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This Pilipinx songbird is known for lending her voice in Disney animated movies. She also became the first woman of Asian descent to win a Tony award for her performance as Kim in Miss Saigon.
Who is Lea Salonga?
We can see this iconic mascot at Berkeley games. His name is _______.
Oski the Bear
This traditional Pilipino dish is a refreshing, cold dessert made of crushed ice, evaporated milk, sweetened red beans, fresh fruit, jellies, and topped with (usually ube) ice cream.
What is Halo-Halo?
Introverts would much rather do this than call someone! Guess what, the Philippines is known as the ____ capital of the world.
What is text?
What is Coca-Cola?
This Pilipino-Canadian actor is known for playing Jason Mendoza on The Good Place.
Who is Manny Jacinto?
Berkeley's landmark bell and clock tower called the Sather Tower rings at the start of the hour. However, it is more commonly known as this, because it resembles a building in Venice.
What is the Campanile?
This sour soup is often made with a tamarind base and can be cooked with pork, fish, or shrimp.
What is sinigang?
Designer Mak Tumang designed Miss Universe 2018 Catriona Gray's red, high-slit dress. Its design was inspired by this famous Pilipino landmark, which is also shaped as a perfect cone.
What is the Mayon Volcano?
These are the four main characters' names in the TV series "Golden Girls."
What are Dorothy, Rose, Blanche, and Sophia?
This Pilipino leader known as Seven Fingers was a labor organizer who led the Delano grape strike, in which agricultural workers walked off the farms of grape growers to demand wages equal to the federal minimum wage.
Who is Larry Itliong?
For all the coffee lovers out there, it might be interesting to know that this national coffee shop got its start in Berkeley. The founder opened the original on the corner of Walnut and Vine Street.
What is Peet's Coffee?
When we're sick, our parents serve us a hot bowl of this chicken rice porridge, garnished with green onions, toasted garlic, and a hard-boiled egg.
What is arroz caldo?
This is the title for the national anthem of the Philippines. It can be translated as "chosen" or "designated" land.
What is Lupang Hinirang?
This country has the most natural lakes in the world.
What is Canada?
The Philippines has won the Miss Universe pageant four times. Name these four outstanding women who took home the crown!
Who is Gloria Diaz? Who is Margie Moran? Who is Pia Wurtzbach? Who is Catriona Gray?
This philosophy student at UC Berkeley was an activist and a key member of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. He is most famous for his passionate speeches at the steps of Sproul Hall.
Who is Mario Savio?
High school friends Evan Kidera and Gil Payumo started a food truck selling this classic, sizzling dish and putting it in burritos, tacos, and nachos. You can see their food truck at various food truck festivals in the Bay Area like the Off the Grid in San Francisco.
What is sisig?
Prior to Spanish colonization, native Pilipinos from the Luzon region used a form of Brahmic script to communicate with one another. The Archives of the University of Santo Tomas currently possesses the world's biggest collection of ancient writings in this script.
What is baybayin?
This plant is the largest and most diverse of the flowering plant families, with over 800 described genera and 25,000 species. These flowers are responsible for producing a spice that is used in a lot of sweet treats.
What are orchids?
This Pilipino nationalist and writer is recognized as the national hero of the Philippines. He is best known for writing novels including Noli Me Tángere and a collection of essays that criticized the Spanish colonial government for its actions that refused to recognize Philippine independence and sovereignty.
Who is José Rizal?
This Supreme Court justice's words are posted on the wall of Berkeley Law. The first line is "You will study the wisdom of the past, for in a wilderness of conflicting counsels, a trail has there been blazed."
Who is Justice Benjamin Cardozo?
This Thailand-inspired restaurant is a popular tourist destination in Calauan Laguna in the Philippines with bamboo pathways, nipa huts, and giant statutes. The most famous part of this restaurant is that visitors are able to walk barefoot on this water pathway and have beautiful koi fish nip at their feet! (Hint: emphasis on the little creatures!)
Isdaan Floating Restaurant
Prior to Spanish colonization, ancient Filipinos believed that this deity created the universe.
Who is Bathala?
There is this neighborhood in San Francisco that is known to house a flock of wild Southern American parrots. In 2005, Judy Irving directed a documentary about the parrots, starring a musician who quickly formed a bond with the birds. This neighborhood houses the Coit Tower and the Filbert Street steps and shares a name with a famous street in Berkeley.
What is Telegraph Hill?