One of the most popular salsa artists of the 20th century, she earned twenty-three gold albums and was renowned internationally as the "Queen of Salsa", "La Guarachera de Cuba". (Azúcar)
What is Celia Cruz
100
Mexican American union leader who started the group United Farm Workers of America.
What is Cesár Chávez
100
Mexican artist, her tragic life was reflected greatly in her self-portrait paintings. She suffered lifelong health problems as a result of a car accident during her teenage years. She was unable to have children, a struggle she constantly channeled into her art.
What is Frida Kahlo
100
Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Author of Love in the Time of Cholera, has gained worldwide readership with his brand of magical realism.
What is Gabriel García Marquéz
100
Nicknamed the Golden Boy, is a Mexican-American boxer who defeated 17 world champions and won 10 world titles. In 1992, he won a gold medal in boxing at the Barcelona Olympic Games. He retired from boxing in 2009. Outside the boxing ring, he has released a Grammy-nominated Latin pop album and started a charitable foundation to help educate underprivileged youth.
What is Oscar de la Hoya
200
Mexican American musician who first became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered a fusion of rock and Latin American music.
What is Carlos Santana
200
Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution.
What is Ernesto "Che" Guevara
200
Artist, he helped establish the Mural Movement in Mexico. He was most famous for his giant wall works in fresco, including a vibrant mosaic that sits on Insurgents Boulevard in Mexico City.
What is Diego Rivera
200
Chilean poet-diplomat and politician. Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. He wrote in a variety of styles including surrealist poems, historical epics, overtly political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and erotically-charged love poems such as the ones in his 1924 collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.
What is Pablo Neruda
200
Argentine footballer who currently plays for Deportivo Riestra in the fifth tier of Argentina football. He has served as a manager and coach at other clubs as well as for the national team of Argentina. Many experts, football critics, former players, current players and football fans regard him as the best football player of all time.
What is Diego Maradona
300
Cuban-born American singer-songwriter, actress, and entrepreneur. She has won seven Grammy Awards and is the most successful crossover performer in Latin music to date. She is in the top 100 best selling music artists with an estimated 100 million records sold worldwide.
What is Gloria Estefan
300
Bolivian American teacher who changed the lives of Latino students in poor neighborhoods living in Los Angeles. The movie Stand and Deliver is based on his students.
What is Jaime Escalante
300
He is one of the best-known artists in history. The Spanish-born painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, inventing the constructed sculpture and co-inventing collage.
What is Pablo Picasso
300
Chilean author best known for penning novels in the style of magic realism. She is the niece of former Chilean president Salvador Allende. Famous for novels such as The House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts, which have been commercially successful.
What is Isabel Allende
300
"Slammin' Sammy" is a Dominican retired professional baseball right fielder. He played with four Major League Baseball teams over his career, which spanned from 1989 to 2007.
What is Sammy Sosa
400
Spanish tenor and conductor known for his versatile and strong voice, possessing a ringing and dramatic tone throughout its range. One of The Three Tenors, he has also taken on conducting opera and concert performances, and he is the general director of the Los Angeles Opera in California.
What is Plácido Domingo
400
Second wife of Argentine President Juan Perón. She ran the Ministries of Labor and Health, championed women's suffrage in Argentina, and founded and ran the nation's first large-scale female political party, the Female Peronist Party.
What is Evita Peron
400
Late Spanish surrealist painter, best known for including bizarre and unexpected images in his work. His most famous painting, “The Persistence of Memory,” features several melting pocket watches. It has been on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City since 1934 and is considered to be one of the most recognized pieces of art in the world
What is Salvador Dalí
400
A 17th century nun, self-taught scholar and acclaimed writer of the Latin American colonial period and the Hispanic Baroque. She was also a staunch advocate for women's rights.
What is Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
400
Retired Brazilian footballer. He is regarded by many experts, football critics, former players, current players and football fans in general as the best player of all time.
What is Edson Arantes do Nascimento (Pelé)
500
Puerto Rican actress and singer. She is the only Hispanic and one of the few performers to have won all four major annual American entertainment awards, which include an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy and a Tony, and was the second Puerto Rican to win an Academy Award.
What is Rita Moreno
500
Political history-maker, she was born in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico in 1953. She was a young activist in her home country and spent her teenage years fighting for a variety of causes including the increasing the level of health and sanitation in her school. Pursued a master’s degree in political science from New York University. In 1992, she became the first Puerto Rican woman to be elected to serve the United States Congress. Democrat representing New York, was the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus until January of 2011.
What is Nidya Velazquez
500
Colombian figurative artist, he is famous for exaggerating the proportions on everyday things, including men and women. He came to national prominence when he won the first prize at the Salón de Artistas Colombianos in 1958. He is considered the most recognized and quoted living artist from Latin America, and his art can be found in highly visible places around the world, such as Park Avenue in New York City and the Champs Elysées in Paris.
What is Fernando Botero
500
One of Spain's most famous writers, he created one of the world's greatest literary masterpieces, Don Quixote, in the early 1600s.
What is Miguel de Cervantes
500
Puerto Rican professional baseball player. He was a Major League Baseball right fielder who played 18 seasons for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1955 through 1972. He was involved in charity work in Puerto Rico and Latin American countries during the off seasons, often delivering baseball equipment and food to those in need.