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Asian Modern History

Do you know the most important events and figures in modern history of Asia?
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Last updated: September 11, 2022
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1. Who old was Puyi when he was crowned the last Emperor of China?
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5 ✓
18 ✓
12 ✓
2. Who is the founding father of the Republic of Turkey and its first president from 1923 to 1938?
Gamal Abdel Nasser ✓
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ✓
Enver Pasha ✓
Habib Bourguiba ✓
3. Which Asian country was know as Siam until 1932, when it became a constitutional monarchy?
Cambodia ✓
Thailand ✓
Laos ✓
Pakistan ✓
4. Who fought in the First Indochinese War?
The Viet Minh and France ✓
USA and North Vietnam ✓
USA and South Vietnam ✓
The Viet Cong and Russia ✓
5. Burma got its independence from which country in 1948?
Belgium ✓
Spain ✓
France ✓
United Kingdom ✓
6. Which Asian country in the west and from the beginning of British colonial rule was known as Ceylon?
Laos ✓
Cambodia ✓
Sri Lanka ✓
Malaysia ✓
7. Mahatma Gandhi fought for the independence of India from what empire?
Chinese ✓
British ✓
French ✓
Persian ✓
8. What was relation between Mahatma Gandhi and Indira Gandhi?
Father and daughter ✓
Husband and wife ✓
Brother and sister ✓
Not related ✓
9. How did Mahatma Gandhi die?
Died of cancer ✓
Committed suicide ✓
Heart attack ✓
Assassinated ✓
10. Since 1975, what was the colonial name of East Timor?
British Timor ✓
Spanish Timor ✓
French Timor ✓
Portuguese Timor ✓
11. In which year the founding father of the People's Republic of China Mao Zedong was deceased?
1986 ✓
1976 ✓
1966 ✓
1996 ✓
12. Which prime minister of India was assassinated in 1984?
Rajiv Gandhi ✓
Jawaharlal Nehru ✓
Chandra Shekhar ✓
Indira Gandhi ✓
13. Nagorno-Karabakh conflict that started in 1988 is an ethnic and territorial conflict between which two countries?
Azerbaijan and Georgia ✓
Georgia and Turkey ✓
Armenia and Azerbaijan ✓
Turkey and Armenia ✓
14. Which Asian country was known as Burma since 1989?
Cambodia ✓
Laos ✓
Vietnam ✓
Myanmar ✓
15. Which Asian country was known as Kampuchea since 1989?
Nepal ✓
Cambodia ✓
Singapore ✓
Thailand ✓
16. Gulf war was fought between Iraq and the coalition forces after the Iraqi invasion of which country?
Bahrain ✓
Kuwait ✓
United Arab Emirates ✓
Yemen ✓
17. East Timor got independence from which country in 1999?
Portugal ✓
Australia ✓
Indonesia ✓
France ✓
18. Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm were code names for which war?
War in Afghanistan ✓
Korean War ✓
War in Syria ✓
Gulf War ✓
19. What was the name of the U.S. military operation in Afghanistan that started in 2001?
Operation Desert Fox ✓
Project Overlord ✓
Enduring Freedom ✓
Neptune ✓
20. What war started in October of 2001 in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States?
War in Iraq ✓
War in Israel ✓
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 ✓
Iraq ✓
Pakistan ✓
22. Where was the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden found and killed in 2011?
Iraq ✓
Pakistan ✓
Saudi Arabia ✓
Afghanistan ✓
23. The plane of which airline disappeared on March 8, 2014 during a flight to Beijing?
Malaysia Airlines ✓
Etihad Airways ✓
Singapore Airlines ✓
Thai Airways ✓
24. In which city in 2020 a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the port exploded?
Tel Aviv ✓
Beirut ✓
Aleppo ✓
Damascus ✓
2 Comments
Deru
+1
Level 37
Sep 13, 2022
This is a good quiz. There are some grammatical issues that need to be corrected before it can be featured. I nominate it.
Nenadbs
+1
Level 53
Sep 13, 2022
Thanks. Let me know what are the errors. English is not my native language.
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