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Extra Challenge
100

The capital of China

What is Beijing?

100

China and India both share this mountain range. 

What are the Himalayas? 

100

True or False? China is an authoritarian government despite some free market elements.

What is true?

100

True or False? China has the largest economy in East Asia today. 

What is true?

100

Hong Kong, Macau, and Tibet are all examples of Chinese Special _______________ Zones. 

What is administration?

200

The largest port city in China

What is Shanghai?

200

What is one of the two names for China's primary river? (Where they were founded?)

What is the Yellow River (accept Huang He)

200

Japan and South Korea are both _____________ today. 

What are democracies? (accept republics)

200

Japan is known for its exports of which two goods?

What are cars and electronics?

200
What was the main reason Taiwan broke away from China?

What is loss of war (or civil war). 

300

This city is the capital of Japan

What is Tokyo?

300

This river contains the Three Gorges Dam.

What is the Yangtze river?

300

What war was fought between North and South Korea, and involved the United States?

What is the Korean War?

300

Most shipping flows through this port in China

What is Shanghai?

300

Japan is best described as this word, which means a chain of islands. Hint: starts with "a"

What is an archipelago? 

400

The capital of South Korea

What is Seoul?

400

China contains this large, flat expanse where all major rivers flow from. 

What is the Tibetan Plateau?

400
The Philippines and Vietnam dispute China's claim over this body of water.  

What is the South China Sea? (accept Nine-Dash Line). 

400

One of Japan's biggest export rivals is ___________________, known for brands like Samsung and Hyundai. 

What is South Korea?

400

This landlocked East Asian nation is located north of China. Invasions from this nation are the main reason ancient China built the Great Wall of China. 

What is Mongolia?

500

This Chinese city was owned by the British and now operates under the principle of "one country, two systems."

What is Hong Kong?

500

This desert runs through China and was historically part of the Silk Road.

What is the Gobi Desert?

500

China has long disputed this break-away island's claims to independence. 

What is Taiwan?

500

This nation is on economic lockdown and is known for its limited freedoms. 

What is North Korea?

500

Both Chinese and Japanese architecture were influenced by this Indian religion. 

What is Buddhism?