Quiz - About old Kuala Lumpur ( part 2 )

How much you know about the history of Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia? The following questions may show whether you know much or little...




6. One of the original streets of old Kuala Lumpur was called "Java Street", a name which remained until 1945 when it was changed - to what?

7. Yap Ah Loy insisted that in front of each home in Kuala Lumpur of his day should stand a jar, a barrel, full of stagnant water. For what purpose?



8. What in Yap Ah Loy's days used to take place in that area of Kuala Lumpur later known as Old Market Square.



9. The state Capital moved from Klang to Kuala Lumpur for the first time - when?



10. The first train from Klang to Kuala Lumpur had as its august passengers Sultan Abdul Samad, Sir Frederick Weld, the Governor of the Straits Settlements, and the Capitan China of Selangor who had succeeded Yap Ah Loy. What year was the railway opened and who was the Capitan China?

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