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China Trivia

Subjects : trivia, culture
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. What are two purposes the gong served in China?






2. What two things must all Chinese punishments be?






3. How did the invention of gunpowder backfire on the Chinese?






4. Which of the compass points do the Chinese place the most importance on - and what color and animal represents it?






5. Under which dynasty did the Silk Road flourish - and who did they trade with?






6. What do the Chinese call the Great Wall - and what does it mean?






7. What was ironic about the fact that Mao Zedong attended the May 4th Movement in 1919?






8. What important event happened in 1948 with Korea?






9. What does the Monkey King symbolize?






10. What do the Chinese call the Great Wall - and what does it mean?






11. What was the line that divided North Korea and South Korea?






12. Who built the first Great Wall of China - and from which dynasty was he?






13. Under what dynasty was theForbidden City built?






14. Why could Cheng-Ho leave and explore?






15. What do the five strings on the guqin represent?






16. What was the Korean War?






17. How many horses did the Mongols use?






18. In which dynasty did Cheng-Ho live?






19. What five Chinese inventions have had the most influence on today's world?






20. What is the central force that Feng Shui focuses on?






21. How did the invention of gunpowder backfire on the Chinese?






22. What are two purposes the gong served in China?






23. In which dynasty did Cheng-Ho live?






24. What two things must all Chinese punishments be?






25. Why did the Roman Empire fall because of the silk road?






26. Who is a famous Sung watercolor painting - and what is he known for?


27. What are the three categories of Ming and Ching porcelain?






28. Who built the first Great Wall of China - and from which dynasty was he?






29. What are the three categories of Ming and Ching porcelain?






30. What does the Monkey King symbolize?






31. How was the government affected by the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989?






32. What was the nickname given to the Mongol warriors?


33. What was porcelain maid out of - and what did they use to color it?






34. What treaty solved the Opium War?






35. What was Cheng-Ho originally named - and who was it in honor of?






36. What was the line that divided North Korea and South Korea?






37. How many horses did the Mongols use?






38. What treaty solved the Opium War?






39. How many meridians are in your body?






40. Where did the Long March begin and end?






41. What was the purpose of Chinese punishments?






42. Why was it called theForbidden City?






43. Under what dynasty was theForbidden City built?






44. What were the 1919 and 1989 Tiananmen Square movements against?






45. Where does silk come from and what do the producers eat?






46. What do the five strings on the guqin represent?






47. What was ironic about the fact that Mao Zedong attended the May 4th Movement in 1919?






48. What does 'kamikaze' mean in Japanese?






49. How was the government affected by the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989?






50. What five Chinese inventions have had the most influence on today's world?