AANHPI Month Quiz

Who is a renowned cellist born in 1955 who performed as a soloist with orchestras around the world, recorded more than 90 albums, and received 18 Grammy Awards. And was honored with numerous recognitions, including the Glenn Gould Prize, National Medal of Arts, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Polar Music Prize, and was once named “Sexiest Classical Musician” by People magazine.

• Lang Lang

• Yo-Yo Ma

• Itzhak Perlman

• Joshua Bell

Which monarch was held prisoner at 'Iolani Palace in downtown Honolulu, Hawai'i, after the monarchy was overthrown by the U.S. government?

• Queen Victoria

• Queen Ka'ahumanu

• Queen Lili'uokalani

• Queen Kapi'olani

Who was the first woman of Indian descent to go to space, serving as a mission specialist and primary robotic arm operator on the space shuttle Columbia?

• Sally Ride

• Indira Gandhi

• Kalpana Chawla

• Malavath Purna

In 1885, a tragic event known as the Rock Springs Massacre occurred in the Wyoming territory, where white coal miners attacked Chinese laborers, resulting in the deaths of twenty-eight Chinese individuals. What was primary motivation behind this violent attack?

• Poor communication between management and the employees on the front lines

• Losing job opportunities to Chinese workers

• Religious conflict

• Disagreement over land rights

Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order that forced more than 120,000 Japanese Americans living on the West Coast into internment camps. What was one of the primary concerns cited by President Roosevelt as the rationale behind this executive order?

• Perceived necessity to maintain public safety and order in the wake of a traumatic event like Pearl Harbor

• Suspicions that Japanese Americans were secretly training giant robot armies

• Economic competition with Japanese American businesses

• Suspicions of Japanese immigrants or those with Japanese ancestry had taken part in planning the attack

In their daily lives, Asian Americans say they have experienced at least one of three discrimination incidents in which a stranger treated them like a foreigner. What percentage of Asian Americans reported experiencing such discrimination incidents?

• 26%

• 38%

• 52%

• 64%

In 1854, which infamous California Supreme Court case established that Chinese people could not testify against white defendants, contributing to the normalization of discrimination against Asians in the United States?

• Wong Kim Ark v. United States

• People v. Hall

• Korematsu v. United States

• Plessy v. Ferguson

Known as "The Big Kahuna," which towering figure in sports and entertainment, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1890, was a five-time Olympic medalist in swimming and played a role in popularizing the sport of surfing worldwide?

• Eddie Aikau

• Duke Kahanamoku

• Laird Hamilton

• Makua Rothman

Who was a suffragist that mobilized the Chinese community in America to support women’s right to vote, despite not being able to benefit from the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920 due to her citizenship status?

• Susan B. Anthony

• Lin Huiyin

• Mabel Lee

• Patsy Mink

Who was the American Sikh who served in the United States Army during World War I, initially granted citizenship in 1918 but later stripped of it due to racial classification, only to regain it in 1920, lose it again after a Supreme Court ruling in 1923, and finally awarded citizenship in 1935 under the Nye-Lea Act?

• Bhagat Singh Thind

• Dalip Singh Saund

• Anandibai Joshi

• Satyendra Nath Bose