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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?
5
18
2
12
2. Who is the founding father of the Republic of Turkey and its first president from 1923 to 1938?
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Enver Pasha
Habib Bourguiba
3. Which Asian country was know as Siam until 1932, when it became a constitutional monarchy?
Thailand
Pakistan
Laos
Cambodia
4. Who fought in the First Indochinese War?
USA and North Vietnam
The Viet Minh and France
The Viet Cong and Russia
USA and South Vietnam
5. Burma got its independence from which country in 1948?
Belgium
France
Spain
United Kingdom
6. Which Asian country in the west and from the beginning of British colonial rule was known as Ceylon?
Sri Lanka
Cambodia
Malaysia
Laos
7. Mahatma Gandhi fought for the independence of India from what empire?
British
Chinese
French
Persian
8. What was relation between Mahatma Gandhi and Indira Gandhi?
Husband and wife
Not related
Brother and sister
Father and daughter
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?
British Timor
French Timor
Spanish Timor
Portuguese Timor
11. In which year the founding father of the People's Republic of China Mao Zedong was deceased?
1976
1996
1966
1986
12. Which prime minister of India was assassinated in 1984?
Rajiv Gandhi
Jawaharlal Nehru
Indira Gandhi
Chandra Shekhar
13. Nagorno-Karabakh conflict that started in 1988 is an ethnic and territorial conflict between which two countries?
Turkey and Armenia
Azerbaijan and Georgia
Georgia and Turkey
Armenia and Azerbaijan
14. Which Asian country was known as Burma since 1989?
Cambodia
Vietnam
Myanmar
Laos
15. Which Asian country was known as Kampuchea since 1989?
Thailand
Cambodia
Nepal
Singapore
16. Gulf war was fought between Iraq and the coalition forces after the Iraqi invasion of which country?
Yemen
Kuwait
Bahrain
United Arab Emirates
17. East Timor got independence from which country in 1999?
Australia
Indonesia
Portugal
France
18. Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm were code names for which war?
Gulf War
War in Afghanistan
War in Syria
Korean War
19. What was the name of the U.S. military operation in Afghanistan that started in 2001?
Neptune
Enduring Freedom
Operation Desert Fox
Project Overlord
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 Iraq
War in Syria
War in Israel
21. Benazir Bhutto was the first female Prime Minister in a Muslim-majority country. Where was she assassinated in 2007?
Pakistan
India
Iraq
Indonesia
22. Where was the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden found and killed in 2011?
Iraq
Afghanistan
Pakistan
Saudi Arabia
23. The plane of which airline disappeared on March 8, 2014 during a flight to Beijing?
Etihad Airways
Malaysia Airlines
Singapore Airlines
Thai Airways
24. In which city in 2020 a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the port exploded?
Tel Aviv
Damascus
Aleppo
Beirut
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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.