DMV AANHPI Facts
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As of 2010, the AANHPI primarily lives in these two DC wards
What is Wards 2 and 3?
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AANHPI Americans will be the country's largest immigrant group surpassing the non-white Hispanic community by this year
What is 2055?
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This FX television show with a majority AAPI cast won 18 Emmys this awards season
What is Shōgun (2024)?
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This Taiwanese-American is the first Asian American to win a Nobel Peace Prize in the physics category in 1976
Who is Samuel C.C. Ting? 
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This woman is the highest ranking US official of Asian American descent
Who is Kamala Harris?
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Asian Americans compose this percent of DC voters
What is 5%?
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AANHPI laborers constructed what major US infrastructure?
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
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This actress played the titular character in Disney's first Polynesian princess
Who is Auliʻi Cravalho in Moana (2016)? 
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This Filipino-American was the first AAPI person to achieve EGOT status in 2014 (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards)
Who is Robert Lopez?
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This man was the first US Governor of AANHPI descent in Hawai'i from 1974-1986
Who is George R. Ariyoshi?
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This is DC's most populous Asian American diaspora group
What is Indian American?
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These 3 states have highest percentage of the population who identify as NHPI
What is Hawai’i, Nevada, and Alaska?
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This Korean-American woman was the first Asian American to participate in the Olympic Breaking competition at the 2024 Summer Games
Who is Sunny Choi?
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This Olympian is the first Asian American woman to win an all-around gold medal in gymnastics in 2020
Who is Sunisa (Sunni) Lee?
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This man became the first AANHPI member of the Presidential Cabinet in 2000 / This Presidential Cabinet position was held by an AANHPI politician for the first time in 2000 and again in 2001
Who was Norman Y. Mineta?
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What is the Secretary of Commerce (Clinton) and Secretary of Transportation (G.W. Bush)
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The AANHPI diaspora is this percent of the total DMV population, assuming that total DMV population is just over 6 million people.
What is 10%?
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This west coast county is home to more AANHPI residents than any other county in the United States
What is Los Angeles county?
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This Chinese-American actress was the first Asian-American actress to receive a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame in 1960.
Who is Anna May Wong/Wong Liu Tsong?
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This woman was the first AANHPI suffragette and was also the first Chinese-American woman to obtain a PhD in economics from Colombia University
Who was Dr. Mabel Ping-Hua Lee?
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This woman from Hawai'i was the country's first AANHPI congresswoman and congresswoman of color in 1965
Who was Patsy Matsu Mink?
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DC's Chinatown was established in this decade
What is the 1880s?
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This east coast city is home to the oldest Chinatown Gate. Bonus points for the Gate's name
What is Washington, DC and the Friendship Archway?
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Who played the first Asian American superhero?
Simu Liu in and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
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This man was the first AANHPI astronaut in space in 1985. He was of Japanese descent from Hawai'i
Who is Ellison S. Onizuka?
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This man was the nation's first AANHPI congressman in 1956 hailing from California
Who was Dalip Singh Saund?