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1. An actor, he was born in 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon to his Chinese-Hawaiian father and English mother. His name means "cool breeze over the mountains" in Hawaiian.
2. A three-man group from Philadelphia's independent hip-hop scene, their talents have earned themselves a place in history as the first Asian American hip-hop group to be signed on to a major label. Their name was taken from an ancient Chinese tale of bandits who pillaged the corrupt and wealthy for the benefit of the less fortunate.
3. She was the first Asian American to star in her own television show, "All-American Girl," a sitcom about a Korean American family. She is currently a successful stand-up comedian performing sold-out shows across the country.
4. She designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial while still a senior at Yale University. She draws inspiration for her sculpture and architecture from culturally diverse sources, including Japanese gardens, Hopewell Indian earthen mounds and works by American earthworks artists of the 1960s and 1970s.
5. She is a London-born writer, the daughter of Bengali parents, who has spent considerable time, since childhood, with her extended family in Calcutta, India. These experiences helped her to use Calcutta as the setting for three of the nine stories in her debut collection, Interpreter of Maladies, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2000.
6. Although this immigration station was billed as the "Ellis Island of the West", within the Immigration Service it was known as "The Guardian of the Western Gate" and was designed control the flow of Chinese into the country, who were officially not welcome with the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
7. Filipinos began living in the United States in 1763. Seamen jumped ship off New Orleans, Louisiana, and Acapulco, Mexico, during the Spanish galleon trade and settled in the bayous of Louisiana. What were these seamen called?
8. He has championed the interests of Hawaii throughout his career. In 1962 he became the first Japanese American to be elected to the United States Senate, and is currently serving his seventh consecutive term.
9. She joined the MTV News Team as a correspondent in May of 2001. She has covered events including the MTV Movie Awards, the Sundance Film Festival and the MTV Video Music Awards.
10. Born in India, this writer/director/producer was given a camera at age 10 and made at least 45 short films by the time he was 15. His movie hits include "Sixth Sense," "Unbreakable" and "Signs."
11. The son of Vietnamese immigrants, he has won the Lombardi and Bednarik awards and was selected by the NFL's Dallas Cowboys in the 3rd round of the 1999 draft.
12. What was formed in 1983 to facilitate the Korean American community's participation in civic, legislative and community affairs? This agency has grown into a national organization and provides a variety of direct and indirect services to Korean American communities across the country.
13. In 1994, he became the first Filipino-American governor in Hawaii's history.
14. Born in California in 1921, this Japanese-American author has written more than 30 books for children and young adults. During her senior year in college, she and her family were sent to live in a Japanese internment camp. Her books reflect an interest in ethnic identity, Japanese culture and the Japanese American experience in the United States.
15. He was the first and only Filipino to be exhibited at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. He took the New York City art world by storm in the 1940s.