I got it by thinking Tsingtao may have been a former name for Qingdao and by other JetPunk quizzes teaching me that it was formerly a German brewery city.
did you know that you reload the quiz and hide some of the questions under the dotted line? a bit of a cheat if one is on a laptop and does not know there are more questions until they are missed
I was always told that geishas were trained to be elegant. Now I find out they were trained to be elephants. Amazing that they can play the shamisen so deftly.
Geography doesn't just include the Earth's physical features and knowing where everything is. Human geography is dealing with how human activity is influenced by the Earth's surface.
Arguably the question is asking about the present city controlled in the past by Germany, so Qingdao is probably more correct. Though it really doesn't matter. Also the name of the city and the way it is written hasn't changed - 青岛 - just the way we transliterate it. Pinyin is just a more accurate and simple way of transliterating Chinese names into English. So it has always been Qingdao, we just once weren't as good at sounding it out.
What does Gulag has to do with Asia? They were created by a decision made in Moscow, i.e. in Europe and more than a half of all Gulags were located in the european part of the Soviet Union.
Geishas? Gurkhas?