Pop Culture
Where is the movie Crazy Rich Asians set?
1. Japan
2. Singapore
3. Taiwan
What is Singapore.
Which country invented paper money?
1. Japan
2. China
3. India
What is China?
Japanese liquor Sake's base.
What is Polished Rice.
People of Easter Island, Tonga and Hawaii ____.
1. Melanesians
2. Micronesians
3. Polynesians
Who are Polynesians?
National currency of India.
What is a Rupee?
This Pacific Islander of Polynesian descent won the Heisman trophy in 2014, playing for the University of Oregon and signed with the Washington Commanders this year.
Who is Marcus Mariota. He also went on to play for the Tennessee Titans and the Las Vegas Raiders before he came to the Washington Commanders for 2024.
What year did Hawaii become a state?
1. 1945
2.1959
3. 1972
What is 1959. Settled by Polynesians between year of 1,000 - 1,200. The home of independent Chieftains. Most people think the Pearl Harbor attack occurred in the state of Hawaii, but Hawaii was not a state then, it was a military base and considered a colony. In 1959 Dwight D. Eisenhower signed an act to add Hawaii as a state/ the Hawaiians voted by 94.3% overwhelmingly to become an American state.
This pioneering Chinese-American chef popularized northern-style Chinese cuisine in the US.
1. Joyce Chen
2. Marin Yan
3. Ming Tsai
Who is Joyce Chen. Coining the name, Pot Stickers for Peking Raviolios. Inventing and holding the design patent for the first Flat Bottom wok or the stir fry pan.
Developing 1st line of bottled stir fried sauces for the US market.
Which city has the largest amount of skyscrapers in the world?
1. Hong Kong, China
2. Shenzen, China
3. Shanghai, China
What is Hong Kong, China
Bubble tea originated from this Chinese town.
What is Taiwan?
Which Hawaiian actor plays Aquaman?
Who is Jason Momoa.
Indian American computer architect, Ajay Bhatt, had a hand in developing this computer technology.
What is the USB. Ajay worked for Intel, he holds 132 US and International patents, himself.
Korean salted and fermented vegetables side dish.
What is Kimchi?
Mount Everest boarders these 2 areas.
Extra 300 points if you get both.
What is Nepal-China border.
National sport of Bangladesh?
What is Kabbadi?
Asian Marvel superhero.
300 extra points: The actor's name.
Who is Shang-Chi?
Who is Simu Liu.
(Not Ross Butler or Harry Shum Jr.)
In the 18th century, this is the first Asian/Pacific Islander group to settle in the US.
Who are the Filipinos. In 1763, settled in St. Malo, Louisanna. They were escaping forced labor aboard Galleon ships providing trade between Manilla, Acapulco, the Americas, China, and Spain.
What is tapioca?
The tallest structure in the world is here.
What is Dubai.
Chinese New Year celebration's duration.
What is 15 days?
Who is considered the most famous K-Pop band of all time?
What is BTS
(Not Blackping or Red Velvet).
Kalpana Chawla is the first Indian-American woman to do.
1. Win an Oscar.
2. Fly to Space
3. Run for U.S Senate
What is Fly to Space?
She flew as an aerospace engineer on Columbia in 1997; as a Mission Specialist and primary robotic arm operator. Sadly, she also lost her life in STS 107, the final flight of Columbia in 1986. She also received the Congressional Medal of Honor.
This cuisine uses the traditional method of cooking using a hot pot.
What is Chinese? Hot Pot originated from the Zhou dynasty and considered the earliest prototype. Then the use of copper pot began with the three kingdoms, during 200 - 280AD. During the Zhou dynasty, philosophical schools of thought in Confucianism, Daoism, and legalism was developed.
This state is the where the first Asian American, Gary Lock, became Governor.
What is Washington. Gary Lock grew up in a Seattle's Yessler Terrace public housing for World War II Veterans. In 1996, he became the first Chinese American governor in history in1996 for the state of Washington and served 2 years. Standing on the platform of creating Seattle's state schools to be considered among the best in the nation.
He also went on to become the a U.S. Secretary of Commerce in 2009. From 2011 - 2024, he was the Ambassador to the US and China.
Two major events took place in May and is the reason it was chosen as the month to celebrate Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month.
What is the first Japanese immigrant to arrive in the United States on May 7, 1843. Two decades later, on May 10, 1869, the final Golden Spike was driven into the last railroad tie, to complete the Transcontinental Railroad; where it is well known that it was Chinese immigrants were responsible for the more dangerous labor tasks. In 1979, Jimmy Carter signed a proclamation recognizing the contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to American culture and history. 1992, George W. Bush set aside this to be celebrated for the month of May. In 2009, President Obama changed the celebration's name to be more inclusive and changed the name to Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month (APAHM). It never took off and is still recognized as Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (AAPI Heritage Month.)