Authors & Their Books
Lead singer of Japanese Breakfast, Michelle Zauner's first book is titled Crying in this Asian grocery store.
What is H Mart?
You might talk the talk, but until you actually purchase a round-bottomed frying pan, you don’t this.
What is wok the wok?
Dogecoin is based on this type of dog, originating from Japan.
What is Shiba Inu?
This 2012 hit song by PSY was the first video to be viewed more than 1 billion times on Youtube.
What is Gangnam Style?
This South Korean boy band made history as the first Asian act to win the Billboard Music Award for Top Duo/Group in 2019
Who is BTS?
The title of Min Jin Lee's second novel, otherwise known as a Japanese arcade game often used for gambling.
What is Pachinko?
Japanese dish (typically made with fish and rice) takes attendance.
What is Sushi roll call?
In The Jungle Book, Mowgli encounters many fantastic beasts. Name 2 of the creatures he encounters.
Baloo the bear
Shere Khan the tiger
Bagheera the black panther
King Louie the orangutan
Kaa the snake
This Chinese American actress starred as one of the angels in the 2000 film Charlie’s Angels.
Who is Lucy Liu?
This nation consists of over 7,600 islands, making it one of the largest archipelagos in the world.
What is the Philippines?
Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere was adapted into a 2020 miniseries starring and produced by this Legally Blonde actress.
Who is Reese Witherspoon?
This Shakespeare comedy might sound like a green tea powder that is popular in lattes, but it’s really “about nothing.”
What is Matcha - do About Nothing?
2022 Pixar film Turning Red follows a teenager who transforms into this animal, which is more closely related to a raccoon than to a similarly-named bamboo chewing bear.
What is a red panda?
She became the first Asian woman to win the Oscar for Best Actress in Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Who is Michelle Yeoh?
The 2020 Summer Olympics were postponed to 2021 in this Japanese host city.
What is Tokyo?
In this 2013 novel and 2018 film, Rachel Chu travels to Singapore to meet her boyfriend’s family and learns that they are uber-wealthy.
What is Crazy Rich Asians?
A classic Vietnamese Soup meets the first part of a New York catchphrase.
Pho-get about it
2024 is the year of this mythological animal in the Chinese zodiac.
What is a dragon?
This Canadian actor and host of the 2024 People's Choice Awards has quite the range, playing both a Ken in Barbie and the titular role in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
Who is Simu Liu?
Manga is the Japanese version of this kind of book.
What is a comic book (or graphic novel)?
This Filipina author recently partnered with Roxane Gay & Everand Originals. (Good Girl: Notes on Dog Rescue)
Who is Elaine Castillo?
Saucy Indian dish meets 1976 hit by Kansas.
What is Curry on Wayward Son?
In a classic children’s novel, Sadako made 1,000 origami versions of this bird.
What is a crane?
In this popular Netflix series does the character Devi Vishwakumar, an Indian American teenager, navigate high school and her cultural identity.
What is Never Have I Ever?
Constance is the full first name of this journalist who became the first woman to co-anchor CBS Evening News in 1993.
Who is Connie Chung?