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100

This restaurant in Commons serves Chinese cuisine.

What is Lotus?

100

Many early Chinese immigrants worked on building this major infrastructure project, which was completed in 1869.

What is the Transcontinental Railroad?

100

This Cantonese brunch tradition is famous for dumplings, buns, and tea.

What is dim sum?

100

This Disney film and its 2020 live-action remake are based on a legendary Chinese heroine.

What is Mulan?

100

This popular tile-based game was developed in the 19th century in China.

What is mahjong?

200

This club is known as Yale's Chinese dance troupe.

What is Red Lantern?

200

This act was repealed in 1943, marking the end of 61 years of discriminatory immigration policies against Chinese people.

What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?

200

Though often associated with Chinese cuisine, this crunchy dessert cookie originated in Japan.

What is a fortune cookie?

200

This star-studded 2021 superhero film made history as the first Marvel superhero movie with an Asian lead and a predominantly Asian cast, blending martial arts action with Chinese mythology.

What is Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings?

200

During this Chinese holiday, families visit and clean their ancestors' graves.

What is the Qingming Festival?

300
This program fully funds study abroad language-learning opportunities for Yale students in Chinese (as well as Japanese and Korean).

What is the Light Fellowship?

300

Elected Mayor of Boston in 2021, this person is the city's first woman and first person of color to hold the office.

Michelle Wu (D-MA)

300

This sticky sweet rice cake is often eaten during Chinese New Year for good luck.

What is nian gao?

300

This former child star of Chinese descent, known for The Goonies and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, made his comeback in the 2022 film Everything Everywhere All at Once.

Who is Ke Huy Quan?

300

This city has the oldest Chinatown in the United States. It is also the largest Chinatown outside of Asia.

What is San Francisco?

400

This Yale alum was the first Chinese student to ever graduate from an American university.

Who is Yung Wing?

400

Chinese American students protested at this university as part of the ethnic studies movement in the 60s and 70s.

What is San Francisco State? OR What is UC Berkeley?

400

This deep-fried Americanized chicken dish is named after a Qing dynasty general.

What is General Tso's Chicken?

400

This Chinese American actress won a Golden Globe for her performance in The Farewell.

Who is Awkwafina?

400

This dialect is the third most-spoken Chinese dialect in America.

What is Hokkien?

500

This is the approximate number of students in Yale's CASA.

What is 900 students? (source: Yale CASA website)

500

This 1886 landmark Supreme Court case affirmed equal protection for Chinese immigrants.

What is Yick Wo v. Hopkins?

500

This Chinese dynasty is credited with the invention of hot pot.

What is the Zhou Dynasty (1046 BC - 256 BC)?

500

This actress broke barriers in Hollywood in the 1930s and became the first Chinese American movie star.

Who is Anna May Wong?

500

This animal is the 10th in the Chinese zodiac cycle.

What is the rooster?