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This is the month Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is celebrated.
What is May? The month of May was chosen to commemorate the immigration of the first Japanese to the United States on May 7, 1843, and to mark the anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869. The majority of the workers who laid the tracks were Chinese immigrants.
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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. He brings the funk uptown...

Who is Bruno Mars?

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This type of fermented cabbage is a staple in Korean cuisine.

What is Kimchi? 

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He is known as "the Awakened One".

Who is Buddha? Buddha was a sage, or wise man, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. He is believed to have lived and taught mostly in eastern India sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries BCE.

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This is the Asian country is the 4th-most populous in the world. 

What is Indonesia?

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This US president expanded Asian Pacific American Heritage Month to a month long celebration.

Who is President George H.W. Bush?

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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 mostly recently starred in The Karate Kid with Jaden Smith.
Who is Jackie Chan?
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This chicken dish from India is marinated in Yogurt. 

What is Tandoori? 

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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?

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This Asian City-State has a building inspired by Star Wars. 

What is Singapore?

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Asian Pacific American Heritage Month celebrated the arrival of the first group of immigrants from this country.
What is Japan. May is the month when the first Japanese immigrants arrived in the U.S. in 1843.
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This actor is starring in the Marvel Movie, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. 

Who is Simu Liu?

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This notorious Japanese street food are battered octopus balls. 

What is Takoyaki? 

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This type of animal has its own annual festival in the town of Lapburi in Thailand. 

What is monkey? 

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This symbol is prominently featured on the Japanese national flag.
What is the Red Sun?
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President Barack Obama is from this Pacific Island.
What is Hawaii? May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month – a celebration of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States. A rather broad term, Asian-Pacific encompasses all of the Asian continent and the Pacific islands.
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This NBA player is one of the few Asian Americans in NBA history, and had an insane month of play for the Knicks in 2012. 

Who is Jeremy Lin? 

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This Quintessential Indonesian barbecue food is grilled over flaming hot charcoals.

What is Satay? 

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This is Japan's most popular spectator sport.

What is baseball? 

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This US state has the highest Asian population.

What is California?

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The month of May also marks the anniversary of the completion of THIS RAILROAD in 1869, which was constructed by workers who were primarily 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.

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This South Korean-born American actor was nominated for Best Actor at the 2021 Oscars. 

Who is Steven Yeun?

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This traditional Japanese food is made by fermenting soy beans in a special type of bacteria that is naturally produced in the human gastrointestinal tract.

What is natto?

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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?
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This city in Japan has over 1600 temples. 

What is Kyoto?