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Originally a Hawaiian word meaning "half," this term is now widely used in Asian American communities to describe people of mixed-race heritage.
What is Hapa?
Light enters your eye and passes through this clear, curved structure that bends it to focus it perfectly on the back of the eye. As you age, this part can become cloudy, a condition known as a cataract.
What is the Lens?
The stock market is on a massive upward tear, prices are rising, and investors are feeling optimistic. It is named after this animal that thrusts its horns.
What is a Bull Market?
The product of 48 and 7.
What is 336?
During the mid-1800s, Chinese immigrants gave this nickname to California because of the promise of wealth during the Gold Rush.
What is Gam Saan (or Gold Mountain)?
This part of the digestive tract is the longest, averaging about 20 feet in length in an adult.
What is the Small Intestine?
Light has hit the back of your eyeball, stimulating millions of tiny photoreceptors called rods and cones that convert that light into electrical signals.
What is the Retina?
You want to track the performance of the 500 largest companies listed on stock exchanges in the U.S. You look at this famous "Index," which is named after these two companies (one of which is a famous credit rating agency).
What are Standard & Poor’s?
3/4 x 16
12
This all-Japanese American fighting unit became the most decorated unit in U.S. military history for its size and length of service during World War II.
What is the 442nd Regimental Combat Team?
This virus is attacking your B-lymphocytes, causing your spleen to swell and leaving you exhausted for weeks. It is commonly spread through saliva and is caused by the Epstein-Barr virus.
What is Mono (or Infectious Mononucleosis)?
Your eyeball is slightly too long from front to back, causing light to focus in front of the retina rather than directly on it. This makes distant objects look blurry while close objects stay sharp.
What is Myopia? (Accept: Nearsightedness).
A company has decided to share a portion of its profits directly with its stockholders, usually in the form of a quarterly cash payment for every share owned.
What is a Dividend?
27 × 14
378
Because of laws restricting immigration, many Japanese and Korean laborers in the early 1900s married women they had only seen in photographs. What were these women called?
What are Picture Brides?
What is the hardest substance in the entire human body?
What is Tooth Enamel?
You’ve walked into a dark room and these specific photoreceptors are kicking in. They don't help you see color, but they are incredibly sensitive to low light and peripheral motion.
What are Rods?
A private company has decided to sell its stock to the general public for the very first time to raise capital. In the finance world, this "first sale" is known by these three initials.
What is an IPO? (Initial Public Offering).
5/6 x 18, simplified.
15
In 2012, this Harvard graduate and NBA player became a global cultural phenomenon, shattering stereotypes about Asian American athletes.
Who is Jeremy Lin?
Your pancreas has stopped producing enough ____ , or your cells have stopped responding to it. As a result, glucose is building up in your bloodstream rather than being used for energy. What illness is this?
What is Diabetes?
Electrical signals are leaving the eye to travel to the brain via this bundle of over a million nerve fibers. There are no photoreceptors where it exits the eye, creating a natural "blind spot."
What is the Optic Nerve?
You are investing in high-quality, reliable, and well-established companies like Disney or Coca-Cola. This nickname for these "safe" stocks comes from the highest-value color of chip in the game of poker.
What is a Blue Chip stock?
47 x 23
1,081