A vast, arid region in northern China and southern Mongolia.
What is the Gobi Desert.
100
The Himalayas in Southern China were formed by what process?
What are plate tectonics?
100
The largest dam in the world, it's construction destroyed the habitats of many animals and displaced over 1 million people. It provides hydroelectricity to millions of Chinese citizens.
What is the Three Gorges Dam?
100
A highly militarized strip of land running across the Korean Penninsula.
What is De-Militarized Zone/DMZ?
100
A religion and dharma largely based on teachings attributed to the Buddha.
What is Buddhism?
200
Gasses that deplete the ozone layer.
What are Chlorofluorocarbons?
200
Many people in Mongolia still do this nomadic activity as a normal way of life.
What is nomadic herding?
200
Introduced in 1979 in response to an explosive population growth, and mandated that couples from China's Han majority could only have one child.
What is the One-Child Policy?
200
The supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), commonly referred to as North Korea, from 1994 to 2011.
Who is Kim Jong Il?
200
A way of life taught by Confucius in China in the 6th–5th century BCE.
What is Confucianism?
300
A sequence of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
300
Chinese Communist leader and theorist. A founder of the Chinese Communist Party (1921), he commanded troops in the Chinese Civil War (1927-1949) and proclaimed the People's Republic of China in 1949.
Who is Mao Zedong?
300
An energy accident initiated primarily by the tsunami following the Tōhoku earthquake on 11 March 2011.
What is the Fukushima Disaster?
300
The current supreme ruler of North Korea.
Who is Kim Jong Un?
300
A Japanese religion dating from the early 8th century and incorporating the worship of ancestors and nature spirits and a belief in sacred power ( kami ) in both animate and inanimate things. It was the state religion of Japan until 1945.
What is Shinto?
400
A political theory derived from Karl Marx in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
What is Communism?
400
Founder of the Mongol empire; born Temujin. He united the nomadic Mongol tribes, and by the time of his death his empire extended from China to the Black Sea.
Who is Genghis Khan?
400
This Japanese clan claimed to be descendants of the Sun Goddess.
What is the Yamato Clan?
400
This country restricts the TV, Cell Phone, Internet and Newspaper use.
What is North Korea?
400
A Chinese philosophy based on the writings of Lao-tzu ( fl. 6th century BC), advocating humility and religious piety.
What is Taoism?
500
Commercial and financial penalties applied by one or more countries against a targeted country, group, or individual.
What are economic sanctions?
500
The first president and founding father of the Republic of China.
Who is Sun Yat-sen?
500
Japan is this kind of island chain.
What is an archipelago?
500
The official name of this country is The Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
What is North Korea?
500
Disbelief or lack of belief in the existence of God or gods.