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Exploring Hong Kong: A Quiz on Its Culture and Governance

Test your knowledge about Hong Kong's culture, governance, and notable features with this engaging quiz.

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1 Which of the following titles did Hong Kong have?

2 [132] In ________, there is an extensive system of escalators and moving pavements, including the longest outdoor covered escalator system in the world, the Mid-Levels escalator.

3 The name "Hong Kong" is an approximate phonetic rendering of the Cantonese pronunciation of the ________ or Hakka name "香港", meaning "fragrant harbour" in English.

4 What type of government does Hong Kong have?

5 ________ • Inner Mongolia • Ningxia • Tibet • Xinjiang

6 What role did Clarence Lung play in the telemovie Hong Kong?

7 What role did Judy Dan play in the telemovie Hong Kong?

8 What is the top level internet domain of Hong Kong?

9 What is the legislature of Hong Kong called?

10 What is the leader of Hong Kong called?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • director Fei Mu's 1948 film Spring in a Small Town was named the best Chinese-language film ever made, by the Hong Kong Film Association awards in 2005.
  • major roads in Hong Kong are numbered from Route 1 to Route 9 under the Hong Kong Strategic Route and Exit Number System.
  • despite its name, East Kowloon Corridor (pictured) is actually located in West Kowloon District in Hong Kong.
  • Sir Yuet-Keung Kan is Hong Kong's longest serving Justice of Peace.
  • Tsui Sing Lau Pagoda, a Declared Monument in Hong Kong, was built in 1486 to improve the local fung shui.
  • the destroyer HMS Thanet evacuated Hong Kong on 8 December 1941, just hours after the Japanese began their attack.
  • the Port of Thessaloniki in Greece will double its container terminal capacity after an investment of US$600 million made by the Hutchison Port Holdings company based in Hong Kong.
  • upon completion of Central Reclamation Phase 1 of the Central and Wan Chai Reclamation project in Hong Kong, the coastline of Central, Hong Kong was extended up to 350 metres beyond the original coastline.
  • underneath Mount Parish, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, lies a network of World War II air raid precaution tunnels (pictured) totalling 1.8 km (1.1 mi) in length.
  • troops of Tadayoshi Sano, a lieutenant general for the Imperial Japanese Army, were reported to have committed atrocities against civilians in Hong Kong and British prisoners of war.
  • through the opening of the Thomson MRT Line and Eastern Region MRT Line by 2020, Singapore's rail network density will rise from 31 km per million residents today to 51 km per million, surpassing what Hong Kong and Tokyo currently have.
  • Takashi Sakai, a General of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, was sentenced to death on August 27, 1946 for atrocities committed against civilians and surrendered soldiers in Hong Kong.
  • Sai Tso Wan Recreation Ground was the first permanent recreational facility in Hong Kong built from a landfill.
  • Vietnam and Hong Kong have fishing villages that float on water (Halong Bay village pictured).
  • British National (Overseas) was a British nationality specially created for British Dependent Territories citizens of Hong Kong in 1985.
  • Johnston Road in the former British settlement of Hong Kong was named after Alexander Robert Johnston, who served as acting administrator of the colony.
  • Hong Kong is made up of a peninsula and 236 islands.
  • Hong Kong has the second highest life expectancy in the world.
  • Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter was the first of its kind in Hong Kong.
  • Christian Zheng Sheng College on Lantau, Hong Kong, has a dormitory on Cheung Chau from which students take small ferries called kai-tos to get to school.
  • Sir Ronald Holmes, the acting Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong, made no compromise with the Communists during the 1967 Leftist Riots in that city.
  • La Salle Road in Hong Kong is named after French educator Jean-Baptiste de la Salle.
  • Du Jun was recently sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in Hong Kong's biggest insider trading case.
  • Sir Denys Roberts was the first and only Colonial Secretary and Chief Secretary who was appointed Chief Justice in Hong Kong.
  • Hong Kong director Ann Hui's 1982 award-winning film Boat People depicting life in communist Vietnam was banned in Taiwan because it was filmed in communist China.
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