Statistics for Modern Chinese History

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The average score is 38 of 58

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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1937	This city falls to Japan and is famously looted, raped and destroyed	Nanjing	91%
1932	Japan establishes this puppet state with the former Emperor	Manchukuo	89%
1947	The Nationalist government flees to this island	Taiwan	89%
1900	This rebellion starts a war with Western nations	Boxer Rebellion	87%
1921	This political organisation is founded	Chinese Communist Party	87%
1949	This major city falls where Mao proclaims the foundation of the PRC	Beijing	85%
1938	This river is intentionally flooded to slow Japan	Yellow River	85%
1946	This conflict resumes following Japan's defeat	Chinese Civil War	83%
1997	This treaty city is handed back to China	Hong Kong	83%
1912	The Tongmenghui is renamed to this	Guomindang	80%
1908	This child becomes the new Emperor	Puyi	80%
1989	This protest never happened according to the government.	Tiananmen Square Protests	80%
1917	China enters this conflict	World War One	80%
1958	This collectivised farming initiative and efforts industrialise the country leads to famine	Great Leap Forward	78%
1999	This treaty city is handed back to China	Macau	78%
1991	This fast food restaurant first opens in Beijing	McDonalds	78%
1951	This province is emitted into the PRC	Tibet	78%
2012	This man is appointed as China's General Secretary	Xi Jinping	78%
1931	This general gains a name for himself because of his skill	Zhu De	78%
1934	Famous military retreat starts	Long March	76%
1972	This US president visits China	Richard Nixon	76%
1960	China breaks relations with this country	Soviet Union	76%
1904	This man founds the Tongmenghui	Sun Yat-Sen	76%
1966	Mao's Cult of Personality and radicalisation of students against "those in authority"	Cultural Revolution	72%
1978	This man becomes Paramount Leader of China, replacing ^^^	Deng Xiaoping	72%
1980	China implements this family policy	One Child Policy	72%
1937	Japanese soldiers attack this bridge	Marco Polo	70%
2017	China bans this children's cartoon character for alleged resemblance with its leader	Winnie the Pooh	70%
1911	The Monarchy is overthrown in this revolution	{Xinhai} Revolution	67%
2000	China passes this country to which the United States has the largest trade deficit	Japan	65%
1912	(No.2) resigns as provisional president to this man	Yuan Shikai	65%
1919	This protest happens at Tiananmen Sqaure	May Fourth Movement	61%
1927	This events happens in Shanghai on the orders of Chiang Kai-shek	Shanghai Massacre	59%
1976	This beloved Premier, who governed since the start, dies, triggering protests as a result of being refused a funeral.	Zhou Enlai	59%
1915	Japan orders this from China	21 Demands	57%
1943	Chiang Kai-shek meets with Churchill and Rooselvelt in this city to discuss post war plans for China	Cairo	57%
1923	The Guomindang and ^^ form this alliance	First United Front	57%
1976	Following Mao's death, this man becomes the new Chairman	Hua Guofeng	57%
1931	This rival government forms a republic in this province	Jiangxi	57%
1957	This campaign was introduced in hopes that they party could use constructive criticism to improve. It backfired.	Hundred Flowers	54%
2003	Hu Jintao succeeded this person as president.	Jiang Zemin	54%
1971	This Chinese General dies in a plane crash after that failed coup	Lin Biao	54%
2001	Protests happened in this 1989 square again where victims _____ themselves in protest	Burnt	50%
2019	Protests happen in Hong Kong over these new laws	Extradition	50%
1966	Mao's wife who radicalised ^^^^	Jiang Qing	50%
1926	This event goes underway	Northern Expedition	50%
2015	This website is blocked in China	Wikipedia	50%
1957	This movement were opponents are sentenced to labour or death is initiated	Anti-Rightist Movement	48%
2009	Riots happen in this city against Han Chinese (Xinjiang province)	Ürümqi.	48%
1966	The February Outline Report does a politically motivated view on this play.	Hai Rui Dismissed From Office	46%
1969	This man is denounced and is stripped from the Presidency	Liu Shaoqi	46%
2007	This lunar orbiter was launched	Chang'e 1	43%
1959	This Korean War General Hero criticises the policies of ^^^ and loses his position as a result.	Peng Dehuai	43%
2014	Citizens attacked a railway in this province	Yunnan	43%
1944	United States makes a report on the Communist Base, noting their efficiency in battle and with politics.	Dixie Mission	41%
1971	This speechwriter and propagandist for Mao is purged	Chen Boda	39%
1966	Beijing Mayor ____, writes positively of the play in the report.	Peng Zhen	39%
1971	Name of plot against Mao, masterminded by the next answer's son	Project 571	39%