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100
This country outlawed the sale of gum for 12 years
What is Singapore
100
This athlete played for the NBA team the Houston Rockets
Who is Yao Ming?
100
This actor from Taiwan is known as one of the biggest martial arts actors of the 70s
Who is Bruce Lee?
100
This continent has 48 sovereign states
What is Asia?
100
This Asian language has 7 different dialects
What is Chinese?
200
The 1998 Winter Olympics where held in this Japanese city
What is Nagano?
200
This Filipino boxer has won 6 world titles
Who is Manny Pacquiao?
200
This actor is one of the most well known Asian actors in Hollywood who starred along side Chris Tucker in Rush Hour
Who is Jackie Chan?
200
This mountain is located in Nepal
What is Mount Everest?
200
In this SE Asian country, north of Malaysia, English is a mandatory school subject even though the number of fluent speakers remains very low
What is Thailand?
300
This empire was founded by Genghis Khan in 1206
What is the Mongolian Empire
300
This NBC Today Show anchor was born in Guam
Who is Ann Curry
300
This film, based off the novel Q & A won eight Academy Awards in 2009
What is Slumdog Millionaire?
300
The Gobi Desert is located in China and this other country
What is Mongolia?
300
Tatar is a turkic language spoken in this country where temperatures get as low as -65 degrees Celsius
What is Russia?
400
This state of 7 principailities, one of which is Dubai, gained independence in 1971
What is UAE?
400
This Olympic Athlete has won 8 medals for short track speed skating
Who is Apolo Ohno?
400
This actress was an angel in a 2000 remake of a popular television series of the 1970s
Who is Lucy Liu?
400
This country has 6,852 islands along the Pacific coast of Asia
What is Japan?
400
Accordinng to a 2001 census of this country, there are 30 languages spoken by more than a million native speakers and over 120 spoken by more than 10,000.
What is India?
500
This was the last dynasty of China ending in 1912
What is the Manchu (Qing) Dynasty
500
This writer is famous for her works about Mother Daughter relationships
Who is Amy Tan?
500
This actress won Golden Globe and SAG Awards for her performance in Grey's Anatomy
Who is Sandra Oh?
500
This SE Asian country has 58 provinces that border the South China Sea
What is Vietnam
500
The official language of Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei
What is Malay?
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