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• Which railway, opened between Tokyo and Osaka in 1964, was the world's first high-speed line?Japanese history
• Who is counted, along with Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu, as one of the three great heroes of Japan's Warring States period?Japanese history
• Which city, the stage on which Japan showed the world its postwar recovery, hosted the first Summer Olympics held in Asia, in 1964?Japanese history
• Which battle of 1600, fought between an eastern and a western army, is known as the battle that decided the realm?Japanese history
• Which long novel did Murasaki Shikibu write in the Heian period?Japanese history
• Which man from Tosa brokered the alliance between two bitter rivals, known as the Satcho Alliance, in the last years of the shogunate?Japanese history
• Which peace treaty ended the Russo-Japanese War in 1905?Japanese history
• Which Enlightenment thinker wrote An Encouragement of Learning and spread Western thought widely in Meiji Japan?Japanese history
• Prince Shotoku, who drew up the Seventeen-Article Constitution, was a figure of the Edo period.Japanese history
• On August 6, 1945, which Japanese city became the first in the world to be attacked with an atomic bomb?Japanese history
• Who was the supreme commander of the Allied forces that occupied Japan after World War II?Japanese history
• During the Pacific War, Japanese forces occupied many parts of Southeast Asia.Japanese history
• Japan was defeated by Russia in the Russo-Japanese War, which began in 1904.Japanese history
• After its defeat in World War II, Japan was divided into east and west as Germany was.Japanese history
• Oda Nobunaga met his end at Honno-ji in a revolt by his retainer Akechi Mitsuhide.Japanese history
• Japan ruled Taiwan and Korea as colonies in the first half of the 20th century.Japanese history
• The first prime minister of Japan was Ito Hirobumi.Japanese history
• The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 did its worst damage around Osaka and Kyoto.Japanese history
• The Japanese era names ran from Meiji to Showa and then to Taisho.Japanese history
• Toyotomi Hideyoshi ended the divisions of the Warring States period and unified Japan at the end of the 16th century.Japanese history
• Who was the last king of Silla, the one who handed his kingdom over to Wang Geon of Goryeo of his own accord?Ancient Korea · Three Kingdoms
• Which son of King Gwanggaeto succeeded his father as king of Goguryeo?Ancient Korea · Three Kingdoms
• Which rock in Buyeo, Korea, carries the legend that court ladies threw themselves into the river when Baekje fell?Ancient Korea · Three Kingdoms
• Which kind of tomb, built for rulers in the Bronze Age when Gojoseon took shape in Korea, set a huge capstone on top of supporting stones?Ancient Korea · Three Kingdoms
• Which of the Five Secular Precepts (Sesok Ogye) of ancient Korea means 'do not retreat in battle'?Ancient Korea · Three Kingdoms
• Which festival did Goguryeo hold every tenth month, when the whole country gathered to offer rites to heaven?Ancient Korea · Three Kingdoms
• In the Four Guardians painted on the walls of Goguryeo tombs, which mythical creature guards the north?Ancient Korea · Three Kingdoms
• Which power destroyed Balhae in 926?Ancient Korea · Three Kingdoms
• Daegaya led the Gaya confederacy after Geumgwan Gaya declined. Where in present-day Korea was its center?Ancient Korea · Three Kingdoms
• After Baekje fell, Wa (Japan) sent no troops to support the movement to restore it.Ancient Korea · Three Kingdoms
• Many of the common people of Balhae were Malgal (Mohe).Ancient Korea · Three Kingdoms
• Which man of Goguryeo, mocked as a 'fool', is said to have married Princess Pyeonggang and become a general?Ancient Korea · Three Kingdoms
• After unifying Korea's Three Kingdoms, Silla moved its capital to the Han River valley.Ancient Korea · Three Kingdoms
• In Korean history, Gojoseon was founded before any of the Three Kingdoms.Ancient Korea · Three Kingdoms
• Balhae was a state that lay to the south of Silla.Ancient Korea · Three Kingdoms
• In Korean tradition, the name 'Jumong' is said to come from a word for a person skilled with the bow.Ancient Korea · Three Kingdoms
• Seokgatap and Dabotap are two stone pagodas standing side by side before the main hall of Bulguksa Temple in Korea.Ancient Korea · Three Kingdoms
• The Korean chronicle Samguk Sagi records Onjo as a son of Jumong.Ancient Korea · Three Kingdoms
• Seokguram in Korea is a shrine made by placing a Buddha inside a natural cave left as it was.Ancient Korea · Three Kingdoms
• King Seong of Baekje lost his life in a battle against Goguryeo.Ancient Korea · Three Kingdoms
• Who called for armed resistance on the eve of the War of Independence with the speech 'Give me liberty, or give me death'?Founding · Civil War
• Which novel, published in 1852, brought the horrors of slavery to a wide public and inflamed the conflict between North and South?Founding · Civil War
• Who, as the first secretary of the treasury of the United States, laid the foundations of federal finance and a national bank?Founding · Civil War
• Who earned the nickname 'Moses' by leading escaped slaves north along the secret network known as the Underground Railroad?Founding · Civil War
• In which battle of 1775 were the first shots of the American War of Independence fired?Founding · Civil War
• Which Founding Father of the United States is also famous for flying a kite to show that lightning is electricity?Founding · Civil War
• Which country sold Alaska to the United States in 1867?Founding · Civil War
• What was the main reason English Puritans left home for North America in the early seventeenth century?Founding · Civil War
• Which text contains the phrase 'government of the people, by the people, for the people'?Founding · Civil War
• Where did the colonies that formed the United States at independence lie?Founding · Civil War
• Thanksgiving in the United States is said to go back to a feast at which early settlers gave thanks for their first harvest.Founding · Civil War
• Lincoln won the presidential election of 1860 as the candidate of the Democratic Party.Founding · Civil War
• 'No taxation without representation' was a slogan raised by the southern states during the Civil War.Founding · Civil War
• The story that the young George Washington cut down a cherry tree and honestly owned up to it is regarded as a biographer's invention.Founding · Civil War
• Texas broke away from Mexico and existed as a republic before it was annexed by the United States.Founding · Civil War
• During the War of 1812, British troops entered the capital of the United States and burned the president's residence and the Capitol.Founding · Civil War
• The American War of Independence was fought by colonists to break free from Spanish rule.Founding · Civil War
• Lincoln was one of the Founding Fathers who signed the United States Declaration of Independence.Founding · Civil War
• George Washington was commander in chief of the colonial army in the American War of Independence.Founding · Civil War
• Lincoln was born in a log cabin and rose to become president.Founding · Civil War