China Country Quiz

Can you answer these questions about the country of China?

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Hint	Answer
What is the capital of China?	Beijing
What was the former English-language spelling of that city?	Peking
What is China's tallest mountain?	Mount Everest
What former British colony was handed back to China in 1997?	Hong Kong
What former Portuguese colony returned to China in 1999?	Macau
What are the three most-commonly spoken branches of the Chinese language?	Mandarin
	Wu / Shanghainese
	Yue / Cantonese
What is China's largest desert?	Gobi
What is the informal name of the northeasternmost part of China?	Manchuria
What is the name of the compound where the emperor of China once lived?	The Forbidden City
Who was the first leader of communist China?	Mao Zedong
What country did China annex in 1950?	Tibet
What religion / philosophical tradition follows the teachings of Laozi?	Taoism
What is the full English name of the country of China?	People's Republic of China
What square was the site of democracy protests, and a bloody massacre, in 1989?	Tiananmen Square
What is the currency of China?	Renminbi
What are China's two longest rivers?	Yangtze
What are China's two longest rivers?	Yellow
What were the four "Great Inventions" of ancient China?	Compass
	Gunpowder
	Papermaking
	Printing
What is China's national animal?	Giant Panda
What mythological animal is often used to represent China?	Dragon
There are twelve animals in the Chinese zodiac. Which one comes first?	Rat
What is China's largest island?	Hainan
Who was the most influential philosopher in ancient China?	Confucius

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100 Recent Comments

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Level 51

Jan 30, 2016

In China, the term Gobi only refers to the desert in Inner Mongolia, not the vast desert in Inner Asia. In this case the largest desert in China should be Taklamakan in the Tarim Basin.

Level 77

Mar 10, 2020

That's what I thought.

Level 25

May 20, 2025

same here, no idea why they state gobi

Level 29

Jul 24, 2016

You should accept Yangcy for Yangtze.

Level 81

Nov 23, 2016

Surely China invented china!?

Level 66

Nov 20, 2019

I tried porcelain in various spellings.

Level 39

Jul 30, 2020

absolutely! china has been a part of china since ancient times. So has antarctica, you can argue that the americas were also historically part of the chinese empire and so was europe

Level 69

May 29, 2017

Dang! Said Forgotten City.

Level 43

Jun 24, 2017

Can't believe I missed Everest and Gobi, I foolishly associate them with Nepal/India and Mongolia!

Level 57

Jun 20, 2020

Mt. Everest lies in Nepal-Tibet border.

Level 13

Jul 21, 2017

Didn't get any historical things lol, but geography and currency was awesome! glad to get the 4 inventions. Also, I think shanghainese is a more common form of saying "Wu", but it is also longer :P

Level 40

Aug 23, 2017

I kept trying Khanbaliq and Dadu and was confused for it not working.

Level 43

Dec 5, 2017

Might want to add Kong Fuzi for Confucius

Level 25

Aug 29, 2018

Papermaking technique was invented in Korea

Level 31

Nov 25, 2018

And what's the inventor's name? I mean, who invented this historical fact?

Level 52

Feb 18, 2025

Yes I was taught that Korea invents everything. Even the universe was invented by Korea.

Level 35

Oct 5, 2018

Mount Everest is in Nepal not in China.

+14

Level 31

Nov 25, 2018

It's on the border of Nepal and China, shared by both nations.

Level 76

Feb 16, 2019

Great quiz, but, Ice Cream is China's greatest invention and it was left out

Level 17

May 31, 2019

can you add kongzi for confucius and changjiang for yangtze

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Level 55

Jun 9, 2019

What are you talking about? What is this Tiananmen Square thing? 1989 was a completely peaceful year...

Level 94

Jul 11, 2019

Have you seriously never heard of the Tiananmen Square Massacre?

Level 68

Jul 20, 2019

Sarcasm. PatoPotato is doing it. 😬

Level 58

Jul 3, 2020

While PatoPotato's comment is tongue in cheek, it's well known that many Chinese nationals have never heard of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Level 56

Apr 30, 2022

R/wooosh

Level 28

Dec 19, 2024

the chinese call the tiananmen massacre as tiananmen event

Level 80

Nov 8, 2019

I live in Suzhou, a city close to Shanghai, where the Suzhou dialect (aka 'Suzhounese'), a sub-dialect of Wu, is locally spoken. Many locals speak it amongst themselves, especially if they know each other quite well, but if you go to a shop or speak to a stranger, you would converse in Mandarin.

Although Wu is a dialect, it contains a huge number of sub-dialects, which may vary from town to town; a native speaker of one of these sub-dialects might not readily understand another sub-dialect, or even find it incomprehensible/unintelligible.

Level 64

Mar 10, 2020

everest is in nepal

Level 91

Mar 10, 2020

If you were standing at the summit of Mt. Everest, you could put one foot in Nepal and one foot in China.

Level 64

Sep 22, 2023

you are correct

Level 66

Mar 10, 2020

What is the 16th one? There is just blank space..?

Level 21

May 6, 2020

Tiananmen square protest is not a bloody massacre, there was barely any blood

Level 57

Jun 20, 2020

That's what happens when you blindly swallow CCP propaganda.

Level 70

Sep 28, 2021

In America, protesters are not shot

They may face arrest or something but not as serious in china...

In China, they aren't shot

they are blown to bits

Level 34

Feb 13, 2022

“In America, protestors are not shot” so we’re just forgetting Kent State happened then? And the fact that rubber bullets (which are usually just regular bullets coated with rubber) are very much used today?

Level 45

May 18, 2020

Im happy I remembered the story about why a certain animal came first in the zodiac.

Level 74

May 27, 2020

Isn't the Taklamakan Desert bigger than the Gobi?

Level 56

Jul 2, 2020

Nice to see the beginning of this project! Good Luck Quizmaster!

Level 91

Jul 2, 2020

You know, China really is such a beautiful country. Hopefully I'll get the chance to visit it someday.

Level 66

Jul 2, 2020

I feel as if the invention of spaghetti deserves more credit.

Level 60

Jul 3, 2020

Wasn't that invented in Italy? If not, then my whole life has been a lie.

Level 40

Jan 20, 2025

Partly. Spaghetti is said to have been derived from various earlier recipes similar to spaghetti, such as noodles.

These are said to have been carried by silk route traders to Italy.

Level 86

Jul 2, 2020

This series will end in January 2021 and I really hope things aren't going down the same way the population of the featured countries will go down by the end of it...

Level 78

Jan 13, 2021

here on day 196 and there’s still interesting things to say about all of them

Level 64

Jul 2, 2020

Hum. I thought the most influential philosopher was called Kung Fu-tse, but that response is not accepted.

Level 61

Jul 2, 2020

The Chinese Communists seeing this quiz and yelling that Hainan is not their largest island

Level 56

Jul 2, 2020

Haha lol!

Level 71

Jul 2, 2020

Love the idea of this new Country Trivia badge! Great way for me to procra-- learn more about countries!

Level 22

Jul 2, 2020

As a Chinese who has been living in China for 20 years, I can't get 100%, things are different here from what we have been taught in Chinese schools. The most obvious difference would be the largest island, in mainland Chinese textbook, Taiwan is the largest island of China. Another difference would be the first leader of Communist China, according to our history textbook, the Communist China was already separated from ROC in 1927 and the first leader is Chen Duxiu. also, in Chinese textbook, Tibet was annexed a long time ago during Tang Dynasty, but under control by the communist party since 1950.

Level 78

Jul 2, 2020

What score will be required to get each tick for the 196 badge?

Level 55

Jul 2, 2020

You mean https://www.jetpunk.com/badges/country-trivia ? 22.

Level 49

Jul 3, 2020

Is Taiwan not bigger than hainan???? 🤣

Level 60

Jul 3, 2020

I see what you did there...

Level 47

Jul 26, 2020

Taiwan is its own country now. So, Hainan is now the biggest island.

Level 52

Jul 3, 2020

How is Ice Cream not a great chinese invention! XD

Level 62

Jul 3, 2020

China AKA the evil empire. Muslim Genocide in Tibet, Mass theft of intellectual property, Jailing of doctors, destroying evidence of Coronavirus, and falsifying every stat known to man, not to mention the bullying of African and other Asian countries smh.

Level 20

Aug 24, 2021

That's basically a lot of Chinese's opinion about the US.

Level 72

Feb 27, 2025

Tibet was mostly Buddhist, no?

Level 81

Apr 29, 2025

"Muslim genocide in Tibet" ??? do you even know what you're talking about

Level 40

Jun 2, 2025

I think he is referring to the Uyghurs, but that is not in Tibet

Level 47

Jul 5, 2020

Kong Fuzi should be accepted for Confucious. Confucious was his Latin name, but Kong Fuzi was his Chinese name.

Level 51

Jul 8, 2020

yes

Level 20

Aug 24, 2021

Kong Qiu should be as well. That's his original name.

Level 51

Jul 8, 2020

Going by population huh?

Level 34

Aug 9, 2020

The largest island is Taiwan

Level 70

Dec 15, 2020

Taiwan is a somewhat independent nation. Stop complaining about it.

Level 40

Jan 12, 2021

Oh go to hell Mt Everest. I cant believe I forgot that

Level 38

Apr 13, 2021

mt everest war

between Nepal and China

duration: 2056-2078

Level 52

May 19, 2021

Language! xD just kidding

Level 70

Feb 26, 2021

China is Made In China...

Level 41

May 4, 2021

Mount Everest is in Nepal

Level 52

May 19, 2021

It's on the border

Level 25

May 13, 2021

China Is Made In China In China And China And China And Japan And wait what?

Level 28

Jun 15, 2021

Mount Everest is not in China- Mount Everest is definitely in Nepal

Level 20

Aug 24, 2021

Please allow Qomolangma for mount everest. I think it is an official name.

Level 54

Oct 18, 2021

social credit score is not looking good rn

Level 68

Oct 18, 2021

Got the language from my attempt to write the river.

Level 40

Jan 20, 2025

yoo! me too!

Level 51

Aug 25, 2022

Everest belongs to Nepal.

Level 67

Oct 3, 2022

Ultimate facepalm when I furiously typed March of the Volunteers and Yiyongjun jixingqu and getting mad when neither were accepted. Reread the question and saw national ANIMAL, not anthem 🤦‍♂️

Level 17

Nov 23, 2022

CCP was founded in 1921, and its first leader was Chen Duxiu. Mao Zedong became leader in 1930s.

Level 44

Dec 22, 2022

Well I totally know what you say but I enter Mao because I am sure that it is Mao that the quizmaker want to ask

Level 44

Dec 22, 2022

As a native Chinese, I don't think "gobi" is the biggest desert in China, while Taklamakan (or Taklimakan, Teklimakan) Desert is. In fact, gobi is even not a name of any single desert; it's totally just a kind of desert, or somebody may agree that it's another name for desert.

Level 44

Dec 22, 2022

By the way, I think "mouse" should be an altertive to "rat"

Level 34

Jan 6, 2023

First, could you please accept "mouse" for "rat"?

Second, as a Chinese, I strongly hope you accept "Qomolangma" for "Mount Everest"

And most importantly, THE BIGGEST ISLAND OF CHINA IS TAIWAN. If you say you don't want to annoy some certain Taiwanese, well, you can also delete that question to avoid debate.

Level 63

Jul 6, 2023

Taiwan 100% de-facto controls the island Taiwan.

Level 63

Feb 20, 2023

19/20 I could get Peking to go through?

Level 28

Apr 19, 2023

I didn't get the Year of the Rat, Compass, or Printing. The others I got though, wasn't too difficult. Although I thought printing was invented by Gutenberg who was Germany

Level 40

Jan 20, 2025

Printing here refers to the art or skill of imprinting images onto paper. In this case, block printing was invented in China.

Gutenberg developed and invented the printing press.

Level 63

Jul 6, 2023

I would argue Sun Tzu and Lao Tzu are both comparable to Confucius. Given the subjectiveness of the question, could both be type-ins?

Level 36

Sep 15, 2023

Typical western political stand about China.

It seems TTT (Taiwan,Tiananmen,Tibet) is an inescapable topic.

As a Chinese, I hope the mainstream view recognizes that

1.Taiwan is part of China without any doubt (there is a high probability that it will become a special administrative region like Hong Kong in the future), therefore the largest island is Taiwan

2.Tibet is always a sub-nation in China, not an independent country, we call "liberate" instead of "annex" (from the feudal slave-owning forces of the old society)