Quote Originally Posted by Acymetric View Post
It's not terribly surprising that they would cut slack on the given name, because they are ordered differently in Chinese than most other languages. Plus, it isn't as though he might have been thinking of the wrong Xiaoping (and the main reason for requiring last names is that the first name only isn't usually enough to be sure you actually knew the answer).
True. I wonder whether he would’ve gotten credit had his response been simply “Deng.”