Hispanic Heritage Month
This celebration originated in the 16th century when Aztec culture and Roman Catholic influences commemorated the dead. It is observed on November 2, and often associated with a festival of skulls. The Spanish term is "Dia de los Muertos".
What is Day of the Dead?
This battle was considered the turning point of WWII.
What is the Battle of Midway?
Name the colors of the Olympic rings.
What is blue, yellow, black, green and red?
The revolution that "Animal Farm" is an allegory of.
What is the Russian Revolution?
This period is know for its expressive and emotional pieces. Some Composers From This Period: Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Johannes Brahms
What is Romantic Period?
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 Cesar Chavez?
This was a foreign policy enacted during the Cold War that prevented the spread of Communism worldwide.
What is containment?
This country always marches first in the Opening Ceremony's Parade of Nations because of their role in the origin of the Olympics.
What is Greece?
These families are in a feud in the play "Romeo and Juliet"
Who are the Capulets and the Montagues?
From 1450-1600 this era brought many new ideas and gave a little bit more freedom from the church, which allowed for more experimentation with music. The printing press, invented in the 1400’s, also allowed for music to be printed. Instrumental music was developed as well.
What is Renaissance Period?
This is the state in the U.S. with the largest Hispanic population.
What is New Mexico?
This site is an island fortification located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
Where is Fort Sumter?
Boxing champ Muhammad Ali was this age when he won a gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
What is 18?
This classic novelist wrote the short story on which the 2008 movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was based.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
When this lunar Beethoven sonata premiered in 1802 some of the piano strings snapped during the finale.
What is Moonlight Sonata?
The first Latina Associate Judge nominated to be in the U.S. Supreme Court in 2009 by President Barack Obama.
Who is Justice Sonia Sotomayor?
The belief that the US had a God given right to expand its lands all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This American crushed world records and won gold in the men's decathlon at the Montreal 1976 Olympic Games.
Who is Bruce Jenner?
Go Set A Watchman is a novel many believe to be the first draft of this classic novel from 1960.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
At 7 this Polish-born composer wrote a Polonaise In G Minor.
Who is Chopin?
Hispanic Heritage Month begins on September 15th because five Latin American countries celebrate their independence from Spain on that day. Name two of the five countries. *Hint: They are all located in Central America.
What is: Nicaragua, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador?
These 3 "R"s were promised by FDR, each New Deal Agency focused on one of these promises.
What is Relief, Recovery, & Reform
This is the number of times that the United States has hosted the Olympics.
What is 8 times?
This town and American state was where Mark Twain was raised, and also provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
Where is Hannibal, Missouri?
This piece written by Bach is known most for its powerful opening. Considered as one of the greatest iconic compositions written, it has become associated with intense and scary moments in film. It's famously known for its appearance in the opening credits of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931).
What is Toccata and Fugue in D minor?