Asian Geography

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1. What is the only country that is located in both the continents of Asia and Africa?
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2. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was elected president of which country in 2004?
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3. What is the official religion of Bangladesh?
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4. What country in Asia has the highest average life expectancy?
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5. What is Mount Godwin Austen better known as?
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6. How many vehicle expressways did the China have before 1992?
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7. What mountain ranges name is Sanskrit for abode of snow?
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8. What animal features on Sri Lankas national flag?
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9. What Jerusalem site is the only surviving part of Herods Temple?
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10. How many continents border the Mediterranean Sea?
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11. Whats the only country in South-East Asia to have never been ruled by a European nation?
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12. What Asian nation does The Guinness Book of World Records receive at least 20% of their mail from?
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13. On what side of the road do they drive in Japan?
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14. According to The Times Atlas of the World what country is expected to be the most populous by the year 2050?
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15. What is the capital of Afghanistan?
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16. What is the capital of Cambodia?
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17. What is the capital of Indonesia?
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18. What is the capital of Pakistan?
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19. What is the capital of Singapore?
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20. What is the capital of Taiwan?
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21. What is the capital of Thailand?
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22. What is the capital of the Philippines?
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23. What is the currency of China?
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24. What is the currency of Hong Kong?
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25. What is the currency of India?
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26. What is the currency of Indonesia?
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27. What is the currency of Japan?
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28. What is the currency of Malaysia?
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29. What is the currency of Thailand?
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30. Which holiday destination became the capital of the Portuguese Empire in the East?
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31. Which group of islands lies approximately 300 miles southwest of India?
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32. In which countrys mythology is Yi the divine order?
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33. If you are in Kathmandu, about to climb the worlds largest mountain, what country would you be in?
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34. If you are shopping on a street known as the Ginza, which city are you in?
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35. In what country was Kai Tak International Airport until it was closed down in 1998?
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36. In which country is the tourist resort of Phuket?
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37. Mount Everest is on the border of which two countries?
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38. Name the only country starting with the letter O.
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39. What country was Confucianism founded in?
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40. What is the capital of Hong Kong?
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41. What is the capital of Vietnam?
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42. What is the monetary unit of Indonesia?
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43. What is the worlds most populated country?
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44. What was the former name of the city Beijing?
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45. Which country has the largest Muslim population?
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46. In 1989, what was the largest city in the world ever to declare martial law?
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47. Which cotton cloth takes it name from an Indian city on the Malabar coast?
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48. Which country accounts for 35% of the world’s cities with more than 1 million inhabitants?
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49. Is Guam east or west of the Philippines?
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50. What is the most populous city in the world? (as at 2004)
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51. To what country does American backpacker Richard, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, travel in the movie ‘The Beach’?
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1. What was Sri Lanka previously known as?
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2. Whats the only country in South-East Asia to have never been ruled by a European nation?
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3. Which group of Islamic fighters took control of Kabul, Afghanistan on the 27 of September, 1996?
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4. What country did 300,000 Chinese troops invade in February of 1979?
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5. Which Middle-Eastern leader died in Paris in November, 2004?
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6. Which country was invaded by the Japanese in 1937?
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7. Whom did the Japanese defeat at the Battle of Tsushima in 1905?
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8. What was the former name of the city Beijing?
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9. During World War II, what country built the two largest battleships ever designed?
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10. In which dynasty did the Golden Age of China take place?
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11. What was the name of the flag that the Japanese forces flew during World War 2?
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12. Which landmark did Shah Jahan build for his favourite wife?
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13. In Japanese culture, what is Haiku (High - Koo)
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14. Yakuza (Yak-coo-za) crime gangs originated in what country?
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15. Which nations people invented the kite?
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16. In 1989, what was the largest city in the world ever to declare martial law?
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17. Who was the last governor of Hong Kong?
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18. What Middle Eastern country did King Hussein rule for 47 years until his death in 1999?
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19. Who was the leader of the Khmer Rouge guerrilla group?
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20. Name the two nightclubs that were bombed in Bali on 12 October 2002.
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21. What Chinese mafia style organization began as a group of monks, dedicated to overthrowing the invading Ching Dynasty, in 1674?
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1. In which country would you find the professional soccer league called J-League?
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2. In 2002 the FIFA World Cup was hosted by two countries for the first time, which countries were they?
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3. What games international governing body is known as FIFA?
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4. What self-defence sport literally means gentle way in Japanese?
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5. Which martial art is Japanese for empty hand?
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6. What is the nickname of the Japanese Rugby Union team?
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1. On which planet are the Herschel and Newton craters?
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2. What is the Latin word for water bearer?
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3. What sorcerer and astrologer allegedly predicted the Great Fire of London, the Kennedy assassination and the Napoleonic wars?
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4. Which two planets are almost identical in size?
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5. Which planet in our solar system is closest to Earth?
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6. Approximately how long does it take the suns light to reach the Earth?
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7. Sharing its name with an Arnold Schwarzenegger film, what name is given to the line dividing the light and dark portions of the moon?
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8. The word Libra is Latin for what?
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9. What star sign is often depicted as a character that is half man half horse?
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10. What star sign is Madonna?
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11. From what planet is Star Treks Mr Spock?
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12. Which compass point is directly opposite south-south-east?
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13. Name the seventh sign of the Zodiac.
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14. What animal represents the zodiac sign Capricorn?
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15. What is the symbol for the star sign Virgo?
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16. What star sign are you if you were born on the 24th of November?
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17. Which star sign runs from April 21st to May 20th?
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18. What star sign was Elvis Presley?
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19. The Big Dipper is part of which constellation?
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20. What planet takes 248.5 years to travel around the sun?
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21. What galaxy is Earth a part of?
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22. What constellation is also known by the name of ‘Crux’?
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23. Which planet has the longest day, from sunrise to sunset?
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