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UChicago
2025 Pop Culture
APIDA History
MISC.
100

What is MAMA an acronym for?

What is Made by Asian Minds in Action?

100

What are the two main athletic centers on campus?

What is Ratner and Crown?

100

Which singer titled her engagement photo Instagram caption: "Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married 🧨"?

Who is Taylor Swift?

100

What does APIDA stand for?

What is Asian Pacific Islander Desi American?

100

What is dihydrogen monoxide (DHMO)?

What is water (H2O)?

200

Which high school did we go to last quarter for our APITAC event?

What is Walter Payton College Prep?

200

Where on campus did the first atomic fission occur?

What is Stagg Field?

200

Which mega pop star is rumored to have broken up with her 2 year boyfriend this winter?

Who is Olivia Rodrigo?

200

When is AAPI Heritage Month?

What is May?

200

Any 3 Asian American athletes.

Who is..?

examples:

- Chloe Kim

- Sammy Lee

- Suni Lee

- Nathan Chen

- Jeremy Lin

- Naomi Osaka 

- Alysa Liu

300

Who are our two partners and what do their acronyms stand for, respectively?

What is Asian Pacific Islander Teen Alliance of Chicago & Chinese American Service League?

300

Name and state the number of student-run (EMPHASIS ON STUDENT-RUN) cafes in Hyde Park.

What is 4?

- Cobb

- Ex-Libris

- Harper

- Hallowed Grounds

- (Grounds of Being (optional))

300

What is the highest grossing movie of 2025, domestically (US)?

What is A Minecraft Movie

300

What major event in 1882 restricted Chinese immigration to the U.S.?

What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?

300

What is said to be the oldest non-fictional dynasty of ancient China (with real evidence of existence)?

Shang dynasty

400

Name our two third-year members in MAMA!

Helena, Cathy

400

How many Nobel Prize winners are there from UChicago?

What is 101?

400

In recent social media posts, incoming president Donald Trump has suggested that his administration will work to rename the Gulf of Mexico and take possession of Canada as well as this North American territory, currently controlled by Denmark.

What is Greenland?

400

Who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature?

Who is Han Kang?

400

Author of The Handmaid's Tale

Who is Margaret Atwood?

500

Who were the four OG members of MAMA (that are still active in MAMA today)?

Christine, Tanvi, Crystal, Aina
500

How many volumes are held by the University of Chicago Library across its six campus locations?

a) 8 million 

b) 10 million

c) 13 million

d) 16 million

What is over 13 million?

500

Store selling iconic $300+ rocks (but not actually)

Anthropologie

500

First South Asian Congressman?

(a) Dalip Singh Saund

(b) Zohran Mamdani

(c) Raja Krishnamoorthi

(d) Kamala Harris

(e) Shri Thanedar

(f) Amiti Goel

Who is Dalip Singh Saund?


500

Atoms of the same chemical element but with different atomic masses.

What are isotopes?