AAPI Month
Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month is celebrated in this month.
What is May?
This Samoan wrestler later became an actor, producer, and author. (Can you smell what he's cooking?)
Who is Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson?
This is the largest AAPI ethnicity in the U.S.
Chinese American.
Chinese Americans make up almost 4.2 million, make up the largest percent of the total AAPI population in the US.
This romantic-comedy was renowned for having an all-Asian cast (Constance Wu, Gemma Chan, Henry Golding, and Awkwafina, to name a few) and was released in 2018.
What is Crazy Rich Asians?
This popular world-wide Japanese gift brand features a cartoon cat as its mascot.
What is Hello Kitty/Sanrio?
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month started in what year?
What is 1990?
This Hawaiian actor plays Aquaman.
Who is Jason Momoa?
Excluding Hawaii, this state has the highest Asian American/Pacific Islander population.
What is California?
California is home to more than 5.9 million Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, 31.3 percent of the total AAPI population.
This popular Japanese type of comics literally means "whimsical pictures."
What is manga?
This "Wonder of the World" is 1,450 miles long.
What is the Great Wall of China?
AAPI heritage month was originally a week long and was established by this president in 1978.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
This singer was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is well known for his super bowl performance of the song, "Uptown Funk."
Who is Bruno Mars?
This US city has the highest Asian population.
What is Honolulu, Hawaii (with a population of 337,256)?
This Hawaiian-based movie included a character referred to as Experiment 626.
What is Lilo and Stitch?
This is the Asian country that pho originates from.
What is Vietnam?
This sparked the first wave of Asian immigration to the United States.
What is the California Gold Rush?
During the California Gold Rush in the 1850s, a wave of Asian immigrants came to the West Coast and provided labor for gold mines, factories, and the transcontinental railroad.
This Taiwanese-American professional basketball player has been on eight NBA teams, most notably the Knicks.
Who is Jeremy Lin?
What state in the U.S. is apart of the Pacific Islands?
What is Hawaii?
This seven-member boy band was the first K-pop group to ever receive a Grammy Award nomination.
Who is BTS?
In 1948, Vicki Draves and Sammy Lee became the first Asian Americans to win Olympic gold medals for the United States in this sport.
What is figure skating?
This is the percentage of people in the US who identify as being Asian American and/or Pacific Islander.
What is 7.1%?
This president expanded Asian Pacific American Heritage Month to a month long celebration.
Who is President George H.W. Bush?
This actor was the first Asian Marvel superhero, Shang-Chi.
Who is Simu Liu?
This US state has the lowest Asian population.
What is Wyoming?
This horror and drama Korean film, released in 2019, about wealth disparity won four awards at the 92nd Academy Awards and a Golden Globe.
What is Parasite?
This US historical landmark was built and completed by Chinese laborers on May 10, 1869.
What is the trans-continental railroad?
This person is currently the highest-ranking Asian American in U.S. government.
Who is Kamala Harris?