Selena Quintanilla
Selena's Heritage
What is Mexican-American
This judge (of Puerto Rican decent) is the first Latin American justice on the United States Supreme Court.
Who is Sonia Sotomayor
Who was the first Latino inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame?
Who is Roberto Clemente
This performer was the first Cuban-born entertainer to star in a major network television show, I Love Lucy.
Who is Desi Arnaz?
Is the undisputed queen of the pageant world. In addition to seven Miss Universe titles, women from the South American country have won eight Miss International competitions, six Miss World titles, and two Miss Earths.
What is Venezuela
Selena's first band
Selena y Los Dinos
This person was the first Latina US Treasurer.
Who is Romana Acosta Bañuelos
This Colombian singer/actress/activist performed the theme song at the 2010 World Cup (soccer).
Who is Shakira
This musician was the first Latino inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.
Carlos Santana
The number represented of Hispanic veterans in the U.S. armed forces.
What is 1.1 million?
The year she won the Mexican-American album award
what is 1997
This man from New Mexico became the first Latino U.S. senator
Who is Octaviano Larrazolo
This Cuban national hero was a poet, essayist, professor, translator, and revolutionary philosopher in the late 1800s.
Who is José Martí
This President started the process for celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month in 1968.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
The three most popular sports in Latin America
Soccer, Baseball and Boxing
Her birthday, the day that became a National holiday
What is her birthday, April 16th
The first openly gay Afro Latino elected to Congress. Is one of the nine co-chairs of the Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus in the 117th United States Congress.
Who is Ritchie Torres?
In 1962, with Dolores Huerta, he started a group called the United Farm Workers of America, to improve work conditions for migrant farm workers.
Who is César Chavez
Is a Hispanic American engineer, former astronaut and former director of the Johnson Space Center. In 1993, became the first Hispanic woman to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery.
Who is Ellen Ochoa
This Spanish named nocturnal animal moves slowly because of his armor.
What is an armadillo?
Her first Crossover album, that reached number one after her death
What is Dreaming of You
She represents New York's 14th Congressional District, covering parts of the Bronx and Queens in New York City
Who is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Fought against the US-backed dictatorship of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo in the Dominican Republic between 1930 and 1961. They became famously known for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, November 25, which was chosen due to their assassination in the Dominican Republic. They are also Known as “the butterfly sisters” (Las Mariposas).
Who are the Mirabal sisters (Patria, María Teresa, and Minerva)
With Dominican & Puerto Rican heritage she has been hailed as the new queen of the box office after appearing in three of the top five highest-grossing films in movie history. Out of the five movies to make more than $2 billion worldwide, she has starred in three of them.
Who is Zoe Saldana
Instead of "Columbus Day", many spanish- speaking countries celebrate this instead to celebrate the the heritage and cultural diversity of Latin America.
What is Día de la Raza or "Day of the Race" or Día de la Hispanidad”? (either on October 11th or 12th)