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Chinese Culture
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Subject
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culture
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. About how many hours a day do Giant Pandas spend eating? Sleeping?
Hin Jintao
Show emotion
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
Nihao! Zenme y
2. Gifts within the business context in China are often seen as bribes?
Parts of Chinese characters
Great Wall of China
False
adult content
3. Common greeting used during Chinese New Year
Gong Xi
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
learned skill
1600
4. What is the highest mountain in China?
Mt. Everest
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
scare away the evil spirits
adult content
5. When people playing 'Go'game - which color stone goes first?
Black ??
Afghanistan
Television
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
6. Which of these should you try to do when negotiating in China?
Afghanistan
learned skill
Mt. Everest
Inflate your prices
7. The greatest majority of people in China belong to what nationality?
Han
Mandarin Chinese
the Spring Festival
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
8. How many Chinese characters are there
Fortune cookies
noodles
Hong boa or Lai see
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
9. What fruit does the Chinese believe to give you a long life?
Peach (T
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
about 275 lbs.
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
10. What is the national drink for Chinese?
Tea (Cha)
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
noodles
Face to Face
11. Which animal does not belong to the 12 Animal Zodiac?
Hin Jintao
Sun Zi ??
Fortune cookies
cat
12. The Republic of China is located on...
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
Taiwan
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
13. When did the first Chinese New Year customs start? How?
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14. The Chinese holiday related to 'Eating Zongzi' is called
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
Parts of Chinese characters
cat
Dragon Boat Festival
15. What do people that live in the northern part of China - eat as their main food?
learned skill
Parts of Chinese characters
xu Sh
noodles
16. Where is the Great Wall?
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
NE quadrant
17. How should one receive business cards?
with both hands
Parts of Chinese characters
Red and Yellow
title
18. When you receive a red envelope from a Chinese person - what do you get inside?
red
cash
communist
the Spring Festival
19. What color is considered lucky?
Mao Zedong
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
red
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
20. What fruits are brought to the homes of family and friends? What do they symbolize?
Fourth
adult content
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
learned skill
21. How many minority nationalities are there in China?
Han
Renminbi Yuan
55
1.3 Billion
22. It is acceptable to answer phone calls in meetings.
False
cat
True
Inflate your prices
23. In order of population - what are the top five ethnic groups in China
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
Television
Afghanistan
Yangzi
24. Name three traditional Chinese musical instruments
her own last name
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
cash
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
25. What does Kung Fu mean?
4
Emperor and Empress
learned skill
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
26. Which of these should you try and have on your business cards?
Renminbi Yuan
bring in good luck and prosperity
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
title
27. How many pieces of cannon are there in each side of the Chinese chess?
Peach (T
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
Beijing
2
28. What does the word yellow imply?
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
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
adult content
56 (including Han)
29. Who was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party who lived from 1893 to 1976?
cash
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
Mao Zedong
1.3 Billion
30. What does renminbi mean?
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31. What festival ends the Chinese New Year?
Beijing
greeting you
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
the lantern celebration
32. List some Chinese foods.
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
Mandarin Chinese
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
cat
33. Where does the Giant Panda live?
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
Afghanistan
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
communist
34. A handshake in China often is ...
limp and brief
about 275 lbs.
Sun Zi ??
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
35. What are lion dances believed to do?
white rice
scare away the evil spirits
2
Mt. Everest
36. Why should the house be cleaned in preparation for the Chinese New Year?
Hong boa or Lai see
adult content
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
Taiwan - Hong Kong
37. What is China's currency called?
False
Taiwan
Renminbi Yuan
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
38. How many players does it take to play Ma-Jiang
False
Black ??
Parts of Chinese characters
4
39. How many days is the Chinese New Year celebrated?
Dessert (Small Heart)
bring in good luck and prosperity
red
15
40. Name a public holiday that China has.
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41. What does the Chinese eat on birthday to symbolize long life?
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
Mandarin Chinese
Noodle (Mi
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
42. ____________ were not invented in China?
title
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
Fortune cookies
NE quadrant
43. The top three most population cites in China
Hong boa or Lai see
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
Red and Yellow
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
44. What is a very popular food?
white rice
Hong Kong
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
45. What was the Great Wall originally built?
just over 8
Parts of Chinese characters
Dessert (Small Heart)
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
46. Who complied the earliest Chinese dictionary?
Tray of Togetherness
Fourth
xu Sh
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
47. Some animals that make their homes in China.
red
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
200 B.C. - people feared 'Nien' the mythical - evil monster - so they would make loud noises bright lights - and big dragons to scare it off
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
48. When is China's National Day?
Hin Jintao
October 1st
the Spring Festival
Sun Zi ??
49. What the three common Chinese greetings?
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
Han
Nihao! Zenme y
people's money
50. _________ was a British Colony recently reabsorbed by China.
Inflate your prices
you could wipe away your good fortune
Tea (Cha)
Hong Kong