Skip to main content

Exploring Asia: Languages, Cultures, and Civilizations

This quiz tests your knowledge about the languages, cultures, and historical significance of Asia, focusing on its civilizations and geography.

#Asia #Languages #Civilizations #Culture #History #Geography

1 Which of the following languages is spoken in Asia?

2 These civilizations may well have exchanged technologies and ideas such as ________ and the wheel.

3 When was the term 'Asia' first widely used?

4 The story of the Great Flood for example, as presented to Christians in the Old Testament, is first found in Mesopotamian mythology, in the ________.

5 What are people from Asia known as?

6 Which of the following titles did Asia have?

7 It was presumed in antiquity to end with India — the Macedonian king ________ believing he would reach the 'end of the world' upon his arrival in the East.

8 The northernmost part of Asia, including much of ________, was largely inaccessible to the steppe nomads, owing to the dense forests, climate and tundra.

9 What type of entity is Asia?

10 The term 'Asia' is originally a concept exclusively of ________.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the extinct marine reptile Kaganaias is the only ancient aquatic scaled reptile to be found in Asia.
  • the naval victory of Travancore State over Dutch East India Company in the Battle of Colachel in 1741 is considered the first example of an Asian power defeating a European navy.
  • the dum dum bullet invented by Neville Bertie-Clay was used by the British Army against African and Asian opponents but was considered "too cruel" for use against Europeans.
  • some liverwort species in the class Haplomitriopsida rafted from Gondwana to Asia via the Indian subcontinent.
  • noted Bengali writer Rajnarayan Basu was a tutor of Asia's first Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore.
  • the Bare-faced Bulbul, the only songbird in Asia to lack feathers on the face, is the first Asian bulbul to be described in over 100 years.
  • the Church of the East, originally the Christian church of Sassanid Persia, eventually established churches throughout Asia, including in Mesopotamia, India, Central Asia, and China.
  • the Zigong Dinosaur Museum in Zigong, Sichuan Province, China, established in 1987, was the first specialized dinosaur museum to open to the public in Asia.
  • the plant genus Tricarpelema contains seven Asian species from moist tropical forests and one African species found on dry inselbergs.
  • the 1994 Nepalese legislative election saw the first democratically elected communist government in Asia come to power.
  • the Malayan Tapir is the only species of tapir native to Asia.
  • the Core Pacific City mall in Taipei, Taiwan, is the largest mall in Asia at 204,190 square meters of total floor space.
  • it has often been claimed that the 1948 Southeast Asian Youth Conference, held in Calcutta, marked the starting point for various armed communist insurgencies in different Asian countries.
  • almost the entirety of the Australian stout whiting catch is exported to various Asian countries.
  • France–Asia relations span more than two millennia, and have involved numerous alliances between France and Asian countries.
  • Lion Beer was Asia's first brand of beer.
  • San Sebastian Church, the only all-steel church in Asia, is threatened by rust caused by the salty sea breeze from nearby Manila Bay.
  • Russian painter Alexandre Jacovleff (pictured) participated in trans-Saharan and trans-Asian (from Syria to China) expeditions organized by the French car manufacturer Citroën.
  • Pushkar Fair—the largest camel fair in Asia—commenced on Kartik Ekadashi (29 Oct) and will end today on Kartik Poornima.
  • bats on Madagascar colonized the island from Asia at least three times.
  • Madame Tussauds Hong Kong is the oldest permanent wax museum in Asia.
  • Hortus Malabaricus, the earliest printed treatise on the flora in Asia, contains the first instances of Malayalam types being used for printing.
  • Zentatsu Richard Baker was an influential American Zen priest who played a leading role in founding Tassajara, the first Buddhist training monastery outside of Asia.
  • Rev. Thomas Dyche is credited with writing the first book in English published in Asia.
  • Queen Anula of Sri Lanka is believed to have been the first female monarch in Asia.
  • BoA's Best of Soul made her the first non-Japanese Asian singer to have two million-selling albums in Japan.
    • Previous Quiz Next Quiz

    Related Quizzes

    Key Events and Figures of the 13th Century: A Quiz

    #13th century #history #Mongol Empire #Crusades #European culture #Franciscan order #Cambridge #Boyana Church

    Discovering the 14th Century: A Historical Quiz

    #14th Century #History #Renaissance #Ming Dynasty #Hundred Years' War #Petrarch #Military History

    Exploring the 16th Century: Events, Figures, and Discoveries

    #history #16th century #exploration #Renaissance #Conquistadores #art #politics #religion

    Exploring the 17th Century: Key Events and Figures

    #17th century #history #empires #Mughal Empire #Ottoman Empire #Persian Empire #Taiwan #Hudson's Bay Company #Kara Mustafa #French history

    Exploring the 18th Century: A Historical Quiz

    #18th century #history #quiz #education #literature #philosophy #politics

    Significant Events of 1904

    #1904 #history #events #quiz #education

    Significant Events and Figures of 1906

    #1906 #history #chess #astronomy #civil rights #swimming #biochemistry

    Significant Events and Figures of 1911

    #1911 #history #events #figures #Nobel Prize #aviation #fire incidents #education #composers