From the Great Wall to the Forbidden City—China Trivia Awaits!

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From the Great Wall to the Forbidden City—China Trivia Awaits!

What is the most common form of Chinese spoken in the south of China, in Hong Kong and in Macau?

Which country ruled Hong Kong for three years and eight months during the Second World War?

How many major ethnic groups are there within the Chinese population?

What did the ancient Chinese believe caused thunderstorms?

How many calendars did the ancient Chinese use?

What was the first civilization in China?

During the 20th century, Chile experienced 28 instances of which natural disaster?

China has varying climates and is generally plagued by which of these?

What was the original English name for China?

According to tradition, who was the first man in Chinese history to support himself by private tutoring?

In which province of China was Mao Tse Tung born?

The Qing Emperor Yung Cheng issued an edict in 1724, which was what?

Which leader replaced Deng Xiao Peng as leader of China?

In what year was the People's Republic of China proclaimed?

What Chinese cuisine is the one most commonly first sampled by Westerners?

In what year did the Qing (Ching) dynasty of China end?

For approximately how many years did the British rule the city of Hong Kong?

What year did the British officially return the city of Hong Kong to China?

In 1999, what city was returned to China from Portuguese rule?

What does the name "Hong Kong" literally mean?

For approximately how many years did Japan occupy Taiwan?

What is the most widely known Chinese contribution to medicine?

What is the nickname given to the Huang He River?

What do the complementary forces of yin and yang represent?

What did Chinese astronomers discover 1600 years before European astronomers?

What were the Chinese the first people known to use?

Many historians believe Confucius was China's first what?

What were Chinese civil service exams based on?

Who was China's first emperor?

What did Emperor Shi Huandi order to be built?

How old was the youngest Han emperor?

How long was the Silk Road?

Which Chinese dynasty reunited China more than 300 years after the collapse of the Han Dynasty?

How long is China's Grand Canal?

What name was given to nomadic warriors from the Central Asian plains?

What did Kublai Khan name his dynasty after declaring himself emperor of China?

What Venetian visited Kublai Khan's empire?

Unlike most rivers, which direction do rivers in China generally flow?

Due to the extreme droughts in some parts of China, what natural occurrence is common?

What is the name of a major mountain system found in China?

Who was An Lushan?

In 221 China, who forced the emperor to surrender so he could take the throne?

Why was Anson Burlingame famous?

In 1659, where did the last Ming pretender flee when seeking sanctuary from the forces of the Qing Dynasty?

When does Chinese New Year occur?

In what year was The Summer Palace in Beijing sacked and burned by British and French forces?

Which form of Buddhism was most prevalent in China?

In what year did the Portuguese first settle in Macau?

What was the former British territory of Weihaiwei used for during World War II?

How old was the 14th Dalai Lama when he fled Tibet in 1959?

In which city was the Communist Party of China founded in 1921?

What city is China's second largest in terms of population?

Although it is doubtful that there was ever a Portuguese settlement on Taiwan, the Portuguese gave the name Formosa. What does the name mean?

Before 1933, what was China's national currency?

In the years before the 13th century, where was the state of Nan Chao situated?

What is the name of the third largest minority group in China, a people unrelated to the Chinese culturally, ethnically or linguistically?

In which movie, opening attraction at the Radio City Music Hall, New York, 1933, was Barbara Stanwyck held captive by a Chinese warlord?

Under the Treaty of Nanjing, how long was Britain supposed to retain Hong Kong as a territory?

What was the site of the epicentre of the massive earthquake, measuring 8.2 on the Richter Scale, that devastated central China in 1976?

What does the name "China" mean?

After Japan captured the capital of China during World War II, what was the new wartime capital?

The Chinese invented all but which of the following?

How many principal rivers flow through China?

Into which three zones is China's climate divided?

China's rock formations are representative of which ancient era?