Somehow I got it in my head that paper was invented in Egypt - thinking about papyrus, I guess. I knew better at one time, but not today. I learned several new things from this one. (Which translates to, "I missed several.")
I used to live in China, up in Jilin province, and I got them all except the question about the Hong Kong dialect, which I read too quickly and thought was asking for the most common dialect across the whole country. Womp, womp.
Actually, Alibaba isn't the Chinese version of amazon.com. Aliexpress.com is. Aliexpress is owned by Alibaba, which is a much larger corporation, kind of similar to Aldi and Trader Joe's.
The Hong Kong question might become outdated soon, although the popular figure is that 96% of people that live in Hong Kong speak Cantonese, I don't think that is remotely the case anymore. The language is sadly fading away, especially with the younger generation where it is not being taught anymore. By the time of the next census, I can safely say that there will be more Mandarin speakers in Hong Kong than Cantonese ones.
In the 2021 census the first language split was 88.2% Cantonese and 2.3% Mandarin. While the proportion using Mandarin as a first language will by definition increase with time, the speed at which Cantonese eventually gets eclipsed means the process will take decades rather than years.
There's a real fixation on the Great Leap Forward and the famine it caused on this site. It was brutal and the number of deaths was enormous (although it seems to be growing by the year - disaster inflation!). I don't know that I can recall ever seeing anything about the series of late Victorian famines caused by British policy in Bengal - or the related disasters from earlier in the Victorian era due to the militarily-forced export of opium (grown in Bengal) in China, which contributed heavily to the decline of the Qing Empire. I guess one famine was caused by Communists? Kind of reminds me of Madeleine Albright saying that half-a-million dead Iraqi children was a price she was willing to pay to keep sanctions in place. Some tragedies and atrocities are worth more than others.
You can see the Great Leap Forward on a chart of world population. It killed up to 10 times as many people as the Holocaust. It happened less than 70 years ago. And yet most Westerners remain completely ignorant of it.
It's puzzling that people don't seem to ever talk about it.
Perhaps the famine could be talked about with less colloquial-ness but I don't disagree with them. It is true that nearly every non-geographical quiz about China includes terrible events in its history, almost never mentioning the positives. How many other countries with quizzes on this site face the same issue? China is infamous for nothing but the Great Leap Forward, Tiananmen Square, Mao Zedong, communism, etc. on this site. In its insanely long history, I doubt there is nothing else to celebrate (aside from Confucius and Laozi)...
Chinese. Got all but queue — I know that hairstyle but I don't know it's called queue in English. We call it 金钱鼠尾 (literally gold money mouse tail) or just simply braid.
Sometimes in English, they are called steamed buns.
Here's a picture:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mszx001.com%2Frecipe%2F86.html&psig=AOvVaw3jAis5bAh8uSpmljyYOp8S&ust=1610121808092000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCODkyaeZiu4CFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD
The Hong Kong question might become outdated soon, although the popular figure is that 96% of people that live in Hong Kong speak Cantonese, I don't think that is remotely the case anymore. The language is sadly fading away, especially with the younger generation where it is not being taught anymore. By the time of the next census, I can safely say that there will be more Mandarin speakers in Hong Kong than Cantonese ones.
Source: Speaks Cantonese and lived in Hong Kong
It's puzzling that people don't seem to ever talk about it.