Q 01/05

Besides the Nile, which river is longer than the Yangtze?

A) The Amazon

B) The Congo

C) The Mekong

D) The Volga

Answer · why

A) The Amazon

The Amazon is the other one, and whether it or the Nile is really the world's longest river is still disputed.

Q 02/05

What does the Chinese name Chang Jiang literally mean?

A) Yellow River

B) Long River

C) Wide River

D) Winding River

Answer · why

B) Long River

Long River is the name used in China, while it was mainly Westerners who applied 'Yangtze' to the whole river.

Q 03/05

Where does the Yangtze rise?

A) The Himalayas of eastern Nepal

B) The Tanggula Mountains of the Tibetan Plateau

C) The Kailash Range of western Tibet

D) The Hengduan Mountains of Yunnan

Answer · why

B) The Tanggula Mountains of the Tibetan Plateau

The Tanggula Mountains of the Tibetan Plateau hold its headstreams, and accounts differ over whether the Ulan Moron or the Dangqu is where it truly be...

Q 04/05

Into which sea does the Yangtze empty?

A) The Yellow Sea

B) The East China Sea

C) The South China Sea

D) The Bohai Sea

Answer · why

B) The East China Sea

The East China Sea receives it, and the silt the river carries down from upstream built Chongming, the big island sitting in its mouth.

Q 05/05

In 1937, aircraft from which country sank the US gunboat Panay on the Yangtze?

A) Britain

B) China

C) Germany

D) Japan

Answer · why

D) Japan

Japan's government accepted responsibility but called the attack unintentional, then paid a large indemnity, which helped keep the incident from escal...