East Asia

Which leader took China through drastic economic reforms in the 1980s?

What is the largest desert in Asia, found in China and Mongolia?

The Korean War occurred in which decade?

Who forced Japan to open itself up to foreign merchants in 1852?

How many people died in the Great Leap Forward?

What is the highest mountain chain in the world?

Which Chinese dynasty expelled the Mongols?

Who was the original leader of Communist China?

What country has the largest Muslim population in the world?

What territory has been fought over by India and Pakistan? It is claimed by both countries.

35% of China's population lives near the country's longest river, which is what?

Who is the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists?

What body of water is between Korea and Taiwan?

Who won the Nobel Peace Prize for leading the fight for democracy in Myanmar?

Who was the founder of the world's largest empire in history?

Many people claim that you can see which structure from space?

Which of these disease outbreaks did NOT originate in Asia?

In what event did Chairman Mao aim to outdo Great Britain in productivity?

The Aral Sea is along the border of what two countries?

Which of these rivers was NOT home to some of the world's earliest civilization?

What is the former name of the country of Myanmar?

What country has the largest population?

What major city is found near the mouth of the Yangtze River?

What was the collection of Mao's sayings, which were published by Lin Biao?

Which of these countries is the least-densely populated?

The Mongols founded which dynasty of China?

What Mongol conqueror of China did Marco Polo do business with on the Silk Road?

What group in China tried to violently expel foreigners in the late 1800s?

Which of these has not ruled Communist North Korea?

What is the largest and longest river in Indochina?

What is the name of the semi-autonomous region in the southwest of China?

What body of water separates Japan from Korea?

Much of what we know about the Silk Road comes from the account of what Italian merchant?

What former leader of China fled to Taiwan when the Communists came to power?

What body of water is south of Taiwan, east of Indochina, and west of the Philippines?

What Asian state is only recognized as independent by 22 other countries?

Who occupied Japan for several years following World War 2?

Which of these gained independence from the United States in 1946?

Mao attempted to reassert control of the Communist Party in what event?

What ancient trade route linked China and India to the Mediterranean world?

What body of water is directly east of India?

Tibet's people are primarily followers of what religion?

Who is the current leader of North Korea?

What body of water is west of the Korean Peninsula?

Who was the founder of Communist North Korea?

China and which other country have populations of over 1 billion people?

Because of its frequent flooding, what river is known as "China's Sorrow"?

What country has the fastest-growing GDP in the world?

A shogunate was a military state in which country?

What is the barren, largely frozen region of eastern Russia called?

The "One China" policy debate concerns the status of which Chinese province?

What river forms the border between China and North Korea?

How many nuclear bombs were dropped on Japan in World War 2?

What country unified in 1975 after a civil war, when its southern capital, Saigon, was seized?

In what year did the Communists take over China?

Which capital city is the most populous in the world?

Mao wanted to out-produce the British in what resource?

What semi-autonomous region of western China has a large concentration of Buddhists?

What is the only country in the world to suffer an attack by nuclear bombs?