| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| On what island is Nagasaki located? | Kyushu | 80%
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| What does 'Nagasaki' mean in Japanese? | Long Cape City | 60%
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| What was the name of the daimyo who founded Nagasaki? | Omura Sumitada | 60%
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| From the 16th century through to the 19th century, Nagasaki was the sole trading port in Japan for the outside world which, in effect, meant catering for these two nations. | Portugal and Netherlands | 60%
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| What was a daimyo? | A powerful, feudal lord | 40%
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| This American physician, educator, translator and lay Christian missionary started out in Nagasaki. He developed a system of romanization for transliteration of the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet. Published a Japanese-English dictionary. | James Curtin Hepburn | 40%
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| Which of these notable people were born in Nagasaki? | Koji Yakusho (actor) and Kazuo Ishiguro (writer) | 40%
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| On what bay is Nagasaki located? | Omura Bay | 40%
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| This novel by Pierre Loti, a French naval officer, was the original 'Madame Butterfly' and heavily influenced the writer, John Luther Long. | Madame Chrysantheme | 20%
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| In Laura Joh Rowland's series of novels about a samurai detective in feudal Japan, which instalment has her intrepid hero exiled to Nagasaki where he finds himself investigating the death of a Dutch trader? | The Way of the Traitor | 0%
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