Columbus Day
The day designated as Columbus day in the United States every year
What is the second Monday of October?
The year Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue
What is 1492?
Columbus visited this tropical nation, whose name translates to "Rich Coast" during his 4th and final voyage.
What is Costa Rica?
Another term for the Indigenous people of the Americas.
What is Native American or American Indian?
This ethnicity has a stronger connection to Columbus and Columbus Day than most other Americans.
Who are Italian Americans?
(Columbus Day started gaining popularity during a time when Italian immigrants in the U.S. were being discriminated against and even lynched)
Christopher Columbus' place of birth. Double points for naming the city and country.
What is Italy?
(The Republic of Genoa)
Columbus landed in this country on the Southernmost tip of Central America during his 4th and final voyage in 1502.
What is Panama?
The main reason so many object to the celebration of Columbus Day
What is the genocide of indigenous people as well as their continued struggles that resulted from Columbus and the subsequent colonization of the Americas?
Where Columbus actually landed at the end of his famous journey.
What is the Bahamas?
(Guanahani to the natives; now San Salvador. Christopher Columbus never set foot in present day USA and spent the rest of his life claiming that he had reached Asia on his journey)
Where Columbus was trying to get to on his famous journey.
What is India (Asia)?
Columbus landed on this now popular vacation destination during his 2nd voyage in 1494, and again during his 4th and final voyage in 1503.
(He was shipwrecked here for a year before being rescued)
What is Jamaica?
The number of voyages that Columbus made to the Americas
What is 4?
(Columbus only made it to mainland Central and South America on his third and forth trips)
The city that has the largest Columbus Day celebration in the world.
What is New York City?
Christopher Columbus' reasoning for why his journey would be possible (which most people did not believe at the time).
What is the Earth was much smaller than had been theorized (and therefore he could cross to Asia by sailing directly West)?
Columbus landed on this South American mainland country during his third voyage in 1498.
(Hint: this country is bordered on the north by the Carribean Sea & Atlantic Ocean, the west by Columbia & Brazil, the east by Guyana, and the south by Trinidad & Tobago)
The estimated percentage of the current population of the United States with at least partial Indigenous ancestry
What is 2.9% (around 9.6 million people)?
(An estimated 1.1% of the U.S. population are full blooded Native Americans)
The date that Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas
What is October 12th, 1492?
(Initially the holiday was celebrated on the 12th each year but it was later changed)
The name for the cultural exchange of crops, plants, animals, and ideas between the Americas and the "Old World"
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Columbus was the first European to see this tropical Island country in 1492.
(Hint: this island nation is comprised of over 3,000 islands, cays & islets in the Atlantic ocean)
What is the Bahamas?
This name refers to one of the Indigenous tribes of New Jersey
What is the....
Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Indians, Powhatan Renape Indians, Ramapough Lenape Indian Nation, and Inter-Tribal People