Asian Trivia Quiz Questions
Is the Great Wall of China 650, 1,450 or 2,050 miles long?
A: 1,450.
Where did the Gang of Four try to size power in 1976?
A: China.
Which Asian city hosted the 1988 Olympic Games?
A: Seoul.
Who was emperor of Japan during world War II?
A: Hirohito.
What is the capital of Saudi Arabia?
A: Riyadh.
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A: Trivia Country!
Of which country is Vientiane the capital?
A: Laos.
Who was the Mongol ruler who conquered Persia, Azerbaijan, Armenia,
and Georgia in the 14th Century?
A: Tamerlane.
Which two Middle-Eastern countries fought a war from 1980 to 1988?
A: Iran and Iraq.
Which sea lies between china and Korea?
A: Yellow Sea.
In which modern country are the ports of Sidon and Tyer?
A: Lebanon.
What is the name of the mountain pass which lies between Pakistan and
Afghanistan?
A: Khyber pass.
The West Bank of which river has been occupied by Israel since 1967?
A: Jordan.
Which 15th-century navigator discovered the sea route from Europe to
India by the Cape of Good Hope?
A: Vasco da Gama.
What is the name of the group of 1,196 islands in the North Indian
Ocean, none bigger than five square miles?
A: Maldives.
What did Burma change its name to in 1989?
A: Myanmar.
A 25 km causeway, the longest in the world, links Saudi Arabia with
which other country?
A: Bahrain.
Beside which river are the Indian cities of Delhi and Agra?
A: Jumna.
On which inland sea do the ports of Astrakhan and Baku lie?
A: Caspian Sea.
Of which state in India is Lucknow the capital?
A: Uttah Pradesh.
Which country was suspended from the Arab League for ten years from
1979?
A: Egypt.
With what is the Japanese art of bonsai concerned?
A: Miniature Trees.
By what name was Thailand known until 1939?
A: Siam.
What kind of wild cattle with shaggy coats and upturned horns live in
the mountains of Tibet?
A: Yak.
Which 13th-century Mongol warlord controlled probably a larger area
than anyone in history, from the Yellow Sea to the Black Sea?
A: Genghis Khan.
Which country is bounded by Saudi Arabia, Oman, the Gulf of Aden, and
the Red Sea?
A: Yemen.
Which is the largest city in India?
A: Calcutta.
Which is the principal island of Japan?
A: Honshu.
What distinguished the Japanese tanker Shin-Attoku-Maru, launched in
1980?
A: Assisted by wind.
What is the dominant classical language of the Indian subcontinent?
A: Sanskrit.
In which 1954 battle did the Vietminh defeat the French and end their
influence in Indochina?
A: Dien Bien Phu.
What nationality are the Gurkhas, who have fought for the British and
Indian armies since 1815?
A: Nepalese.
Which major export of Bangladesh is used to make sacking?
A: Jute.
What was the former name of Iran?
A: Persia.
Which river runs 1,560 miles to the Bay of Bengal?
A: Ganges.
Which sheikhdom is the capital of the United Arab Emirates?
A: Abu Dhabi.
Which native East Asian plant is the richest natural vegetable food?
A: Soya.
What is the capital of Hong Kong?
A: Victoria.
Which Syrian city is said to be the oldest continually inhabited city
in the world?
A: Damascus.
Who founded the modern republic of Turkey and, in 1934, took a name
meaning "Father of the Turks"?
A: Kemal Ataturk.
What is the Japanese product kakiemon?
A: Porcelain.
Which river with a vast delta to the South china Sea rises as the Za
Qu in Tibet?
A: Mekong.
Isfahan is a major city in which country?
A: Iran.
Which Indian poet and philosopher was the first Asian to win the
Nobel Prize for Literature?
A: Rabindranath Tagoe.
In which square in Beijing did troops massacre ore than 1,000
demonstrators in 1989?
A: Tiananmen Square.
Who was supposed to have told the Arabian Nights tales?
A: Scheherazade.
