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Trias1991
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Her name is Thieu Kim Ngan and she made history by being the first Asian to win Jeopardy! and she is the youngest winner ever! Jeopardy! is an American television quiz show featuring trivia in history, literature, the arts, pop culture, science, sports, geography, wordplay, and other topics. The show has a unique answer-and-question format in which contestants are presented with clues in the form of answers, and must phrase their responses in question form.

She won 100.000 USD!




Congrats!
freeter
Congrats to her.
HuYuHaiDing
Just did a Google search on her and 9 out of 10 webpages on her were based out of Vietnam (.vn). Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the last name "Kieu" or "Thieu" an ethnic Hoa last name? Wasn't this ethnic the first one that got robbed down to their undies and chased out of their homes by the commies the minute they overran Saigon? The way the commies back in Vietnam are embracing her with their kudos right now is beyond embarrassing. It was as if they had no human decency AT ALL!
LonelyLeopard
it is a Vietnamese last name. Kieu Cong Tien is a Vietnamese. She maybe his descendent lol. Kieu is a Vietnamese name.

btw, Thiều (韶) is a very rare name in China.

http://www.phahe.vn/FamilyTree/Pages/famil...amilyTreeID=547

it said that their ancestor is Thiều Thốn. The Thiều now are living around Thanh Hóa - Ba V́ - Hà Nội - Vĩnh Phúc.

QUOTE
Họ Thiều có nguồn gốc tại Thanh Hoá (cụ Thiều Thốn) cách đây khoảng 1000 năm. Hiện nay gia tộc Họ Thiều chủ yếu có ở Thanh Hoá; Ba V́-Hà Nội, Vĩnh Phúc.


The Thiều has intergrated into Kinh tộc (京族) in around 14th century.

QUOTE
Ông Thiều Kim Nhật có một con trai là Thiều Kim Xích. Ông Thiều Kim T́nh lấy bà Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Nga, người xă Triệu Xá (nay thuộc xă Đông Tiến, huyện Đông Sơn) và sinh ra Thiều Thốn vào năm Khai Thái thứ 3 (1326) đời vua Trần Minh Tông.

Năm Thiệu Phong thứ 16 (Đinh Dậu - 1357), vua Trần ra chiếu chỉ t́m người đánh quân Chiêm sang cướp Hoá Châu. Ông Thiều Thốn xin xuất quân Nam chinh, được vua Trần phong làm Thượng Tướng Quân. Sau khi dẹp được ngoại xâm, Thiều Thốn được vua Trần ban phong "Khai quốc công thần thượng trụ quốc thượng" và gả công chúa thứ hai là Trần Ngọc Hải làm vợ.

Sau đó Thiều Thốn được bổ chức Pḥng ngự xứ Lạng Sơn, rất được tướng sĩ dưới trướng yêu mến .
HuYuHaiDing
Aren't you the same guy that spewed the same nonsense about how Howard Bach (a badminton luminary) being Vietnamese? Only to find out the dude only speaks English + Cantonese + some Mandarin? But not a word of Viet? The humiliation!
LonelyLeopard
non, i don't even know Howard Bach.

i know this girl because she is kinda famous in Vietnam, plus shes kinda my type (her intelligent). icon_redface.gif
netcizen
QUOTE (HuYuHaiDing @ Feb 18 2012, 11:48 PM) *
Are you the same guy that spewed the same nonsense about how Howard Bach (a badminton luminary) being Vietnamese? Only to find out the dude only speaks English + Cantonese + some Mandarin? But not a word of Viet? The humiliation!



It said he born in Saigon, Vietnam. He is Chinese Vietnamese heritage. It is funny. Most Chinese Vietnamese when they left Vietnam the 80s and 90s, claim themselves Vietnamese, so they can be political refugee. Now they claim they are Chinese.
HuYuHaiDing
QUOTE (netcizen @ Feb 18 2012, 07:56 PM) *
It said he born in Saigon, Vietnam. He is Chinese Vietnamese heritage. It is funny. Most Chinese Vietnamese when they left Vietnam the 80s and 90s, claim themselves Vietnamese, so they can be political refugee. Now they claim they are Chinese.

You really need to do more reading and less posting!!!! As long as a person can show proof that he/she is fleeing the Commies, they will get asylum in the US. Ethnicity is not part of the asylum equation. They can be Martians for all the Americans care. You think all the Hmong and the Cambodian getting accepted to the US was because they claimed they're Vietnamese? OMFG!
netcizen
QUOTE (HuYuHaiDing @ Feb 19 2012, 12:04 AM) *
You really need to do more reading and less posting!!!! As long as a person can show proof that he/she is fleeing the Commies, they will get asylum in the US. Ethnicity is not part of the asylum equation. They can be Martians for all the Americans care. You think all the Hmong and the Cambodian getting accepted to the US was because they claimed they're Vietnamese? OMFG!


I pointed out Chinese Vietnamese in this case alone, since you claimed Howard Bach is not Vietnamese. Base on your claims, your children born in US, should not be American?
HuYuHaiDing
OMFG! Not again! Citizenship laws of Vietnam pre or post commie is very clear. Solely being born in Vietnam does not make you a Vietnamese citizenship-wise nor ethnic-wise. I'm going to have to charge you for every piece of knowledge I'm giving you from now on. Enough free info already.
netcizen
QUOTE (HuYuHaiDing @ Feb 19 2012, 12:25 AM) *
OMFG! Not again! Citizenship laws of Vietnam pre or post commie is very clear. Solely being born in Vietnam does not make you a Vietnamese citizenship-wise nor ethnic-wise. I'm going to have to charge you for every piece of knowledge I'm giving you from now on. Enough free info already.



Where do you get that I do not know nor i need them, since they are mostly non-sense. But international laws, where you born, you should have citizen there.

btw, learn wrong information is worst than not learning
HuYuHaiDing
QUOTE (netcizen @ Feb 18 2012, 08:29 PM) *
Where do you get that I do not know nor i need them, since they are mostly non-sense. But international laws, where you born, you should has citizen there.

btw, learn wrong information is worst than not learning

Yes AQ!
gearofwar117
QUOTE (HuYuHaiDing @ Feb 18 2012, 08:59 PM) *
Just did a Google search on her and 9 out of 10 webpages on her were based out of Vietnam (.vn). Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the last name "Kieu" or "Thieu" an ethnic Hoa last name? Wasn't this ethnic the first one that got robbed down to their undies and chased out of their homes by the commies the minute they overran Saigon? The way the commies back in Vietnam are embracing her with their kudos right now is beyond embarrassing. It was as if they had no human decency AT ALL!

are you saying that she's not vnmese but rather chinese because vnmese are all stupid? are you jealous of our achievement? why don't you just spill it out bastard? my last name is 文 but i'm never proud to be called korean by your chinese women or being called chinese as generalization...
Thieu is one of the Kinh ethinicity's surnames.....get it into your head
freeter
She is who she claims to be. Who are you to dictate to her that her last name isn't a common Vietnamese one so she has to be an ethnic Chinese? The chance of you running into a Kieu in China is even lower than doing so in Vietnam.

And Kieu is accepted as a Kinh Vietnamese last name. The first one was mentioned during the drive to end the millennium of Northern domination.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieu_Cong_Tien

Cut and paste into your google translate.
Daehan
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Ilikeasians
You're an idiot. We Vietnamese are extremely intelligent, and it shows in how we have evolved as a culture, to be the only country to repel the Mongols, while you Chinese have been raped repeatedly by the Mongols that you don't know which Asian group is which anymore. Naturally, such an intelligent Vietnamese culture will produce the first Asian winner of Jeopardy at an age that boggles your MSG enriched mind. Now STFU or go troll somewhere else. I have no patience for you Chinese trolls. beerchug.gif

QUOTE (HuYuHaiDing @ Feb 19 2012, 12:25 AM) *
OMFG! Not again! Citizenship laws of Vietnam pre or post commie is very clear. Solely being born in Vietnam does not make you a Vietnamese citizenship-wise nor ethnic-wise. I'm going to have to charge you for every piece of knowledge I'm giving you from now on. Enough free info already.
TGStuffing
QUOTE (Ilikeasians @ Feb 19 2012, 10:08 PM) *
You're an idiot. We Vietnamese are extremely intelligent, and it shows in how we have evolved as a culture, to be the only country to repel the Mongols, while you Chinese have been raped repeatedly by the Mongols that you don't know which Asian group is which anymore. Naturally, such an intelligent Vietnamese culture will produce the first Asian winner of Jeopardy at an age that boggles your MSG enriched mind. Now STFU or go troll somewhere else. I have no patience for you Chinese trolls. beerchug.gif

If you were "intelligent" you wouldnt have jumped into conclusion with prejudice that guy was Chinese,lol
your comments here in this forum reek of insecurity, you just don't realise it , yet
oolong
What did MSG do?Most people like Lin not just Chinese you know.
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