Japan History Quiz 40

Questions

1. The Yihetuan Movement, also know as the Boxer Rebellion, took place in which country?

   1. Taiwan
   2. China
   3. Japan
   4. South Korea

2. Who invented the record breaking "Megastar" device?

   1. Takeo Nakasawa
   2. Takayuki Ohira
   3. Jun-ichi Nishizawa
   4. Yasujiro Niwa

3. Which Prime Ministers government was brought down as a result of the Showa Crisis?

   1. Feijiro
   2. Meijiro
   3. Leijiro
   4. Reijiro

4. Which of these served as Prime Minister of Japan BEFORE the others?

   1. Kato Takaaki
   2. Wakatsuki Reijiro
   3. Oscachi Hamaguchi
   4. Tanak Giichi

5. Which of the following Prime Ministers was elected earliest?

   1. Kakuei Tanaka
   2. Eisaku Sato
   3. Takeo Miki
   4. Takeo Fukuda

6. Which inventor served as the President of the World Medical association in the 1970s?

   1. Taro Takemi
   2. Jun-ichi Nishizawa
   3. Takashi Yabe
   4. Yasujiro Niwa

7. When were Japanese citizens first allowed to buy Mobile phones?

   1. 1998
   2. 1983
   3. 1994
   4. 1989

8. When was Shinzo Abe born?

   1. 1974
   2. 1984
   3. 1964
   4. 1954

9. When did Japanese troops enter the Iraq War?

   1. 2008
   2. 2004
   3. 2009
   4. 2012

10. What period followed the Yayoi Period?

    1. Dofun
    2. Kofun
    3. Mofun
    4. Lofun

11. Emperor Itoku was the son of which emperor?

    1. Emperor Kosho
    2. Emperor Annei
    3. Emperor Suizei
    4. Emperor Jimmu

12. The Muromachie Period began in what century?

    1. 12th
    2. 16th
    3. 14th
    4. 15th

13. The first railway in Japan was between which two locations?

    1. Tokyo and Kyoto
    2. Osaka and Kyoto
    3. Tokyo and Yokohama
    4. Osaka and Yokohama

14. The Nakatsumaki begins with the story of which of the following emperors?

    1. Emperor Jimmu
    2. Emperor Suizei
    3. Emperor Ōjin
    4. Emperor Jingu

15. Nagaoka Kyo was made Capital of Japan during which century?

    1. 11th Century
    2. 8th Century
    3. 15th Century
    4. 10th Century

16. In which civilian city was the first atomic bomb dropped?

    1. Nagasaki
    2. Osaka
    3. Hiroshima
    4. Tokyo

17. In what year did the Second Sino-Japanese War end?

    1. 1940
    2. 1937
    3. 1942
    4. 1945

18. In what year did Emperor Keiko's rule end?

    1. 29 B.
    2. 200
    3. 130
    4. 71

19. In 1908, Kikunae Ikeda invented which of the following flavourings?

    1. Vanillin
    2. Saccharin
    3. Aspartame
    4. Monosodium Glutamate

20. How fast does Japan's bullet train travel at maximum?

    1. 400 km/h
    2. 220 km/h
    3. 300 km/h
    4. 320 km/h