Q 01/05

Which blockbuster film had a sandstone pillar in China's Zhangjiajie forest park renamed after it in 2010?

A) Avatar

B) Mulan

C) Star Wars

D) Inception

Answer · why

A) Avatar

Avatar is honoured in the official name 'Avatar Hallelujah Mountain', given to the 1,080-metre Southern Sky Column. The film's designers drew on Chine...

Q 02/05

Which Chinese province, famed for mouth-numbing peppercorn cooking, is home to most wild giant pandas?

A) Guizhou

B) Sichuan

C) Jiangxi

D) Anhui

Answer · why

B) Sichuan

Sichuan's panda sanctuaries are home to more than 30 percent of the world's giant pandas, and its capital Chengdu has a research base for breeding the...

Q 03/05

Which city, a Portuguese colony until 1999, overtook Las Vegas to become the world's biggest gambling hub?

A) Hong Kong

B) Zhuhai

C) Macau

D) Xiamen

Answer · why

C) Macau

Macau, one of China's two special administrative regions, out-earned the Las Vegas Strip within a decade of its handover and is the most densely popul...

Q 04/05

Which Chinese province is home to the Terracotta Army, found in 1974 by farmers digging a well near Xi'an?

A) Shanxi

B) Gansu

C) Jiangsu

D) Shaanxi

Answer · why

D) Shaanxi

Shaanxi and its eastern neighbour Shanxi differ only in tone in Mandarin, which is why the two names look so alike in English.

Q 05/05

Which Chinese city, founded around a Russian-built railway, hosts the world's largest ice and snow festival?

A) Changchun

B) Harbin

C) Dalian

D) Qiqihar

Answer · why

B) Harbin

Harbin is known as the Ice City for its bitterly cold winters, and it first prospered as a settlement of immigrants from the Russian Empire.