Holidays
THIS holiday in celebrated in various countries such as China, South Korea, Vietnam and more. It celebrates the beginning of the new year based off the cycles of the moon.
What is Lunar New Year/Chinese New Year?
This is a staple in many Asian cuisines (Hint: It’s not as hard as you think)
What is rice?
THIS is the Chinese Zodiac for this year
What is the year of the Horse?
This is the online phenomenon where one changes their race to another.
What is RCTA?
Turning a square piece of paper into intricate designs is known as this, originating in Japan over 1,000 years ago.
What is origami?
This festival of lights symbolizes the victory of light over darkness.
What is Diwali?
This Korean fermented dish made from cabbage is known for its strong flavor.
What is Kimchi?
This classical South Indian dance form is known for its expressive story telling with symbolic hand gestures
What is Bharatanatyam?
This is the concept of respecting one’s elders, originating in ancient China.
What is filial piety?
This percent of immigrants in the US are Asian American or Pacific Islander.
What is 25-30%?
Eid Al-Fitr marks the end of Ramadan which is the month of fasting practiced by Muslim people around the world. In Arabic, "Eid" has a direct translation of meaning THIS.
What is "feast", "festival", or "holiday"?
This dish featuring deep fried balls of vegetables like cauliflower is often served as an appetizer.
What is Gobi Manchurian?
This traditional Indonesian performance is a form of shadow puppetry art involving intricate hand painted puppets.
What is wayang kulit?
This Executive Order authorized the forced removal of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further inland in 1942.
What is Executive Order 9066.
This month in the U.S. recognizes Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage.
What is May?
This Vietnamese holiday honors ancestors in the seventh lunar month, it heavily emphasizes filial piety.
What is Vu Lau Festival?
This Hawaiian dish has raw fish marinated with soy sauce, sesame oil, and green onions.
What is Poke?
This Pacific Islander practice uses tattooing to represent identity and uses traditional tools to tap patterns into the skin.
What is Tatau?
This trope paints Asian women as cunning, deceitful, domineering, and sexualized.
What is the Dragon Lady trope?
This railroad project heavily relied on Chinese immigrant labor in the 1800s.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This moon phase marks the end of Ramadan and the beginning of Eid Al-Fitr.
What is waxing cresent/hilal?
In Korean culture, it is tradition to eat miyeokguk or soup made from this ingredient on your birthday
What is seaweed?
These twelve animals appear in this order in the traditional Chinese zodiac cycle, beginning with the one who won the Great Race.
What are the Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig? (as long as you name all of the 12 animals you get the point; dont need to be in proper order.)
These universities faced million dollar lawsuits/ lost federal funding 1 year after the DEI ban
What is Brown University, Cornell University, Northwestern University? (Points given if you mention at least one school)
This Asian American activist fought segregation laws in the Supreme Court case ____ v. Hopkins.
Who is Yick Wo?