Multiple Choice City Quiz – Shanghai

Can you answer these multiple choice questions about the city of Shanghai?

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First submitted	April 29, 2025
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1. Where in China is Shanghai located?

2. Shanghai has ...

A Walt Disney theme park

The world’s busiest container port

The world's fastest high speed train in operation

All of the above

3. Which picture depicts Shanghai?

4. Shanghai is located on the delta of what river?

Amur

Pearl

Yangtze

Yellow

5. Who occupied Shanghai during the First Opium War?

Japan

Russia

United Kingdom

United States

6. Shanghainese is a variety of which Chinese language?

Cantonese

Fujian

Mandarin

7. Which of these cities is located nearest to Shanghai?

Harbin

Shenzhen

Suzhou

Wuhan

8. What does the word "shanghai" mean in the English language?

To act impulsively

To be a savvy trader

To commit accounting fraud

To kidnap someone for service on a ship

9. What is the name of the former colonial area of Shanghai which has lots of European buildings?

The Bund

The Golden Horn

The Marina

The Strand

10. Shanghai recently gained notoriety for ...

A river which caught fire

A train derailment which killed thousands

Banning foreigners

Having one of the world's most extreme Covid lockdowns

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31 Comments

Level 81

Apr 29, 2025

My favorite fact about Shanghai is that they really like vampires over there. Supposedly there are some roaming the streets.

Level 57

Apr 29, 2025

Well, I suppose I should be sad another one of mine didn't make the cut but maybe it's an omen for another feature

Level 57

Apr 30, 2025

Lol I was right it was an omen, just got the MCCQ for Melbourne featured, thanks QM

Level 73

Apr 29, 2025

I see you've taken some inspiration for question 1 ;)

Level ∞

Apr 29, 2025

Yes.

+12

Level 81

Apr 29, 2025

Nice quiz, but it's sad that few of the questions within this quiz are genuinely about the sights, the history, and the culture of my hometown... As compared to many other multiple choice city quizzes.

Level 81

Apr 29, 2025

The beauty of such a metropolis that bridges east and west is being shadowed by the veil that separates global perception from the sights of a communist regime...

Level 79

Apr 29, 2025

Agreed, was hoping for mentions of Jing'an Temple, Songjiang, or shengjian even

Sad to see so little content revolving around the attributes unique to the city itself

Level ∞

Apr 29, 2025

This is a trivia site catering towards an international audience. Furthermore, this is the English language section of that site.

We get very little traffic from China and essentially zero revenue.

Is it any wonder that featured quizzes focus on the small number of things that a person outside of China might possibly know about Shanghai?

The modal person in the U.S. or Europe couldn't answer a single one of these questions with confidence. Making the quiz more difficult is a non-starter.

Level 78

Apr 29, 2025

I take these quizzes to try and learn more about these cities, and I would be significantly more interested in questions that ask more unique and less superficial things about them. I'd rather face a harder quiz with more interesting local facts than a superficial one filled with questions I've answered countless times in the site before.

I recognise that most people wouldn't be interested in a harder quiz, but like 90% of this quiz is taken by returning quiztakers who've probably encountered similar questions numerous times before. A bit more question diversity would be nice and engaging.

Level ∞

Apr 29, 2025

People say this. The quiz taken stats prove otherwise.

But even from a learning perspective this is not ideal. "Which of these four temples with Chinese names is in Shanghai?".

You will guess randomly, and when you see the correct answer, you will shrug and instantly forget it.

Learning happens by extending things you already know, not by randomly leaping to things you don't have any clue about.

Level 31

Jul 25, 2025

"learning takes extending things you already know" is pretty true. I guess maybe we can make quizzes trying to accomodate this feature so people want to learn more. Maybe assuming the general knowledge stops at colonial era or the CCP regime, perhaps we can extend the topic and questions relating to those and introduce a little bit of new material in these quizzes, so users aren't overwhelmed like they are hopping into a lecture hall that's teaching a history class in which everything is novel to them.

Just an opinion perhaps worth trying to experiment with.

Level 73

Feb 5, 2026

I feel like this could be solved (to some extent at least) by choosing good incorrect options. I enjoy getting the right answer by process of elimination.

Level 79

Apr 29, 2025

Doesn't Beijing have more stations? Afaik Shanghai has the largest network by total rail length

Also, there's some ambiguity regarding the busiest port option. Shanghai's port is the busiest by container traffic but Ningbo-Zhoushan takes the throne in terms of tonnage.

This would make the Walt Disney theme park the correct answer to Q2 right now.

Level ∞

Apr 29, 2025

Hmm... Changed the train question to fastest high speed train and added "container" to the port question.

Level 88

Apr 29, 2025

Is the assertion that Shanghai had a more extreme shutdown than Wuhan non-controversial? NPR said: "the citywide lockdown that will be conducted [in Shanghai] in two phases will be China's most extensive since the central city of Wuhan".

Level ∞

Apr 29, 2025

Added "one of"

Level 85

Apr 29, 2025

Pretty easy!

Level 95

Apr 29, 2025

Excellent

Level 90

Apr 30, 2025

Got 9 out of 10. My only mistake: when I saw "Shanghai has:" and the first answer was "a Walt Disney theme park", I just checked that and moved on to the next question.

Level 80

Jun 2, 2025

The Bund is only one small part of Shanghai that is a former colonial area with lots of European buildings. It was part of the vast International Settlement, built and run predominantly by Britain and the United States. The French Concession is the area south of the International Settlement, which also fits this description.

Level 71

Jun 8, 2025

the language is ShanghaiNese, not Shanghaiese :)

Level 82

Jul 26, 2025

ditto :)

Level 35

Jul 25, 2025

Shanghai in English translation 💀

Level 76

Jul 25, 2025

they told us they had the strictest covid lockdowns but did they?

Level 56

Jul 26, 2025

Can anyone confirm what the other three cities in the pictures are (one of them is San Francisco, but not sure about the other two)

Level 49

Jul 27, 2025

Top left is Panama City and bottom left is Dubai

Level 47

Sep 9, 2025

Everything is good but I would replace last question as a lot of cities had same issue.

Level 73

Feb 5, 2026

I second this. Also "recently" is not the best time indication on a quiz like this

Level 56

Jan 16, 2026

shanghai literally translates to "on the sea" in english. I don't know where you got that other translation from, you must have used the wrong characters.

Level 61

Mar 10, 2026

I'm so disappointed in myself. 7/10 and I've been living in Shanghai for 12 years.