A class of students and other participants said they were not expecting an exciting evening filled with trivia about Asian-American culture when they first arrived at Cardinal Hall Wednesday night.
Instead, they said they expected to attend a lecture about a culture they thought they knew nothing about.
The Asian-American Student Association (AASA) continued its month of activities by sponsoring a game show event centered around Jeopardy.
The game show is one of several activities sponsored by AASA for the month of November to spread awareness about Asian-American culture to students around campus.
Students from the Family and Community Relations 231 class said they were required to attend at least one Center for International Programs sponsored event over the course of the semester. They were assigned to write a paper discussing the importance of knowing about cultures outside their own. One of the students said she planned on going to the event, but until Wednesday during class, when her teacher told students of the event, she thought she was attending a lecture rather than a game show.
"This game show event contributed to AASA's awareness around campus by informing the students who participated about Asian-American culture in an entertaining way," said Tommy Marshall Saylor, sophomore and host of the game show.
The Jeopardy-formatted game included six categories, including Pop Culture, Food, Movements, History/Tradition, People and Miscellaneous. There was no Double Jeopardy round, but the Final Jeopardy category was Movies.
The event was open to all students on campus and the contestants were divided into three groups, including "The Taco Supremes," "Eight Girls and a Guy" and "The Americanese."
"The game show event was introduced during last year's Asian-American awareness month, and we decided to do it again because there was a good turnout, and students enjoyed it being different from what they expected," Vice President of AASA Emily Sandoval said. "It is more fun than a lecture."
The groups argued back and forth as to who raised their Jiffy Pop popcorn stick first in order to answer the selected question. Overall, the students had a good time and found, to their surprise, they knew more about Asian-American culture than they thought, answering questions correctly the entire game.
The game show was scheduled for 7 p.m. and instead started 20 minutes late.
"So many people think that Asians know a great deal about computers and technology," Saylor said laughing in response to the delay. "But as you can see tonight, we are having problems getting the computer to work."
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