APIDA History
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100

The 1992 riots in this city, referred to as Sa-I-Gu (4-29), served as a catalyst for Korean Americans to recognize their political and social identity

What is Los Angeles?

100
After California and New York, this state has the largest Asian American population
What is Texas?
100
This actress, comedian, and writer was born in Cambridge and named Vera Mindy Chokalingam
What is Mindy Kaling?
100
This Vietnamese victory over the French in this 1956 battle inspired other anti-imperialist triumphs, like the Cuban and Algerian Revolutions
What is Dien Bien Phu?
100
This country has one of the highest concentrations of biodiversity of rice in the world
What is Laos?
200
This landmark Supreme Court Case upheld the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which forced Japanese Americans into internment camps during WWII.
What is Korematsu v United States?
200

This percentage of businesses are owned by APIDA owners in the US

10%

200

This NBA player experienced an unprecedented rise to fame with the 2012 New York Knicks, and now plays for the Guangzhou Loonglions

Who is Jeremy Lin?

200

This country, which gained its independence in 1949, was referred to as the Dutch East Indies

What is Indonesia?

200
In 2013, at the age of 28, attorney Michelle Wu was elected to this city's city council, becoming the first Asian American woman to serve on it
What is Boston?
300
The Chinese Exclusion Act, which effectively banned Chinese immigration for 10 years, was passed in this year
What is 1882?
300
This state in the Midwest has the second largest population of Hmong Americans
What is Minnesota?
300
Chris Evans is Curtis Everett in this 2013 Korean sci-fi movie directed by Bong Joon-ho
What is Snowpiercer?
300
In 1999, Portugal gave up the last colony in its overseas empire, when this peninsula, the longest permanent European settlement in Asia, reverted to China after 442 years of Portuguese rule
What is Macau?
300

This famous food creation made by the chief executive of Panda Express is now considered the a quintessential American Chinese dish 

What is Orange Chicken

400

The murder of this Chinese American engineer in 1982 is often considered as a turning point for Asian American civil rights engagement and a rallying cry for stronger federal hate crime legislation

Who is Vincent Chin?

400

This US state has the highest percentage of APIDA population

What is Hawaii?

400
Born in Honolulu to a Filipino mother and Puerto Rican father, Philip Gene-Hernandez is a popular American singer who goes by this stage name
Who is Bruno Mars?
400
This first large-scale Afro-Asian conference held in April 1955 in Indonesia was a meeting of 29 Asian and African states (most of which were newly independent)
What is the Bandung Conference?
400

This Broadway musical fell into a "yellow-face" controversy for casting a famous white actor to play a half-French, half-Vietnamese character

What is Miss Saigon? 

500

This U.S. representative is the the first Asian-American, first Indian American and first Sikh to serve in Congress

Who is Dalip Saund

500
According to the 2010 U.S. Census, this ethnic group is the 7th largest (after Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese Americans)
What is Pakistani Americans?
500

This comedian is the first Asian American cast member of Saturday Night Live

Who is Bowen Yang?

500
This party was established through anti-colonial, anti-imperialist pro-global working class and immigrant movement led by South Asians in the U.S. and Canada in the early 1900s
What is the Ghadar Party?
500
Elaine Chao was the first Asian American woman to serve in the U.S. Cabinet, when she was appointed as Secretary of Labor by this president
Who is George W. Bush?
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