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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Which of these things did not originally come from China
Television
Hong Kong
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
2. _________ founded the People's Republic of China in 1949
Mao Zedong
Gong Xi
her own last name
2
3. What does the Chinese eat on birthday to symbolize long life?
Noodle (Mi
October 1st
Afghanistan
Mao Zedong
4. What is the highest mountain in China?
Beijing
Hin Jintao
Mt. Everest
Mandarin Chinese
5. What does Kung Fu mean?
Red and Yellow
people's money
learned skill
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
6. China is the ______largest country in the world (area).
Fourth
false
red
Emperor and Empress
7. The population in Mainland China is
1.3 Billion
East
China - Signapore
2500
8. What was the Great Wall originally built?
Most senior ranking attendee
Taiwan - Hong Kong
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
9. The Republic of China is located on...
Taiwan
Mao Zedong
Han
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
10. The earliest Chinese dictionary is called
title
xu Sh
Shuo W
Afghanistan
11. Who would you expect to make decisions from negotiations and meetings?
Parts of Chinese characters
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
Most senior ranking attendee
noodles
12. What is the longest river in China?
Show emotion
Signature
Yangzi
adult content
13. List some Chinese inventions.
with both hands
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
Beijing
14. Some animals that make their homes in China.
white rice
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
Sun Zi ??
15. What determines when the Chinese New Year starts and stops?
NE quadrant
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
bring in good luck and prosperity
16. Name a public holiday that China has.
17. What building in China can be seen from Space? (a myth)
cat
Great Wall of China
2500
Han
18. What is the national drink for Chinese?
Taiwan - Hong Kong
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
Tea (Cha)
Mt. Everest
19. How many minority nationalities are there in China?
Fourth
Shuo W
55
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
20. How many year ago was the Great Wall built?
China - Signapore
2500
false
people's money
21. What are the ancient rulers of China called?
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
the Spring Festival
Emperor and Empress
Yangzi
22. List some Chinese foods.
Dessert (Small Heart)
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
1600
Dragon Boat Festival
23. What is the state religion in China?
communist
you could wipe away your good fortune
Noodle (Mi
Atheism
24. 'Dim Sum' means
Dessert (Small Heart)
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
Peach (T
Hong Kong
25. What do Chinese people use 'Name Chop'(y
Signature
the Spring Festival
Chinese Americans in USA
about 275 lbs.
26. What color is considered lucky?
October 1st
Signature
Black ??
red
27. How many days is the Chinese New Year celebrated?
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
15
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
True
28. How many players does it take to play Ma-Jiang
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
greeting you
just over 8
4
29. When you receive a red envelope from a Chinese person - what do you get inside?
the lantern celebration
Atheism
cash
people's money
30. What are some things that should not be done on New Year's Day?
wife or husband
bring in good luck and prosperity
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
title
31. Why shouldn't the house be cleaned on New Year's Day?
Red and Yellow
Face to Face
you could wipe away your good fortune
Noodle (Mi
32. What is China's currency called?
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
Renminbi Yuan
Television
Hin Jintao
33. How should one receive business cards?
with both hands
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
Han
October 1st
34. Which of these should you try and have on your business cards?
title
scare away the evil spirits
Hong boa or Lai see
communist
35. Which of these should you not do during a business meeting?
Fourth
Show emotion
East
the Shaolin Monks
36. When people playing 'Go'game - which color stone goes first?
Dessert (Small Heart)
Gong Xi
Black ??
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
37. What colors are on the Chinese flag?
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
Red and Yellow
Yangzi
Peach (T
38. About how many hours a day do Giant Pandas spend eating? Sleeping?
Fortune cookies
False
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
China - Signapore
39. What is the 12 zodiac sign?
Parts of Chinese characters
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
Hong boa or Lai see
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
40. There are often what main courses?
Atheism
Television
multiple
Nihao! Zenme y
41. Which animal does not belong to the 12 Animal Zodiac?
Show emotion
Red and Yellow
cat
Mao Zedong
42. Why should the house be cleaned in preparation for the Chinese New Year?
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
communist
15
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
43. What are the red envelopes called?
Hong boa or Lai see
1600
China - Signapore
Sun Zi ??
44. What economy does China have?
Shuo W
Dessert (Small Heart)
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
communist
45. The top three most population cites in China
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
Fourth
Atheism
Hong Kong
46. What does renminbi mean?
47. What the three common Chinese greetings?
Mt. Everest
Mandarin Chinese
Nihao! Zenme y
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
48. What are lion dances believed to do?
56 (including Han)
Red and Yellow
scare away the evil spirits
Face to Face
49. What is the money China called?
limp and brief
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
multiple
50. A handshake in China often is ...
limp and brief
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
adult content