China Quiz

1) What is the capital city of China? Answer: Beijing.

2) The ginko or maidenhair tree grows in China and is used in Chinese medicine. When did this plant species first grow? Answer: millions of years ago.

3) Which of the following animals does NOT live in China? the snow leopard, the platypus, the giant panda. Answer: the platypus.

4) What was the Forbidden City? Answer: the home of the Emperor.

5) The Great Wall of China was built to keep out invaders. When was the building started? Answer: over two and a half thousand years ago.

6) What was the Silk Road? Answer: trade routes between China and Europe.

7) What is the Terracotta Army? Answer: eight thousand life-size figures set up to protect the Emperor Qin in his tomb.

8) Which of the following is a famous Chinese philosopher? Confucius, Siddhartha Gautama, Zeno. Answer: Confucius.

9) In the sixteenth century Europeans were keen to buy from China. Which Europeans settled in Macao in 1557? Answer: the Portuguese.

10) Who took over Hong Kong from the Chinese in the nineteenth century? Answer: the British.

11) Who declared the formation of the People's Republic of China in 1949? Answer: Mao Tse-tung.

12) What is the status of Hong Kong? Answer: Hong Kong is a Region of the Peoples Republic of China.

13) What is the official language of China? Answer: Mandarin

14) During the Chinese New Year festivities children are given Lai see. What is Lai see? Answer: lucky money.

15) What is the translation of Kung hay fat choi? Answer: Happy New Year.

WIZ Quiz content from World InfoZone educational website.

We would like to thank the following for the use of the photographs: Mark McLeod, University of Delaware; the Canadian Tourism Commission (Tourism New Brunswick); the South African Tourism Promotion Agency; the Finnish Tourist Board and the Saudi Arabian Embassy (London).