Food
This Korean dish of fermented vegetables is often spicy and eaten with almost every meal.
What is kimchi?
This popular Korean music genre is known for choreographed groups like BTS and Blackpink.
What is K-pop?
This Southeast Asian country is the only nation in the region that was never colonized by a European power.
What is Thailand?
This writing system was created in the 15th century by a king who wanted a script “easy enough for common people to learn,” and it uses distinct square-looking blocks made from simple consonant + vowel combinations.
What is Hangul?
This Japanese practice involves folding paper into decorative shapes.
What is origami?
This Japanese chocolate-covered biscuit stick comes in flavors like strawberry and cookies & cream.
What is Pocky?
This Chinese social media app became a worldwide platform for short videos.
What is TikTok/Douyin?
This desert, stretching across northern China and southern Mongolia, is one of the fastest-expanding deserts in the world.
What is the Gobi Desert?
This language uses three writing systems at once — one phonetic for native words, one phonetic for foreign loan-words, and one set of characters borrowed from classical Chinese.
What is Japanese?
Koreans celebrate the autumn harvest holiday called ____.
What is Chuseok?
A Filipino sweet treat made with purple yam, often used in ice cream and pastries.
What is ube?
This Oscar-winning film from South Korea was the first non-English movie to win Best Picture.
What is Parasite?
This river in China is known as the “cradle of Chinese civilization.”
What is the Yellow River (Huang He)?
This major Asian language is known for having four main tones (plus a neutral tone), meaning the pitch contour can completely change the meaning of a word.
What is Mandarin?
This holiday marks the start of the lunar calendar and is celebrated with red envelopes.
What is Lunar New Year?
This traditional Chinese snack is made by coating fruit in hardened sugar syrup. (traditionally made with hawthorn)
What is tanghulu?
This 2018 film featuring an all-Asian cast became a global hit, sparked discussions about Asian representation in Hollywood, and stars Constance Wu, Henry Golding, and Awkwafina.
What is Crazy Rich Asians?
This country has the world’s highest population density among Asian nations (and among the highest globally), despite being extremely small.
What is Singapore?
This Asian language has different ways of writing letters depending on where they appear in the word — initial, medial, final, or isolated.
What is Arabic?
This Indian festival of lights celebrates good over evil.
What is Diwali?
This chewy Chinese candy is wrapped in edible rice paper.
What is White Rabbit candy?
Sing the next line
“Given the throne, I didn't know how to believe”
"I was the queen that I'm meant to be"
This river, flowing through China, India, and Bangladesh, creates the world’s largest delta where it empties into the Bay of Bengal.
What is the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta?
This language uses a writing system with 14 basic consonants and 10 vowels, written from left to right, but arranged so that each character represents an entire syllable rather than a single sound — and many syllables end in a silent “k” when romanized.
What is Thai?
This Chinese holiday is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month and includes eating sticky rice dumplings called zongzi and watching dragon boat races.
What is the Dragon Boat Festival?