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China Trivia

Subjects : trivia, culture
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Where does silk come from and what do the producers eat?






2. What are two purposes the gong served in China?






3. What two things must all Chinese punishments be?






4. What are the three categories of Ming and Ching porcelain?






5. What does 'kamikaze' mean in Japanese?






6. What was porcelain maid out of - and what did they use to color it?






7. What do the five strings on the guqin represent?






8. What was the name of the Mongolian ruler during the failed Mongol invasions of Japan in 1274 and 1281?






9. How did the invention of gunpowder backfire on the Chinese?






10. Which of the compass points do the Chinese place the most importance on - and what color and animal represents it?






11. In which dynasty did Cheng-Ho live?






12. What five Chinese inventions have had the most influence on today's world?






13. What does Feng Shui mean?






14. What is the purpose of the creatures of the compass of China?






15. What was ironic about the fact that Mao Zedong attended the May 4th Movement in 1919?






16. What does 'kamikaze' mean in Japanese?






17. Who led the Red Army in the Long March?






18. How many horses did the Mongols use?






19. What treaty solved the Opium War?






20. How was the government affected by the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989?






21. What happens to the children with 'little emperor syndrome?'






22. What five Chinese inventions have had the most influence on today's world?






23. What group is most affected by the one-child policy?






24. Under which dynasty did the Silk Road flourish - and who did they trade with?






25. Why did the Roman Empire fall because of the silk road?






26. Why did the Roman Empire fall because of the silk road?






27. How many meridians are in your body?






28. Who is a famous Sung watercolor painting - and what is he known for?

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29. Why was it called theForbidden City?






30. Why was a sixth string added to the guqin and by whom was it done?






31. What does acupuncture help balance within us?






32. Why could Cheng-Ho leave and explore?






33. What happens to the children with 'little emperor syndrome?'






34. Where did the Long March begin and end?






35. What does Feng Shui mean?






36. What was the line that divided North Korea and South Korea?






37. How was the government affected by the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989?






38. What was the Korean War?






39. What does acupuncture help balance within us?






40. What are two purposes the gong served in China?






41. What do the Chinese call the Great Wall - and what does it mean?






42. What is the central force that Feng Shui focuses on?






43. What was the most prominent subject to paint during the Sung dynasty?






44. Why was a seventh string added to the guqin and by whom was it done?






45. What was the saying of the Sung dynasty?






46. What was the line that divided North Korea and South Korea?






47. Who built the first Great Wall of China - and from which dynasty was he?






48. What important event happened in 1948 with Korea?






49. Under what dynasty was theForbidden City built?






50. What were the 1919 and 1989 Tiananmen Square movements against?