Facts
The number of countries that make up Asia.
What is 48?
Blooms decorate Washington DC each spring since 1912, thanks to this gift of friendship for the United States from Japan.
What are Cherry Trees?
The novel by Kevin Kwan that became a Hollywood film with a majority Asian cast and premiered in 2018.
What is Crazy Rich Asians?
She is a LPC Librarian and member of the AAPI Interest Group.
Who is Frances Hui?
A sweet tea with tapioca pearls that originated in Taiwan during the 1980s.
What is Boba?
The urban capital of Thailand, where tuk tuks are a widely used form of transportation.
What is Bangkok?
One of three universities in California that first established Asian-American Studies in 1969.
What is San Francisco State University / UC Berkeley / UCLA?
The language that is spoken in most Indian or Bollywood movies.
What is Hindi?
The LPC English Professor and member of the AAPI Interest Group that has three degrees, including a Master of Arts in Japanese.
Who is Mike Sato?
1500 varieties of this tropical fruit can be found in India. (Daily Double!)
What is a Mango?
He is the spiritual leader of Tibet and often referred to as "His Holiness."
Who is the Dalai Lama?
A term that was first used in a 1966 New York Times article to praise the successful “assimilation” of Japanese-Americans. (Daily Double!)
What is Model Minority?
A Filipino, Puerto Rican, and Jewish singer born in Hawaii who's worth more than 24K.
Who is Bruno Mars?
She is the esteemed Dean of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math at LPC.
Who is Nan Ho?
A popular Vietnamese soup that consists of broth, noodles, meat, and herbs.
What is Pho? (pronounced "fuh")
Kamala Harris, the first woman and first Asian and African-American US Vice President, calls this city her childhood home.
What is Berkeley (California)?
A famous agricultural strike in 1965 in California that was led by Larry Itliong, a Filipino-American labor organizer, and Cesar Chavez, the leader of the United Farm Workers.
What was the Delano Grape Strike?
With fists of fury, he was the first Asian-American actor to have a lead role in a Hollywood film.
Who was Bruce Lee? (He starred in "Enter the Dragon")
The ethnic background of LPC's President includes African-American and this Asian ethnicity.
What is Korean?
A “little bit of heart” is the translation for these small Chinese breakfast and lunch dishes.
What is dim sum?
The country where Angkor Wat, a 12th-century Hindu temple and the largest religious monument in the world, is located.
What is Cambodia?
Signed in 1882, it was the first significant law that restricted the immigration of an Asian culture into the United States.
What was The Chinese Exclusion Act?
The road trip movie directed by Chloe Zhao, the first Asian woman to win Best Director at the Academy Awards in 2021.
What is “Nomadland”?
The number of academic classes and student clubs at LPC that focus on AAPI cultures and histories.
What is zero?
A Hawaiian dish containing slices or cubes of raw fish and served in a bowl with rice, vegetables, and seasonings.
What is Poke? (pronounced "poe-kay")