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Is the Great Wall of China 650, 1,450 or 2,050 miles long?
A: 1,450.

Where did the Gang of Four try to size power in 1976?
A: China.

Which Asian city hosted the 1988 Olympic Games?
A: Seoul.

Who was emperor of Japan during world War II?
A: Hirohito.

What is the capital of Saudi Arabia?
A: Riyadh.

Of which country is Vientiane the capital?
A: Laos.

Who was the Mongol ruler who conquered Persia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia in the 14th Century?
A: Tamerlane.

Which two Middle-Eastern countries fought a war from 1980 to 1988?
A: Iran and Iraq.

Which sea lies between china and Korea?
A: Yellow Sea.

In which modern country are the ports of Sidon and Tyer?
A: Lebanon.

What is the name of the mountain pass which lies between Pakistan and Afghanistan?
A: Khyber pass.

The West Bank of which river has been occupied by Israel since 1967?
A: Jordan.

Which 15th-century navigator discovered the sea route from Europe to India by the Cape of Good Hope?
A: Vasco da Gama.

What is the name of the group of 1,196 islands in the North Indian Ocean, none bigger than five square miles?
A: Maldives.

What did Burma change its name to in 1989?
A: Myanmar.

A 25 km causeway, the longest in the world, links Saudi Arabia with which other country?
A: Bahrain.

Beside which river are the Indian cities of Delhi and Agra?
A: Jumna.

On which inland sea do the ports of Astrakhan and Baku lie?
A: Caspian Sea.

Of which state in India is Lucknow the capital?
A: Uttah Pradesh.

Which country was suspended from the Arab League for ten years from 1979?
A: Egypt.

With what is the Japanese art of bonsai concerned?
A: Miniature Trees.

By what name was Thailand known until 1939?
A: Siam.

What kind of wild cattle with shaggy coats and upturned horns live in the mountains of Tibet?
A: Yak.

Which 13th-century Mongol warlord controlled probably a larger area than anyone in history, from the Yellow Sea to the Black Sea?
A: Genghis Khan.

Which country is bounded by Saudi Arabia, Oman, the Gulf of Aden, and the Red Sea?
A: Yemen.

Which is the largest city in India?
A: Calcutta.

Which is the principal island of Japan?
A: Honshu.

What distinguished the Japanese tanker Shin-Attoku-Maru, launched in 1980?
A: Assisted by wind.

What is the dominant classical language of the Indian subcontinent?
A: Sanskrit.

In which 1954 battle did the Vietminh defeat the French and end their influence in Indochina?
A: Dien Bien Phu.

What nationality are the Gurkhas, who have fought for the British and Indian armies since 1815?
A: Nepalese.

Which major export of Bangladesh is used to make sacking?
A: Jute.

What was the former name of Iran?
A: Persia.

Which river runs 1,560 miles to the Bay of Bengal?
A: Ganges.

Which sheikhdom is the capital of the United Arab Emirates?
A: Abu Dhabi.

Which native East Asian plant is the richest natural vegetable food?
A: Soya.

What is the capital of Hong Kong?
A: Victoria.

Which Syrian city is said to be the oldest continually inhabited city in the world?
A: Damascus.

Who founded the modern republic of Turkey and, in 1934, took a name meaning "Father of the Turks"?
A: Kemal Ataturk.

What is the Japanese product kakiemon?
A: Porcelain.

Which river with a vast delta to the South china Sea rises as the Za Qu in Tibet?
A: Mekong.

Isfahan is a major city in which country?
A: Iran.

Which Indian poet and philosopher was the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
A: Rabindranath Tagoe.

In which square in Beijing did troops massacre ore than 1,000 demonstrators in 1989?
A: Tiananmen Square.

Who was supposed to have told the Arabian Nights tales?
A: Scheherazade.

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