Y5-Mandarin-Final week fun quiz

蹴鞠(cù jū) is an ancient Chinese sport/game. Descriptions of the game date back to the Han dynasty (2000 years ago). A competitive form of 蹴鞠(cù jū) was used as fitness training for military cavaliers, while other forms were played for entertainment.

Q: According to the radicals of characters, what kind of sport/game that 蹴鞠(cù jū) indicates?

• Football

• Archery

• Horse racing

• Swim

Which facts below about China is actually FALSE:

• The Great Wall was built for defending invasion.

• There is no ‘Female King’ existing in Chinese history.

• Hong Kong and Macao was a place of captivity and exile in ancient China.

• The youngest emperor in Chinese history is a baby who was only 100 days after birth.

What is the function of this device? 地动仪（dì dòng yí）

• Show directions

• Fortune telling

• Earthquake forecast

• Ancient Karaoke system

A place in China was monitored the highest ground temperature: 75.6 ℃ in 2019. Which map shows the hottest area in China?

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This map shows modern China railway lines. If we put all of China’s railway lines, how far can it go?

• It can loop around the earth 3.5 times!

• It can reach the moon!

• It can make a round trip from China to the United States!

飞流直下三千尺，疑是银河落九天。

fēi liú zhí xià sān qiān chǐ, yí sì yín hé huò jiǔ tiān.

Flying waters descending straight three thousand feet,

Till I think the Milky Way has tumbled from the ninth height of Heaven.

Q: What does this poem describe?

• Waterfall

• Rain

• Tornado on the sea

• Torrential flood

Three spacemen just entered the Chinese space station 2 weeks ago, and they celebrated a Chinese traditional festival 端午节(duān wǔ jié) in the space. They also prepared a special food for this event. Look at this picture, what did they eat?

• 粽子 zòng zi

• 月饼 yuè bing

• 饺子 jiǎo zi

• 汤圆 tāng yuan

北盘江大桥(běi pán jiāng bridge) is a 4-lane cable-stayed bridge on the border between the provinces of Guizhou and Yunnan in China. It is the highest bridge in the world, with the road deck sitting over 565 metres above the Beipan River. The bridge spans 1,340 m, and it was a great challenge when the engineers started to think how they could move the steel cables from one side to the other, because each cable is quite heavy and all ordinary methods could not be applied between 2 high mountains.

Q: Which method that engineers finally used to move the steel cables?

• Use 1000 drones to move cables.

• Use rockets to shoot cables to the other side.

• Engineers invented the most powerful crane truck for this project.

• Use a huge kite to fly to the other side with the cable

In 西游记 (xī yóu jì), the Master唐僧(táng sēng)’s ride is a white horse, actually it is transformed from a _________

• White dragon

• White tiger

• White bird

• White turtle

In Beijing Opera, what personality does ‘The White Face’ represent?

• Courage and loyalty

• Funny

• Brutality and cruelty

• Fearless