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China Trivia

Subjects : trivia, culture
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  • 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 was the most prominent subject to paint during the Sung dynasty?






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


3. Who led the Red Army in the Long March?






4. What was the purpose of Chinese punishments?






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






6. What two things must all Chinese punishments be?






7. What does the Monkey King symbolize?






8. What was the Korean War?






9. What treaty solved the Opium War?






10. Why was it called theForbidden City?






11. What is the purpose of the creatures of the compass of China?






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






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


14. Why was a seventh string added to the guqin and by whom was it done?






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






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






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






18. Why was a seventh string added to the guqin and by whom was it done?






19. Why could Cheng-Ho leave and explore?






20. What happens to the children with 'little emperor syndrome?'






21. What group is most affected by the one-child policy?






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






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






24. What does the Monkey King symbolize?






25. Under what dynasty was theForbidden City built?






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. Why was it called theForbidden City?






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






34. What is the purpose of the creatures of the compass of China?






35. What happens to the children with 'little emperor syndrome?'






36. How many horses did the Mongols use?






37. What does 'kamikaze' mean in Japanese?






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






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






40. What group is most affected by the one-child policy?






41. What was the saying of the Sung dynasty?






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






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






44. Why could Cheng-Ho leave and explore?






45. What does Feng Shui mean?






46. What important event happened in 1948 with Korea?






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






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






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






50. What was the name of the Mongolian ruler during the failed Mongol invasions of Japan in 1274 and 1281?