TIME Asia: Asian Heroes 2003 Quiz

Know Your Heroes

Take this quiz to find out how well you know Asia's heroes and their world. If you run into trouble, click on each person's name to go to a story about them (links open in a new window).

1. Which Stephen Chow movie became Hong Kong's highest-grossing Chinese film ever?

Final Justice

Shaolin Soccer

God of Cookery

Fight Back to School

2. Houston Rockets center and first-round draft pick Yao Ming originally played for which Chinese basketball team?

3. Before she met John Lennon, Yoko Ono was a part of this influential art movement:

4. The Indian humanitarian group ANANDI has worked tirelessly to rebuild the shattered state of Gujurat after 2002's murderous riots. According to human-rights organizations, how many Muslims were killed in the struggle?

5. How many seasons did Japanese baseballer Hideki Matsui play with his team, the Yomiyuri Giants, before signing with the New York Yankees in 2003?

6. Virtuoso cellist Yo-Yo Ma was born in which city?

7. Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickrememsinghe has been instrumental in helping to bring a ceasefire to a conflict between the government and the LTTE rebels which has claimed thousands of lives. How long has this fight been going on?

8. Mongolian sumo wrestler Dolgorsuren Dagvadorj, known as Asashoryu in Japan, is only the third non-Japanese to achieve the sport's highest rank of yokozuna. Where have the other foreign-born yokozuna come from?

9. Under the command of General Surayud Chulanont, the Thai army took part in U.N. peacekeeping operations for the first time in which country?

10. Healthcare workers in SARS-ravaged Hong Kong, Singapore and China have heroically put themselves on the front lines in treating the potentially deadly disease, at great personal risk. About what percentage of Hong Kong SARS cases has occurred among doctors and hospital workers?