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China Country Quiz

Can you answer these questions about the country of China?
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Last updated: December 10, 2019
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What is the capital of China?
Beijing
What was the former English-language spelling of that city?
Peking
What is China's tallest mountain?
Mount Everest
What former British colony was handed back to China in 1997?
Hong Kong
What former Portuguese colony returned to China in 1999?
Macau
What are the three most-commonly spoken branches of the Chinese language?
Mandarin
Wu / Shanghainese
Yue / Cantonese
What is China's largest desert?
Gobi
What is the informal name of the northeasternmost part of China?
Manchuria
What is the name of the compound where the emperor of China once lived?
The Forbidden City
Who was the first leader of communist China?
Mao Zedong
What country did China annex in 1950?
Tibet
What religion / philosophical tradition follows the teachings of Laozi?
Taoism
What is the full English name of the country of China?
People's Republic
of China
What square was the site of democracy protests, and a bloody massacre, in 1989?
Tiananmen Square
What is the currency of China?
Renminbi
What are China's two longest rivers?
Yangtze
Yellow
What were the four "Great Inventions" of ancient China?
Compass
Gunpowder
Papermaking
Printing
What is China's national animal?
Giant Panda
What mythological animal is often used to represent China?
Dragon
There are twelve animals in the Chinese zodiac. Which one comes first?
Rat
What is China's largest island?
Hainan
Who was the most influential philosopher in ancient China?
Confucius
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Level 54
Nov 13, 2014
Isn't Taiwan the biggest island? I believe the Taiwanese and PRC governments both claim legitimacy over both the mainland and the island. The question isn't whether Taiwan is part of China, but which government should rule.

From Wikipedia: "Constitutionally, there is dispute over whether the government [of Taiwan] claims sovereignty over all of 'China,' in a definition that includes mainland China and Outer Mongolia, but the ROC has not made retaking mainland China a political goal since 1992. However, the government's stance on defining its political position of relation with China largely depends on which political coalition is in charge. Meanwhile, the PRC also asserts itself to be the sole legal representation of China and claims Taiwan as its 23rd province to be under its sovereignty, denying the status and existence of ROC as a sovereign state."

I am hardly an expert on such things, though, and defer to the group mind.

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Level 29
May 26, 2015
I am with you 100%. The issue isn't whether it is in china but which is the legitimate government over all of china
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Level 43
Sep 29, 2015
Most people in Taiwan these days consider themselves to be a separate country from China and are not interested in retaking the mainland. Frankly, I don't think they'll ever be part of the same country again and we should all start thinking of them as separate nations.
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Level 31
Apr 19, 2022
As for a Chinese,I think Taiwan is a part of China,BUT for a Jetpunk user,Taiwan is a ‘country’(Jetpunk tradition).Both the government in Mainland and Taiwan agrees one China policy,but one say CCP rules,and another say it’s the GMD in charge.
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Level 60
Jul 6, 2023
Sure, de jure they both claim each other entire. De facto, China has the mainland, Taiwan has the Taiwan island.
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Level 47
Mar 17, 2024
I think as far as the quiz goes it is referring to the country of China and its territory not geographic China.
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Level 65
Sep 19, 2015
very relieved to see everest only known by 2 in 5 ppl....doh! how did i not get that
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Level 41
Sep 19, 2015
Quizmaster, you could add voting for comments :)

I mean, sometimes i see such a good or funny comment, that i wont to like it, but i cant :D

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Level 69
Jul 20, 2019
And now that we have it, what I really want is the agility to DOWNvote comments! 😜
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Level 66
May 16, 2020
you aren't agile enough? Well I don't think tha's a problem the quizmaster can fix..
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Level 81
Jul 3, 2020
Yeah, I think that's a bit of a stretch.
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Level 55
Sep 21, 2015
Nearly didn't get the religion one. Then I remembered: "There's Maoism, Taoism, I Ching and chess!"
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Level 52
Jan 30, 2016
In China, the term Gobi only refers to the desert in Inner Mongolia, not the vast desert in Inner Asia. In this case the largest desert in China should be Taklamakan in the Tarim Basin.
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Level 75
Mar 10, 2020
That's what I thought.
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Level 30
Jul 24, 2016
You should accept Yangcy for Yangtze.
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Level 78
Nov 23, 2016
Surely China invented china!?
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Level 59
Nov 20, 2019
I tried porcelain in various spellings.
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Level 40
Jul 30, 2020
absolutely! china has been a part of china since ancient times. So has antarctica, you can argue that the americas were also historically part of the chinese empire and so was europe
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Level 68
May 29, 2017
Dang! Said Forgotten City.
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Level 43
Jun 24, 2017
Can't believe I missed Everest and Gobi, I foolishly associate them with Nepal/India and Mongolia!
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Level 56
Jun 20, 2020
Mt. Everest lies in Nepal-Tibet border.
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Level 13
Jul 21, 2017
Didn't get any historical things lol, but geography and currency was awesome! glad to get the 4 inventions. Also, I think shanghainese is a more common form of saying "Wu", but it is also longer :P
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Level 41
Aug 23, 2017
I kept trying Khanbaliq and Dadu and was confused for it not working.
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Level 42
Dec 5, 2017
Might want to add Kong Fuzi for Confucius
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Level 26
Aug 29, 2018
Papermaking technique was invented in Korea
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Level 32
Nov 25, 2018
And what's the inventor's name? I mean, who invented this historical fact?
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Level 33
Oct 5, 2018
Mount Everest is in Nepal not in China.
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Level 32
Nov 25, 2018
It's on the border of Nepal and China, shared by both nations.
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Level 75
Feb 16, 2019
Great quiz, but, Ice Cream is China's greatest invention and it was left out
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Level 17
May 31, 2019
can you add kongzi for confucius and changjiang for yangtze
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Level 51
Jun 9, 2019
What are you talking about? What is this Tiananmen Square thing? 1989 was a completely peaceful year...
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Level 91
Jul 11, 2019
Have you seriously never heard of the Tiananmen Square Massacre?
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Level 69
Jul 20, 2019
Sarcasm. PatoPotato is doing it. 😬
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Level 57
Jul 3, 2020
While PatoPotato's comment is tongue in cheek, it's well known that many Chinese nationals have never heard of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
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Level 56
Apr 30, 2022
R/wooosh
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Level 79
Nov 8, 2019
I live in Suzhou, a city close to Shanghai, where the Suzhou dialect (aka 'Suzhounese'), a sub-dialect of Wu, is locally spoken. Many locals speak it amongst themselves, especially if they know each other quite well, but if you go to a shop or speak to a stranger, you would converse in Mandarin.

Although Wu is a dialect, it contains a huge number of sub-dialects, which may vary from town to town; a native speaker of one of these sub-dialects might not readily understand another sub-dialect, or even find it incomprehensible/unintelligible.

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Level 61
Mar 10, 2020
everest is in nepal
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Level 88
Mar 10, 2020
If you were standing at the summit of Mt. Everest, you could put one foot in Nepal and one foot in China.
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Level 61
Sep 22, 2023
you are correct
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Level 63
Mar 10, 2020
What is the 16th one? There is just blank space..?
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Level 21
May 6, 2020
Tiananmen square protest is not a bloody massacre, there was barely any blood
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Level 56
Jun 20, 2020
That's what happens when you blindly swallow CCP propaganda.
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Level 64
Sep 28, 2021
In America, protesters are not shot

They may face arrest or something but not as serious in china...

In China, they aren't shot

they are blown to bits

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Level 34
Feb 13, 2022
“In America, protestors are not shot” so we’re just forgetting Kent State happened then? And the fact that rubber bullets (which are usually just regular bullets coated with rubber) are very much used today?
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Level 45
May 18, 2020
Im happy I remembered the story about why a certain animal came first in the zodiac.
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Level 74
May 27, 2020
Isn't the Taklamakan Desert bigger than the Gobi?
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Level 56
Jul 2, 2020
Nice to see the beginning of this project! Good Luck Quizmaster!
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Level 89
Jul 2, 2020
You know, China really is such a beautiful country. Hopefully I'll get the chance to visit it someday.
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Level 66
Jul 2, 2020
I feel as if the invention of spaghetti deserves more credit.
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Level 60
Jul 3, 2020
Wasn't that invented in Italy? If not, then my whole life has been a lie.
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Level 83
Jul 2, 2020
This series will end in January 2021 and I really hope things aren't going down the same way the population of the featured countries will go down by the end of it...
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Level 76
Jan 13, 2021
here on day 196 and there’s still interesting things to say about all of them
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Level 62
Jul 2, 2020
Hum. I thought the most influential philosopher was called Kung Fu-tse, but that response is not accepted.
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Level 57
Jul 2, 2020
The Chinese Communists seeing this quiz and yelling that Hainan is not their largest island
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Level 56
Jul 2, 2020
Haha lol!
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Level 71
Jul 2, 2020
Love the idea of this new Country Trivia badge! Great way for me to procra-- learn more about countries!
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Level 23
Jul 2, 2020
As a Chinese who has been living in China for 20 years, I can't get 100%, things are different here from what we have been taught in Chinese schools. The most obvious difference would be the largest island, in mainland Chinese textbook, Taiwan is the largest island of China. Another difference would be the first leader of Communist China, according to our history textbook, the Communist China was already separated from ROC in 1927 and the first leader is Chen Duxiu. also, in Chinese textbook, Tibet was annexed a long time ago during Tang Dynasty, but under control by the communist party since 1950.
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Level 78
Jul 2, 2020
What score will be required to get each tick for the 196 badge?
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Level 56
Jul 2, 2020
You mean https://www.jetpunk.com/badges/country-trivia ? 22.
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Level 50
Jul 3, 2020
Is Taiwan not bigger than hainan???? 🤣
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Level 60
Jul 3, 2020
I see what you did there...
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Level 45
Jul 26, 2020
Taiwan is its own country now. So, Hainan is now the biggest island.
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Level 50
Jul 3, 2020
How is Ice Cream not a great chinese invention! XD
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Level 64
Jul 3, 2020
China AKA the evil empire. Muslim Genocide in Tibet, Mass theft of intellectual property, Jailing of doctors, destroying evidence of Coronavirus, and falsifying every stat known to man, not to mention the bullying of African and other Asian countries smh.
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Level 20
Aug 24, 2021
That's basically a lot of Chinese's opinion about the US.
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Level 45
Jul 5, 2020
Kong Fuzi should be accepted for Confucious. Confucious was his Latin name, but Kong Fuzi was his Chinese name.
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Level 50
Jul 8, 2020
yes
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Level 20
Aug 24, 2021
Kong Qiu should be as well. That's his original name.
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Level 50
Jul 8, 2020
Going by population huh?
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Level 35
Aug 9, 2020
The largest island is Taiwan
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Level 64
Dec 15, 2020
Taiwan is a somewhat independent nation. Stop complaining about it.
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Level 41
Jan 12, 2021
Oh go to hell Mt Everest. I cant believe I forgot that
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Level 38
Apr 13, 2021
mt everest war

between Nepal and China

duration: 2056-2078

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Level 52
May 19, 2021
Language! xD just kidding
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Level 64
Feb 26, 2021
China is Made In China...
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Level 39
May 4, 2021
Mount Everest is in Nepal
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Level 52
May 19, 2021
It's on the border
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Level 25
May 13, 2021
China Is Made In China In China And China And China And Japan And wait what?
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Level 28
Jun 15, 2021
Mount Everest is not in China- Mount Everest is definitely in Nepal
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Level 20
Aug 24, 2021
Please allow Qomolangma for mount everest. I think it is an official name.
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Level 54
Oct 18, 2021
social credit score is not looking good rn
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Level 67
Oct 18, 2021
Got the language from my attempt to write the river.
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Level 47
Aug 25, 2022
Everest belongs to Nepal.
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Level 64
Oct 3, 2022
Ultimate facepalm when I furiously typed March of the Volunteers and Yiyongjun jixingqu and getting mad when neither were accepted. Reread the question and saw national ANIMAL, not anthem 🤦‍♂️
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Level 18
Nov 23, 2022
CCP was founded in 1921, and its first leader was Chen Duxiu. Mao Zedong became leader in 1930s.
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Level 42
Dec 22, 2022
Well I totally know what you say but I enter Mao because I am sure that it is Mao that the quizmaker want to ask
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Level 42
Dec 22, 2022
As a native Chinese, I don't think "gobi" is the biggest desert in China, while Taklamakan (or Taklimakan, Teklimakan) Desert is. In fact, gobi is even not a name of any single desert; it's totally just a kind of desert, or somebody may agree that it's another name for desert.
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Level 42
Dec 22, 2022
By the way, I think "mouse" should be an altertive to "rat"
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Level 27
Jan 6, 2023
First, could you please accept "mouse" for "rat"?

Second, as a Chinese, I strongly hope you accept "Qomolangma" for "Mount Everest"

And most importantly, THE BIGGEST ISLAND OF CHINA IS TAIWAN. If you say you don't want to annoy some certain Taiwanese, well, you can also delete that question to avoid debate.

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Level 60
Jul 6, 2023
Taiwan 100% de-facto controls the island Taiwan.
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Level 60
Feb 20, 2023
19/20 I could get Peking to go through?
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Level 29
Apr 19, 2023
I didn't get the Year of the Rat, Compass, or Printing. The others I got though, wasn't too difficult. Although I thought printing was invented by Gutenberg who was Germany
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Level 20
Jun 24, 2023
22/28
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Level 60
Jul 6, 2023
I would argue Sun Tzu and Lao Tzu are both comparable to Confucius. Given the subjectiveness of the question, could both be type-ins?
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Level 35
Sep 15, 2023
Typical western political stand about China.

It seems TTT (Taiwan,Tiananmen,Tibet) is an inescapable topic.

As a Chinese, I hope the mainstream view recognizes that

1.Taiwan is part of China without any doubt (there is a high probability that it will become a special administrative region like Hong Kong in the future), therefore the largest island is Taiwan

2.Tibet is always a sub-nation in China, not an independent country, we call "liberate" instead of "annex" (from the feudal slave-owning forces of the old society)

Other answers discrepant as what I know

1.It is commonly believed that the largest desert in China is the Taklamakan Desert, not Gobi (even though Gobi is larger)

2.As for the northeasternmost part of China, we usually just call it "Dong San Sheng" (the three northeast provinces of China). During World War II it once was the puppet state of Manchukuo (also add Manzhou/Manchu/Manju as alternate answer)

3.Sometimes dragon and phoenix appear together

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Level 61
Sep 22, 2023
taiwan is an independent country
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Level 35
Sep 25, 2023
go check UN members :)
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Level 39
Feb 22, 2024
Average mind washed Chinese person (joke)
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Level 37
Oct 21, 2023
The largest desert is supposed to be Taklamakan Desert.
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Level 23
Feb 8, 2024
This badge bouta be the biggest flex