YYGS
What does ATC stand for?
Asia in the Twenty-first Century
The year in which Yale was founded.
What is 1701?
The largest hydroelectric dam in the world, which is located in China.
What is the Three Gorges Hydroelectric Dam?
The meaning of Seoul in Korean
What is "the capital"?
Three Asian countries representing three of the top four economies in the world.
What are China, Japan, and India?
The number of instructors at ATC.
12
City in which Yale University is located.
What is New Haven, Connecticut?
A river that flows through China, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam
What is the Mekong River?
The country where the oldest pieces of paper have been found.
What is China?
(The oldest piece of paper in the world was found in China and dates back to the second or first century B.C. Paper was so durable, it was sometimes used for clothing and even light body armor)
The largest city in Asia by population.
What is Tokyo?
The number of countries represented in YYGS across all sessions.
126
Yale's mascot.
Who is Handsome Dan?
A tiny country, known to its inhabitants as Druk Yul (Land of the Thunder Dragon), sandwiched between China and India.
What is Bhutan?
Bubble Tea originated in this country.
What is Taiwan?
Hong Kong was handed back to China in 1997. Macao was handed back to China in 1999 by the _________.
Portugese
The year YYGS was founded.
2001
(The Yale Young Global Scholars (YYGS) Program was founded in 2001 as a small pre-collegiate summer program under the name Ivy Scholars.)
Yale graduate who negotiated the first treaty between China and the U.S.
Who is Peter Parker?
(In 1853 Parker became the first Protestant medical missionary to travel to China, and he went on to open China’s first Western-style hospital, the Ophthalmic Hospital; became the first doctor to introduce modern anesthesia to China; and even negotiated the first treaty between the United States and China, the Treaty of Wanghia.)
The longest bridge in Asia
What is the Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge, China?
A popular competitive card game in Japan that has been around since the start of the 19th century involving the matching of poems.
What is karuta?
The only country in the world that has a flag that is not rectangular
What is Nepal?
How would you connect with YYGS students from previous years and sessions?
Become a YYGS Alumni Ambassador or follow the Alumni newsletter.
The first person from China to earn a degree from an American college or university.
Who is Yung Wing?
Site where early fossils of Homo erectus were found that was listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1987.
What is Zhoukoudian?
The ancient Chinese emperor who, according to popular legend, discovered tea when a tea leaf fell into his boiling water.
Who is Chinese emperor Shennong (2737 B.C.)?
What Asian country is the largest exporter of rice?
What is Thailand?