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Asian Modern History

Do you know the most important events and figures in modern history of Asia?
Quiz by Nenadbs
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Last updated: September 11, 2022
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1. Who old was Puyi when he was crowned the last Emperor of China?
12
2
18
5
2. Who is the founding father of the Republic of Turkey and its first president from 1923 to 1938?
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Habib Bourguiba
Enver Pasha
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
3. Which Asian country was know as Siam until 1932, when it became a constitutional monarchy?
Pakistan
Thailand
Laos
Cambodia
4. Who fought in the First Indochinese War?
The Viet Minh and France
The Viet Cong and Russia
USA and North Vietnam
USA and South Vietnam
5. Burma got its independence from which country in 1948?
France
United Kingdom
Spain
Belgium
6. Which Asian country in the west and from the beginning of British colonial rule was known as Ceylon?
Sri Lanka
Laos
Cambodia
Malaysia
7. Mahatma Gandhi fought for the independence of India from what empire?
Chinese
Persian
French
British
8. What was relation between Mahatma Gandhi and Indira Gandhi?
Husband and wife
Father and daughter
Brother and sister
Not related
9. How did Mahatma Gandhi die?
Committed suicide
Heart attack
Assassinated
Died of cancer
10. Since 1975, what was the colonial name of East Timor?
French Timor
Portuguese Timor
Spanish Timor
British Timor
11. In which year the founding father of the People's Republic of China Mao Zedong was deceased?
1986
1966
1976
1996
12. Which prime minister of India was assassinated in 1984?
Jawaharlal Nehru
Chandra Shekhar
Rajiv Gandhi
Indira Gandhi
13. Nagorno-Karabakh conflict that started in 1988 is an ethnic and territorial conflict between which two countries?
Turkey and Armenia
Georgia and Turkey
Azerbaijan and Georgia
Armenia and Azerbaijan
14. Which Asian country was known as Burma since 1989?
Vietnam
Myanmar
Cambodia
Laos
15. Which Asian country was known as Kampuchea since 1989?
Singapore
Thailand
Nepal
Cambodia
16. Gulf war was fought between Iraq and the coalition forces after the Iraqi invasion of which country?
Bahrain
Kuwait
United Arab Emirates
Yemen
17. East Timor got independence from which country in 1999?
France
Portugal
Indonesia
Australia
18. Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm were code names for which war?
War in Syria
Korean War
War in Afghanistan
Gulf War
19. What was the name of the U.S. military operation in Afghanistan that started in 2001?
Neptune
Enduring Freedom
Project Overlord
Operation Desert Fox
20. What war started in October of 2001 in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States?
War in Afghanistan
War in Israel
War in Iraq
War in Syria
21. Benazir Bhutto was the first female Prime Minister in a Muslim-majority country. Where was she assassinated in 2007?
Pakistan
India
Indonesia
Iraq
22. Where was the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden found and killed in 2011?
Afghanistan
Pakistan
Iraq
Saudi Arabia
23. The plane of which airline disappeared on March 8, 2014 during a flight to Beijing?
Singapore Airlines
Thai Airways
Etihad Airways
Malaysia Airlines
24. In which city in 2020 a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the port exploded?
Beirut
Damascus
Aleppo
Tel Aviv
2 Comments
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Level 37
Sep 13, 2022
This is a good quiz. There are some grammatical issues that need to be corrected before it can be featured. I nominate it.
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Level 53
Sep 13, 2022
Thanks. Let me know what are the errors. English is not my native language.