Geography
Chinese
Japanese
Korean
East Asian Pop Culture
100

____ is the largest and most populous continent, home to the largest (Russia) and most populous (China) nations.


What is Asia?

100

What is the capital of China?

What is Beijing?

100

TRUE/FALSE? Japan is the only country in the world with a reigning emperor.

True. Emperors have no real power, but they are still revered as a symbol of the country's traditions and unity.

100

What is the capital of South Korea?

What is Seoul?
100

An anime series based on the popular Game Boy game "Pocket Monsters" in which children raise a pocket monster and train it to fight other monsters. What is the show called?

What is Pokemon?

200

A relatively small though prominent peninsula, the country is largely mountainous, with small valleys and narrow coastal plains

What is Korea?

200

What is the official name of China? 

What is the People's Republic of China?

200

What is Japan's currency called?

What is the yen?
200

What is Korea's currency called?

What is the won?

200

Who is the South Korean singer, rapper, songwriter, and record producer with a certain viral music video?

Who is Psy?

300

It is the largest of all Asian countries and has the largest population of any country in the world.

What is China?

300

What are 2 main rivers in China?

What are the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers?

300

What are the four main islands of Japan?

What are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu?

300

What is "White Day?" (celebrated in Korea and Japan)

White Day is celebrated annually on March 14, one month after Valentine's Day, when people give reciprocal gifts to those who gave them gifts received on Valentine's Day.

300

This holiday begins with the new moon that occurs sometime between January 21 and February 20 according to Western calendars.



What is Lunar New Year?


400

An island country comprising a stratovolcanic archipelago over 3,000 km (1,900 mi) along the Pacific coast of East Asia. It consists of 6,852 islands. 

What is Japan?

400

Kongfuzi, also known as ________, taught people the value of such things as morality, kindness, and education.

Who is Confucius?
400

The Japanese language uses 3 writing systems: ____,_____, _____.


What are Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji?

400

What is the population of South Korea?

About 50 million


400

Who are 2 famous Chinese movie stars featured in many action films?

Jackie Chan and Jet Li

500

This region of _________ include China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan. (hint: be specific!)

What is East Asia?

500

What is the first empire of China and when did it begin?

What is the Qin dynasty, which began in 221 B.C.?

500

________ is a shopping district that surrounds one of Tokyo's busiest rail stations.

What is Shibuya?
500

Much of Korea's wealth comes from...

...manufacturing and service industries, such as banking. It exports ships, cars, computers, and other electronic items.

500

There are over ______ distinct Chinese characters.

20,000; The Chinese language contains a vast amount of characters — and some advanced dictionaries place the number is even higher! But rest assured: about 98% of written Chinese consists of the same 2,500 characters, so you can successfully read the newspaper even if you can “only” identify about two or three thousand.