Shoeless Trivia: Episode 13 (China Adjacent)

There are a number of geographical / political regions I associate rightly or wrongly with China and that I cannot keep straight in my head. So that’s what this episode is about (mostly).

Before we get on with the festivities, a trivia milestone / brag: I finally managed a perfect score on a Learned League quiz, a one day on algorithms. So, right in my strike zone, but I’ll take it.

1. What former British colony was the site of and lends its name to the declaration establishing the modern Commonwealth of Nations? This country spend some time in the news in 1994 due to the sentence received by 18 year old American student Michael Fay for the crime of vandalism.
2. What is the former name for the island of Taiwan? It derives from the Portuguese for “beautiful island” and does not, as you might imagine, imply that the island is covered in giant ants.
3. The First Opium War was ended by a treaty named for what city that is often associated with a 1937 atrocity?
4. Name both special administrative regions established by the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China. One was a British colony from 1842 until 1997, and the other was the subject of a 2009 Stefan Feld board game.
5. What city was known as the “Jerusalem of the East” during the late 19th and early 20th centuries due to a huge influx of Christian missionaries?

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1. Singapore
2. Formosa
3. Nanjing (Nanking)
4. Hong Kong, Macau (Macao)
5. Pyongyang