The Facts
Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated between these dates due to the independence of seven countries falling within this month time span.
What is September 15 to October 15?
This word means book.
What is "el libro"?
This country borders Venezuela and Ecuador, is the largest exporter of emerald, and is the birth place of Vallenato.
What is Columbia?
He had us living la vida loca.
Who is Ricky Martin?
This Argentinian powerhouse made people around the world cry when he finally won the World Cup in 2022.
Who is Lionel Messi?
Her work, specifically self-portraits, employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society.
Who is Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón or Frida Khalo?
This is the reason why a country is identified as Hispanic (as opposed to latin).
What is speaking spanish?
This word means science.
What is "la ciencia"?
This country is in the island of hispanola and therefore has european, african and native taino influences.
What is the Dominican Republic?
She just received the Michael Jackson Vanguard Award at the 2023 VMAs and is the only south american artist to reach the number one spot in the US Billboard Top 100.
Who is Shakira, Shakira?
This mexican-american quarterback just retired in 2017 for America's team and is now enjoying broadcasting.
Who is Antonio Ramiro Romo or Tony Romo?
He is cofounder and chief technology officer of NuScale Power and professor emeritus in the School of Nuclear Science and Engineering at Oregon State University.
Who is Jose N. Reyes Jr.?
This % of Americans identified as Hispanic on the 2020 Census.
What is 20%?
This word means nuclear engineer.
What is "ingeniero nuclear"?
This south american country has the longest pacific ocean front and boasts the poetry work of Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda.
What is Chile?
An American singer, song-writer, actress, and business woman, she was the first female tejano artist, and youngest singer to win a Grammy award.
Who is Selena Quintanilla?
This Tennis legend has won 92 ATP singles titles including 36 Master's titles, with 36 on his favorite - clay courts.
Who is Rafael Nadal Parera or Rafa?
She is the first Latina, and the third woman, to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States.
Who is Sonia Sotomayor?
This word is identifies of a person from the region where the majority of Hispanic countries are located.
What is Latinx?
This phrase means neutron transport.
What is "transporte de neutrones"?
This central american country had a devastating civil war - so much that the United Nations stepped in to democratize the country in 1992.
What is El Salvador?
This guitarist started his own group named after him in the late 1960s. He has 10 Grammy's and 3 Latin Grammy's and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.
Who is Carlos Santana?
Born in the heights, this retired baseball shortstop and third baseman played 22 seasons in the MLB but stays busy as a businessman and philanthropist.
Who is Alexander Emmanuel Rodriguez or A-Rod?
He was the first Hispanic-American astronaut to travel to space when he was selected by NASA in 1980.
Who is Dr. Franklin R. Chang Diaz?
This president was the first to observe National Hispanic Heritage Week (before it became a month).
Who is Lyndon B Johnson?
This phrase means "people strong, innovation driven."
What is "personas fuertes, impulsadas por la innovación"?
This country is small in land space but powerful in political stability and land fertility. Its mainly european cultural influences still didn't change the fact that they are one of the few countries to win multiple world cups - in 1930 and 1950.
What is Uruguay?
Born in Havana Cuba, her career as a singer started only after she spent years being an english/spanish/french translator at the miami airport. She did go on to sell over 100 million albums worldwide.
Who is Gloria Maria Milagros Fajardo Garcia De Estefan or Gloria Estefan?
Nicknamed "the golden-boy of boxing," he competed from 1992 to 2008 and won 11 world titles in six weight classes.
Who is Oscar De La Hoya?
The Spanish-American experimental physicist, inventor, and professor who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1968 for his discovery of resonance states in particle physics using the hydrogen bubble chamber.
Who is Luis Walter Alvarez?