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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Of India’s more than 1 billion population, almost _____ million are Muslims | 165 Million |
| The country located … [north/south/east/west] of India is: | Pakistan |
| The major river of Pakistan is the: | Indus |
| The area known as the “land of the five rivers” is: | Punjab |
| The southwestern Arabian Sea coast of India is known as the | Malabar Coast |
| The caste system is most associated with what religion | Hinduism |
| The first true indigenous empire in the south Asian realm was the? | Mauryan |
| the power that massively penetrated india from the west in the tenth century AD was | Islam |
| in 1947, British India was partitioned into which states? | India and Pakistan |
| Which city lost a good part of its hinterland to Pakistan in the partioning of Bristish India? | Calcutta |
| The area of India in which the population exhibits the country's lowest growth rate is: | The southermost states of the peninsula |
| The approximate porcentage of India's population that lives in poverty-stricken rural area is: | 70% |
| Which of the following countries does not share a common border with Pakistan? | Afghanistan, Iran, India and China. |
| An area whose control is hotly disputed by India and Pakistan is: | Jammu & Kashmir |
| The McMahon Line: | Treaty signed in 1914 and it is the effective boundary between China and India. |
| India's Sikh population is concentrated in: | Punjab |
| The priestly caste in India is known as the: | Brahmins |
| The untouchable caste in India is known as the: | Harijans |
| The city located closest to the Ganges Delta is: | Kolkata (Calcutta) |
| The_____revolution of the 1960s introduced "miracle" varieties of wheat and rice that significantly increased the productivity of these crops. | GREEN |
| Which industry sperheaded the economic developmen of Bengaluru over the past decade | Information Technology |
| A newly developing regional economic disparity in India has opened between | the east and west |
| During the twentieth century, 8 of the 10 costliest natural disasters in the world struck | Bangladesh |
| Which of the following cities suffered severely in the devastating 1991 cyclone that came ashore at the northern end of the Bay of Bengal? | Dhaka |
| Bangladesh was formerly known as: | East Pakistan |
| The two countries of South Asia’s Mountainous North are: | Nepal and Bhutan |
| The small group of islands 400 miles southwest of India are the: | Maldives |
| The Buddhist majority population of Sri Lanka is known as the: | Sinhalese |
| Bhutan is located between _________ and _________ | |
| What is the former name of Sri Lanka? | Ceylon |
| What is the name of the Sri Lankan minority that has been demanding an independent state of Eelam, to be established on the coast of India facing Sri Lanka? | |
| Two former colonial entities that reunited with China during the late 1990s are: | Macau and Hong Kong |
| China’s total area is (compared to the United States): | China 9.5m km2 vs U.S. 9.8m km2 |
| The country of the “people of Han” is: | China |
| Mao Zedong’s proclamation creating the communist People’s Republic of China was announced in: | 1949 |
| China’s largest city is: | Shanghai |
| China’s current population is closest to: | 1.3 billion |
| Which of the following regions is often called “Manchuria” by uninformed foreigners? | Northeast China |
| Which of the following is one of the worlds’ most heavily populated agricultural areas | North China Plain |
| The main river serving the hinterland of Shanghai is the: | Chang-Yangzi River |
| The Gobi Desert is associated with which Chinese region? | Inner Mongolia |
| The southernmost of China’s three great rivers is the: | Xi/Pearl |
| The emerging economic region of China, driven by forces of globalization, is: | the Pacific Rim |
| The leader who took over in China following the struggle after Mao's death was: | Mao's son |
| China’s decision to open relations with the West in 1972 was in part based on: | the need for a relationship with a major power, since China was at serious odds with the Soviet Union. |
| Which of the following in not one of Japan’s four large islands? | Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku |
| Which of the following was not occupied by Japan during World War II? | Siberia |
| The Meiji Restoration: | marked the beginning of Japan's modernization and generated its economic and military transformation |
| Japan’s natural landscapes: | are mountainous and hilly, with flat land at a premium |
| Japan’s population: | is just above 125 million, crowded on limited land on a few islands |
| Japan’s largest and main island, containing the Japanese capital and almost all of its core area is: | Honshu |
| Japan’s leading region of urbanization and industry (and agriculture as well) is the: | Kanto Plain E. Kyushu |
| By 2100, Japan’s current population of 128 million is expected to shrink to about _____ million: | 67 |
| Japan’s recent economic problems are a result of all of the following except: | our major earthquakes in the 1990s that led to 3 million deaths and billions of dollars in losses |
| North and South Korea may be said to be in a situation of: | regional complementarity |
| The outcome of the Korean War in the 1950s was: | a military stalemate resulting in the continued division of the country |
| South Korea’s growth has resulted from an economic system described as: | state capitalism |
| Taiwan was at one time a colony of: | Japan |
| A former Portuguese colony that is the newest state in Southeast Asia is: | Macau (Macao) |
| Half of Southeast Asia’s population lives in which two countries? | Indonesia; the Philippines |
| Agriculture in Southeast Asia is limited by: | leached soils |
| A country in Southeast Asia that remained, for the most part, an independent state throughout the colonial era was: | Burma |
| In 1965, _______ broke away from Malaysia and became a separate political entity in Southeast Asia. | Singapore |
| _______ held onto eastern Timor well after the Dutch left the East Indies. | Portugal |
| The largest Muslim country in the world in terms of population is: | Indonesia |
| Which of the following political entities is not located on the island of Borneo? | East Timor |
| The colonial power that lost the battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954 was: | French |
| Which country does not border Vietnam? | Thailand |
| The Southeast Asian nation that is still ruled by a communist regime is: | Vietnam and Laos |
| Angkor Wat is located in which country? | Cambodia |
| The Khmer Rouge killed as many as 2 million people in an attempt to change the society of: | Cambodia |
| The poorest state in Indochina is: | Laos |
| Three countries located on the Malay Peninsula are: | Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar (Burma) |
| The vast majority of Thailand’s Muslim population lives in the: | I dont Know |
| The two States of East Malaysia are: | Sarawak and Sabah |
| The small oil rich Islamic sultanate of Insular Southeast Asia is: | Brunei |
| The ethnic group that accounts for over 75 percent of Singapore’s population are the: | Chinese |
| Indonesia is a state located: | on more than 13,000 islands, between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean |
| The majority of Indonesia’s population is located on the Island of: | Jawa |
| The island of ________ is the largest and westernmost island of Indonesia. | Jawa |
| The island of Insular Southeast Asia that can be characterized as a minicontinent is: | Jawa |
| The now-ended policy of the Indonesian government to induce Jawanese to move to other islands was called: | transmigration |
| The state that has unresolved issues with Australia over seabed oil reserves is: | East Timor |
| The two main islands in the Philippines are: | Luzon,Mindanao |
| The Muslim stronghold in the Philippines is located in: | Basilan Island. |
| _______ is Southeast Asia’s only landlocked country. | Laos. |
| Manila is located on the island of _________. | Philippines |
| Banda Aceh, the city most devastated by the 2004 tsunami, is located on the Indonesian island of _______________. | ? |
| Papua, the Indonesian province that lies in the Pacific Realm, is located on the island of _______________. | ? |
| The animals found in Australia who carry their young in pouches are collectively known as: | Marsupials |
| Native Australians are known as: | Aborigines |
| For many years, Australia had an immigration policy that: | allowed only white people to enter the country |
| Which of the following is not one of Australia’s major problems? | border disputes |
| Which of the following statements is false (Australia’s population)? | Most Australians live in rural areas. |
| The island across the Bass Strait off the southeastern coast of Australia is called: | Tasmania |
| Most of the core area of Australia is located in the: | southeastern coast |
| About ___ percent of Australians live in cities or towns. | 85 |
| The Australian capital city is: | Canberra |
| The vast interior rural area of Australia is known as the: | outback |
| The agricultural activity most closely associated with Australia’s moistest environment is: | dairying |
| New Zealand’s largest ethnic minority group, whose roots are Polynesian, is known as the: | Maori |
| The historic 1840 agreement between the Maori and Europeans in New Zealand is known as the Treaty of: | Waitangi |
| Today, fully one-fourth of Australia’s population is _______ born. | British-Irish |
| ______ is Australia’s largest commercial crop. | Wheat |
| Australia has had a long-term relationship with __________ to assist that country’s development. | Papua New Guinea |
| The term “Austral” means _______________. | From the south |
| Australia’s newest neighbor, which successfully seceded from Indonesia and became independent in 2002, is _______________. | ? |
| In territorial size, the largest country in Melanesia is: | PAPUA NEW GUINEA. |
| The island of New Guinea is included in the Pacific region known as: | Melanesia |
| Which of the following is located in Melanesia? | Papua Province (Indonesia), Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia (France), Fiji |
| Papua New Guinea has faced an insurgency movement in: | Bougainville |
| Prior to independence, New Guinea was administered by: | Australia |
| Which of the following is false about Fiji? | Large numbers of Australians have retired to the islands. |
| Which of the following is located in Micronesia? | Marshall Islands |
| The better-watered volcanic islands, where the economy is based upon agriculture, are known as: | high islands |
| The dominant economic activity associated with high-island cultures is: | agriculture |
| The Pacific region called ___________ takes its name from the word for many, and is contained within a huge triangle whose corners are New Zealand, Easter Island, and the Hawaiian Islands. | Polynesia |
| Regionally, the Hawaiian Islands are part of: | Polynesia |
| The country abbreviated as PNG is the largest state in the Pacific region called ______________. | Papa New Gueinea |
| The Pacific region that from the end of World War II through the 1980s was largely a United States Trust territory is _____________. | ? |
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