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This performer was the first Cuban-born entertainer to star in a major network television show, the groundbreaking "I Love Lucy".
Who is Desi Arnaz?
Which five Hispanic countries share an anniversary of independence on September 15th, the first day of National Hispanic Heritage Month?
Hint: Check the DEI Calendar
https://union-net.int.ubsh.com/dei/Lists/HR%20Calendar/calendar.aspx
What are El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Costa Rica?
Often misunderstood as a country all its own, this archipelago southeast of Florida is a U.S. territory, but not a state. Migrants from this territory have populated New York City alone more than any other state except Florida.
What is the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico?
Mexican inventor and engineer Guillermo González Camarena is credited by patent with inventing the tricolor disk system that introduced this technological advancement to Mexico and the US.
What is color television?
"AOC" is the moniker given to this Bronx born trailblazer born of Puerto Rican heritage who became the youngest woman to have ever served in the United States Congress in 2019.
Who is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
https://www.biography.com/political-figure/alexandria-ocasio-cortez
In 2020, this Tejano songstress of Mexican descent was regarded by Billboard Magazine as the greatest female Latin artist of all time. She is the subject of the self titled biopic which afforded Jennifer Lopez her breakout lead role.
Who is Selena Quintanilla-Pérez?
Inspired by the Mexican holiday, Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), this Pixar animated film released in 2017 highlighting the importance of honoring and remembering one's friends and family members whom have passed away.
See Día de los Muertos in the DEI Calendar.
https://union-net.int.ubsh.com/dei/Lists/HR%20Calendar/calendar.aspx
What is Coco?
Often conflated with South America, this segment of the Americas is comprised of countries whose inhabitants primarily speak any of the Romance languages derived from Latin (i.e. Spanish, Portuguese, Quechua, French, etc).
What is Latin America?
Argentinian cardiac surgeon, Dr. Domingo Liotta, created the first of this life saving apparatus to be successfully transplanted into a human being.
The first Latina Associate Judge chosen to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2009 by President Barack Obama.
Who is Justice Sonia Sotomayor?
This Grammy award winning musician was the first Latino inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.
Who is Carlos Santana?
This is the celebration of a girl's fifteenth birthday at which time she transitions from adolescence to womanhood in many Spanish speaking countries and the Americas.
What is a quinceañera?
Also known as quinceaños, Fiesta de quince años or quinces.
While California is home to the highest total population of Hispanic and Latino Americans in the U.S., this state has the highest population percentage of Hispanic and Latino Americans at approximately 49%.
Guatemalan entrepreneur, professor and founder of reCAPTCHA, Luis von Ahn, co-founded this American based website and mobile app which is now the world's leading language-learning platform.
Born of Mexican heritage, this non violent activist led the surge to improve the working and living conditions of laborers, particularly farm workers, in the late 60's and 70's.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
Known as "The King of the Timbales/Latin Music" and "The Queen of Salsa", this Puerto Rican American songwriter/producer/bandleader and this Cuban American songstress/actress teamed up to record 23 gold albums.
Who are Tito Puente and Celia Cruz?
La Feria de Flores (translated as The Flower Fair) is a traditional festival exploding with blooming colorful flowers and celebrations in this country's capital, Medellin.
Fun Fact: More than half of America's cut flowers are exported from this country!
Brazil shares borders with every country in South America with the exception of these two Hispanic countries.
What are Ecuador and Chile?
https://www.loc.gov/resource/g5200.ct000439/?r=-0.563,0.065,2.126,1.208,0
Ellen Ochoa, an engineer of Mexican heritage, owns three patents which aid this independent agency of the US government to process optics information collected on missions... on which she has also earned her wings.
What is NASA?
In 1822, Romualdo Pacheco became the first Hispanic American to serve as an American governor, and the only Hispanic governor elected in this state. He is also known as the first Hispanic American to serve as a full representative in Congress.
What is California?
https://www.history.com/news/latino-congress-romualdo-pacheco
This Colombia born talent is an actor, comedian, playwright, voiceover specialist, screenwriter, and producer known as well for his one man plays as his film appearances. Perhaps you may find his latest one man show, "Latin History for Morons", more appetizing than AUB Jeopardy. 😉
Who is John Leguizamo?
The week long Festival of San Fermin, held in the city of Pamplona in Spain to honor Navarre's co-patron Saint Fermin, hosts one of these most exhilarating chases which precedes an afternoon of Spanish bullfighting.
What is the Running of the Bulls?
This country is home to Mount Chimborazo within the Andes Mountains, the furthest point in the world from the center of the Earth and closest to the moon.
Mexican chemist, Luis Miramontes, synthesized norethisterone, the basic molecular compound of this groundbreaking medical phenomenon in women's health and family life.
What is the oral contraceptive pill?
https://www.visionlearning.com/en/library/Inside-Science/58/Luis-E.-Miramontes/232
This active Republican Senator became the first Cuban American House Speaker in 2005 and one of the first Hispanic Americans to run for president in 2015.
Who is Marco Rubio?