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Each year, this Civil Rights Leader’s birthday is celebrated on January 16th with service activities, parades, and other activities. African American Student Affairs is also housed in a building named after this leader.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
100
The most widely spoken non-English language in the country, after Spanish.
What is Chinese
100
The UA Economics building was renamed in honor of this Yuma-born farm labor organizer?
Who is Cesar E. Chavez
100
The UA has approximately this many AIAN students?
What is 1100
100
Which of these is not a recognized club on campus? a. Harry Potter Alliance b. Zombie Invasion Preparation Survival Club c. Bacon Lovers Anonymous d. The Heavy Metal Society
What is c. Bacon Lovers Anonymous
200
Following the Civil War, African Americans in the military were organized into the 9th and 10th Calvary and the 24th and 25th Infantry of the U.S. Army. The soldiers were given this nickname by the local American Indians who compared them to buffalo herds because of their appearance on horseback.
What is Buffalo Soldiers
200
The Asian group in the United States with the largest percentage having a college degree or an advanced degree.
What is Indian Americans
200
What percent of the first UA graduating class was Hispanic?
What is 1/3; there were 3 graduates. Mercedes Anna Shibell studied domestic science in San Francisco and worked for the Y.W.C.A. in food management for a period of 35 years. Her work took her to France for two years during World War I, and later to South America. She died in Tucson, September 14, 1965 at the age of 90.
200
The tribe on whose homeland that the UA currently sits on?
What is Tohono O’Odham
200
How many bachelors degrees are offered at the UA?
What is 120
300
The Beau Brummel Club, an organization created by African American business leaders who were denied membership to white social clubs, provided housing for professional baseball players from this major league team when they were denied access to the “whites only” hotels during Spring Training in Tucson.
What is The Cleveland Indians
300
The second largest Asian group in the United States?
What is Filipinos
300
America's favorite condiment that has now surpassed ketchup according Business Week?
What is Salsa.
300
The majority of our AIAN students at the UA are from this tribe?
What is Navajo
300
What were the UA’s original colors?
What are Sage and Silver
400
These historically Black Greek letter organizations were founded between 1906 and 1963 in response to the exclusion of African Americans from predominately white greek letter organizations. 7 of the ______________ are currently active at the UA.
What is The Divine Nine
400
The name of this favorite American condiment originates from a Malay word meaning “seafood sauce”.
What is ketchup
400
He is recognized internationally for his research and scholarship in language planning and policy development. He has been a consultant to the governments of Mexico, Australia, Guatemala, Bolivia, the Northern Marianas, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Netherlands Antilles, and native communities in the United States and Canada.
Who is Dr. Richard Ruiz, CHSA Faculty Fellow
400
The UA has approximately how many tribes represented?
What is 75
400
What year was the UA founded?
What is 1885
500
This local African American cultural center was once the first and only segregated school in Tucson for African American children and was named for a renowned African American poet.
What is Paul Lawrence Dunbar
500
Asian Pacific Heritage Month is celebrated during this month because it coincides with the month that the first Japanese immigrants arrived to America in 1843.
What is May
500
The number of Hispanic Students enrolled at the UA this past year?
What is 7,268 out of 39,236 UA students.
500
The Student Lounge at NASA is named “Wassaja.” What does this word mean? What language? Who is it attributed to?
What is “Beckoning” or “signaling” – Yavapai Apache – Dr. Carlos Montezuma – First American Indian to receive a medical degree in the US – 1889
500
What percentage of the UA’s student body come from ethnically diverse backgrounds?
What is 40%
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