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100
Locals of of Sriracha, Thailand don't recognize Sriracha as a hot sauce they'd use. The inventor of the sauce is actually _________ -American and produces the sauce in Irwindale, California.
What is Vietnamese-American, David Tran.
100
Between 1910-1940, this island was the point of entry for most of the ~175,000 Chinese immigrants coming to the US.
Most were detained for as little as two weeks or as much as six months. A few were forced to remain for as much as two years.
What is Angel Island.
100
Asia contains this percentage of the world population.
What is ~60%! (4.75 billion as of 2022).
100
He was a college football player and a professional WWE wrestler before landing his first acting role in The Mummy Returns in 2001.
He was born in Hayward, California. His mother is Samoan.
Currently working on producing and starring in a film about Kamehameha Kūnuiākea, the founder and first ruler of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi.
Who is Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
200
Many local Indian restaurants offer a spoonful of these kind of seeds with the bill or check. The seeds aid with digestion.
What is fennel seeds.
200
Born in Japan to a Haitian-American father and a Japanese mother, this Tennis player has lived and trained in the United States since age three.
She was named one of the 2020 Sports Illustrated Sportspersons of the Year for her activism largely as part of her US Open championship run, and was also included on Time's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019, 2020 and 2021.
Moreover, she was the 2021 Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, she became the first tennis player to light the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony.
Who is Naomi Osaka.
200
100pts.: This US state has the largest Asian-American population.
100pts.: This US state has the lowest Asian-American population.
What is California (17.39% of the pop) and Wyoming (1.57% of the pop).
Hawai'i has the largest by percentage: 56.14%! 
200
As a child actor, he was in Indiana Jones (1984) The Goonies (1985).
After a 19-year acting hiatus, he was recently in Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), a performance that won him an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Who is Ke Huy Quan.
300
These popular hollow cookies most likely originated from Japanese immigrants to the United States in the late 19th or early 20th century.
What is the fortune cookie.
As far back as the 19th century, a cookie very similar in appearance to the modern fortune cookie was made in Kyoto, Japan, and there is a Japanese temple tradition of random fortunes, called omikuji.
The Japanese version of the cookie differs in several ways: they are a little bit larger; are made of darker dough; and their batter contains sesame and miso rather than vanilla and butter.
They contain a fortune; however, the small slip of paper was wedged into the bend of the cookie rather than placed inside the hollow portion.
300
Liliʻuokalani was the only queen regnant and the last sovereign monarch of this Kingdom until it's overthrow in 1893 and later annexation by the US.
What is the Kingdom of Hawai'i.
The composer of "Aloha ʻOe" and numerous other works, she wrote her autobiography Hawaiʻi's Story by Hawaiʻi's Queen during her imprisonment following the overthrow.
300
The continent of Asia is bound by these three oceans (100pts. each)
What is the Arctic Ocean in the North, the Pacific Ocean in the East, and the Indian Ocean in the South.
300
Released in 2022, this film was considered one of the ten best films of the year by the National Board of Review.
The song "Naatu Naatu" won the Oscar for Best Original Song at the 95th Academy Awards, making it the first song from an Indian film, as well as the first from an Asian film, to win in this category. It was then also the first Indian film by an Indian production to win an Academy Award.
RRR also won the awards for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Song at the 28th Critics' Choice Awards.
At the 69th National Film Awards, the film won 6 awards as well.
What is RRR (Roudram Ranam Rudhiram), a 2022 Indian Telugu-language epic period action drama film directed by S. S. Rajamouli.
400
In this traditional Hawaiian dish, a root is steamed and pounded with water until it becomes a smooth paste.
This nutritious and life-sustaining starch is low-fat, gluten-free, and high in phosphorous and vitamin B.
What is Poi, made from Taro.
400
In 1943, the Magnuson Act repealed this earlier Act from 1882. 105 people per year were now allowed for Chinese immigration into the US.
Chinese people in America were also granted the right to naturalization.
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
It was the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. It was passed by Congress and signed by President Chester A. Arthur.
This act provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States.
400
Micronesia lies between the Philippines and Hawaii and encompasses this many islands.
What is about 2,000 islands, many of which are tiny and found in clusters.
The region includes, from west to east, Palau (also known as Belau), Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands (which include Saipan), the Federated States of Micronesia (which include Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei, and Kosrae), the Marshall Islands (which include Enewetak, Bikini, Rongelap, Kwajalein, and Majuro), Nauru, and Kiribati (formerly the Gilbert Islands, and which includes Banaba, formerly Ocean Island). Located for the most part north of the Equator, Micronesia (from Greek mikros ‘small’ and nēsoi ‘islands’) includes the westernmost of the Pacific Islands.
400
This Taishanese Chinese American is considered the first Chinese American film star in Hollywood, as well as the first Chinese American actress to gain international recognition.
She was also the first Asian-American actress to receive a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.
Her incredible career spanned silent film, sound film, television, stage, and radio between 1919 and 1961.
Who is Anna May Wong or Wong Liu Tsong.
500
According to statistics from the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan, the originator of boba tea, sells about 1.02 billion cups of boba tea domestically every year.
This is an average of ____ cups per person!
What is 44 cups per person, per year in Taiwan!
500
Born in San Pedro, California, she was an American civil rights activist.
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, her father, just out of surgery, was arrested and detained in a hospital. “He was the only Japanese in that hospital,” Kochiyama recalls, “so they hung a sheet around him that said, ‘Prisoner of War.’” He died shortly thereafter.
FDR signed Executive Order 9066 in 1941, causing 110,000 Japanese people in the US (primarily US citizens) to be held in 10 concentration camps.
Influenced by her and her family's experience being held in a camp and her deep friendship with with Malcolm X, she advocated for many causes, including the anti-war movement and reparations for Japanese-American internees.
As founder of Asian Americans for Action, she also sought to build a more political Asian American movement that would link itself to the struggle for Black liberation.
Who is Yuri Kochiyama.
500
100pts. for naming the place for each flag:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
What is:
1. Bangladesh
3. Azerbaijan
3. Bhutan
4. Palestine
5. Kazakhstan
500
100pts. Bruce Lee was born in this California city because his father was on tour with the Chinese Opera.
100pts. each up to 400: Name some Bruce Lee movies.
What is San Francisco.
What is The Big Boss (1971), Fist of Fury (1972), The Way of the Dragon (1972), Enter the Dragon (1973), etc.
Fun fact: His first film was when he was three months old, playing a baby girl in Golden Gate Girl (1941), a Cantonese-US production shot in San Francisco.