China in Your Classroom Quiz Bee Elimination Round

China is the third largest country in the world. How many provinces does it administer, excluding Taiwan?

• 17

• 22

• 27

• 31

What is the title of China’s national anthem, whose lyrics were written by the poet Tian Han and music composed by Nie Er?

• March of the Volunteers

• China, the Middle Kingdom!

• Song of the Motherland

• Descendants of the Mighty Dragon

Which river is known as the cradle of Chinese civilization and “China’s Sorrow” due to its catastrophic floods over the millennia?

• Huang He

• Yangtze

• Heilongjiang

• Pearl

Located in China, what is the longest bridge in the world?

• Changhua-Kaohsiung Viaduct

• Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge

• Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge

• Tianjin Grand Bridge

Aside from papermaking and printing, which other two are included in China’s four great inventions?

• Coins and chopsticks

• Gunpowder and compass

• Wheel and government examinations

• Noodles and steam engine

Best known for his teachings on ethics, proper behaviour, and government, which Chinese thinker wrote the “Analects”?

• Kongzi

• Laozi

• Zhuangzi

• Sun Tzu

Who was the first and only female emperor in Chinese history, and the de facto ruler of the Tang dynasty from 665 to 705 AD?

• Qianlong

• Wu Zetian

• Yongle

• Dowager Cixi

China was ruled by foreigners under which two dynasties?

• Xia and Shang Dynasties

• Sui and Tang Dynasties

• Yuan and Qing Dynasties

• Western Zhou and Han Dynasties

Which leader is often referred to as the "Father of Modern China" for his leadership in the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty during the 1911 Revolution?

• Sun Yat-sen

• Wang Jingwei

• Chiang Kai-shek

• Deng Xiaoping

Which former British colony was transferred back to China in 1997 and became one of its Special Administrative Regions (SAR) under the principle of "one country, two systems"?

• Macau

• Hong Kong

• Singapore

• Xiamen