TASA Trivia
Name the restaurant that TASA caters the most from.
Hello Jasmine!
How old is the Republic of China (R.O.C) this year?
114
This city is considered the birthplace of Taiwanese street food culture and remains famous for milkfish soup and danzai noodles.
Tainan (台南)
This green-messenger app is one of the most widely used social media and communication platforms in Taiwan, known for its cute sticker characters like Brown and Cony.
LINE
This modern country is where the Mayan Empire was primarily located.
Guatemala
Who is the current vice president of TASA “by title”?
Guan Chen
What is the name that the Portuguese sailors refer to Taiwan as?
Formosa! (Means: Beautiful Island)
What is Taiwan's National Dish?
Beef Noodle Soup (牛肉麵)
This Taiwanese singer is often called the “King of Mandopop” and is famous for songs like Love Confession and Blue and White Porcelain.
Jay Chou (告白氣球 & 青花瓷)
This is the eigenvalue of the Lz operator (z-component of the total angular momentum) upon the Slater determinant wave function of one particle state for any given closed sub-shell (e.g. the electron configuration for Noble Gases).
Zero
What year was TASA founded?
2014
Like Chicago, this city in Taiwan is referred to as the Windy City (Hint: This is where the National Synchrotron Radiation Research Centre, the premier Synchrotron Radiation source in Asia, is located)
Hsinchu (新竹)
This Taiwanese bubble tea brand became the first to open in New York’s Times Square in 2015.
Gong Cha
What was the year when Jeremy Lin, a Taiwanese American Basketball player, dominated the NBA, starting the period of Linsanity?
2012
This country has the most national languages.
Bolivia
Of the current TASA board members, including those studying abroad, how many are third years?
10
(Ivan, Guan, Kiera, Jonathan, Oscar, Chris, Kenneth, Helen, Rudra, Ryan)
Name three island territories of Taiwan.
Lanyu, Green Island, Lienchiang, Penghu, Kinmen...
The first Din Tai Fung restaurant opened this year, before growing into one of Taiwan’s first Michelin-recognised chains.
1958
What is the 2005 film for which Director Ang Lee (李安) won his first Academy Award for Best Director?
Brokeback Mountain (斷背山)
This gene is a morphogen crucial for various cell differentiation processes, such as neural tube patterning that originates from the lower half of the tube, and shares a name with a famous blue character from SEGA.
Sonic Hedgehog
Which event in TASA history had the highest attendance, and how many people attended (+/- 50)?
Taiwan Night 2025, 750 attendees!
Name this indigenous Taiwan group, based on the island of Lanyu (蘭嶼), which is known for their flying fish catching and their impressive canoe.
Yami / Tao Tribe (雅美族 / 達悟族)
Taiwanese pineapple cakes were adapted in the 20th century from this Japanese sweet filled with red bean paste.
Japanese “monaka” or “mochi-style” wagashi (和菓子; mochi counts)
The Golden Melody Awards, often dubbed the “Grammys of the Mandarin world,” were first held this year. (Hint: it's the same year that the Hubble Space Telescope was launched (April 24th))!
1990
This is the first toy to be advertised on television.
Mr. Potato Head