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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. What festival ends the Chinese New Year?
Signature
the lantern celebration
Inflate your prices
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
2. Who was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party who lived from 1893 to 1976?
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
Mao Zedong
Mandarin Chinese
3. When people playing 'Go'game - which color stone goes first?
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
Atheism
Black ??
false
4. What economy does China have?
Show emotion
xu Sh
communist
Taiwan
5. 'Dim Sum' means
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
her own last name
Emperor and Empress
Dessert (Small Heart)
6. A handshake in China often is ...
15
limp and brief
the lantern celebration
False
7. What fruits are brought to the homes of family and friends? What do they symbolize?
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
8. List some Chinese foods.
communist
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
Red and Yellow
Fortune cookies
9. What are some things that should not be done on New Year's Day?
the Spring Festival
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
1600
Peach (T
10. How should one receive business cards?
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
with both hands
China - Signapore
11. ____________ were not invented in China?
Black ??
Fortune cookies
Chinese Americans in USA
Emperor and Empress
12. What is China's currency called?
55
Renminbi Yuan
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
Hong Kong
13. Which of these things did not originally come from China
Fortune cookies
Inflate your prices
Television
Shuo W
14. When did the first Chinese New Year customs start? How?
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15. What happens at midnight on New Year's Eve?
the Shaolin Monks
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
55
China - Signapore
16. Where is the Great Wall?
True
NE quadrant
Nihao! Zenme y
false
17. There are often what main courses?
you could wipe away your good fortune
bring in good luck and prosperity
multiple
about 275 lbs.
18. What determines when the Chinese New Year starts and stops?
Beijing
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
noodles
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
19. One U.S. dollar is equal to how many renminbis?
her own last name
just over 8
Afghanistan
True
20. How many pieces of cannon are there in each side of the Chinese chess?
2
China - Signapore
1600
about 275 lbs.
21. What does 'radical' means?
communist
Dessert (Small Heart)
Parts of Chinese characters
false
22. Why should the house be cleaned in preparation for the Chinese New Year?
noodles
Shuo W
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
Face to Face
23. In order of population - what are the top five ethnic groups in China
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
Taiwan
adult content
24. China is the ______largest country in the world (area).
title
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
Shuo W
Fourth
25. What color is considered lucky?
title
Sun Zi ??
red
Mt. Everest
26. How did Kung Fu start?
xu Sh
Han
false
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
27. When you hear a person mention my 'Ai Ren' (Ai means love - and Ren means person) - the meaning of the word 'Ai Ren' is:
wife or husband
Great Wall of China
Fourth
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
28. About how many hours a day do Giant Pandas spend eating? Sleeping?
Mt. Everest
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
Most senior ranking attendee
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
29. What the three common Chinese greetings?
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
2500
Dessert (Small Heart)
Nihao! Zenme y
30. The top three most population cites in China
Emperor and Empress
bring in good luck and prosperity
the lantern celebration
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
31. What does Kung Fu mean?
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
people's money
learned skill
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
32. When is China's National Day?
Renminbi Yuan
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
Face to Face
October 1st
33. What fruit does the Chinese believe to give you a long life?
multiple
Peach (T
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
34. What is 'Hong boa' or 'Lai see'?
xu Sh
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
1600
35. And the traditional form of characters is used in
Mt. Everest
Yangzi
Taiwan - Hong Kong
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
36. The population in Mainland China is
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
1.3 Billion
the lantern celebration
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
37. What does renminbi mean?
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38. Simplified Chinese character system is used in
True
Hin Jintao
Fortune cookies
China - Signapore
39. The author of 'The Art of War' is
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
Sun Zi ??
October 1st
Han
40. What is the capital city of The People's Republic of China?
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
Beijing
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
41. Where was the fortune cookie original from?
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
Chinese Americans in USA
Hin Jintao
Fourth
42. Where does the Giant Panda live?
noodles
Sun Zi ??
Pinyin
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
43. What are the ancient rulers of China called?
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
Emperor and Empress
about 275 lbs.
Tea (Cha)
44. What does the word yellow imply?
red
Fourth
adult content
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
45. What is the official romanization system for the language of China?
Pinyin
2
Mandarin Chinese
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
46. List some Chinese inventions.
Pinyin
55
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
47. What are the four great invention of China?
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
people's money
white rice
48. What colors are on the Chinese flag?
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
Red and Yellow
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
49. Some animals that make their homes in China.
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
Mao Zedong
Renminbi Yuan
2500
50. What is a very popular food?
greeting you
Emperor and Empress
Hong Kong
white rice