Q 01/05

In which month is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month observed in the United States?

A) May

B) November

C) March

D) September

Answer · why

A) May

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month is observed in May; it began as a heritage week proclaimed under a 1978 resolution and was extended...

Q 02/05

What event on May 10, 1869 is one of the two reasons May was chosen for the heritage month?

A) The end of the Chinese Exclusion Act

B) The annexation of Hawaii

C) Completion of the transcontinental railroad

D) The founding of Chinatown in San Francisco

Answer · why

C) Completion of the transcontinental railroad

Completion of the transcontinental railroad: the golden spike was driven at Promontory Summit, Utah, in 1869, on a western section built largely by Ch...

Q 03/05

The first Japanese immigrant, Nakahama Manjirō, arrived in the US on May 7 of which year?

A) 1882

B) 1868

C) 1843

D) 1900

Answer · why

C) 1843

Manjirō landed in Massachusetts in 1843, aged about 16; Captain William Whitfield of Fairhaven took the shipwrecked teenager into his home and enrolle...

Q 04/05

Which president signed the 1978 joint resolution creating the original Asian-Pacific Heritage Week?

A) Ronald Reagan

B) Gerald Ford

C) Richard Nixon

D) Jimmy Carter

Answer · why

D) Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter signed the joint resolution on October 5, 1978; the idea came from congressional staffer Jeanie Jew, and Frank Horton and Norman Mineta i...

Q 05/05

Which president signed the 1990 bill extending the heritage week to a full month?

A) Bill Clinton

B) Barack Obama

C) George H. W. Bush

D) Ronald Reagan

Answer · why

C) George H. W. Bush

George H. W. Bush signed the 1990 law that expanded the observance to a full month for that year; a later act of Congress made the month-long designat...