Question | Answer | % Correct |
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What triggered the First Opium War? | The Qing banned opium trade and confiscated opium stocks | 95%
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How was the Qing's Beiyang Fleet annihilated in the First Sino-Japanese War? | Outmanoeuvred by the smaller, faster and more modern Japanese boats | 92%
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What did Hong Xiuquan, the Heavenly King of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, claim himself to be? | Younger brother of Jesus Christ | 81%
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What was used as the standard currency of trade between China and Europe in the 18th century? | silver | 76%
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Why did the Japanese return the Liaodong Peninsula to China after the First Sino-Japanese War? | Under pressure from diplomatic intervention by Russia, France and Germany | 68%
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How did the Russians gain control of Vladivostok (Haishenwai) in 1860? | Ceded by the Qing in the Convention of Peking | 65%
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Which country was NOT involved in the Eight-Nation Alliance against the Boxer Rebellions? | Netherlands | 65%
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Which of these was burnt down by the Anglo-French troops during the Second Opium War? | Old Summer Palace (Yuan Ming Yuan) | 62%
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Where did the Chinese Revolution break out on October 10th, 1911? | Wuchang (part of now Wuhan) | 51%
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Why did the scramble of China, similar to that in Africa, not happen in 1899? | The United States proposed the Open Door Policy towards China | 49%
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