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100

The national football team enjoyed as many as 65,000 fanatical voices powering the famed Kallang Roar in its old home at Kallang Stadium (the current Sports Hub seats 55,000), and as many as 50,000 fans travelled to Selangor for the 1994 Malaysia Cup final. 


How many times did Singapore emerge as  Malaysia Cup Champions and Runners-Up, respectively, during the many years it participated throughout the years of colonialism, merger, and independence?


  1. 5 and 10    

  2. 10 and 17

  3. 24 and 19

  4. 26 and 15

24 and 19

100

Which of the following Singaporean is not an economist?

  1. Euston Quah

  2. Lee Soo Ann

  3. Tharman Shanmugaratnam

  4. Kishore Mahbubani

Kishore Mahbubani

100

Which of the following local poets wrote ‘Ulysses by the Merlion’?

(A) Anne Lee Tzu Pheng

(B) Kirpal Singh

(C) Edwin Thumboo

(D) Robert Yeo

Edwin Thumboo 

100

Which of the following is the longest river in Singapore? 

  1. Singapore River

  2. Sungei Serangoon 

  3. Kallang River

  4. Sungei Bedok

Kallang River

100

Who is the Artist represented Singapore at the Venice Biennale in 2020? 

  1. Ang Song Nian

  2. Ang Song Ming

  3. Ang Peng Siong 

  4. Ang Ah Tee

Ang Song Ming

200

1 century ago before the emergence of amusement and entertainment parks such as Resorts World Sentosa and Universal Studios, Singapore was home to 3 extraordinary Worlds of wonder and joy in the form of New World, Great World, and Happy World (later also known as Gay World)! These Worlds were particularly famed for ………………... 

a. Chinese Wayang and Bangsawan

b. Carnival Rides

c. Magicians and Cabaret

d.Boxing and Striptease


  1. I only

  2. I and II

  3. I, II, and III

  4. All of the above 


All of the above

200

In 2018, which of the following industry was fined by CCCS for price fixing? 

  1. Beef

  2. Mutton

  3. Chicken

  4. Duck

Chicken

200

Which of the following local writers has NOT taught at a JC?

(A) Heng Siok Tian

(B) Yeow Kai Chai

(C) Ho Poh Fun

(D) Pooja Nansi

Yeow Kai Chai

200

Referring to the diagram, which of the following is correct?

  1. X: erosion, Y: Soil

  2. X erosion, Y: Igneous Rocks

  3. X: laterisation, Y: Soil

  4. X: laterisation, Y: Igneous Rocks 




X erosion, Y: Igneous Rocks

200

Which of the following is the oldest museum in Singapore? 

  1. Singapore Art Museum

  2. Former Ford Factory

  3. National Museum of Singapore

  4. Asian Civilisations Museum

National Museum of Singapore

300

Which of these best describe the nature of Bangsawan stage performances in Singapore during the early 1900s, where hordes of audiences from all walks of life and ethnicities flocked towards for mainstream entertainment?


a. The language medium was Malay

b. It adapted Chinese stories and Hindustani songs

c. It adapted Shakespearean dramas, Hawaiian songs, and Japanese dances

d. Its performers were multi-ethnic


  1. I and IV

  2. I, II, and IV

  3. I

  4. All of the above





All of the above

300

Which economy is Singapore’s largest trading partner?

  1. China

  2. Malaysia

  3. United States of America

  4. European Union

China

300

Which of the following plays is written by local playwright Jean Tay?

(A) Normal

(B) Off Centre

(C) Emily of Emerald Hill

(D) Everything But the Brain

Everything But the Brain

300

What is the most likely reason for the distribution of IKEA stalls around the world?

  1. Closeness to the production area

  2. Purchasing power of local population

  3. Preference for hand-made assembly goods

  4. Population density




Purchasing power of local population

300

Which of the following films won the Golden Leopard award  at the Locarno Film Festival in 2020? 

  1. Snakeskin directed by Daniel Hui 

  2. A Yellow Bird, directed by K. Rajagopal

  3. In Time to Come, directed by Tan Pin Pin

  4. A Land Imagined, directed by Yeo Siew Hua

A Land Imagined, directed by Yeo Siew Hua

400

Despite being a minority ethnic group in Singapore, the Malay newspaper publications in the 1930s enjoyed a wide readership that spanned across the Malay World of Indonesia, Malaya, Borneo, South Philippines and South Thailand, even the Middle East by virtue of Muslim Pilgrimage with Singapore as the main port for departure from Southeast Asia. 

How many Singapore-based Malay newspaper publications had existed from 1930-1941, during which our first President, Yusof Ishak, had been a journalist?


  1. 102

  2. 87

  3. 56

  4. 38



102

400

Which of the following is not among the top three expenditure groups when weighting is done for the Consumer Price Index (CPI)?

  1. Housing and Utilities

  2. Education

  3. Food

  4. Transport

Education 

400

Which month is the Singapore Writer’s Festival held in every year?

(A) April

(B) June

(C) September

(D) November

November

400

Which of the following countries in the East Asia & Pacific Islands region is most likely to be Country X?

  1. Cambodia

  2. Fiji Islands

  3. Malaysia

  4. Bhutan




Cambodia

400

Established by Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth, the Cultural Matching Fund (CMF): 

  1. Supports artists and arts companies that produce good quality performances and exhibitions for the enjoyment and edification of Singaporeans.

  2. Provides catalytic support to encourage the community to better meet the needs of the undeserved in society. 

  3. Provides dollar-for-dollar matching grants for private cash donations to registered charities in the arts and heritage sector.

  4. Supports the continuous professional development of the people who work in Singapore’s arts and culture sector




  1. Provides dollar-for-dollar matching grants for private cash donations to registered charities in the arts and heritage sector.

500

What was the highest recorded percentage revenue the Colonial Government in Singapore generated from the Opium trade?


  1. ~90%

  2. ~70%

  3. ~60%

  4. ~40%



~60%

500

With Singapore developing herself as a sustainability and wellness focused tourism destination, which of the following best explains the demand for Singapore’s tourism?

 

  1. 0<PED<1: Singapore's tourism will become more unique as number of close substitutes fall

b. PED>1: Singapore's tourism will become more unique as number of substitutes fall

c. YED>1: The proportion of income spent on Singapore tourism will be higher

d. Positive XED>1: Other tourism destinations are weak substitutes to Singapore


0<PED<1: Singapore's tourism will become more unique as number of close substitutes fall

500

What is the title of Mr Crispin Rodrigues’s latest collection of poetry?

(A) Pantomime

(B) How Now Blown Crow

(C) The Nomad Principle

(D) A Luxury We Cannot Afford

How Now Blown Crow

500

According to the 1970 census, foreign workers accounted for 3.2% of Singapore’s workforce. What is the proportion of foreign workers in 2018?

  1. Spring Afternoon

  2. Summer Afternoon

  3. Winter Evening

  4. Summer Morning




Summer morning

500

Which of the following President of Singapore chaired the Advisory Council on Culture and the Arts that resulted in the significant growth of the Singapore arts scene? The Council improved Singapore's arts environment greatly through several initiatives, including the establishment of the National Arts Council, the new National Library building, the National Heritage Trust, and Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay.

  1. Devan Nair 

  2. Wee Kim Wee

  3. Ong Teng Cheong

  4. S. R. Nathan 

Ong Teng Cheong

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