W8: China

Question 1

Which country has the world’s largest population?

Answer 1

China

Question 2

Where is the world’s largest tidal bore?

Answer 2

Qiantang River

Question 3

Which Dynasty era did thousands of Terra cotta warriors were buried in?

Answer 3

Qin

Question 4

What is the length of the Great Wall?

Answer 4

21,150 km

Question 5

What has China been known for?

Answer 5

The Middle Kingdom

Question 6

When was the Xia Dynasty?

Answer 6

2100 BCE

Question 7

Ming Dynasty was from when to when

Answer 7

1300 to 1600

Question 8

How long did the Quing Dynasty be?

Answer 8

1600-1900

Question 9

When were the 1st Opium War and the 2nd Opium War?

Answer 9

1842 and 1860

Question 10

What was the Boxer Rebellion 1899-1901 about?

Answer 10

Strong anti-west reaction, over 100,000 people were killed

Question 11

When was the people’s republic of china established?

Answer 11

1949

Question 12

How long was the great leap forward event?

Answer 12

1958-1969

Question 13

What was the Great Leap Forward about?

Answer 13

an attempt to convert China from an agricultural to a modern industrial economy

Question 14

How many people died in the Great Chinese Famine?

Answer 14

20m

Question 15

Which ethnic group dominates China?

Answer 15

The Han ethnic

Question 16

What is the terminology for the large non-Han populations?

Answer 16

autonomous regions: Tibet, Xinjiang, Guangxi, Inner Mongolia

Question 17

Which parts of China with different economic systems have been designated as “special administrative regions”?

Answer 17

Hong Kong and Macau

Question 18

What is the minor ethnic group in Xinjiang?

Answer 18

Uighur

Question 19

What is the size rank of China?

Answer 19

3rd, with 9.60m km2

Question 20

Which country is the most populous? with how many people? and who is expected to take over?

Answer 20

China with 1.45b people, and India is expected to overtake China’s population by 2027

Question 21

What are the 2 large rivers flowing from the west to the east in China?

Answer 21

Huang He (Yellow) and Chang Jiang (Yangtse)

Question 22

What are the plateaus in China with a 4500m average altitude?

Answer 22

Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Question 23

What are the deserts in China?

Answer 23

Gobi and Taklamakan Deserts

Question 24

Which desert is having the great green wall around it?

Answer 24

Gobi desert

Question 25

What is the human adaptation and modification to landscape in China that got recognized by UNESCO?

Answer 25

Grand Canal

Question 26

What is the name of the largest hydroelectric project in the world?

Answer 26

Three Gorges Dam

Question 27

How many ethnic groups are there in China?

Answer 27

56 groups that aren’t Han

Question 28

What are Chinese characters based on?

Answer 28

Pictograms

Question 29

Which languages do not use Chinese characters?

Answer 29

Tibetan, Uighur, and Mongolian

Question 30

What is the silk road?

Answer 30

It’s the collective name for overland trade routes between China and the Middle East, from 2nd to 15th century

Question 31

What is the Belt and Road Initiative?

Answer 31

The Modern Silk Road revival announced in 2013

Question 32

What is the purpose of SEZs?

Answer 32

attract foreign investment and development

Question 33

What is the largest port in the world?

Answer 33

Shanghai

Question 34

Who is the father of the modern Chinese economic system?

Answer 34

Deng Xiaoping

Question 35

Which general eventually founded the People’s Republic of China?

Answer 35

Mao Zedong

Question 36

How many nations will eventually be connected by the Belt and Road Initiative?

Answer 36

65 (including China)