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100

This Asian fruit is known for being malodorous.

What is Durian?

100
On November 11th, this unofficial Chinese holiday is celebrated by treating yourself to gifts.

What is Singles Day?

100

This award-winning Korean thriller comments on class discrimination. Released in 2019, this movie was directed by Bong Joon-hoo.

What is Parasite?

100

This federal act was the first of its kind that banned a certain ethnic group for entering the United States and lasted 10 years, before being renewed for another decade.

What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?

100

This term is used to denote dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries.

What is xenophobia?

200

Capital for Vietnam famous for its night markets.

What is Hanoi?

200

This major festival is a three-day holiday in Korea celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th moon of the lunar calendar on the full moon.

What is Chuseok?

200

This NBA player lit up in popularity while playing for the New York Knicks in 2012.

Who is Jeremy Lin?

200

The first Asian who arrived in America was this ethnicity.

What is Filipino?

200

This word is used to describe changing your appearance and natural features to look more Asian, when you are not of Asian descent.

What is asianfishing or yellowfishing?

300

The national dish of the Philippines.

What is adobo?

300

Japan's biggest holiday known as Shogatsu (正月) occurs on this date. 

What is January 1st (New Year's Day)? 

300

First Asian Woman nominated for Best Performance by an Actress. 

Who is Sandra Oh?

300

This island served as a major Asian immigrant processing center on the west coast.

What is Angel Island?

300

This phrase refers to the processes and barriers that serve to exclude Asians and Asian-Americans from executive positions on the basis of subjective factors such as "lack of leadership potential" and "lack of communication skills."

What is the bamboo ceiling?

400

Dim Sum is the term for a very popular southern Chinese cuisine style. What does the term “dim sum” roughly translate to in English?

What is “Touch the heart”?

400

In India, this famous leader's birthday is celebrated on October 2nd.

Who is Mahatma Gandhi?

400

On this season of the Bachelor, there were this many women of Asian descent out of the thirty-seven in the cast.

What is three? (Kim, Serena and Marylynn)

(Points given for Abigail as well)

400

This man was beaten with blows to the head from a baseball bat and murdered in Detroit by two white men because they were upset that the Japanese car industry was booming.

Who is Vincent Chin?

400

This slogan originated in the 1960s as a show of solidarity between Asian Americans and African Americans.

What is Yellow Peril supports Black Power? 

500

Malaysia's capital home to the Petronas Towers.

What is Kuala Lumpur.

500

This Vietnamese festival is held annually from the 8th to the 11th day of the third lunar month.

What is the Hung King's Temple Festival?

500

First Chinese-American elected to congress, and first Asian-American senator.

Who is Hiram Fong?

500

According to the NYPD, this is the percent increase in anti-Asian hate crimes in New York City in the past year. 

What is 1900%? 

(We'll give credit to any answer above 1500%!)

500

This word, meaning a mass whose parts cannot be distinguished from each other, is used to describe what the model minority myth perpetuates against Asian Americans.

What is a monolith?

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