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Exploring Beijing: A Quiz on the Capital of China

Test your knowledge about Beijing, its culture, history, government, and key landmarks through this engaging quiz.

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1 What proceeded Beijing?

2 What does the following picture show?  The Beijing Botanical Garden   Classical gardens in Beijing   Tsinghua University is a top university in mainland China

3 What time offset in UTC is Beijing in during daylight savings?

4 What type of government does Beijing have?

5 Beijing is also known for its siheyuan (courtyard houses) and ________ (alleys), although they are increasingly disappearing due to the growth of city constructions and are giving way to high-rises.

6 What does the following picture show?  Wangfujing Cathedral   Beihai Park, an extensive imperial garden in the center of Beijing   Mao Zedong proclaiming the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949   A scene from a Beijing opera

7 What is the metropolitan population of Beijing?

8 Beijing hosted the ________ and the 2008 Summer Paralympics.

9 Beijing, People's Republic of China (PRC) Tokyo, ________ Pyongyang, North Korea Seoul, South Korea Ulan Bator, Mongolia 1 Taipei, Republic of China (ROC) 2

10 ________ (北京一零一中学)

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Battle of Palikao was a victory for the British and French forces during the Second Opium War which enabled them to take Beijing and defeat the Qing Empire.
  • the indemnity money paid to the U.S. after the Boxer Rebellion was used to fund a scholarship program which led to the founding of Tsinghua University in Beijing.
  • since 2006 Beijing has had a legal limit of one dog per family.
  • the Dashanzi Art District is considered to be Beijing's version of Greenwich Village or SoHo.
  • the Marshall Islands, Montenegro, and Tuvalu will all be making their first Olympic appearance at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
  • the unsuccessful, day-long Rebellion of Cao Qin within Beijing, China in 1461 forced the Tianshun Emperor to blockade the gates of the Forbidden City with debris stripped from the Imperial Waterway.
  • the Underground City in Beijing is a bomb shelter said to accommodate six million people.
  • the Ordos culture includes some of the easternmost Scythians, who were settled for several centuries in an area about 300 kilometers from modern Beijing in China.
  • although the 1998 film Restless takes place in Beijing, only about 20 percent of the dialogue is in Chinese.
  • Tim Morehouse, a member of the U.S. fencing team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, originally took up fencing in order to be excused from his high school gym class.
  • Ireland's former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern presented an episode of GAA television programme The Road to Croker when the usual host was at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
  • British cyclist Simon Richardson won two gold medals and one silver at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing.
  • French Sinologist Paul Pelliot was caught up in the Boxer Rebellion and trapped in the siege of Peking.
  • a Cossack community existed in Beijing as early as 1685.
  • Bailin Temple in Beijing was not pillaged by Anglo-French forces in 1860 or by the Eight-Nation Alliance in 1900 because of the superstitious fear that Tibetan Buddhism inspired in the invaders.
  • Meng Xuenong was sacked as mayor of Beijing during the SARS crisis, but has now made a comeback as governor of Shanxi province.
  • James Bennet was set to become Beijing correspondent for The New York Times when he instead was appointed the fourteenth editor-in-chief of The Atlantic Monthly in March 2006.
  • Beijing opera did not originate in Beijing but in the Chinese provinces of Anhui and Hubei.
  • Beijing Communist Party chief Li Ximing was a leading supporter of military action against the Tiananmen Square protests that resulted in the deaths of hundreds, possibly thousands, of people.
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