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Chinese Culture
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What festival ends the Chinese New Year?
learned skill
Show emotion
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
the lantern celebration
2. What colors are on the Chinese flag?
Emperor and Empress
her own last name
Red and Yellow
Afghanistan
3. About how many Giant Pandas remain in the world today?
October 1st
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
people's money
1600
4. What is the highest mountain in China?
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
false
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
Mt. Everest
5. What is the capital city of The People's Republic of China?
xu Sh
Hong Kong
Beijing
Dessert (Small Heart)
6. How many players does it take to play Ma-Jiang
Gong Xi
4
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
Black ??
7. What are the five official religions of China?
Peach (T
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
red
Shuo W
8. What are lion dances believed to do?
you could wipe away your good fortune
Emperor and Empress
Afghanistan
scare away the evil spirits
9. In China people prefer business communication by which of these methods?
bring in good luck and prosperity
Han
Face to Face
Television
10. When a Chinese friend says: 'Have you eaten yet?' to you (in Chinese) - what is the meaning?
limp and brief
greeting you
Hin Jintao
Tea (Cha)
11. Name a public holiday that China has.
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12. When people playing 'Go'game - which color stone goes first?
Beijing
Red and Yellow
Black ??
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
13. The population in Mainland China is
1.3 Billion
Sun Zi ??
cash
Dessert (Small Heart)
14. Chinese New year is also known as what?
True
2500
Taiwan - Hong Kong
the Spring Festival
15. _________ was a British Colony recently reabsorbed by China.
Beijing
Hong Kong
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
Face to Face
16. List some Chinese foods.
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
cash
the Shaolin Monks
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
17. What is the 12 zodiac sign?
Han
xu Sh
4
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
18. Who would you expect to make decisions from negotiations and meetings?
learned skill
Most senior ranking attendee
15
October 1st
19. China is the ______largest country in the world (area).
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
Fourth
you could wipe away your good fortune
Television
20. What flower represents courage and hope?
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
Gong Xi
Sun Zi ??
21. Aggressive negotiation tactics are recommended.
Atheism
Signature
false
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
22. Common greeting used during Chinese New Year
Renminbi Yuan
greeting you
Gong Xi
Tea (Cha)
23. About how much does a Giant Panda weigh?
NE quadrant
1.3 Billion
about 275 lbs.
just over 8
24. What fruit does the Chinese believe to give you a long life?
Peach (T
scare away the evil spirits
Great Wall of China
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
25. What is a very popular food?
white rice
Pinyin
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
Noodle (Mi
26. What is the official romanization system for the language of China?
2500
noodles
Pinyin
March 8th is International Women's Day - on this day women will get a paid day or half day off - while all men must still go to work; May 1st is International Labor Day; May 4th is Youth Day - in memory of the first mass student movement in 1919; Jun
27. What building in China can be seen from Space? (a myth)
Peach (T
2500
Fourth
Great Wall of China
28. Who was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party who lived from 1893 to 1976?
Mao Zedong
Pinyin
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
about 275 lbs.
29. What are the red envelopes called?
55
Hong boa or Lai see
Black ??
red
30. The earliest Chinese dictionary is called
Shuo W
Nihao! Zenme y
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
Chinese Americans in USA
31. And the traditional form of characters is used in
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
Han
Taiwan - Hong Kong
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
32. Which of these should you not do during a business meeting?
people's money
Hong Kong
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
Show emotion
33. Which of these should you try to do when negotiating in China?
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
Mandarin Chinese
Inflate your prices
Most senior ranking attendee
34. What are the six working languages of the United Nations
Show emotion
the Spring Festival
Tea (Cha)
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
35. Which of these things did not originally come from China
Most senior ranking attendee
Afghanistan
scare away the evil spirits
Television
36. _________ founded the People's Republic of China in 1949
title
Mao Zedong
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
Fortune cookies
37. What happens at midnight on New Year's Eve?
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
55
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
38. Where is the Great Wall?
Mao Zedong
red
Han
NE quadrant
39. In order of population - what are the top five ethnic groups in China
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
Beijing
Tea (Cha)
Inflate your prices
40. Which animal does not belong to the 12 Animal Zodiac?
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
Red and Yellow
cat
noodles
41. Gifts within the business context in China are often seen as bribes?
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
Taiwan - Hong Kong
about 275 lbs.
False
42. What is the national drink for Chinese?
Tea (Cha)
Mao Zedong
Han
Red and Yellow
43. Where was the fortune cookie original from?
Chinese Americans in USA
Noodle (Mi
Renminbi Yuan
Fortune cookies
44. What does a panda eat and how much of it do they eat?
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
about 275 lbs.
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
Shuo W
45. A handshake in China often is ...
Parts of Chinese characters
Most senior ranking attendee
2
limp and brief
46. What is the money China called?
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
Nihao! Zenme y
Yangzi
xu Sh
47. How many Chinese characters are there
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
Tea (Cha)
Signature
xu Sh
48. Martial Arts/Kung Fu was invented by who?
Television
Mandarin Chinese
1600
the Shaolin Monks
49. What are some things that should not be done on New Year's Day?
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
Peach (T
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
October 1st
50. Simplified Chinese character system is used in
China - Signapore
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
Dragon Boat Festival
xu Sh
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