Japan is an island country in the Pacific, with four main islands and thousands of smaller ones.
This quiz asks 20 questions about Japanese food, symbols, places, history and famous people.
One run asks 20 questions from a bank of 40, so two runs do not ask the same set.
How to play
- Each round shows one question and four answers. Tap the answer you think is right.
- You have three lives. Each wrong answer costs one life.
- After each answer, the game shows a short explanation of the right answer.
- The quiz saves your best score and best time.
What counts in this quiz
- The bank holds 40 questions about Japan: food, drink, symbols, geography, history, film, people, science, business, sport, language, culture, money, society.
- Every question has exactly one right answer among the four options.
What's not included, and why
- Facts that change with the news are not in the bank. The quiz asks no questions about sitting politicians or the rankings of today.
- Questions that need a map, such as naming every region of Japan, live in the map quizzes.
Good to know
- Japan has more than 100 active volcanoes.
- The first Shinkansen line opened in 1964, days before the Tokyo Olympics.
- Japan's imperial family is the oldest continuous hereditary monarchy in the world.
- Mountains and forest cover more than 70 percent of Japan.