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Chinese Culture
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culture
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the highest mountain in China?
Parts of Chinese characters
wife or husband
limp and brief
Mt. Everest
2. How many minority nationalities are there in China?
Television
55
limp and brief
multiple
3. Why shouldn't the house be cleaned on New Year's Day?
you could wipe away your good fortune
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
Dragon Boat Festival
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
4. In order of population - what are the top five ethnic groups in China
Renminbi Yuan
Dragon Boat Festival
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
5. List some Chinese inventions.
cat
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
Renminbi Yuan
about 275 lbs.
6. What the three common Chinese greetings?
multiple
Signature
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
Nihao! Zenme y
7. What is the money China called?
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
scare away the evil spirits
8. The population in Mainland China is
1.3 Billion
Tray of Togetherness
Most senior ranking attendee
Hin Jintao
9. Where does the Giant Panda live?
Chinese Americans in USA
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
Fourth
10. Martial Arts/Kung Fu was invented by who?
Chinese Americans in USA
the Shaolin Monks
the Spring Festival
1600
11. How many Chinese characters are there
Shuo W
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
multiple
12. Most people live in the_______of China
Atheism
the Shaolin Monks
white rice
East
13. What colors are on the Chinese flag?
Dragon Boat Festival
Taiwan - Hong Kong
Tray of Togetherness
Red and Yellow
14. Name three traditional Chinese musical instruments
55
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
Hong Kong
15. Which of these should you try to do when negotiating in China?
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
Inflate your prices
Emperor and Empress
scare away the evil spirits
16. Who would you expect to make decisions from negotiations and meetings?
Afghanistan
Parts of Chinese characters
October 1st
Most senior ranking attendee
17. Who was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party who lived from 1893 to 1976?
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
Mao Zedong
Fortune cookies
15
18. Which animal does not belong to the 12 Animal Zodiac?
Peach (T
cat
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
19. What economy does China have?
communist
Taiwan
Mao Zedong
Show emotion
20. What are lion dances believed to do?
cat
scare away the evil spirits
Mao Zedong
1.3 Billion
21. Common greeting used during Chinese New Year
wife or husband
Gong Xi
Fortune cookies
adult content
22. What are some things that should not be done on New Year's Day?
learned skill
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
Peach (T
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
23. What is the state religion in China?
Atheism
Emperor and Empress
Most senior ranking attendee
Noodle (Mi
24. What does a panda eat and how much of it do they eat?
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
Emperor and Empress
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
25. What flower represents courage and hope?
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
Gong Xi
26. What does the Chinese eat on birthday to symbolize long life?
the Shaolin Monks
Most senior ranking attendee
learned skill
Noodle (Mi
27. How many year ago was the Great Wall built?
2500
Mao Zedong
Hong Kong
Hin Jintao
28. How many players does it take to play Ma-Jiang
4
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
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
Mao Zedong
29. Which of these things did not originally come from China
Television
greeting you
the Spring Festival
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
30. In China people prefer business communication by which of these methods?
Mao Zedong
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
2
Face to Face
31. How many days is the Chinese New Year celebrated?
Fortune cookies
Tray of Togetherness
Television
15
32. What does Kung Fu mean?
Peach (T
the Shaolin Monks
Inflate your prices
learned skill
33. One U.S. dollar is equal to how many renminbis?
just over 8
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
Yangzi
Hong Kong
34. When a Chinese friend says: 'Have you eaten yet?' to you (in Chinese) - what is the meaning?
greeting you
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
China - Signapore
Show emotion
35. What does renminbi mean?
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36. Where is the Great Wall?
Beijing
NE quadrant
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
Black ??
37. Who complied the earliest Chinese dictionary?
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
xu Sh
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
adult content
38. What are the five official religions of China?
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
Gong Xi
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
Yangzi
39. And the traditional form of characters is used in
Mandarin Chinese
Taiwan - Hong Kong
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
56 (including Han)
40. The largest ethnic group in China is called
Signature
October 1st
Han
Afghanistan
41. China shares a border with
4
Afghanistan
Hong boa or Lai see
limp and brief
42. What does the word yellow imply?
adult content
Atheism
cash
Great Wall of China
43. How did Kung Fu start?
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
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
bring in good luck and prosperity
4
44. ____________ were not invented in China?
Fortune cookies
Dessert (Small Heart)
Peach (T
1.3 Billion
45. What building in China can be seen from Space? (a myth)
East
Great Wall of China
4
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
46. When did the first Chinese New Year customs start? How?
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47. What are the red envelopes called?
True
Hong boa or Lai see
communist
15
48. When you receive a red envelope from a Chinese person - what do you get inside?
cash
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
49. What determines when the Chinese New Year starts and stops?
Beijing
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
Mao Zedong
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
50. What is the official language spoken in China?
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
wife or husband
Mandarin Chinese
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
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