Adoption Stats and Numbers
Minimum age an individual has to be to be eligible to adopt a child in the US
What is 18?
The most international U.S. adoptees are from this birth country
What is China?
Name one Chinese mythical animal
What is dragon/phoenix/bifang/taotie/baize/kui/qilin? (accept any other sensible answers)
True or false: newborns can see and hear as soon as they are born
What is true?
Name two songs Rihanna performed at this year's Superbowl?
What is B--- Better Have My Money, Where Have You Been?, Only Girl in the World, We Found Love, Rude Boy, Work, Wild Thoughts, Pour It Up, All of the Lights, Run this Town, Umbrella, Diamonds?
Two of the most popular countries to adopt from
What is China, Congo, Ukraine, South Korea, India, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Haiti, or Columbia?
Date of National Adoption Day in 2022 (hint: before Thanksgiving)
What is Saturday, November 19th?
Chopsticks were originally created for ------ not as an eating utensil
What is cooking?
Name three reasons why babies might cry.
What is hungry / tired / want a change of diaper / bored / too hot or cold / overstimulation / want a cuddle / attention?
Which two countries share the longest international border?
What is Canada and the USA?
Year that the one-child policy was first implemented in China
What is 1980?
Proportion of American families that have considered adopting a child
What is 1/3?
China has the most Olympic gold medals in which sport?
What is diving?
Babies are born without which bone in their body?
What are knee caps?
What musical term is indicates a chord where the notes are played one after another rather than all together?
What is arpeggio?
Percentage of international adoptions that are interracial
What is 84%? (+/- 5%)
Name two celebrities who have adopted children
What is Jamie Foxx, Jack Nicholson (by his grandparents), Ray Liotta, Steve Jobs, Frances McDormand, Nancy Reagan, Lance Armstrong, Babe Ruth, Dr. Ruth, Nicole Richie, Dave Thomas (Wendy’s Founder), Eric Clapton, Gary Coleman, Faith Hill, Marilyn Monroe, John Lennon, Melissa Gilbert, and Scott Hamilton, maybe more...?
Four classic novels of Chinese literature
What are Journey to the West (西遊記 xī yóu jì), Outlaws of the Marsh (水滸傳 shuî hû zhuàn), Romance of Three Kingdoms (三國演義 sān guó yân yì), and Dream of the Red Chamber (紅樓夢 hóng lóu mèng)
The Oedipus complex describes this
What is a Freudian theory that boys go through a developmental stage of having a sexual desire for their mother and disdain for their father?
Name four out of the Seven Wonders of the World
What is the Taj Mahal, the Colosseum, Chichen Itza, Machu Picchu, Christ the Redeemer, Petra, the Great Wall of China?
Year that OneSky was founded
What is 1998?
The Hague Convention is an agreement about this
What is a convention on the Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption?
What Chinese people do on the 5th day of the Spring Festival
What is welcome the God of Wealth (接財神)?
1/2
Who was the first person to suggest Daylight Savings Times?
Who is Benjamin Franklin?