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Super 7 Challenge questions and answers
The Super 7 Challenge have our free activity for anyone visiting the hutongs a few places in Beijing.
It's used in conjunction with our advertisement on page 9 of the Beijing Improbable Guidebook. You should all get a copy of this book. It's great!
The challenge is simple. There are seven questions, each one from a different part of Beijing's inner districts.
The answers to the questions are at the bottom of the page.
Question 1
A “li” is a distance of 500 metres.
How many li away could people hear
the bell of Zonglou?
Clue: The tower is known in English as the Bell Tower. It is opposite the Drum Tower near Shichahai Station.
Question 2
In Liuyin Street, by the west wall of
Prince Gong’s Mansion, the two
hearts in the True Lover Knot
sculpture intersect how many times?
Clue: The sculpture is near the point where Liuyin Street splits into two parallel roads.
Question 3
In the grove, six doors west of
Pebbles Courtyard Restaurant, what
game is one move short of victory?
Clue: The game is frozen onto a sculture shaped like a stone table. Pebbles Restaurant is located in Wudaoying Hutong near Andingmen Station.
Question 4
In the Dongyue Temple, which Taoist
department warns people to not
trade in narcotic drugs?
Clue: Each department is room full of full-size statues of people, spirits, monsters and animals. The Dongyue Temple is located between Chaoyangmen and Dongdaqiao stations on line 6.
Question 5
Along with
the last Ming emperor
Chongzhen, which eunuch
killed himself in Jingshan Park?
Clue: Follow the signs to the Hanging Tree in Jingshan Park, which is north of the Forbidden City.
Question 6
Just north of the Bell Tower is
Doufuchi Hutong. Which man
prepared such great tofu, he
gave this hutong its name?
Clue: Look at the plaque telling the story of the Hutong at it's east or western end.
Question 7
Near the flagpoles of Beijing’s
Geological Museum, what is the
name of the polished stone with
beautiful flower-like crystals?
Clue: Beijing's Geological Museum is located near exit D of Xisi Station on Line 5.
The answers
Answer 1
People can hear
the bell of Zonglou from 10 li away.
Question 2
The hearts in the True Lover Knot
sculpture intersect 7 times.
Question 3
It's a game of Chinese Chess or Xiangqi
that could be won in the next move.
Question 4
In the Dongyue Temple, it is the
Toxicant Department that warns people to not
trade in narcotic drugs.
Question 5
The eunuch Wang Cheng'en killed himself
along with his emperor in 1644.
He was given the rare honor of being buried in a tomb,
50 meters from his master, in the Ming Tomb area.
Question 6
Chen
prepared such great tofu, he
gave Doufuchi Hutong its original name of Tofu Chen 豆腐陈.
Doufu is the modern pinyin way of writing Tofu.
Question 7
The Mudan stone with
beautiful flower-like crystals is outside the
Geological Museum of China, in Xisi.
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