Big Cities
Hodge Podge
China
Japan and the Koreas
Everywhere else
100
This capital city in China hosted the 2008 Olympics.
What is Beijing?
100
This dam on the Yellow River will be the largest in the world when it opens and will provide 10% of China's population with clean energy.
What is the Three Gorges Dam?
100
This mountain range in the west of China is the source of the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers.
What are the Kunlun Mountains?
100
This man is the current leader of North Korea.
Who is Kim Jong-Un?
100
This Mongolian man is the direct ancestor to 7% of the world's population today.
Who is Genghis Khan?
200
In this city you will find a unique mix of skyscrapers and yurts.
What is Ulaanbaataar?
200
This is the most prevalent religion in East Asia.
What is Buddhism? (What other religions are there?)
200
This river is also known as "China's sorrows" and has devastating floods every year
What is the Yellow River?
200
These Japanese professional soldiers served local lords and were known as the most elite warriors of their day.
What are samurai?
200
This major desert in southern Mongolia has kept the region isolated for centuries.
What is the Gobi Desert?
300
This capital city of Taiwan is home to the 2010 Little League World Champion team.
What is Taipei?
300
This country has the highest population in the world.
What is China? (how do they deal with overpopulation?)
300
The first dynasty civilizations in China formed in this river valley.
What is the Yellow River Valley?
300
After WWII, these two countries influenced Northern and Southern Korea (respectively).
What are USSR and USA?
300
Countries like South Korea and Taiwan are known by this nickname, referring to East Asian countries with rapidly growing economies.
What is economic tiger?
400
This city in Japan was the first to be struck with an atomic bomb to end WWII.
What is Hiroshima?
400
This American opened up Western trade with Japan in 1853.
Who is Commodore Matthew Perry?
400
Under the leadership of this man, the Chinese Communist Party took control of the country in 1949.
Who is Chairman Mao Zedong?
400
This is the term for Japan's military dictators.
What is shogun?
400
Taiwan's population is almost exclusively this ethnic group.
What is Chinese?
500
This city has multiple grand monuments to its country's Supreme Leader.
What is Pyongyang?
500
This city in Japan is known primarily to be a monument to Japanese culture.
What is Kyoto?
500
This Chinese leader brought capitalist economic reforms into the country in the 1970s. This led to MAJOR economic growth!
Who is Deng Xiaoping?
500
This train goes 186 miles per hour and connects major cities on Japan's main island of Honshu.
What is the bullet train?
500
This is the major industrial activity of Mongolia.
What is nomadic herding?
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