Question: Members of which committee attended the conference?
Answer: CPC Politburo Standing Committee

Question: By when does the plan call for improvement of rural Tibetan income?
Answer: 2020

Question: What does the plan call for all rural Tibetan children to receive for free?
Answer: education

Question: How much, in US dollars, has China invested in Tibet since 2001?
Answer: about 45.6 billion

Question: How are the original ancestors of the Tibetan people represented?
Answer: six red bands in the Tibetan flag

Question: What has the population of Tibet primarily consisted of?
Answer: ethnic Tibetans

Question: Which country has a disputed area with Tibet?
Answer: India

Question: What has a strong influence over all aspect of Tibetans lives?
Answer: Religion

Question: What is the ancient religion of Tibet?
Answer: Bön

Question: When were nearly all of Tibet's monasteries destroyed by the Red Guard?
Answer: During China's Cultural Revolution

Question: When were 10 to 20% of Tibets males monks?
Answer: Before the 1950s

Question: What are Tibetan Muslims known as?
Answer: Kachee

Question: Where did Islamic influence in Tibet come from?
Answer: Persia

Question: In what year were all Tibetan Muslims declared Indiana citizens?
Answer: 1959

Question: What is the Chinese Muslim community called?
Answer: gya kachee

Question: When did Roman Catholic Jesuits and Capuchins arrive in Tibet from Europe?
Answer: 17th and 18th centuries

Question: When did Portuguese missionaries first arrive in western Tibet?
Answer: 1624

Question: When was Christianity introduced to Rudok, Ladakh, and Tsang?
Answer: 1626

Question: When did Johann Grueber cross Tibet on the way to Nepal?
Answer: 1661

Question: When did Jesuit Father Ippolito Desideri spend time in Tibet?
Answer: 1716–1721

Question: How was Christianity used by some Tibetan monarchs?
Answer: counterbalance the influence of the Gelugpa sect

Question: When did Protestant James Cameron bring the Gospel to the Tibetan people?
Answer: 1877

Question: When did a large number of Lisu people convert to Christianity?
Answer: Beginning in the 20th century

Question: How were James O. Fraser, Alfred James Broomhall, and Isobel Kuhn involved with Tibet?
Answer: Famous earlier missionaries

Question: Who used to reside in the Potala Palace?
Answer: the Dalai Lama

Question: How many stories does the Potala Palace contain?
Answer: thirteen

Question: How many shrines exist in the Potala Palace?
Answer: 10,000

Question: What is Norbulingka?
Answer: former summer residence of the Dalai Lama

Question: In what languages is Tibetan music often chanted in?
Answer: Tibetan or Sanskrit

Question: What do the chants often contain?
Answer: recitations of sacred texts

Question: What type of chanting is performed without metrical timing?
Answer: Yang

Question: What type of music comes from the popular Gelugpa school?
Answer: classical

Question: What is worshipped during Tibet's various festibals?
Answer: Buddha

Question: What is the Tibetan New Year Festival called?
Answer: Losar

Question: What do Tibetan's eat on New Year's Eve?
Answer: Guthuk

Question: When is the Monlam Prayer Festival?
Answer: between the fourth and the eleventh days of the first Tibetan month

Question: Who established the Monlam Prayer Festival in 1049?
Answer: Tsong Khapa

Question: What is the most important crop in Tibet?
Answer: barley

Question: What is dough made from barley flour called?
Answer: tsampa

Question: What are steamed dumplings called?
Answer: momos

Question: What is a popular drink in Tibet?
Answer: Butter tea

Question: What seed is cultivated in Tibet?
Answer: Mustard

Question: What is 'a friendly' another term for?
Answer: exhibition game

Question: What is 'a scrimmage' another term for?
Answer: exhibition game

Question: What is 'a demonstration' another term for?
Answer: exhibition game

Question: What is 'a preseason game' another term for?
Answer: exhibition game

Question: What is 'a warmup match' another term for?
Answer: exhibition game

Question: What type of exhibition game showcases the best players?
Answer: all-star games

Question: What are exhibition games in the Olympics?
Answer: a demonstration sport

Question: What can an exhibition game raise money for?
Answer: charities

Question: What can an exhibition game settle?
Answer: a challenge

Question: What were the most common type of matches in the early days of soccer?
Answer: friendly matches (or "friendlies")

Question: When did the Football League begin in England?
Answer: 1888

Question: By what year had national football leagues been formed in nearly every country?
Answer: 2000

Question: What did the growth of national leagues cause a serious decline in?
Answer: the significance of friendlies

Question: When do football clubs still play friendlies?
Answer: before the start of each season

Question: What type of football matches are non-competitive?
Answer: friendlies

Question: What do some friendlies change the rules to make unlimited?
Answer: substitutions

Question: What are some examples of friendly short football tournaments?
Answer: the Emirates Cup, Teresa Herrera Trophy and the Amsterdam Tournament

Question: What do friendly short football tournaments have little of?
Answer: prestige

Question: What do friendlies help international teams prepare for?
Answer: the qualifying or final stages of major tournaments

Question: Which type of team lacks time to prepare for tournaments?
Answer: national squads

Question: What do international leagues' friendlies happen in the middle of?
Answer: club league seasons

Question: What concern has caused national associations and clubs to disagree about friendlies?
Answer: availability of players, who could become injured or fatigued

Question: What do friendlies allow managers to experiment with?
Answer: team selection and tactics

Question: What can happen to players who get red or yellow cards in friendlies?
Answer: suspended from future international matches

Question: What kind of record do players' goals in friendlies count for?
Answer: career

Question: When did FIFA decide to limit substitutions in international friendlies?
Answer: 2004

Question: What absurd number of substitutions had some international teams been making in friendlies before 2004?
Answer: 11

Question: Where are "exhibition match" and "friendly match" not synonymous?
Answer: the UK and Ireland

Question: What are two examples of leagues holding all-star exhibition matches?
Answer: US Major League Soccer or Japan's Japanese League

Question: What are 'friendlies' for charity usually called in the UK?
Answer: charity matches

Question: What are 'friendlies' to honor a player usually called in the UK?
Answer: testimonial matches

Question: When did the NFL limit teams to 9 preseason games?
Answer: 1995–2004

Question: What country's teams did US teams sometimes play exhibition games against in the 1980s?
Answer: Soviet Union

Question: In what year did the NHL play against World Hockey Association teams?
Answer: 1978

Question: Where is Time Warner Cable Arena?
Answer: Charlotte

Question: What hockey arena is in Ontario, California?
Answer: Citizens Business Bank Arena

Question: What nationality is the Flying Fathers team?
Answer: Canadian

Question: What religion is the Flying Fathers team?
Answer: Catholic

Question: Who founded the Flying Fathers?
Answer: Les Costello

Question: What league were most members of the Buffalo Sabres Alumni Hockey Team from?
Answer: NHL

Question: Where are the Saores based?
Answer: Buffalo

Question: Which states do MLB teams do spring training in?
Answer: Arizona or Florida

Question: What is the MLB preseason league in Arizona called?
Answer: Cactus League

Question: What is the MLB preseason league in Florida called?
Answer: Grapefruit League

Question: How many preseason games does each MLB team play?
Answer: about 30