Price Moon Contest

How much do you really know about Mid-Autumn Festival? Have you been reading at all? The top 10 winners our of the hat stand to win one of the following fabulous prizes:

A: A mooncake workshop at the Jingguang New World Hotel: Dim Sum Excutive Chef Ieong Kin Meng will supply all the ingredients and personally oversee you and your friends' dumb attempts at making mooncakes in the hotel kitchen.

B: Boating at Shichahai. A wooden boat to take you and your companion out on the lake. A performer will play a traditional Chinese musical instrument. Paper boats, moon cakes etc. provided.

C: We give you all our mooncakes. It's OK, you can have all of them.

D: We collect yours and deliver them personally to Songtang Hospice for the Elderly.

E: A bright red and white Beijing This Month umbralla and signed photo of the handsome editorial team.

Simply state your preference in the form at the bottom. You can mail us, e-mail us or fax your answers. Deadline: not sure.

1. When is the Mid-Autumn Festival this year?
a) July    b) Martin Luther King Day    c) September 24     d) September 25?

2.What is the pinyin name for the festival?
a)Goushi Bing    b)Yuecakes    c)Mantou     d)Yuebing?

3. If the diameter of a standard mooncake is 8 centimeters and distance of the earth to the moon is 384,000 kilometers, how many mooncakes would you need to lay end to end to reach the moon?
a)2    b)4,805,000,000    c)4,805,000,001     d)Oh come on.

4. What is the fobidden festival fruit?
a)Apple    b)Mango    c)Banana    d)Pear?

5. "Moon River wider than..
a)Chang'an Avenue    b)a mile    c)li    d)a very wide thing indeed?

6. What animal has a special connection with the festival?
a)Panda    b)Tiger    c)Snake    d)Rabbit?

7. What did the goddess of the moon, Chang'e, do to betray her husband?
a)Kissed Uranus    b)Ate the forbidden pear    c)Stole the elixir of immortality    d)Slept with a president?

8.According to traditional Chinese legend, how many people live on the moon?
a)2    b)1    c)815    d)No mortals.

9.Who is the most beautiful woman?
a)Chang'e    b)Cher    c)Mei ting    d)Cindy Crawford?

10. How many lunar months in a lunar year?
a)12.0    b)12.2    c)12.3    d)12.1

11. How does the official China Daily officially spell "Mooncake"?
a)moon cakes    b)moon-cakes    c)Mooncakes     d)Whatever

12. Apollo 11 had three crew members--Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. and who else?
a)Michael Collins    b)Mihcael Caine    c)Michael Fish     d)Michael Jennet?

13. The best mooncakes are produced by which three schools?
a)Guangdong, Beijing and Bognor Regis    b)Jinagsu, Guangdong and Beijing
c)Jiangsu, Guangxi and Beijing    d)Plymouth, Henan and Hunan?

14. "Blue Moon, You saw me standing alone, Without a dream in my heart...Without what?
a)A clue    b)A fapiao    c)A love of my own     d)A karaoke hostess?

15. What does Yuexialaoren?
a)Shoots arrows    b)Chops wood    c)Ties red thread between lovers' ankles
d)Punishes people who push rudely to the front of the line

ANSWER SHEET:

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PLEASE GIVE ME PRIZE A/B/C/D/E
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