January Quiz

A monthly quiz of general history, traditions, geography questions for January
1. The Red Flag Canal was a major engineering project built in the 1960s in which province?
Gansu
Guizhou
Henan
railway, PRC
Chengdu-Chongqing railway opening ceremony. 2/July/1952. Image by available under a Creative Commons License

2. Kite flying is particularly associated with which traditional festival?
Qingming
Dragon boat
Double ninth or Chongyang
music, guzheng
Guzheng is a traditional Chinese musical instrument belonging to the zither family of string instruments

3. What is the Chinese for weather?
huǒ chē
xī yáng
tiān qì
Anhui, view
Sunrise over part of Anhui province in November

4. In which province was Mao Zedong born in 1893?
Hunan
Jilin
Shanghai
Mao Zedong, statue, PRC
Status of Mao Zedong negotiating with the Guomindang, 1945, with Soong Chingling, Zhang Lan, Huang Yanpei and other party leaders. Copyright © Dreamstime see image license

5. Which number is considered unlucky rather like 13 in the west?
8
11
4
cat
Japanese lucky cat

6. Genghiz Khan originated from which region?
Korea
Mongolia
Afghanistan
Mongol, Genghis khan, Borte
Temujin and Borte. Image by KoizumiBS available under a Creative Commons License

7. The largest carved Buddha in the world is located where?
Fuzhou, Fujian
Qufu, Shandong
Leshan, Sichuan
Buddhism , Dali, Yunnan, temple
Chongsheng Temple, Dali, Yunnan

8. In 2016 the membership of the Chinese Communist Party stood at how many?
89 million
1.7 million
7 million
soldier, Tiananmen Square, Beijing
A Chinese People's Armed Police guard on Tiananmen Square, in front of the portrait of Mao Zedong. His rank is the second lowest, Private First Class [1]. 4th June 2007. Photo by Luo Shaoyang from Beijing available under a Creative Commons license .

9. The standard order of hexagrams in the Yi Jing (I Ching) is attributed to who?
King Wen
Confucius (Kong Fuzi)
Yellow Emperor
yi jing
Three gold coins used for Yi Jing fortune telling

10. The world's deadliest earthquake was in China, how many lives were lost?
12,000
830,000
1,240,000
Tangshan, earthquake
1976 Tangshan earthquake site Image by NOAA available under a Creative Commons License

11. The Chinese Grand canal is roughly the same length as the distance between New York and where?
North Carolina
Kentucky
Florida
grand canal, wuxi
Ancient Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in Wuxi area. . Image by available under a Creative Commons License

12. Which was the capital city used by the Taiping rebels in the mid 19th century
Nanjing
Wuhan
Guangzhou
Taiping Rebellion, battle
Taiping rebels are chased out of Yuzhuang, March 8 1854. The Taiping arrived the previous day but had to retire the next day when the Manchus arrived in hot pursuit. From Ten scenes recording the retreat and defeat of the Taiping Northern Expeditionary Forces, February 1854-March 1855. Source : web site Available under a Creative Commons license .

13. What was an old name for the island of Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)?
Sinkiang
Formosa
New Ireland
palace, eunuch, Beijing
Entrance through the Gate of Peace at the Lama Temple Beijing (Yonghegong), or Palace of Peace and Harmony Lama Temple or Yonghegong Lamsery, a renowned lama temple of the Yellow Hat Sect of Lamaism. Building work on the YongHeGong Temple started in 1694 during the Qing Dynasty. It originally served as an official residence for court eunuchs. It was then converted into the court of Prince Yong Zheng (Yin Zhen), a son of emperor KangXi. After YongZheng's ascension to the throne in 1722, half of the building was converted into a lamasery, a monastery for monks of Tibetan Buddhism, while the other half remained an imperial palace. November 2006. Image by Dennis Jarvis from Halifax, Canada available under a Creative Commons license

14. The Queen Mother of the West is an important Chinese deity; where is her palace traditionally said to have been?
Kunlun mountains
Nanling Mountains
Khingan Mountains
Jinci, Shanxi, sculpture, deity
Queen Mother of the West and maidservants in painted clay sculpture at Jinci, Taiyuan, Shanxi. It was built in the Ming dynasty.

15. What is the Chinese (Mandarin) name for Hong Kong?
Xianzhou
Haidong
Xianggang
Hong Kong, park, modern housing
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