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China 080819 is a selection of 10 questions. China 080819 is the filename to differentiate it from other Themed Questions. Feel free to use any of these questions and answers for your own quizzes. Just keep in mind that you cannot republish them in any format.
1 What is the longest river in China?
A Yangtze – it’s third-longest in the world at 6,300 km (3,915 mi)
2 What is the currency of China?
A (Renminbi) Yuan – each Yuan is divided into 10 Jiao
3 Used by Saddam Hussain in Iraqi wars, by what name do we in the West know a Chinese HY-2 Haiying cruise missile?
A Silkworm
4 What in darts is a Shanghai?
A A score of a single, double and triple of the same number (sometimes refers to a checkout of 120 – single, treble and double 20)
5 Which Sea lies between North East China and the western coast of Korea?
A The Yellow Sea, also known as North Sea, one of the world’s largest areas of continental shelf covered in shallow water
6 Which uprising took place in China in 1900?
A The Boxer rebellion
7 What is the better-known name of the culinary herb ‘Chinese Parsley’?
A Coriander
8 What breed of dog in ancient China was restricted to the aristocracy?
A Pekinese
9 Hong Kong is one of two ‘special administrative regions’ of China; what is the other?
A Macau – Macau was a Portuguese colony
10 What single number is considered to be unlucky in China?
A Four – the pronunciation of “4” in Cantonese is similar to the word for “death”