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Established in 1967, the museum is a Smithsonian Institution affiliate and the only pan-Asian Pacific American community-based museum in the United States.
What is Wing Luke Museum?
This is the name of the novel, which became the 2013 bestselling satirical romantic comedy written by Kevin Kwan and was later adapted into a Hollywood film in 2018. *Extra points for other titles in the book series.
What are Crazy Rich Asians, China Rich Girlfriend, and Rich People Problems?
Around seven-in-ten of all Asian restaurants in the U.S. serve the food of just three Asian origin groups.
What are Chinese, Japanese, and Thai
This 1882 law was the first in U.S. history to ban immigration based on nationality.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
A country in Southeast Asia that was never colonized by European power.
What is Thailand
The location of an island in the U.S, where it is estimated that a million Asian Americans were processed for immigration between 1910 and 1940. *Extra points for the name of the island.
Where is San Fransisco Bay, CA?
This is a Japanese animated fantasy film directed by Hayao Miyazaki in 1988.
What is My Neighbor Totoro?
A wide variety of side dishes are served alongside the main course, often including fermented vegetables, seasoned vegetables (namul), and sometimes meat or seafood.
What is Banchan
An Anti-Asian stereotype that falsely blamed headaches and numbness on this seasoning common in Chinese food.
What is MSG
SPECIAL (all teams submit an answer and the team that gets the most correct answer wins). Approximately how many islands make up the nation of the Philippines?
What is 7,641
Know as the K2, the second highest mountain in Asian is located between the border of these two countries. *Extra points for name of the mountain range.
Where is The Karakoram Range, between Pakistan and China?
An American actress, considered the first Chinese American film star in Hollywood, as well as the first Chinese American actress to gain international recognition.
Who is Anna May Wong?
A favorite dessert in the Indian subcontinent, these milk-solid balls are fried and then soaked in a sweet syrup infused with cardamom and rose water.
What is Gulab Jamun
The name of the last sovereign monarch of Hawaii before being illegally overthrown by American colonist in 1893.
Who is Queen Lili'uokalani
The name of the indigenous people of the Northern Mariana Islands
What are the Chamorro (or Chamoru) people
A coral island country in the South Pacific in which Pokémon are printed on their official coins.
Where is Niue? 🇳🇺
The Samoan chief Malietoa Tanumafili II gave Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson this noble title in 2004.
What is "Seiuli"
The first Asian American winner of MasterChef, also notable for being the first blind contestant on the show, won the third season of the U.S. show in 2012.
Who is Christine Hà
As early as the year 1765 and through the 1800s, these Filipino sailors, known as “Manilamen,” who worked as crew or indentured servants aboard Spanish galleons, jumped ship and established the first Filipino American communities in this state.
What is Louisiana
This is a monotheistic religion and philosophy founded in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent in the late 15th century by Guru Nanak.
What is Sikhism
The unofficial euphemistic name of the Puyallup Assembly Center, a temporary facility within the system of internment camps set up for Japanese Americans during World War II.
What is Camp Harmony?
This Chinese American artist and animator worked on Walt Disney's Bambi in the 1940s and also produced commercial art.
Who is Tyrus Wong
This Samoan dish, consists of taro leaves wrapped around a filling of coconut cream and sometimes fish or meat, then baked in the umu until tender and rich in flavor.
What is Palusami
Archaeologists and linguists suggest that Polynesians made frequent contact with this Native American tribe in Central California around 400 - 800 BCE.
What is the Chumash tribe in Santa Barbara, CA.
A Native Hawaiian marine botanist is considered the world's leading expert on Pacific marine algae. She was also the first Native Hawaiian woman to earn a PhD in science and discovered over 200 seaweed species during her groundbreaking career.
Who is Isabella Aiona Abbott