Hong Kong History and Politics

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  1. Complete the sentence about History of Hong Kong with the correct year: The Qing dynasty ceded Hong Kong to the British Empire in ______ in perpetuity through the Treaty of Nanjing, ending the First O…
  2. Complete the sentence about History of Hong Kong with the correct year: By the end of the war in ______, Hong Kong had been liberated by British troops and returned to British rule.
  3. Complete the sentence about History of Hong Kong with the correct year: The handover of Hong Kong on 1 July ______ returned Hong Kong to Chinese rule, and it adopted the Hong Kong Basic Law.
  4. Complete the sentence about British Hong Kong with the correct year: In March ______, he became Special Imperial Commissioner in Canton, where he ordered foreign traders to surrender their opium stock…
  5. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The exchange of ratification took place in Hong Kong on 26 June ______.
  6. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Nanking with the correct year: The first working draft for articles of a treaty was prepared at the Foreign Office in London in February ______.
  7. Complete the sentence about Treaty of Nanking with the correct year: The fundamental purpose of the treaty was to change the framework of foreign trade imposed by the Canton System, which had been in…
  8. Complete the sentence about Convention of Peking with the correct year: On 18 October ______, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, the British and French troops entered the Forbidden City in Pe…
  9. Complete the sentence about Convention of Peking with the correct year: The treaties with France and Britain were signed in the Ministry of Rites building immediately south of the Forbidden City on 24…
  10. Complete the sentence about Opium Wars with the correct year: In ______, the EIC's monopoly on British trade with China ceased, and the opium trade burgeoned.
  11. Complete the sentence about Opium Wars with the correct year: In ______, Lin published in Canton an open letter to Queen Victoria requesting her cooperation in halting the opium trade.
  12. Complete the sentence about Charles Elliot with the correct year: Elliott became commodore on the East Indies and China Station, with his broad pennant in the screw gunboat HMS Haughty, in January ___…
  13. Complete the sentence about Charles Elliot with the correct year: In October ______ a small unit of Chinese soldiers boarded the British-flagged lorcha Arrow and kidnapped twelve of the crew so initia…
  14. Complete the sentence about Henry Pottinger with the correct year: In ______, he left for India to join the East India Company's maritime service, but in the following year joined the Company's milita…
  15. Complete the sentence about Henry Pottinger with the correct year: In ______, he served as a lieutenant in the Third Anglo-Maratha War.
  16. Complete the sentence about Henry Pottinger with the correct year: Pottinger later became Resident Administrator of Sindh in ______.
  17. Complete the sentence about Governor of Hong Kong with the correct year: Authorities and duties of the governor were defined in the Hong Kong Letters Patent and Royal Instructions in ______.
  18. Complete the sentence about Chris Patten with the correct year: On John Major's succession as Prime Minister in ______, Patten became Chairman of the Conservative Party and Chancellor of the Duchy of…
  19. Complete the sentence about Chris Patten with the correct year: As party chairman, he successfully orchestrated a surprise Conservative electoral victory in ______, but lost his own seat.
  20. Complete the sentence about Chris Patten with the correct year: Patten was then appointed the last governor of Hong Kong, to oversee the final years of British administration in the colony and prepare…
  21. Complete the sentence about Murray MacLehose with the correct year: Murray MacLehose was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 16 October ______, the second child of Hamish Alexander MacLehose who owned a pri…
  22. Complete the sentence about Murray MacLehose with the correct year: MacLehose attended Rugby School in ______ and Balliol College, Oxford where he read modern history.
  23. Complete the sentence about Murray MacLehose with the correct year: In May ______ he met British scientist and historian Joseph Needham.
  24. Complete the sentence about Murray MacLehose with the correct year: MacLehose was awarded the Order of the British Empire by the British government in ______ for his wartime service.
  25. Complete the sentence about Murray MacLehose with the correct year: At the end of the Second World War, MacLehose served as the British Acting Consul in Fuzhou before becoming Consul General for the B…
  26. Complete the sentence about Battle of Hong Kong with the correct year: The fall of the city is regarded as Black Christmas as it marked the beginning of a brutal occupation by Japan that would last un…
  27. Complete the sentence about Battle of Hong Kong with the correct year: By ______, the British determined to reduce the Hong Kong Garrison to only a symbolic size.
  28. Complete the sentence about Japanese occupation of Hong Kong with the correct year: During the Imperial Japanese military's full-scale invasion of China in ______, Hong Kong as part of the British Emp…
  29. Complete the sentence about Japanese occupation of Hong Kong with the correct year: In early March ______, during an Imperial Japanese bombing raid on Shenzhen, a few bombs fell accidentally on Hong K…
  30. Complete the sentence about Japanese occupation of Hong Kong with the correct year: In ______, Germany and the Empire of Japan signed the Anti-Comintern Pact.
  31. Complete the sentence about Japanese occupation of Hong Kong with the correct year: In ______, Fascist Italy joined the pact, forming the core of what would become known as the Axis powers.
  32. Complete the sentence about Japanese occupation of Hong Kong with the correct year: In the autumn of ______, Nazi Germany was near the height of its military power.
  33. Complete the sentence about Sino-British Joint Declaration with the correct year: Hong Kong became a British colony in ______ after the British defeated the Qing dynasty in the First Opium War.
  34. Complete the sentence about Sino-British Joint Declaration with the correct year: Hong Kong Governor Frederick Lugard first proposed renegotiating the lease as a formal cession in ______ in return for…
  35. Complete the sentence about Margaret Thatcher with the correct year: In ______ she defeated Heath in the Conservative Party leadership election to become Leader of the Opposition and the first woman t…
  36. Complete the sentence about Margaret Thatcher with the correct year: In ______ Thatcher oversaw the deregulation of UK financial markets, leading to an economic boom, in what came to be known as the B…
  37. Complete the sentence about Deng Xiaoping with the correct year: Deng was born in Guang'an District, Guang'an on 22 August ______ in Sichuan province.
  38. Complete the sentence about Handover of Hong Kong with the correct year: The handover of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the People's Republic of China occur…
  39. Complete the sentence about Handover of Hong Kong with the correct year: With a population of about 6.5 million in ______, Hong Kong made up 97 percent of the population of all the British Dependent T…
  40. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong Basic Law with the correct year: Instead, Hong Kong will continue its capitalist system and way of life from before ______ for at least 50 years through to 2047.
  41. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong Basic Law with the correct year: The British government then obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in ______, which expanded the colony of Hong Kong for…
  42. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong Basic Law with the correct year: Chinese governments following the Qing Empire's collapse in ______ refer to these agreements as "unequal treaties" and were inval…
  43. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong Basic Law with the correct year: In ______, Chinese and British officials separately began to meet Hong Kong business and political elites in Hong Kong.
  44. Complete the sentence about One country, two systems with the correct year: In ______, Deng stated that Hong Kong's political system was neither the British nor American systems and Hong Kong should n…
  45. Complete the sentence about Tung Chee-hwa with the correct year: Four years later, OOCL teetered on the edge of bankruptcy, and the business was saved by the People's Republic of China government thro…
  46. Complete the sentence about Tung Chee-hwa with the correct year: In ______, he was elected the Chief Executive by a 400-member Selection Committee.
  47. Complete the sentence about Tung Chee-hwa with the correct year: Tung resigned in the middle of his second term on 10 March ______.
  48. Complete the sentence about Tung Chee-hwa with the correct year: Tung Chee-hwa's younger brother, Tung Chee-chen, was ranked as the 23rd wealthiest man in Hong Kong in ______, worth US$900 million.
  49. Complete the sentence about Donald Tsang with the correct year: Tsang was born in Hong Kong on 7 October ______ to a Hong Kong police officer.
  50. Complete the sentence about Donald Tsang with the correct year: In ______, Tsang was attached to the Asian Development Bank in Manila for a year and worked on water supply and railway development proj…
  51. Complete the sentence about Donald Tsang with the correct year: Kennedy School of Government of the Harvard University in ______.
  52. Complete the sentence about Donald Tsang with the correct year: In ______, he was appointed Director of Administration to oversee the functioning of the Government Secretariat.
  53. Complete the sentence about Carrie Lam with the correct year: During her tenure, she earned the nickname "tough fighter" for her role in the controversial demolition of the Queen's Pier in ______.
  54. Complete the sentence about John Lee Ka-chiu with the correct year: Lee was born on 7 December ______ in Hong Kong, with ancestral roots from Panyu, Guangzhou.
  55. Complete the sentence about John Lee Ka-chiu with the correct year: On 15 August ______, at the age of 19, Lee joined the Royal Hong Kong Police Force as a probationary inspector.
  56. Complete the sentence about Legislative Council of Hong Kong with the correct year: The historical Legislative Council of Hong Kong in the British colonial era was created under the ______ Charter as…
  57. Complete the sentence about Legislative Council of Hong Kong with the correct year: The Legislative Council of Hong Kong was set up in ______ for the first time as a colonial legislature under British…
  58. Complete the sentence about Executive Council of Hong Kong with the correct year: In ______ the title 'Senior Member' or 'Senior Unofficial Member' was changed to 'Convenor', when Lydia Dunn was succe…
  59. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal with the correct year: The Court of Final Appeal was established on 1 July ______ and since then, it has served as the court of last resort.
  60. Complete the sentence about Judiciary of Hong Kong with the correct year: The District Court, established in ______, is the intermediate court of Hong Kong.
  61. Complete the sentence about Law of Hong Kong with the correct year: Prior to the ______ handover, around 300 UK Acts were applicable in Hong Kong, covering copyright, patent, maritime, and aviation.
  62. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong Police Force with the correct year: A police force has been serving Hong Kong since shortly after the island was established as a colony in ______.
  63. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong Police Force with the correct year: Caine's role as head of the police force ended when its first Superintendent was appointed on 22 February ______, Captain Haly…
  64. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong Police Force with the correct year: The formal establishment of the force was gazetted on 1 May ______.
  65. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong Garrison with the correct year: After the handover of Hong Kong in July ______, China stationed a PLA garrison to manage the defence affairs of the territory.
  66. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong Garrison with the correct year: The Garrison formally stationed in Hong Kong assumed defence responsibility for Hong Kong from midnight onwards on 1 July ______.
  67. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong Garrison with the correct year: Personnel in the Hong Kong Garrison wore uniforms different from their mainland counterparts until a new set of uniforms were intr…
  68. Complete the sentence about Politics of Hong Kong with the correct year: The Economist Intelligence Unit rated Hong Kong a "Hybrid regime" in ______.
  69. Complete the sentence about Politics of Hong Kong with the correct year: The Hong Kong 1 July March has been an annual protest rally led by the Civil Human Rights Front since the ______ handover on th…
  70. Complete the sentence about Elections in Hong Kong with the correct year: Elections for unofficial members of the Urban Council were held beginning ______.
  71. Complete the sentence about Elections in Hong Kong with the correct year: The Green Paper: A Pattern of District Administration in Hong Kong was published on 6 June ______ for public consultations on…
  72. Complete the sentence about Elections in Hong Kong with the correct year: The White Paper: District Administration in Hong Kong of January ______ further cemented the government's will to introduce el…
  73. Complete the sentence about Democratic Party with the correct year: As a response to the electoral gains of the Civic Party and the League of Social Democrats, the Democratic Party merged with Emily L…
  74. Complete the sentence about Democratic Party with the correct year: Afterwards, the Democrats underwent a rejuvenation process in which most veterans retired and made way for the new generation in the…
  75. Complete the sentence about Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong with the correct year: The ______ Legislative Council election, which saw the defeat of all pro-Beijing can…
  76. Complete the sentence about Martin Lee with the correct year: In ______ he was elected to the Legislative Council, where he advocated strongly for the protection of human rights and democratic reform.
  77. Complete the sentence about Martin Lee with the correct year: In ______, he became the founding chairman of the first pro-democracy party in Hong Kong, the United Democrats of Hong Kong, and later its…
  78. Complete the sentence about Szeto Wah with the correct year: Szeto Wah was born in Hong Kong on 28 February ______ in Hong Kong with the family root in Chikan, Kaiping, Guangdong.
  79. Complete the sentence about Szeto Wah with the correct year: In ______ during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, his family moved back to Kaiping.
  80. Complete the sentence about Emily Lau with the correct year: In ______, Lau's parents moved from Guangdong to Hong Kong during the Chinese Civil War.
  81. Complete the sentence about Emily Lau with the correct year: In ______, Lau earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, Californ…
  82. Complete the sentence about Joshua Wong with the correct year: Joshua Wong Chi-fung was born in Hong Kong on 13 October ______, and was diagnosed with dyslexia in early childhood.
  83. Complete the sentence about Apple Daily with the correct year: In a ______ Reuters Institute poll, it ranked fourth offline and second online among the most-used news sources in Hong Kong.
  84. Complete the sentence about Apple Daily with the correct year: Apple Daily was founded on 20 June ______ by garment businessman Jimmy Lai.
  85. Complete the sentence about Apple Daily with the correct year: With the launch of Apple Daily in ______, Jimmy Lai used "An apple a day keeps the lies away" as the commercial slogan.
  86. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23 with the correct year: The first attempt to implement the article was foiled by a massive street protest on 1 July ______, when a half-millio…
  87. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23 with the correct year: Article 23 had undergone significant revisions before the promulgation of its current form on 4 April ______.
  88. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23 with the correct year: Similar laws had been in force during the British colonial period, but they had not been strictly enforced since _____…
  89. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23 with the correct year: Laws for the purposes of this Article were introduced by the Tung administration in late ______.
  90. Complete the sentence about 1967 Hong Kong riots with the correct year: The ______ Hong Kong riots were large-scale anti-government riots that occurred in Hong Kong during British colonial rule.
  91. Complete the sentence about 1967 Hong Kong riots with the correct year: The initial demonstrations were labour disputes that began as early as May ______ in shipping, taxi, textile, and cement compani…
  92. Complete the sentence about 1967 Hong Kong riots with the correct year: The political climate was tense in Hong Kong in the spring of ______.
  93. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong dollar with the correct year: When Hong Kong was established as a free trading port in ______, there was no local currency in everyday circulation.
  94. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong dollar with the correct year: The machinery at the Hong Kong mint was sold first to Jardine Matheson and, in turn, to the Japanese and used to make the first Yen…
  95. Complete the sentence about Hang Seng Index with the correct year: When the Hang Seng Index was first published, its base of 100 points was set equivalent to the stocks' total value as of the market c…
  96. Complete the sentence about HSBC with the correct year: The bank was established in ______ in Hong Kong and opened branches in Shanghai in the same year.
  97. Complete the sentence about HSBC with the correct year: After raising a capital stock of HK$5 million, the bank commenced operations on 3 March ______.
  98. Complete the sentence about Standard Chartered with the correct year: The Chartered Bank began when Queen Victoria granted a royal charter to Scotsman James Wilson in ______.
  99. Complete the sentence about Standard Chartered with the correct year: The bank started issuing banknotes denominated in Hong Kong dollars in ______.
  100. Complete the sentence about Standard Chartered with the correct year: The Standard Bank was a British bank founded in the Cape Province of South Africa in ______ by Scot, John Paterson.

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