Food
This small fried appetizer shows up in multiple cuisines, including Chinese.
What are chicken wings?
During these, students sat under desks to respond to the threat of nuclear war.
What are air raid drills?
The Cal Academy of __________ is a renowned research institution in San Francisco, featuring exhibits on natural history, aquatics, and space exploration.
What is Science?
In the 1900’s, homosexuality was classified as a ___ disorder.
What is mental/psychological?
What popular department store opened a branch in San Francisco in the 1950s?
What is Macy's?
Chiao-tzu is traditional fried__.
What are dumplings?
In 1949, this man's Communist party took control of China?
Who is Mao Zedong?
What was NASA’s original name?
What is NACA—the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics?
True or False: homosexuality was largely stigmatized and there was very little positive queer representation?
True.
This contest is a beauty contest that used to be held on July 4th in Chinatown and is now held on Chinese New Year.
What is the Miss Chinatown Competition?
The holy trinity of Chinese cooking is garlic, scallions, and this.
What is ginger?
What act signed in 1882 restricted immigration to the U.S. from China?
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This is NASA's leading center for robotic space missions and planetary exploration in California.
What is the Jet Propulsion Lab?
What was the name of the riots that occurred in June 1969 at the Stonewall Inn?
This is a California-based drugstore known for its ice cream.
What is Thrifty Drug Store?
Today the feast that celebrates this holiday often includes dumplings as part of the celebration, but in the 1950s the dumplings would not have been as widely available.
This was the name of a group of Chinese-American volunteer pilots that fought in WW2.
Who were the Flying Tigers?
Dr. Hsue-shen Tsien was a Chinese aerospace engineer who worked for the U.S. government and was then accused of being a _____________.
What is Communist?
The raid on Tommy's Place (a lesbian bar in San Francisco) was a part of this series of events.
What are the 1954 San Francisco Police Raids?
This bar had a raid in early September 1954.
What is Tommy's Place?
Most of the food that Americans think of as Chinese food comes from this cuisine.
What is Cantonese?
This group, also known as the Chinese American Democratic Youth League, had a communist political reputation.
Who were the Man Ts'ing?
This was the name of competition during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, spanning the 1950s to the 1970s.
What is the Space Race?
What was the court case that determined that gay bars were not outright against the law?
What is Stoumen vs Reilly?
The acronym CACA stands for what group?
What is the Chinese American Citizen's Alliance?