Famous Latinos
Latin America
Computing
UMD
No Sabo
100
First solo Latin artist to headline a Super Bowl Halftime Show
Who is Bad Bunny?
100
This nation has the largest Spanish speaking population in the world
What is Mexico?
100
Created by Mozilla in 2012, this language is quickly becoming a systems programming standard
What is Rust?
100
Scheduled to open in 2027, this MDOT project runs through the heart of campus connecting the suburbs of Prince George's and Montgomery Counties
What is the Purple Line?
100
Cash
What is "efectivo"?
200
First Latina Supreme Court Justice
Who is Sonia Sotomayor?
200
This nation produces around 30% of the world's coffee
What is Brazil?
200
Created by Bjarne Stroustrup and released in 1985, this famous superset language is the backbone for many game engines
What is C++?
200
A unit of the Department of Computer Science dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for the computing community at and around UMD
What is Computing Catalyst?
200
To be embarrassed
What is "avergonzado/a"?
300
Queen of Salsa
Who is Celia Cruz?
300
The birthplace of the "Queen of Salsa"
What is Cuba?
300
This person is largely considered to be the first computer programmer
Who is Ada Lovelace?
300
This Boricua lecturer, nicknamed "Daddy" by some, taught 131, 132, 216, and 335 for many years
Who is Nelson Padua-Perez?
300
Keyboard
What is "teclado"?
400
Nicknamed, "The Great One", this Pirate unfortunately passed in a plane crash
Who is Roberto Clemente?
400
Birthplace of the first Jesuit pope
What is Argentina?
400
These two text-editors have long been at the center of the decades long "Editor War" within the field of computing
What are vi and Emacs?
400
This Salvadoran lecturer started his teaching career at a Montgomery Blair High School
Who is Elias Gonzalez?
400
Fangs
What is "colmillos"?
500
The unofficial patron saint of Latin America and El Salvador
Who is Archbishop Óscar Romero?
500
We celebrate Latine Heritage Month starting on the day this nation gained it's independence from Spanish rule
What is the Republic of Central America?
500
This diseased rat with a hind leg that has been blown off has come to be the unofficial mascot of C++
What is Keith the Rat?
500
This professor comes from a famous family that invented a math-based magic trick, a statistics test, and a minimum-spanning tree algorithm
Who is (Clyde) Kruskal?
500
amoladora
What is "grinder"?