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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. Name a public holiday that China has.
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2. What are the ancient rulers of China called?
Television
Emperor and Empress
Parts of Chinese characters
the Spring Festival
3. The top three most population cites in China
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
Great Wall of China
red
4. Simplified Chinese character system is used in
greeting you
Emperor and Empress
Hin Jintao
China - Signapore
5. When you receive a red envelope from a Chinese person - what do you get inside?
limp and brief
red
cash
China - Signapore
6. What determines when the Chinese New Year starts and stops?
title
False
Black ??
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
7. What are lion dances believed to do?
white rice
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
Tray of Togetherness
scare away the evil spirits
8. How many days is the Chinese New Year celebrated?
15
greeting you
communist
Peach (T
9. Common greeting used during Chinese New Year
Gong Xi
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
Dessert (Small Heart)
10. What is the longest river in China?
Yangzi
4
Parts of Chinese characters
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
11. Chinese New year is also known as what?
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
false
False
the Spring Festival
12. What does a panda eat and how much of it do they eat?
Inflate your prices
Mt. Everest
Mao Zedong
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
13. What economy does China have?
communist
Inflate your prices
October 1st
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
14. _________ founded the People's Republic of China in 1949
Mao Zedong
4
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
Great Wall of China
15. What was the Great Wall originally built?
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
16. 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
Atheism
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
17. Which of these should you not do during a business meeting?
Show emotion
Gong Xi
Hin Jintao
Afghanistan
18. The author of 'The Art of War' is
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
Sun Zi ??
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
people's money
19. What festival ends the Chinese New Year?
the lantern celebration
the Spring Festival
multiple
Television
20. List some Chinese inventions.
adult content
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
Fourth
Tea (Cha)
21. There are often what main courses?
Television
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
cat
multiple
22. List some Chinese foods.
Gong Xi
Taiwan
China - Signapore
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
23. What does the word yellow imply?
adult content
Show emotion
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
Most senior ranking attendee
24. What flower represents courage and hope?
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
False
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
noodles
25. What is the highest mountain in China?
her own last name
Mt. Everest
you could wipe away your good fortune
Nihao! Zenme y
26. What does Kung Fu mean?
Atheism
learned skill
October 1st
people's money
27. Which of these should you try and have on your business cards?
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
Beijing
adult content
28. Martial Arts/Kung Fu was invented by who?
white rice
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
the Shaolin Monks
Face to Face
29. ____________ were not invented in China?
Fortune cookies
Tea (Cha)
the Spring Festival
Most senior ranking attendee
30. Which of these should you try to do when negotiating in China?
Inflate your prices
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
October 1st
Fortune cookies
31. In order of population - what are the top five ethnic groups in China
Red and Yellow
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
15
4
32. How many players does it take to play Ma-Jiang
4
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
learned skill
33. When a Chinese friend says: 'Have you eaten yet?' to you (in Chinese) - what is the meaning?
Bamboo leaves
greeting you
56 (including Han)
bring in good luck and prosperity
34. 'Dim Sum' means
Dessert (Small Heart)
Atheism
Face to Face
Mao Zedong
35. What is China's currency called?
2500
Renminbi Yuan
Fortune cookies
Signature
36. How many Chinese characters are there
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
Tea (Cha)
Red and Yellow
1.3 Billion
37. What do Chinese people use 'Name Chop'(y
Shuo W
True
Signature
October 1st
38. The largest ethnic group in China is called
Afghanistan
Fourth
you could wipe away your good fortune
Han
39. Why shouldn't the house be cleaned on New Year's Day?
Beijing
you could wipe away your good fortune
Hin Jintao
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
40. What is a very popular food?
Peach (T
Emperor and Empress
Gong Xi
white rice
41. What the three common Chinese greetings?
NE quadrant
Han
Nihao! Zenme y
Taiwan
42. Most people live in the_______of China
cat
1.3 Billion
East
Hin Jintao
43. The earliest Chinese dictionary is called
Shuo W
Han
Gong Xi
Peach (T
44. The population in Mainland China is
1.3 Billion
Hong Kong
Beijing
Emperor and Empress
45. Gifts within the business context in China are often seen as bribes?
her own last name
False
Mandarin Chinese
Beijing
46. Why should the house be cleaned in preparation for the Chinese New Year?
False
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
Yangzi
just over 8
47. If a woman's name is Zhang Xiaomei - Zhang is :
her own last name
Face to Face
white rice
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
48. What building in China can be seen from Space? (a myth)
Great Wall of China
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
Beijing
Mao Zedong
49. The Chinese holiday related to 'Eating Zongzi' is called
NE quadrant
the lantern celebration
Dragon Boat Festival
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
50. In China people prefer business communication by which of these methods?
Face to Face
Inflate your prices
Atheism
Most senior ranking attendee