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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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1. With what are Zongzi traditionally wrapped before they are steamed?
Bamboo leaves
Most senior ranking attendee
Red and Yellow
Renminbi Yuan
2. _________ was a British Colony recently reabsorbed by China.
Tea (Cha)
56 (including Han)
Hong Kong
NE quadrant
3. Name three traditional Chinese musical instruments
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
Face to Face
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
4. Name a public holiday that China has.
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5. What is a very popular food?
just over 8
white rice
Show emotion
greeting you
6. What festival ends the Chinese New Year?
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
1600
the lantern celebration
7. And the traditional form of characters is used in
Taiwan - Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Chinese Americans in USA
Bamboo leaves
8. What does 'radical' means?
scare away the evil spirits
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
Parts of Chinese characters
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
9. What is the 12 zodiac sign?
Emperor and Empress
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
October 1st
Renminbi Yuan
10. A handshake in China often is ...
adult content
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
True
limp and brief
11. The Chinese holiday related to 'Eating Zongzi' is called
Hong boa or Lai see
Show emotion
the Shaolin Monks
Dragon Boat Festival
12. ____________ were not invented in China?
True
Fortune cookies
Signature
communist
13. What does renminbi mean?
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14. What is the official language spoken in China?
Mandarin Chinese
False
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
Emperor and Empress
15. Who is President of the People's Republic of China?
October 1st
the lantern celebration
Hin Jintao
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
16. How many Chinese characters are there
Tray of Togetherness
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
red
17. What does the word yellow imply?
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
56 (including Han)
adult content
Parts of Chinese characters
18. What color is considered lucky?
Bamboo leaves
adult content
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
red
19. China is the ______largest country in the world (area).
Fourth
Mao Zedong
Hong Kong
Han
20. Why should the house be cleaned in preparation for the Chinese New Year?
Han
Face to Face
Mt. Everest
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
21. What do people that live in the northern part of China - eat as their main food?
Yangzi
noodles
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
Television
22. In order of population - what are the top five ethnic groups in China
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
Atheism
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
red
23. How many ethnic groups are there in China?
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
56 (including Han)
scare away the evil spirits
24. Who was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party who lived from 1893 to 1976?
Mao Zedong
15
False
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
25. What is the state religion in China?
Hong boa or Lai see
Atheism
False
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
26. What colors are on the Chinese flag?
Hong boa or Lai see
False
Dessert (Small Heart)
Red and Yellow
27. What are the ancient rulers of China called?
Fortune cookies
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
Emperor and Empress
Shuo W
28. List some Chinese inventions.
Inflate your prices
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
Mandarin Chinese
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
29. How many year ago was the Great Wall built?
Fourth
2500
Nihao! Zenme y
multiple
30. What are dragon dances believed to do?
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
Gong Xi
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
bring in good luck and prosperity
31. _________ founded the People's Republic of China in 1949
Pinyin
NE quadrant
Mao Zedong
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
32. Which of these should you try and have on your business cards?
title
Dessert (Small Heart)
communist
the lantern celebration
33. 'Dim Sum' means
learned skill
Dessert (Small Heart)
Han
false
34. In China people prefer business communication by which of these methods?
Emperor and Empress
multiple
Face to Face
Hong Kong
35. What is the longest river in China?
China - Signapore
Yangzi
wife or husband
the Spring Festival
36. Why shouldn't the house be cleaned on New Year's Day?
you could wipe away your good fortune
adult content
noodles
xu Sh
37. Where was the fortune cookie original from?
4
Atheism
Dessert (Small Heart)
Chinese Americans in USA
38. Most people live in the_______of China
4
Tea (Cha)
East
Dessert (Small Heart)
39. How should one receive business cards?
Most senior ranking attendee
with both hands
Tea (Cha)
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
40. What are the six working languages of the United Nations
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
1.3 Billion
Chinese Americans in USA
Dessert (Small Heart)
41. Which animal does not belong to the 12 Animal Zodiac?
false
greeting you
Noodle (Mi
cat
42. Where is the Great Wall?
Hong Kong
NE quadrant
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
Mandarin Chinese
43. What economy does China have?
Nihao! Zenme y
Tea (Cha)
communist
cat
44. There are often what main courses?
multiple
Great Wall of China
people's money
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
45. What is 'Hong boa' or 'Lai see'?
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
wife or husband
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
Show emotion
46. What are the five official religions of China?
Face to Face
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
4
false
47. What are the four great invention of China?
True
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
Fourth
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
48. China shares a border with
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
red
Afghanistan
noodles
49. What are the red envelopes called?
Hong boa or Lai see
adult content
2500
the Shaolin Monks
50. About how many hours a day do Giant Pandas spend eating? Sleeping?
October 1st
15
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping