Hong Kong Culture, Economy and Society

Culture Economy And Society

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  1. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong comics with the correct year: Sun Yat-Sen established the Republic of China in ______ using Hong Kong's comics to circulate anti-Qing propaganda.
  2. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong comics with the correct year: By the time the Japanese occupied Hong Kong in ______, all manhua activities had stopped.
  3. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong comics with the correct year: With the defeat of the Japanese in ______, political mayhem between Chinese Nationalists and Communists took place.
  4. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong comics with the correct year: The most influential comic magazine for adults was the ______ Cartoons World, which fueled the best-selling Uncle Choi.
  5. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong comics with the correct year: The explicit violence helped sell comic books, and the Government of Hong Kong intervened with the Indecent Publication Law in _____…
  6. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong comics with the correct year: The ______ amendment on the Control of Obscene and Indecent Articles Ordinance have much influence on the industry.
  7. Complete the sentence about Old Master Q with the correct year: Joseph Wong still continues to create new volumes and has taken over the story or volume creations since ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong art with the correct year: The colonial period began with the British occupation of Hong Kong Island in ______, during the First Opium War between the British and…
  9. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong art with the correct year: The island was ceded to Britain by the Treaty of Nanking, ratified by the Daoguang Emperor in the aftermath of the war of ______.
  10. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong art with the correct year: The main exception to this was Hong Kong's first art organisation, the Hong Kong Art Club, founded in ______.
  11. Complete the sentence about I. M. Pei with the correct year: Beginning in ______, Pei worked as an in-house architect for New York City real estate developer William Zeckendorf.
  12. Complete the sentence about I. M. Pei with the correct year: Pei & Partners, and in ______ reorganized as Pei Cobb Freed & Partners.
  13. Complete the sentence about I. M. Pei with the correct year: In ______, he won the Pritzker Prize, which is sometimes referred to as the Nobel Prize of architecture.
  14. Complete the sentence about I. M. Pei with the correct year: Pei Ieoh Ming was born on April 26, ______, to Tsuyee and Lien Kwun, and the family moved to Hong Kong one year later.
  15. Complete the sentence about Norman Foster with the correct year: In ______, Foster completed his national service in the Royal Air Force, choosing the air force because aircraft had been a longtime ho…
  16. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The first high-rise in Hong Kong was the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank, completed in ______.
  17. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong skyline with the correct year: Beginning in ______, Hong Kong entered a second, much larger building boom that lasted until the early 2010s.
  18. Complete the sentence about Religion in Hong Kong with the correct year: Confucians in Hong Kong established the Confucian Academy in ______ and have been deeply involved in education and promoting Co…
  19. Complete the sentence about Religion in Hong Kong with the correct year: After the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong to the China in ______, governmental support from the Church of England was re…
  20. Complete the sentence about Taoism in Hong Kong with the correct year: Ching Chung Koon has established the "Hong Kong Taoist College" in ______ to promote Taoist education, printing Taoist publicatio…
  21. Complete the sentence about Buddhism in Hong Kong with the correct year: Dhammmajoti who had retired from HKU in ______, established the Aloka Vihara where he conducts weekly Pali devotional chants fo…
  22. Complete the sentence about Christianity in Hong Kong with the correct year: Christianity has been in Hong Kong since ______ when British Empire started to rule Hong Kong.
  23. Complete the sentence about Christianity in Hong Kong with the correct year: Following the post-war reduction of garrison forces and the eventual handover of Hong Kong to China in ______, active milit…
  24. Complete the sentence about Judaism in Hong Kong with the correct year: The history of the Jews in Hong Kong starts when Jews were among the first settlers after Hong Kong became a British colony in _…
  25. Complete the sentence about Judaism in Hong Kong with the correct year: The construction of the Ohel Leah Synagogue in ______ marked the beginning of a fully fledged religious life for the city's loca…
  26. Complete the sentence about Judaism in Hong Kong with the correct year: Jews were one of the first settlers in Hong Kong after it became a British colony in ______.
  27. Complete the sentence about Judaism in Hong Kong with the correct year: David Sassoon, Sons & Co. opened a branch in Hong Kong in ______, after moving their operations from Canton to Hong Kong, and E.
  28. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong University with the correct year: As Governor of Hong Kong, Lugard laid the foundation stone of the Main Building on 16 March ______.
  29. Complete the sentence about Chinese University of Hong Kong with the correct year: The first of these, New Asia College, was established in ______ by anti-Communist Confucian scholars from mainland Ch…
  30. Complete the sentence about Chinese University of Hong Kong with the correct year: Funds were gradually raised and the school moved to a new campus in Kau Pui Lung, built with the support of the Ford…
  31. Complete the sentence about Chinese University of Hong Kong with the correct year: Chung Chi College was founded in ______ by Protestant churches in Hong Kong to continue the theological education of…
  32. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong University of Science and Technology with the correct year: Planning for the "Third University", as the university was known provisionally, began in ______.
  33. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong University of Science and Technology with the correct year: The university was officially opened by Youde's successor as governor, Sir David Wilson, on 10 October…
  34. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong University of Science and Technology with the correct year: Under the fund-raising efforts of its president, Woo Chia-wei, the first students enrolled in October…
  35. Complete the sentence about City University of Hong Kong with the correct year: City University's origins lie in the calls for a "second polytechnic" in the years following the ______ establishment of…
  36. Complete the sentence about City University of Hong Kong with the correct year: The new polytechnic opened on 8 October ______, welcoming 480 full-time and 680 part-time students.
  37. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong Polytechnic University with the correct year: Founded in ______ as the first Government Trade School, it is the first institution to provide technical education i…
  38. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, the Government Trade School was founded at Wood Road, Wan Chai.
  39. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong Polytechnic University with the correct year: After World War II, the Government Trade School became the Hong Kong Technical College in ______, offering both full…
  40. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, the college's new campus in Hung Hom was constructed.
  41. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong Polytechnic University with the correct year: Tang Ping-yuen was appointed by the government as the chair of the Polytechnic Planning Committee in May ______.
  42. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong Polytechnic University with the correct year: On 24 March ______, the Legislative Council passed the Hong Kong Polytechnic Ordinance and the institute was establi…
  43. Complete the sentence about Lingnan University with the correct year: Lingnan University traces its origins to ______, when the Christian College in China was founded in Guangzhou by the American Pres…
  44. Complete the sentence about Lingnan University with the correct year: The College admitted its first cohort of 30 students on 28 March ______.
  45. Complete the sentence about Lingnan University with the correct year: In ______, it became independent of the Church and was governed by a board of trustees based in New York.
  46. Complete the sentence about Education University of Hong Kong with the correct year: The university was founded in ______ as The Hong Kong Institute of Education.
  47. Complete the sentence about Education University of Hong Kong with the correct year: In October ______, the Institute moved to its new campus in Tai Po near the Tai Po Industrial Estate.
  48. Complete the sentence about Education University of Hong Kong with the correct year: In ______, the HKIEd HSBC Early Childhood Learning Centre was established on the campus.
  49. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong Shue Yan University with the correct year: Hong Kong Shue Yan College was founded on 20 September ______ by Dr Henry H.L.
  50. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong Shue Yan University with the correct year: The construction was completed in September ______, and various additions to the campus were constructed after that tim…
  51. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong Shue Yan University with the correct year: In ______, the Education Bureau of Hong Kong provided a fund of HKD 4.6 million for academic accreditation.
  52. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong Open University with the correct year: The Hong Kong government provided decreasing financial support until ______, when it required OLI to become self-financing.
  53. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong Open University with the correct year: The first batch of graduates left the institute in December ______.
  54. Complete the sentence about Queen's College, Hong Kong with the correct year: In August ______, the British colonial government decreed that grants would be given to existing Chinese village schools i…
  55. Complete the sentence about Queen's College, Hong Kong with the correct year: Two years later, a Government Central School on Gough Street, Central, opened its doors to the public in ______.
  56. Complete the sentence about Queen's College, Hong Kong with the correct year: In ______, it began admitting students of other nationalities, such as British, Indian, Parsee, Japanese and Thai.
  57. Complete the sentence about Queen's College, Hong Kong with the correct year: In ______, construction of the school was completed at a cost of HKD250,000, making it one of the largest and most expensi…
  58. Complete the sentence about Diocesan Boys' School with the correct year: Having run as a grant-aided school since it was founded, the school commenced operation in the Direct Subsidy Scheme in Septemb…
  59. Complete the sentence about Diocesan Boys' School with the correct year: In ______, Bishop Charles Alford took the school under his immediate superintendence.
  60. Complete the sentence about Diocesan Boys' School with the correct year: On 30 January ______, in a bid to gain popular support, Bishop Alford issued an appeal to admit boys into the school and to tur…
  61. Complete the sentence about Diocesan Boys' School with the correct year: In July ______, William Arthur, formerly of the Garrison School, was appointed as the headmaster and his wife as the matron.
  62. Complete the sentence about Diocesan Boys' School with the correct year: In ______, the school was placed in the grant-in-aid scheme by the Education Department.
  63. Complete the sentence about Diocesan Boys' School with the correct year: On 1 November ______, George Piercy, then master of the Government Central School, was appointed to be the new headmaster.
  64. Complete the sentence about Diocesan Boys' School with the correct year: On 31 May ______, the school committee resolved to stop accepting girls as boarders.
  65. Complete the sentence about St. Paul's Co-educational College with the correct year: In ______, the College was the first school in Hong Kong to require students to wear school uniforms.
  66. Complete the sentence about St. Paul's Co-educational College with the correct year: In ______, the College was moved to 33 MacDonnell Road, and has remained as the location of the school since then.
  67. Complete the sentence about St. Paul's Co-educational College with the correct year: In ______, the College adopted the school badge that is still used now.
  68. Complete the sentence about St. Paul's Co-educational College with the correct year: Amidst the outbreak of the Second World War and Japanese occupation of Hong Kong in ______, the College suspended a…
  69. Complete the sentence about Kitchee SC with the correct year: In ______, Japanese bombs hit Hong Kong during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
  70. Complete the sentence about Eastern Sports Club with the correct year: In ______, a group of workers from the China Building in Central formed the Chinese Football team.
  71. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong Football Association with the correct year: On 17 April ______, Australian Steve O'Connor was appointed as the new technical director.
  72. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong at the 1996 Summer Olympics with the correct year: Hong Kong competed at the ______ Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States, for the last time as a British terr…
  73. Complete the sentence about Lee Lai Shan with the correct year: After the Games she became a student of sports management at Australia's University of Canberra in ______.
  74. Complete the sentence about Lee Lai Shan with the correct year: In ______, she was the first person to carry the Olympic torch in the torch relay leg in Hong Kong.
  75. Complete the sentence about Cheung Ka Long with the correct year: In ______, he won a silver in team foil at the Asian Fencing Championships along with a bronze in individual foil and a silver in team…
  76. Complete the sentence about Lee Wai-sze with the correct year: Lee was born on 12 May ______ in Lower Ngau Tau Kok Estate, Hong Kong.
  77. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong Marathon with the correct year: The race traces its history back to ______ when the first race was held in Sek Kong comprising four circuits of the roads around S…
  78. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong Open with the correct year: BWF categorises it as a BWF World Tour Super 500 event in the BWF events structure since ______.
  79. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong cricket team with the correct year: The sport was introduced to Hong Kong by the British, with the first recorded game taking place in ______, and the Hong Kong C…
  80. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong Stadium with the correct year: Redeveloped from the original Government Stadium, it reopened as Hong Kong Stadium in March ______.
  81. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong Stadium with the correct year: So Kon Po was formerly the burial ground for the ______ Fire at Happy Valley Racecourse.
  82. Complete the sentence about Mong Kok Stadium with the correct year: The stadium was known as the Army Sports Ground before it was taken over by the Urban Council in ______.
  83. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong Coliseum with the correct year: David Bowie played the two final dates of his ______ Serious Moonlight Tour at the venue.
  84. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong Coliseum with the correct year: On 3 June ______, Irish vocal pop band Westlife held a concert for their Where Dreams Come True Tour supporting their album Coast…
  85. Complete the sentence about Hong Kong Disneyland with the correct year: On 12 January ______, more than 400 guests celebrated the groundbreaking of Hong Kong Disneyland after the finishing of land rec…
  86. Complete the sentence about TVB with the correct year: On 25 January ______ it was announced that Television Broadcasts Limited had won the franchise, winning against six other bids.
  87. Complete the sentence about TVB with the correct year: The new Television Broadcasts Limited station at 77 Broadcast Drive in Kowloon Tong, Kowloon was officially opened by Governor David Trench on 19…
  88. Complete the sentence about Asia Television with the correct year: Among its notable successes was its local version of the British game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in ______, which increased…
  89. Complete the sentence about RTHK with the correct year: GOW, the predecessor to RTHK, was established in ______ as the first broadcasting service in Hong Kong.
  90. Complete the sentence about RTHK with the correct year: The British Hong Kong Government launched its first radio broadcasting station, known as "GOW", on 20 June ______, with a starting staff of only…
  91. Complete the sentence about RTHK with the correct year: In ______, the station's medium wave AM transmitting station was moved from a waterfront site in Hung Hom to the summit of Golden Hill in the Ne…
  92. Complete the sentence about RTHK with the correct year: A Public Affairs Television Unit was established in ______ to produce TV programmes for required broadcast by independent channels.
  93. Complete the sentence about South China Morning Post with the correct year: Founded in ______ by Tse Tsan-tai and Alfred Cunningham, it has remained Hong Kong's newspaper of record since British colon…
  94. Complete the sentence about South China Morning Post with the correct year: In a ______ survey by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the SCMP was regarded relatively as the most credible paid newspa…
  95. Complete the sentence about Ming Pao with the correct year: Daisy Li Yuet-Wah won an International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists for her work with the paper in ______.
  96. Complete the sentence about Ming Pao with the correct year: Before British Hong Kong's handover to the People's Republic of China by the United Kingdom in ______, Ming Pao was considered hostile to th…
  97. Complete the sentence about Ming Pao with the correct year: In October ______, the publisher of Ming Pao, Ming Pao Enterprise was taken over by Tiong Hiew King.
  98. Complete the sentence about Ming Pao with the correct year: The website of Ming Pao was set up in ______, one of the earliest newspaper websites in Hong Kong.
  99. Complete the sentence about Ming Pao with the correct year: Since April ______, Ming Pao is published by Ming Pao Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Media Chinese International Limited.
  100. Complete the sentence about Oriental Daily News with the correct year: The newspaper's website was started in February ______, and includes e-paper versions of Oriental Daily.

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