This country's declaration of independence (also known as the "Cry of Yara")in October 1868 signaled the beginning of the Ten Years’ War.
What is Cuba?
100
In July 1973 this Hispanic-American was the first player born in Latin America to be inducted into the national baseball shrine. He died from a plane crash at the San Juan airport on December 31, 1972 while accompanying a supply plane headed for Nicaragua.
Who is Roberto Clemente?
100
This manmade waterway, built by the United States connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
100
Persons or communities of Latin American Spanish-speaking origin.
What is Latino/Latina?
100
This holiday, also known as the Anniversary of the Battle of Puebla, is celebrated in parts of Mexico and the United States in honor of a military victory in 1862 over the French forces of Napoleon III.
What is Cinco De Mayo?
200
This Country's independence came as a conservative initiative led by military officers, merchants, and the Roman Catholic Church in 1821.
What is Mexico?
200
This spanish conquistador who overthrew the Aztec empire (1519–21) and won Mexico for the crown of Spain.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
200
This country is home to the largest portion of the Amazon rainforest.
What is Brazil?
200
Potentially encompassing all Spanish-speaking peoples in both hemispheres and emphasizing the common denominator of language among communities that might sometimes seem to have little else in common.
What is hispanic?
200
This holiday honors dead loved ones and makes peace with the eventuality of death by treating it familiarly, without fear and dread.
What is Day of the Dead?
300
The victory of “The Liberator,” Simón Bolívar, at the Battle of Boyacá on August 7, 1819, assured the independence of this south american country.
What is Colombia?
300
This spanish explorer led a privately outfitted expedition from Puerto Rico in March 1513 and in April of that year landed on the coast of Florida at a site between modern Saint Augustine and Melbourne Beach. At the time he did not realize that he was on the mainland of North America and instead supposed he had landed on an island. He named the region Florida because it was discovered at Easter time (Spanish: Pascua Florida) and because it abounded in lush, florid vegetation.
Who is Ponce De Leon?
300
In 1565 Spain established this, the first permanent European settlement in the present-day United States.
What is St. Augustine, Florida?
300
16th-century Spanish soldiers who defeated the Indian civilizations of Mexico, Central America, or Peru.
What is a Conquistador?
300
The best-known part of this festival is the running of the bulls, or the encierro. From July 7 to July 14 the bulls to be used in the daily bullfights are run through the streets of the town to the bullring.
What is the Fiesta de San Fermin or Festival of Saint Fermin?
400
In 1903, when the senate of Colombia rejected a proposed treaty with the United States, America aided in the independence movement of this country?
What is Panama?
400
This Mexican revolutionary and guerrilla leader fought against the regimes of both Porfirio Díaz and Victoriano Huerta and after 1914 engaged in civil war and banditry.
Who is Pancho Villa?
400
This statue named "Christ the Redeemer" was completed in 1931, stands 98 feet tall and has arms that span 92 feet. What country is the statue located in?
What is Brazil?
400
These form when a limestone surface collapses, exposing water underneath. The major source of water in modern and ancient Yucatán.
What is a Cenote?
400
This celebration marks the passage from girlhood into womanhood and is both a religious and a social event that emphasizes the importance of family and society in the life of a young woman.
What is Quinceañera, quinceaños, quince años or simply quince?
500
These countries assembled delegates in March of 1823 and declared independence to form the United Provinces of Central America.
What are Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, El Savador, and Nicaragua?
500
This Hispanic-American assumed the watch as the lighthouse keeper at the St. Augustine Lighthouse after her husband, Juan, passed away in 1859. With a yearly salary of $400 she not only became the first Hispanic-American woman to serve in the Coast Guard but also to command a federal shore installation.
Who is Maria Mestre de los Dolores Andreu?
500
One theory about the mass extiction of the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago is that a 6 mile wide meteor struck the earth off of this part of Mexico.
What is the Yucatan Peninsula?
500
This word borrowed into English from Spanish around 1590-1600, which means a person who deserts and betrays an organization, country, or set of principles.
What is Renegade?
500
In many of the Spanish-speaking countries of the Americas, this holiday is observed as Día de la Raza (“Day of the Race” or “Day of the People”).