sri Lankan parliamentary election, 1977 with the correct year: By contrast, the United National Party had made a surprising comeback since its ______ humiliation.
  98. Complete the sentence about Sri Lankan parliamentary election, 1956 with the correct year: The UNP resisted this out of deference to Ceylon's Tamil minority, but changed its position in early ______.
  99. Complete the sentence about Attorney General of Sri Lanka with the correct year: The powers and duties of the attorney general are derived from the Administration of Justice Law, No. 44 of ______ andā€¦
  100. Complete the sentence about Chief Justice of Sri Lanka with the correct year: Established in ______, the chief justice is one of ten Supreme Court justices; the other nine are the puisne justices of tā€¦

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