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Ultimate Chinese Quiz
« on: Jan 20th, 2007, 8:21am » |
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As I promised, here is the Ultimate Chinese Quiz.
Questions 1-5:easy
1)What is China's form of government?
2)What is China's currency?
3)Translate: 你好
4)Explain how the Chinese greet different people and name one other language in which a similar pattern arises.
5)Who was Confucious?
Questions 6-10:medium
6)What are the three different kinds of "states" in China? (regions/political divisions)
7)Explain Taoism.
 Who built the Great Wall? (note: He merely connected existing walls together)
9)Translate:再见
10)Explain the Gang of Four and their relationship with the successor of Mao-ZeDong.
Questions 11,12:hard
11)According to traditional Chinese folklore, red is a sacred color. Why?
12)State some of China's relations with Mongolia.
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Re: Ultimate Chinese Quiz
« Reply #1 on: Jan 20th, 2007, 7:37pm » |
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Off the top of my head:
1) Authoritarian
2) Renminbi
3) Pass
4) In general, with 'Have you eaten?' Different people might be addressed according to their profession.
5) A philosopher (Confucius, he say 'He who go to bed with sex on brain wake up with solution in hand.')
8} Emperor Xin (aka The Yellow Emperor) and from whose name comes the word 'China'.
9) Pass
10) The Gang of Four were the pack of running dogs who orchestrated the Cultural Revolution in the name of the late, unlamented Mao Zedong and who intended to purge reformist Deng Xiaoping yet again on Mao's death.
11) Red is considered to be a lucky colour. Don't know why.
And here is the new overly-materialistic China. 
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Re: Ultimate Chinese Quiz
« Reply #2 on: Jan 21st, 2007, 10:21am » |
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Wow. You do know a lot. The ones that you guessed are correct, but you could stand to go into more detail. Also, the reason that red is a lucky color is because in ancient Chinese folklore, monsters attacked a village, but at the sight of a red cloth, they fled.
Question: Why didn't you answer questions 6 and 7? 
Also, sorry about 3 and 9. I don't think all the computers support Chinese characters.
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Re: Ultimate Chinese Quiz
« Reply #3 on: Jan 21st, 2007, 10:50am » |
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Few computers are set up to, outside of China. However, you can obtain gifs of your characters, and post them as attachments. Speaker did this for his chinese characters.
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Re: Ultimate Chinese Quiz
« Reply #4 on: Jan 21st, 2007, 11:13am » |
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on Jan 21st, 2007, 10:21am, hiyathere wrote:Question: Why didn't you answer questions 6 and 7?
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6) Besides the provinces, I can only think of the so-called Autonomous Regions such as Tibet and the Special Economic Zones, eg. Shenzhen, Zhuhai.
7) It's a religion/philosophy.
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Re: Ultimate Chinese Quiz
« Reply #5 on: Jan 22nd, 2007, 6:35am » |
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on Jan 21st, 2007, 11:13am, THUDandBLUNDER wrote:
6) Besides the provinces, I can only think of the so-called Autonomous Regions such as Tibet and the Special Economic Zones, eg. Shenzhen, Zhuhai.
7) It's a religion/philosophy.
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6)You forgot municipalities, e.g. Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai.
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Re: Ultimate Chinese Quiz
« Reply #6 on: Jan 23rd, 2007, 5:49am » |
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on Jan 21st, 2007, 10:21am, hiyathere wrote:| Also, sorry about 3 and 9. I don't think all the computers support Chinese characters. |
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The problem is that YaBB doesn't allow html codes. To get around this, viewers can just put the text
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3)你好<br>
9)再见
</html>
in a new .html file themselves and view that. Alternatively, simply
1) Click the Quote link next to your original post (or this one), and then
2) Hit the Preview button.
The HTML codes will then appear unescaped inside the Message text area. (Works for me with Firefox on WinXP, no special language packs installed AFAIK.)
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Re: Ultimate Chinese Quiz
« Reply #7 on: Jan 23rd, 2007, 5:55am » |
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on Jan 20th, 2007, 8:21am, hiyathere wrote:
我很好!
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保重.
(Reminds me of Searle's "Chinese room".)
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Re: Ultimate Chinese Quiz
« Reply #8 on: Jan 23rd, 2007, 6:05am » |
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on Jan 23rd, 2007, 5:49am, Eigenray wrote:The problem is that YaBB doesn't allow html codes. To get around this, viewers can just put the text
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3)你好<br>
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Or you can click here
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Re: Ultimate Chinese Quiz
« Reply #9 on: Jan 23rd, 2007, 10:22am » |
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on Jan 23rd, 2007, 6:05am, towr wrote:
Or you can click here
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So, can you read the characters now?
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Re: Ultimate Chinese Quiz
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on Jan 23rd, 2007, 6:05am, towr wrote:
Or you can click here
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Now that you can do that, please translate.
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Re: Ultimate Chinese Quiz
« Reply #11 on: Jan 23rd, 2007, 10:44am » |
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on Jan 23rd, 2007, 10:25am, hiyathere wrote:
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3) Hiyathere
4) Japanese?
6) Shouldn't you include the provinces, too?
9) Goodbye
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« Reply #12 on: Jan 23rd, 2007, 10:52am » |
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on Jan 23rd, 2007, 10:44am, THUDandBLUNDER wrote:
Well, I was thinking of the French. The Chinese greet elders and teachers with a different version of "you" than how they would greet a close friend. In French, they greet friends and family with "tu" and elders with "vous".
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« Reply #13 on: Jan 23rd, 2007, 12:26pm » |
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on Jan 23rd, 2007, 10:22am, hiyathere wrote:| So, can you read the characters now? |
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I can't read chinese. And I don't have Searle's codebook for chinese symbol shuffling.
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« Reply #14 on: Feb 9th, 2007, 2:29am » |
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7. Taoism - Go with the flow..
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« Reply #15 on: Feb 11th, 2007, 2:00pm » |
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3. Hi(in a polite manner)
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« Reply #16 on: Feb 11th, 2007, 2:02pm » |
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For number 8, I'm too lazy to google it... but I'm pretty sure back then, people did not call the Emperor as Xin Huangdi(new emperor). They probably adressed him as it, but that was not his name...
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« Reply #17 on: Feb 11th, 2007, 2:05pm » |
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12. I don't know about present circumstances, but a few hundred or thousand years back... China wasn't so happy about having raids across the border
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