Asian Modern History

Do you know the most important events and figures in modern history of Asia?

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1. Who old was Puyi when he was crowned the last Emperor of China?

2 ✓

12 ✓

18 ✓

5 ✓

2. Who is the founding father of the Republic of Turkey and its first president from 1923 to 1938?

Enver Pasha ✓

Gamal Abdel Nasser ✓

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ✓

Habib Bourguiba ✓

3. Which Asian country was know as Siam until 1932, when it became a constitutional monarchy?

Thailand ✓

Laos ✓

Pakistan ✓

Cambodia ✓

4. Who fought in the First Indochinese War?

The Viet Cong and Russia ✓

The Viet Minh and France ✓

USA and South Vietnam ✓

USA and North Vietnam ✓

5. Burma got its independence from which country in 1948?

France ✓

Belgium ✓

United Kingdom ✓

Spain ✓

6. Which Asian country in the west and from the beginning of British colonial rule was known as Ceylon?

Malaysia ✓

Cambodia ✓

Laos ✓

Sri Lanka ✓

7. Mahatma Gandhi fought for the independence of India from what empire?

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British ✓

Chinese ✓

Persian ✓

8. What was relation between Mahatma Gandhi and Indira Gandhi?

Father and daughter ✓

Husband and wife ✓

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9. How did Mahatma Gandhi die?

Heart attack ✓

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10. Since 1975, what was the colonial name of East Timor?

French Timor ✓

Portuguese Timor ✓

British Timor ✓

Spanish Timor ✓

11. In which year the founding father of the People's Republic of China Mao Zedong was deceased?

1976 ✓

1996 ✓

1986 ✓

1966 ✓

12. Which prime minister of India was assassinated in 1984?

Jawaharlal Nehru ✓

Chandra Shekhar ✓

Indira Gandhi ✓

Rajiv Gandhi ✓

13. Nagorno-Karabakh conflict that started in 1988 is an ethnic and territorial conflict between which two countries?

Turkey and Armenia ✓

Armenia and Azerbaijan ✓

Georgia and Turkey ✓

Azerbaijan and Georgia ✓

14. Which Asian country was known as Burma since 1989?

Vietnam ✓

Laos ✓

Myanmar ✓

Cambodia ✓

15. Which Asian country was known as Kampuchea since 1989?

Singapore ✓

Cambodia ✓

Nepal ✓

Thailand ✓

16. Gulf war was fought between Iraq and the coalition forces after the Iraqi invasion of which country?

Kuwait ✓

United Arab Emirates ✓

Bahrain ✓

Yemen ✓

17. East Timor got independence from which country in 1999?

Australia ✓

France ✓

Indonesia ✓

Portugal ✓

18. Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm were code names for which war?

War in Syria ✓

War in Afghanistan ✓

Gulf War ✓

Korean War ✓

19. What was the name of the U.S. military operation in Afghanistan that started in 2001?

Neptune ✓

Operation Desert Fox ✓

Enduring Freedom ✓

Project Overlord ✓

20. What war started in October of 2001 in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States?

War in Israel ✓

War in Iraq ✓

War in Afghanistan ✓

War in Syria ✓

21. Benazir Bhutto was the first female Prime Minister in a Muslim-majority country. Where was she assassinated in 2007?

Indonesia ✓

India ✓

Pakistan ✓

Iraq ✓

22. Where was the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden found and killed in 2011?

Pakistan ✓

Saudi Arabia ✓

Iraq ✓

Afghanistan ✓

23. The plane of which airline disappeared on March 8, 2014 during a flight to Beijing?

Singapore Airlines ✓

Malaysia Airlines ✓

Thai Airways ✓

Etihad Airways ✓

24. In which city in 2020 a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the port exploded?

Beirut ✓

Damascus ✓

Tel Aviv ✓

Aleppo ✓

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