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Albertín Aroldis Chapman de la Cruz is a professional baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees. Chapman bats and throws left-handed, and is nicknamed the ___(name of country)______ Missile or the ___(name of country)____ Flame Thrower. He immigrated to the US from this island in the Caribbean.

What is Cuba?

100

Mrs. Omar is serving in the US House of Representatives. She has worked to raise awareness about measles and vaccines,  increased funding for summer enrichment programs for low-income students, and focused on making improvements in public housing. Omar fled her country with her family when she was 8 years old because of a civil war in this African country located on the east coast. 

What is Somalia?

100

This man was a brilliant scientist. He was of Jewish ethnicity and immigrated to the United States from Germany. He developed the theory of relativity and received the Nobel Prize in Physics. His famous equation is E=MC2.


Who is Albert Einstein?

100

Rhianna, a singer, business woman, and actress,  has been ranked as the best-selling digital artist in the country. She broke the Guinness World Record for single sales of over 58 million as of 2012.  She immigrated to the US from this Caribbean island near St. Lucia and St. Vincent.

What is Barbados?

100

The first  machine of this kind did not come along until 1920 in New York City, when Adolph Levitt, a refugee from Russia, began selling a type of fried food from his bakery. Fans of the pastry pushed him to make a device that churned out the dessert faster, and he did. After that, this type of food became a booming business. Name this type of food.



What is a doughnut?

200

Dikembe Mutombo is a 7 ft. 2 inch basketball player who is commonly regarded as one of the greatest shot blockers and defensive players of all time. He won the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award four times. He speaks English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and five Central African varieties, including Lingala and Tshiluba. Mr. Mutombo immigrated to the US to attend college from this central African Country.

What is the Democratic Republic of Congo?

200

Debbie Mucarsel-Powell immigrated to the United States when she was 14 years old with her family. She began working in a doughnut shop to help support her family.Today she represents Florida in the US House of Representatives. She was born in this smaller country on the west coast of South America.



What is Ecuador?

200

In 2013, President  Obama announced Mario Molina as a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. President Obama released this statement: "Mario Molina is a visionary chemist and environmental scientist.  Dr. Molina came to America to pursue his graduate degree. He later earned the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering how chlorofluorocarbons deplete the ozone layer." Mr. Molina immigrated to the US from this North American country.

What is Mexico?

200

Edi Gathegi is an who has appeared in many tv shows and movies such as CSI Miami, House, Beauty and Beast, XMen, the Twilight Saga, and Start Up. He was born in the city of Nairobi of this African country and immigrated to the US.


What is Kenya?

200

The Library of Congress credits Danish immigrant Louis Lassen of Louis' Lunch, a small lunch wagon in New Haven, Connecticut, with selling the first hamburger and steak sandwich in the U.S. in 1895. Mr. Lassen came from this European country.



What is Denmark?

300

While teaching at the International YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, James Naismith, a physical education teacher, came up with an indoor game. It was played originally by students shooting into two fruit baskets nailed to the balcony in the school gym.  Mr. Naismith immigrated to the US from Canada. This is the game he invented.

What is basketball?

300

Paul Ruiz was born in Mexico and immigrated to the US as a child with his parents who were farm workers. He was the first Latino to receive three graduate degrees from Harvard University in the medical field. Today he is serving in the US House of Representatives for this state on the west coast of the US where 28% of the population speaks Spanish.


What is California?

300

Sergey Brin immigrated to the US with his family at the age of 6 from the Soviet Union (now Russia). He is a computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur with an estimated net worth of 50 billion dollars. He co-founded one of the big four technology companies. The other three are called Amazon, Apple, and Facebook. This is what his company is called. 


What is Google?

300

This comedian and actor, born and raised in Ontario Canada, obtained American citizenship in 2004. He starred in many movies such as A Series of Unfortunate Events, Horton Hears a Who, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas (as the Grinch).

Who is Jim Carrey?

300

Charles Feltman immigrated to the US from Germany in 1856 at the age of 15. A Coney Island resident, Feltman opened a restaurant where he decided to sell sausages in a roll so that he could get around buying silverware and plates for his customers. This food became known as the . . . 



What is the hot dog?

400

Caroline Zhao Zhang is a figure skater. She is a two-time bronze medalist, a world junior champion, and a three-time US National medalist. Her parents immigrated to the US from Wuhan, a city in this country of _________ (the world’s most populous country). 


What is China?

400

Pramila Jayapal immigrated to the US at the age of 16 to attend college. She is now serving in the US House of Representatives for the state of Washington. Ms. Jayapal was born in this South Asian country which is the second most populated country in the world. 


What is India?

400

Anousheh Ansari is an engineer, entrepreneur, and space tourist who  immigrated to the United States as a teenager in 1984. In 2015, the National Space Society awarded Ansari the Space Pioneer Award for her "Service to the Space Community." Mrs. Ansari was from this country in the middle east that touches both the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf.


What is Iran?

400

Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov, nicknamed Misha, is a dancer, choreographer, and actor. He is considered one of the greatest male ballet dancers in history. He is from this country in northern Europe that is in between Lithuania and Estonia.

What is Latvia?

400

Henry John Heinz — who founded the H. J. Heinz Company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — was the son of German immigrants from Bavaria who entered the U.S, in the early 1840s. The Heintz Company produced this type of food.


What is ketchup?

500

Martina Navratilova is a Czechoslovak-born American athlete and coach. In her sport, she has been named as the greatest female athlete for the years 1975 - 2005. This sport is called . . . . 

What is tennis?

500

Madeleine Albright  is an American politician and diplomat. She is the first female United States Secretary of State in U.S. history. In 2012, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Barack Obama.

Along with her family, Albright immigrated to the United States in 1948 from Czechoslovakia. In 1993, this European country peacefully split into two separate countries. One is called the Czech Republic and the other is called this. 

What is Slovenia?

500

Elon Reeve Musk is a technology entrepreneur, investor, and engineer. He  is the founder or cofounder of SpaceX (makes rockets/space crafts),Tesla Cars,  co-founder and CEO of (treatment of brain diseases), OpenAI (artificial intelligence)  and PayPal. In 2016, he was ranked 21st on the Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People. After high school he  became determined to immigrate to the United States. He stated, "I remember thinking and seeing that America is where great things are possible, more than any other country in the world." Musk was born and raised in this country in the south of Africa.

What is South Africa?

500

Cody Robert Simpson is a singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor who moved to the US when he was 10. He formed a band called Tide and booked the lead role of Dmitry in the Broadway musical Anastasia. Cody is from this country (the largest country in Oceania) on the other side of the world.


What is Australia?

500

James Lewis Kraft was an entrepreneur and inventor. After immigrating the US from Canada, he began selling food out of a horse-drawn wagon in Chicago. He later developed a process to pasteurize a certain type of food so that it would resist spoiling and could be shipped long distances. Name this type of food.

What is cheese?

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