ASIAN WEB-QUEST!
Use this document to complete your web-quest (online scavenger hunt) of Asia. When you are
finished, print a copy; whatever you have finished by the end of class, print.
The pair with the most answers correct wins a prize!
**PLEASE BE SURE TO PRINT IN BLACK AND WHITE ONLY** If you are
unsure how to do so, ask!
Please answer the following questions:
1. Is the Great Wall of China 650, 1,450 or 2,050 miles long?
2. Where did the Gang of Four try to size power in 1976?
3. Which Asian city hosted the 1988 Olympic Games?
4. Who was emperor of Japan during world War II?
5. What is the capital of Saudi Arabia?
6. Of which country is Vientiane the capital?
7. Who was the Mongol ruler who conquered Persia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia in the
14th Century?
8. Which two Middle-Eastern countries fought a war from 1980 to 1988?
9. Which sea lies between china and Korea?
10. In which modern country are the ports of Sidon and Tyer?
11. What is the name of the mountain pass which lies between Pakistan and Afghanistan?
12. The West Bank of which river has been occupied by Israel since 1967?
13. Which 15th-century navigator discovered the sea route from Europe to India by the Cape of
Good Hope?
14. What is the name of the group of 1,196 islands in the North Indian Ocean, none bigger than
five square miles?
15. What did Burma change its name to in 1989?
16. A 25 km causeway, the longest in the world, links Saudi Arabia with which other country?
17. Beside which river are the Indian cities of Delhi and Agra?
18. On which inland sea do the ports of Astrakhan and Baku lie?
19. Of which state in India is Lucknow the capital?
20. Which country was suspended from the Arab League for ten years from 1979?
21. With what is the Japanese art of bonsai concerned?
22. By what name was Thailand known until 1939?
23. What kind of wild cattle with shaggy coats and upturned horns live in the mountains of Tibet?
24. Which 13th-century Mongol warlord controlled probably a larger area than anyone in history,
from the Yellow Sea to the Black Sea?
25. Which country is bounded by Saudi Arabia, Oman, the Gulf of Aden, and the Red Sea?
26. Which is the largest city in India?
27. Which is the principal island of Japan?
28. What distinguished the Japanese tanker Shin-Attoku-Maru, launched in 1980?
29. What is the dominant classical language of the Indian subcontinent?
30. In which 1954 battle did the Vietminh defeat the French and end their influence in Indochina?
31. What nationality are the Gurkhas, who have fought for the British and Indian armies since
1815?
32. Which major export of Bangladesh is used to make sacking?
33. What was the former name of Iran?
34. Which river runs 1,560 miles to the Bay of Bengal?
35. Which sheikhdom is the capital of the United Arab Emirates?
36. Which native East Asian plant is the richest natural vegetable food?
37. What is the capital of Hong Kong?
38. Which Syrian city is said to be the oldest continually inhabited city in the world?
39. Who founded the modern republic of Turkey and, in 1934, took a name meaning "Father of the
Turks"?
40. What is the Japanese product kakiemon?
41. Which river with a vast delta to the South china Sea rises as the Za Qu in Tibet?
42. Isfahan is a major city in which country?
43. Which Indian poet and philosopher was the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
44. In which square in Beijing did troops massacre ore than 1,000 demonstrators in 1989?
45. Who was supposed to have told the Arabian Nights tales?
46. Find a picture of the Great Wall of China.
47. Find a picture of Mt. Everest.
48. Find a picture of the Tigris and Euphrates River.
49. Find a picture of the Sinai Peninsula.
50. Find a picture of the Taj Mahal.