Question: When did Beijing lose to Li Zicheng's rebel forces and the Manchu-led Qing dynasty?
Answer: 1644

Question: What Ming prince was enthroned in Nanjing?
Answer: Zhu Yousong

Question: When was Zhu Yousong enthroned?
Answer: in June 1644

Question: What was Zhu Yousong's title?
Answer: the Hongguang Emperor

Question: The Hongguang Emperor's reign was thought of as the first reign of what dynasty?
Answer: the so-called Southern Ming dynasty

Question: When did the Hongguang Emperor leave Nanjing, having been defeated?
Answer: late May 1645

Question: Who surrendered Nanjing to invaders on June 6?
Answer: Zhao the Earl of Xincheng

Question: What did the Manchu's make all the men in the city do?
Answer: shave their heads

Question: When was the Qing dynasty in power?
Answer: 1644–1911

Question: What was Nanjing called during the Qing dynasty?
Answer: Jiangning

Question: What emperors visited Nanjing more than once?
Answer: the Kangxi and Qianlong emperors

Question: What year did the First Opium War end?
Answer: 1842

Question: Who lived in buildings that would later come to be known as the Presidential Palace?
Answer: the Qing viceroy and the Taiping king

Question: When did Qing troops regain Nanjing?
Answer: 1864

Question: How many people died during the Qing troops retaking of Nanjing?
Answer: over 100,000

Question: Qing troops allowed no rebels who spoke what dialect to surrender?
Answer: Taiping

Question: Who was the leader of the Qing troops?
Answer: Zeng Guofan

Question: When was the Republic of China founded?
Answer: January 1912

Question: Who was the first president of the Republic of China?
Answer: Sun Yat-sen

Question: Who moved the capital from Nanjing to Beijing?
Answer: Yuan Shikai

Question: When was Nanjing re-established as the capital of the Republic of China?
Answer: 1927

Question: What party established Nanjing as the capital of the Republic of China?
Answer: the Kuomintang (KMT; Nationalist Party)

Question: Who was the leader of the Kuomintang (KMT; Nationalist Party)?
Answer: Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek

Question: What are the 1930's known as, in China?
Answer: the Nanking decade

Question: When did the Kuomintang (KMT; Nationalist Party) defeat and take over Beijing?
Answer: 1928

Question: When did Japan invade Manchuria?
Answer: 1931

Question: When did Japan invade all of China?
Answer: 1937

Question: Who killed innocent civilians in the Nanking Massacre?
Answer: the Imperial Japanese Army

Question: How many died in the Nanking Massacre?
Answer: between 300,000 and 350,000

Question: When was the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall built?
Answer: 1985

Question: When was the National Government of China moved to Chungking?
Answer: A few days before the fall of the city

Question: When was the Nanjing Regime established?
Answer: 1940

Question: Who was the leader of the Nanjing Regime?
Answer: Wang Jingwei

Question: When did the KMT move back to Nanjing?
Answer: 1946

Question: What was another name for the Nanjing Regime?
Answer: "Reorganized National Government of China"

Question: When did the Communist troops cross the Yangtze River?
Answer: 21 April

Question: When was Nanjing conquered by the Communist People's Liberation Army (PLA)?
Answer: April 23, 1949

Question: Where did the KMT government stay until October 15?
Answer: Canton (Guangzhou)

Question: When did the KMT government head to Taiwan?
Answer: December 10

Question: When was the People's Republic of China formed?
Answer: October 1949

Question: How large is Nanjing, in miles?
Answer: 2,548 sq mi

Question: Where does the Yangtze River flow in Nanjing?
Answer: past the west side and then north side

Question: How far is Nanjing from Shanghai, in miles?
Answer: 190 mi

Question: How far is Nanjing from Beijing?
Answer: 750 mi

Question: What is the name of the area of land around Nanjing?
Answer: Hsiajiang (下江, Downstream River) region

Question: What city is northeast of Nanjing?
Answer: Yangzhou

Question: What is southeast of Nanjing?
Answer: Changzhou

Question: What province is to the west of Nanjing?
Answer: Anhui province

Question: How many prefecture-size cities are in the province of Anhui?
Answer: five

Question: What city is on the border of Nanjing to the East?
Answer: Zhenjiang

Question: What is the east-west waterway near Nanjing?
Answer: Yangtze River

Question: What is the railway that runs South to North called?
Answer: Nanjing–Beijing railway

Question: What mountain is in the East are of Nanjing?
Answer: Zhong Mountain

Question: What mountain lies in the west of Nanjing?
Answer: Stone Mountain

Question: Stone Mountain is compared to what animal?
Answer: tiger

Question: What type of climate does Nanjing enjoy?
Answer: a humid subtropical climate

Question: What monsoon affects Nanjing?
Answer: the East Asian monsoon

Question: Nanjing is one of three "Furnacelike" cities. What are the other two cities?
Answer: Chongqing and Wuhan

Question: How many days of rain does Nanjing get a year, on average?
Answer: 115 days

Question: How many hours of bright sunshine does Nanjing get each year?
Answer: 1,983 hours

Question: How many types of minerals are found in Nanjing?
Answer: 40

Question: Which minerals comprise 40 percent of those in the province?
Answer: iron and sulfur

Question: For what mineral reserve does Nanjing rank first in both East Asia and the South East Asia areas?
Answer: strontium

Question: What are Nanjing's main water sources?
Answer: the Yangtze River and groundwater

Question: What hot spring is in Jiangning?
Answer: Tangshan Hot Spring

Question: What lakes are in the middle of Nanjing?
Answer: Xuanwu Lake and Mochou Lake

Question: What type of trees are on Purple Mountain?
Answer: evergreens and oaks

Question: Who convinced Sun Quan to make Nanjing his capital?
Answer: Liu Bei

Question: What impressed Liu Bei so much about Nanjing?
Answer: Nanjing's impeccable geographic position

Question: What is Nanjing surrounded by?
Answer: the Yangtze River and mountains

Question: When did a thick wave of smog first appear in Central and Eastern China?
Answer: 2 December 2013

Question: How long was Nanjing ranked as "severely polluted" during this wave?
Answer: five straight days

Question: On what days did Nanjing have to issue a Red Alert because of the severe air pollution?
Answer: From 5 to 6 December

Question: What is the full name for Nanjing's government?
Answer: "People's Government of Nanjing City"

Question: How many parties rule Nanjing?
Answer: one-party

Question: What party rules Nanjing?
Answer: the CPC

Question: Who is considered to be the governor of Nanjing?
Answer: the CPC Nanjing Committee Secretary

Question: who is the executive leader of Nanjing, working under the secretary?
Answer: the mayor

Question: What was the population of Nanjing in 2010?
Answer: 8.005 million

Question: What was the estimated population of Nanjing in 2011?
Answer: 8.11 million

Question: How was the population figure for 2010 obtained?
Answer: the Sixth China Census

Question: What was Nanjing's birth rate?
Answer: 8.86 percent

Question: How many people were considered to be living in the urban portion of Nanjing?
Answer: 6.47 million

Question: What is the overwhelming ethnic majority in Nanjing?
Answer: Han nationality

Question: What minority nationality is most common?
Answer: Hui nationalities

Question: What is the second most common minority group in Nanjing?
Answer: Manchu

Question: How many people of Manchu descent live in Nanjing?
Answer: 2,311

Question: How many minority nationality types does Nanjing contain?
Answer: 50

Question: In addition to textiles, what other industry is Nanjing known for, since the Three Kingdoms period?
Answer: minting

Question: Why is Nanjing so strong in textiles and minting?
Answer: its strategic geographical location and convenient transportation

Question: During what dynasty was Nanjing the biggest business center in all of East Asia?
Answer: Ming