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100
The movie Crazy Rich Asians is set there.
What is Singapore?
100
These sandwiches are Vietnamese street food that originated in Saigon & are a delicious hybrid of French and Vietnamese cuisine. Typically, they contain pickled carrots, daikon, chiles, cucumber slices, cilantro, mayo, and marinated pork or chicken.
What is Banh Mi?
100
In a disturbing chapter of Asian American history, about 120,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast were imprisoned in relocation camps in remote desert areas during World War II, simply for having Japanese or part-Japanese ethnicity. What fraction of Japanese heritage required people to report to the authorities to be relocated- 1/2, 1/4, 1/16?
1/16.
100
This country’s nickname is ‘Pearl of the Indian Ocean’.
What is Sri Lanka?
100
Hawaiian actor who plays Aquaman.
Who is Jason Momoa?
200
The most famous K-Pop band of all time that began as a seven-member hip-hop group in 2010.
Who is BTS?
200
Korean side dish made of salted and fermented vegetables.
What is kimchi?
200
Kalpana Chawla was the first South Asian American woman who did this.
Went to Space.
200
The state with the country’s highest percentage of Asian Americans, Pacific Islander Americans, and multiracial Americans compared to any other state that became a U.S. territory in 1898 and joined the US as the 50th state in 1959.
What is Hawaii?
200
The 1st Asian woman to win two Golden Globes, and the 1st woman of Asian descent nominated for a lead-actress-in-a-drama-series Emmy, for "Killing Eve".
Who is Sandra Oh?
300
The name of the dragon who helps Mulan to save China.
Who is Mushu?
300
A type of informal Japanese bar that serves alcoholic drinks and snacks. These are Japanese casual places for after-work drinking, similar to a pub, a Spanish tapas bar, or an American saloon or tavern.
What is izakaya?
300
Gary Locke was the first Asian American governor of a mainland state in the United States. He was from this state.
What is WA?
300
Asian country is shaped like an ‘S’.
What is Vietnam?
300
She became the first woman in Olympic history to win more than one halfpipe snowboarding gold medal, a feat that several top riders failed to achieve in the more than two decades it has been in the Olympic Games.
Who is Chloe Kim?
400
Depicting the life of a Taiwanese-American family in Florida in the 1990s, this series is the longest running Asian American Show on Television.
What is Fresh of the Boat?
400
Boba pearls in bubble tea are made of this.
What's tapioca (tapioca flour)?
400
The first large-scale immigration of Asians to the continental U.S. was when hundreds of thousands of Chinese workers arrived during the California Gold Rush (1848-1855). However, well before the Gold Rush, a smaller population of this ethnicity became the very first settlers in mainland Asian American history.
Who is Filipino?
Most historians believe that Filipinos were the first Asians to live in America — Filipino sailors first arrived in California in 1587! In the 1760s, some Filipino sailors settled in Louisiana, building a small fishing village along with enslaved people and other people of color.
400
Phnom Penh is the capital city of this country.
What is Cambodia?
400
In August 1948 in London, American divers Vicki Draves and Sammy Lee both became the first Asian Americans to win Olympic gold medals for the United States. They were in this sport.
What is diving?
500
Simu Liu played this first Asian Marvel superhero.
Who is Shang-Chi?
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500
National dish of the Philippines, consisting of stewed meat.
What's adobo?
500
The name of the Asian American cultural movement in the 1960s that advocated for self-acceptance and fought racism and ethnic prejudice.
What is Yellow Power Movement?
500
The actual name of this city means “The city of angels, the great city, the residence of the Emerald Buddha, the impregnable city (unlike Ayutthaya) of God Indra, the grand capital of the world endowed with nine precious gems, the happy city, abounding in an enormous Royal Palace that resembles the heavenly abode where reigns the reincarnated god, a city given by Indra and built by Vishnukarn.”
What is Bangkok?
500
The first Asian American in history to appear on U.S. currency. She also became the first Asian-American actress to receive a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.
Who is Anna May Wong?
