My Oh Myanmar

With fevered speculation that the military junta in Burma are on the verge of releasing Aung San Sou Kyi from her long running house arrest, today's quiz is dedicated to the Nobel Peace Prize winner and her people.

1 In 1947 Burma became independent from the colonial rule of which country?

2 The result of the 1990 general election gave the political party led by Aung San Sou Kyi what percentage of the seats in the Burmese parliament? 

3 In what year did Aung San Sou Kyi win the Nobel Peace Prize?  

4 In 2006, the military dictatorship declared that Burma's most populous city Rangoon was no longer the country's capital and designated where as the replacement?

5 Name any three of the six countries that share a border with Burma.

The answers will be published along with tomorrow's quiz questions.

The answers to yesterday's Harry Potter quiz questions were:-
1 Seven books have been written by J K Rowling to form the Harry Potter series.
2 Joanne is the forename by which J K Rowling is known.
3 Richard Harris and Michael Gambon played Dumbledore in the film adaptations of the first six Harry Potter books - Harris in the first two films and then, following the actors death, Gambon, until the character's death in film 6. (Note that in addition, Tony Regbo portrays the master wizard as a young man in flashback scenes in the final two films covering the events of the seventh book).
4 Muggle is the name given to non-magical people in the Harry Potter universe.
5 Galleon, sickle and gnut are respectively the names for the gold, silver and bronze coins that constitute the currency in the Harry Potter universe.