Sites of Sri Lanka Trivia Quiz

Answer: Cave system

Dambulla Cave Temple is located in Sri Lanka's Matale District. It is a series of five caves containing over a hundred statues of Buddha, Hindu deities and other important figures in Sri Lankan culture. In ancient times, the cave system was home to nomads and there is an elaborate grave system with skeletons nearly 3,000 years old.

Answer: Rock

Sigiriya is known as the Lion City partially because of its best-known place: Lion Rock or Sigiriya Rock. The rock is nearly 600 ft tall and is painted with frescoes. In 477, Sigiriya became the capital of the Moriya Dynasty when King Kashyapa built a fortress and palace there. However, the capital was abandoned once Kashyapa died eighteen years later.

Answer: Anuradhapura

Anuradhapura is the capital of Sri Lanka's North Central Province and is one of the oldest continuously occupied cities in the nation. It is steeped in history, culture and religion. The entire city was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982. The Jaya Sri Maha Bodi tree is not only the location where Buddha reached enlightenment but also the oldest, still-living tree in the world, having been planted in 288 BC.

Answer: Tea

Wewalthalawa and Haputale are just two of the many places in Sri Lanka home to the nation's famous tea plantations. Tea grows best in the hilly and mountainous areas of central Sri Lanka and the nation produces more than 340 million kilograms of tea per year.

Answer: Allen's swamp monkey

The Sinharaja Forest Reserve remains very well preserved because, until recent years, the area was difficult to reach so it was spared from commercial development. The area is home to many animals that are found nowhere else in the wild and many of them are at least considered vulnerable. Among them are the purple-faced langur, a type of monkey, the green pit viper and the red-faced malkoha, a bird.

Other species who make homes here include the Sri Lankan elephant, the golden palm civet and the toque macaque.

Answer: Macaques

The city of Polonnaruwa is Sri Lanka's second oldest and was founded as a military outpost in prior to the tenth century. Ruins, in various state of preservation, are a common site in Polonnaruwa. The main tourist draw here, however, is not the ruins themselves but the many macaques the roam freely. Even in the olden times when the Polonnaruwa was part of the Chola Kingdom, macaques were free to wander the buildings and that remains so today.

Answer: Cricket

Galle International Stadium is widely considered one of the most famous cricket grounds in the world. It was partially destroyed during the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami was rebuilt.

Galle is home to many famous sites in Sri Lanka are the Galle Temple and Galle Fort and the Port of Galle, which is the only luxury port in the nation as it is the only one that accepts yachts.

Answer: Buddhist Temple

Seema Malaka is a famous Buddhist Temple in Colombo. It is known as a place of meditation. The original temple sunk into Beira Lake and had to be rebuilt. Today it is part of the Gangaramaya Temple complex.

Answer: Mount Namunukula

Peak Wilderness Sanctuary, Knuckles Conservation Forest and Horton Plains National Park are the three areas within the Central Highlands of Sri Lanka. Each is a mountainous area covered, at least in part, with a rain forest. Collectively, they form the Central Highlands UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Mount Namunukula is located nearby but in the Uva Province, not Central Highlands.

Answer: Tooth

The most famous place in Kandy is the Temple of Tooth which is said to house a tooth relic of Buddha. The temple was built in 1595 to house the tooth after a long series of disagreements over its possession. It has been alleged that the real tooth relic was destroyed around the time of the building's construction by the Archbishop of Goa in an attempt to purge native religions.

It may have also been destroyed during the battles for its possession or it may be completely undamaged.