Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
This is the month Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is celebrated.
What is May?
This singer was born Peter Gene Hernandez on October 8, 1985, in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is known for for his stage performances and retro showmanship. You may have heard his last song, Die With A Smile.
Who is Bruno Mars?
She enlisted in the Coast Guard to “avenge the death of her late husband,” a Navy PT boat crewman killed at Corregidor.
Who is Florence Smith Finch?
He is known as "the Awakened One". Hint: think Religion.
Who is Buddha?
The Japanese consume this percentage of calories per day compared with someone from the U.S: a) 25% less calories b) 50% less calories c) they consume the same amount
What is 25% less?
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.
Who is Jackie Chan?
When he reported for duty at Camp Shelby, in 1943, the commander of the 100th Battalion, offered him an immediate transfer because “Koreans and Japanese don’t always get along.”
Who is Second Lieutenant Young Oak Kim?
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?
Which Asian-American/ African-American is famous for golf?
Who is Tiger Woods?
He was drafted into the U.S. Army in March 1941. He was given the nickname “Cesar” because his sergeant could not pronounce his name.
Who is Shizuya Hayashi?
These are small tapered sticks used in pairs of equal length as traditional eating utensils.
What are chopsticks?
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.
Who is Jeremy Lin?
He was promoted to Admiral in 2013 and assumed command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
Who is Harry Harris Jr.?
This is Japan's most popular spectator sport.
What is baseball?
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? In 1862, the Pacific Railroad Act chartered the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad Companies, and tasked them with building a transcontinental railroad 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. Previously, she was a co-anchor of The Early Show on CBS.
Who is Julie Chen?
In 2015, an Indian American, was named the new Executive Director for Regions and Center Operations at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Who is Ravi Chaudhary?
In 1942, at the start of THIS WAR, the Japanese Internment Camps were created to force relocation and incarceration of nearly 120,000 people in the united States with Japanese ancestry.
What is World War II?