Celebrities
This actor rose to fame for his role as Glenn Rhee in the TV series The Walking Dead.
Who is Steven Yeun?
This band is the fictional boy group in “Turning Red”.
Who is 4Town?
This well recieved album is SZA’s most recent album.
What is “SOS”?
This country recently surpassed China in becoming the most populous country.
What is India?
What anniversary will AsACC be celebrating this coming April?
What is their 30th anniversary?
This member of the K-Pop group, BTS, recently enlisted in the Korean army.
Who is Jin?
How many Oscar nominations did the movie, “Everything, Everywhere All at Once” receive for this year?
What is 11 nominations?
In 2010, this song by the first Asian American band hit #1 on the hot 100.
What is “Like a G6”?
In the 1990s, this term was coined to express the increase in popularity of South Korean culture worldwide.
What is the “Korean Wave”?
Name five organizations under the Pan-Asian Council at UConn.
(multiple correct answers)
This Chinese American actor famously voice acts in “Mulan” as Chi-Fu, and in the Kung Fu Panda trilogy as Po’s dad.
Who is James Hong?
In April 2021, the Academy Award for Best Director was awarded to this Asian female director, making her the second woman to do so.
Who is Chloé Zhao?
LiSA sang the Demon Slayer opening song known as…
What is “Gurenge”?
This contestant on the second season of the hit Korean reality show, “Single’s Inferno”, is a current pre-med student at Harvard.
Who is Nadine Lee?
The UConn women’s basketball team recently just won the 2023 Big East Conference. How many conference titles do they now have?
What are 28 conference titles?
This U.S.A gymnast is the first Hmong American olympian, and helped her team win silver at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Who is Sunisa “Suni” Lee?
This unreleased live action movie will star actor Simu Liu, alongside Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling.
What is “Barbie”?
This Filipina American artist will be starring in the ABC special of “Beauty and the Beast”.
Who is H.E.R?
Name at least two of the four states in which it is now mandated to teach AAPI history in grades K-12.
What is New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Illinois?
Name at least two Asian American figures who have visited AsACC/UConn for a specific event.
(multiple correct answers)
This Asian American actress received an acceptance at Harvard University, but turned down the offer to pursue an acting career in a hit Disney show.
Who is Brenda Song?
This actress is the first of Asian descent to win the Best Actress award in 1939 for her role in Gone with the Wind.
Who is Vivien Leigh?
Thuy is a Vietnamese American R&B singer who just released her 2023 east coast tour titled…
What is “Girls Like Me Don’t Cry”?
The ethnicity of Miss Universe 2022, R’Bonney Gabriel, who represented the U.S.A.
What is Filipina and Caucasian?
Before becoming the Huskies in 1933, the university’s mascot was this.
Who are the “Aggies”?