Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
This is the month Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is celebrated.
What is May? Fun Fact: The month of May was chosen to commemorate the immigration of the first Japanese to the United States on May 7, 1843.
This singer was born Peter Gene Hernandez on October 8, 1985, in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is known for his stage performances and retro showmanship. You may have heard his very popular song, Uptown Funk.
Who is Bruno Mars?
He is known as "the Awakened One". Hint: think Religion.
Who is Buddha?
This U.S. state has the largest share of Asian Americans.
What is Hawaii? 57% of Hawaiian residents are Asian American, followed by California with 17%
This president expanded Asian Pacific American Heritage Month to a month long celebration.
A. President George HW Bush in 1990
B. President Abraham Lincoln in 1864
C. President Jimmy Carter in 1978
Who is A. President George H.W. Bush?
He was born in Hong Kong, China. He gained a reputation as Hong Kong's best stuntman. In America he is know as a martial artist and movie star. He also starred in The Karate Kid with Jaden Smith.
Who is Jackie Chan?
This fish represents perseverance and worldly advancement which is often depicted in American culture by tattoos. This fish is also found in garden ponds.
What is the Koi Fish? You'd recognize these fish- some of the major colors are white, black, red, yellow, blue, and cream.
This U.S. state has the smallest percentage of Asian residents.
What is Montana? Montana has 0.8%
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month celebrated the arrival of the first group of immigrants from this country.
What is Japan? Fun Fact: The first Japanese immigrants arrived in the U.S. in 1843.
This Asian-American/ African-American is famous for golf?
Who is Tiger Woods? Tiger Woods' ancestry is African American, Thai, Chinese, and Dutch.
These are small tapered sticks used in pairs of equal length as traditional eating utensils.
What are chopsticks? Chopsticks were first used by the Chinese and later spread to the neighboring countries of Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, etc.
In this year Hawaii became a state.
A. 1933
B. 1959
C. 1961
D. 1975
B. What is 1959?
President Barack Obama is from this Pacific Island.
What is Hawaii?
This NBA player is one of the few Asian Americans in NBA history, and the first American of Chinese or Taiwanese descent to play in the league. He is also known for his public expression of his Christianity.
Who is Jeremy Lin?
This is Japan's most popular spectator sport.
What is baseball?
Gary Lock was the first Asian American governor of a mainland state. This was the state he was from.
A. California
B. Montana
C. Colorado
D. Washington
D. What is Washington?
The month of May also marks the anniversary of the completion of THIS RAILROAD in 1869, which was constructed by workers who were majority Chinese immigrants.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad? Fun Fact: In 1862, under the Pacific Railroad Act, a transcontinental railroad was built that would link the United States from east to west.
This Asian American woman is an American television personality, news anchor, and producer for CBS. She has been the host of the TV show Big Brother since its debut in July 2000. She is also a co-host and the moderator of the CBS daytime show The Talk.
Who is Julie Chen? Julie Chen is of Chinese descent.
In the 18th century, this Asian/Pacific Islander group was the first to settle in the U.S.
A. Chinese
B. Samoans
C. Filipinos
D. Hawaiians
C. What are Filipinos? Filipinos in Louisiana were the first recorded settlement of Asians in the United States.
This is the Asian country that is the largest exporter of rice?
What is Thailand?