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INSTRUCTIONS
1) Choose a category
2) Correctly answer questions/statements
3) If your wrong you loose the amount of
money you were playing for
4) Whoever has the most money at the
end of the game wins.
$10,000
$1,000
Are You Smarter Than a
7th Grader? ASIA
$900
$800
$700
Economy
Political Features
Physical Features
Major Religions
Climate
History
Government
Types of Governments
Population distribution
Environmental issues
$600
$500
$400
$300
$200
$100
Economy $100
What
are the four basic economic
systems used by countries?
Answer
Traditional, command, market and
mixed
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Economics
Other
than mixed economic systems,
what does India and China have in
common in terms of their economic
systems?
Answer
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The both have major rural areas and
depend on farming which are
traditional economic systems
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Economy $200
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What are the three basic economic
questions for which every country
must consider to run their economy?
Answer
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What will be produce?, How it will
be produced?, and For whom it will
be produced?
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Economy $300
What
are the basic units of currency
used in India, China and Japan?
Answer
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India uses the rupee, China uses
the Yuan and Japan the Yen
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Economy $400
What
farming practices have allowed
the China and Japan to increase
production?
Answer
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Terrace farming (farming on hill
sides)
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Economy $500
Explain
how most countries have a
mixed economy located on a
continuum between pure market and
pure command.
Answer
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A mixed economy has elements of
command and market economic
systems. There is government control
and individual freedoms to decide the
three basic economic questions.
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Economy $600
Compare
and contrast the economic
systems in India, China, Japan, and
North Korea.
Answer
India,
China and Japan has mixed
economic systems. North Korea has
a command economy.
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Economy $700
Explain
how specialization encourages
trade between countries.
Answer
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Countries specialize in trading because
of unequal distribution of global
resources. Exporting and importing
certain goods and services they need
helps to successfully run their economies
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Economy $800
Compare
and contrast different
types of trade barriers, such as
tariffs, quotas, and embargos.
Answer
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Tariffs are taxes on imports,
quotas place limits on trade, and
embargos are ban on trade.
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Economy $900
Explain
why international trade
requires a system for exchanging
currencies between nations.
Answer
The
prices that one country has
for currency have different values
compared to others. Without an
exchange rate, global trade would
be practically impossible.
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Economy $1000
Explain
the relationship between
investment in human capital
(education and training) and gross
domestic product (GDP).
Answer
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Asian countries investment in workers
education, training, healthcare and positive
working environments will increase production
of products and services and spending to
produce more income for businesses. This
will increase the GDP.
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Economy $1,000
Explain
the relationship between
investment in capital (factories,
machinery, and technology) and gross
domestic product (GDP). How do they
relate to one another?
Answer
Asian
countries investment in capital
will increase production of quality
goods and services thereby providing
increased consumer spending which
will increase the GDP.
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Economy $1,000
Describe
the role of entrepreneurship.
Answer
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Entrepreneurship typically benefits
a country’s economy because it
creates jobs and spending which
helps to increase the Gross
Domestic Product (GDP).
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Describe
the role of natural
resources in a country’s economy.
Answer
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Natural resources are developed
by nations to provide income
through trade (imports and exports)
to support their economies.
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Physical Features $100
What
natural feature forms most of
India’s northern border and
separates the country from the rest
of Asia
Answer
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Himalayan
Mountains
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Physical Features $200
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The coldest desert on Earth that
covers more than 500,000 square
miles located in northern China
Answer
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Gobi
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Physical Features $300
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What is the name of the river
located in East Asia and flows
through Laos, Cambodia, and
Vietnam and empties into the South
China Sea?
Answer
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Mekong
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Physical Features $400
What
is the name of the desert
located in Western China, north of
the Himalayan Mountains?
Answer
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Taklimakan
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Physical Features $500
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What body of water is west of
Japan?
Answer
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Sea of Japan
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Physical Features $600
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What two major rivers support
China’s eastern region?
Answer
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Huang He
(Yellow) River and
Yangtze (Chang
Jiang) River
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Climate $100
What
is the reason for low
populations in the desert regions of
India and China?
Answer
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The regions has limited water
resources
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Climate $400
Describe how the mountain, desert,
and water features affect population
in terms of where people live, type of
work they do and how they travel?
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Answer
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Southern Asia’s mountains and deserts are
less populated than other areas. People in
theses regions work as farmers or herders
and travel by walking or animal. The water
features areas more populated, people
work as fisherman, farmers, merchants or
traders. They travel using water vehicles.
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Government $100
What are the types of governments
in India, China and Japan?
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Answer
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India has federal republic, China has
communist and Japan a constitutional
monarchy
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Government $200
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What is common among India, China
and Japan governments?
Answer
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All have three branches and citizens
vote in some capacity
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Population distribution $100
Where is Asia most heavily
populated?
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Answer
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Near the coasts, rivers and other
water resources
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Political Features $100
What
two countries make up the
Korean Peninsula?
Answer
North Korea
and South Korea
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Political Features $200
What
is the name of the largest
country in Southern Asia
Answer
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India
Political Features
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What is the name of the country in
Southeastern Asia whose capital is
Hanoi?
Answer
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Vietnam
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Political Features $300
In
general, what assumption can be
made about countries like Japan and
China with higher literacy rates?
Answer
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Higher literacy rates results in
increased economy and standard
of living.
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Major Religions $100
What
India?
is the most practiced religion in
Answer
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Hinduism
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Major Religions $200
This religion originated and is practice
by many people in Japan. It believes
in Kami (a spirit exist in things of
nature).
Answer
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Shintoism
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Major Religions $300
Most importantly, this tradition was
instrumental in shaping Chinese social
relationships and moral thought.
Answer
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Confucianism
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Major Religions $400
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A belief in reincarnation and after many
life cycles, if a person releases their
attachment to desire and the self, they
can attain Nirvana. This is a state of
liberation and freedom from suffering.
Answer
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Buddhism
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Major Religions $500
Explain
the differences between an
ethnic group and a religious group.
Answer
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An ethnic group has the language,
religion, history and customs that
bonds people, whereas religion has
the belief or religious practices as
the connection
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History $100
What
is nationalism?
Answer
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devotion and loyalty to one's own
nation; patriotism.
History $100
Describe
how nationalism led to
independence in India and Vietnam.
Answer
The nations used nationalism work to
free themselves by uniting to seek
independence from European control.
Leaders often ask all ethnic groups to
bond together in based on pride and
loyalty for their nations freedom.
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History $200
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Describe the impact of Mohandas K.
Gandhi’s belief in non-violent protest?
Answer
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Gandhi became the most
important leader of the Indian
independence movement and used a
strategy of nonviolent mass
protest.
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Why
did the United States get
involved in the Korean and Vietnam
Wars?
Answer
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The United States believed if the
countries fell to communism, then
other nations would also, so its
mission was stop the spread of
communism
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History $400
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What reason did the United States
occupied Japan after World War II?
Answer
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To help rebuild Japan’s
infrastructure (public systems and
services) and become a peaceful
democratically governed nation
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What is communism?
Answer
A
system of government in which the
state plans and controls the economy
in which all goods are equally shared
by the people.
History $500
Describe
the impact of Communism in
China in terms of Mao Zedong
Answer
The
Chinese leader who brought
communism to China and instituted
several government programs to
strengthen its support among its people
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History $600
What
was the Great Leap Forward?
Answer
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Economic polices aimed at making
China equal to leading world
powers in industry and agriculture
instituted by Mao Zedong in 1958.
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History $700
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Describe China’s Cultural/Communist
Revolution under leader, Mao Zedong
Answer
From
1966-1976 in China, Mao Zedong
launched programs to wipe out past
culture and history as well as foreign
influence. The Cultural Revolution
resulted in beatings, terror, mass jailing,
and the deaths of thousands.
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History $800
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What led to the events that
occurred at Tiananmen Square in
1989?
Answer
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Human rights abuses by China’s
Communist government led to protest
led by students in the capital of
Beijing. The event resulted in
hundreds of deaths, thousands injured
and many more imprisoned.
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Types of Governments $100
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Government where representatives
are freely elected to serve the
interest of the people.
Answer
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Republic
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Types of Governments $200
A
government system that may have
a Prime Minister elected, real power
is in a cabinet composed of members
of the legislature.
Answer
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Parliamentary
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Types of Governments $300
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Government that has a king or queen
with unlimited power and citizens
have little participation in the
political process
Answer
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Absolute Monarchy
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Types of Governments $400
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A government system where the
federal and local level governments
work together to run the country
Answer
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Federal
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Environmental Issues $100
What are causes and effects of
pollution on the Yangtze and Ganges
Rivers?
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Answer
The daily use, religions practices and
industry wastes has caused pollution,
many diseases and deaths among China
and India’s people
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Environmental Issues $200
Describe
the causes and effects of
air pollution and flooding in India and
China.
Answer
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Industry and vehicle pollute the air.
The rivers regularly flood over its
banks, often destroying crops, homes
and lives.
$10,000 Question Topic
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Governments
$10,000 Question
Compare
and contrast India, China, and Japan’s
governments distinguishing the type of
government, structure, and the role of the citizen
in terms of voting rights and personal freedoms.
$10,000 Answer
India is a federal republic, China is
communist and Japan has a
constitutional monarchy. All three
nations have three branches and
citizens participate in voting.
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