Taiwan Culture, Economy and Society
Economy, Science and Society
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- Which industry is Taiwan best known for around the world?
- Which grain is Taiwan's main food crop?
- Which science park, founded in 1980 in northern Taiwan, is the cradle of the island's chip industry?
- Which group of economies, called the Four Asian Tigers, includes Taiwan?
- Which Taipei skyscraper, finished in 2004 and designed with a bamboo and pagoda look, is Taiwan's best-known landmark?
- What is the name of Taiwan's rechargeable smart card used on buses and metro?
- Which type of company makes chips designed by other firms, an approach Taiwan helped to build?
- Where does Taiwan High Speed Rail run?
- Which land reform of the 1950s helped many farmers in Taiwan to own the land they worked?
- Which flower is grown in large greenhouses in Tainan and exported?
- Which Taiwan-born scientist won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986?
- What does Taiwan's National Health Insurance provide?
- In which year did twelve years of basic education begin in Taiwan?
- Which major port in the north lies on the coast near Taipei?
- Which Taiwanese bike makers are among the largest in the world?
- Which research institution, founded in 1928 on the mainland and moved to Taipei in 1949, is Taiwan's top academy?
- Which sort of store is extremely common across Taiwan's cities and towns?
- Which crop is a major export of southern Taiwan alongside pineapple?
- Which programme of the 1970s built a north-south freeway, an international airport and large ports?
- Which airport in Taoyuan is Taiwan's main international gateway?
- Which port city's Export Processing Zone, opened in 1966, helped Taiwan's early exports?
- The Hsinchu Science Park opened in 1980 and TSMC was founded in 1987. How many years separate them?
- Which statement about the Land-to-the-Tiller programme is correct?
- Which statement about the Four Asian Tigers is correct?
- The Taipei MRT opened in 1996 and High Speed Rail opened in 2007. Which order and gap are correct?
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