HIAS
Washington, DC
Asylum
Letter Writing
Miscellaneous
100
HIAS is headquartered in this city
What is Silver Spring, Maryland?
100
What is the Jefferson Memorial?
100
The difference between an asylum seeker and an asylee
What is an asylum seeker has not been granted asylum by the US government while an asylee has?
100
The letter writing program is housed within this team at HIAS. Hint: this is the team that Chelsey and Rachel work on.
What is the Community Engagement team?
100
Joe Biden's dogs are named
What is Champ and Major?
200
HIAS CEO and President
Who is Mark Hetfield?
200
These two popular bookstores also serve as events venues
What are Busboys and Poets and Politics and Prose?
200
This policy forced asylum seekers coming across the Southern border to wait in Mexico for their case to be tried in US court
What are the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) (a.k.a. Remain in Mexico)?
200
The two organizations that HIAS partners with on the letter writing program
What are Freedom for Immigrants and First Friends?
200
This bird, native to Washington, DC, has a yellow body with some black patches
What is the American Goldfinch?
300
HIAS used to stand for this
What is the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society?
300
Washington, DC has this type of representation in Congress
What is one nonvoting representative?
300
The difference between a refugee and an asylum seeker, in the eyes of the US government, is this
What is a refugee is not on US soil while an asylum seeker is?
300
The Letter Writing program has existed since this year
What is 2016?
300
In this Asian country, the existing democratic government was recently overthrown by the military
What is Myanmar/Burma?
400
HIAS works in this many countries
What is seventeen countries?
400
DC's professional soccer club
What is the DC United?
400
To the nearest tens place (10, 20, 30, etc.), the US has this many Immigration detention facilities
What is 130 Immigration detention facilities? (The real number is 134)
400
This many volunteers attended a letter writing event in 2020, to the nearest ten (10, 20, 30, etc.)
What is 60 volunteers?
400
This former second baseman just retired from the Boston Red Sox
Who is Dustin Pedroia?
500
HIAS' newest office, opened in 2020, is in this country
What is Guyana?
500
Washington, DC has a greater population than these two US states
What are Vermont and Wyoming?
500
When an asylum seeker arrives at the US border and reports that they fear returning to their country, Customs and Border Patrol is supposed to give this interview
What is a credible fear interview?
500
In our October, November, December and January programs combined, we sent this amount of letters to asylum seekers, to the nearest ten (10, 20, 30, etc.)
What is 80 letters? (The real number is 87!)
500
The hottest country in the world
What is Burkina Faso? The average yearly temperature is 83 degrees Fahrenheit!