Hispanic Heritage Month
Italian American Heritage Month
Filipino American History Month
German American Heritage Month
Important Figures
100
This popular Mexican dessert is made using several kinds of milk.
What is Tres Leches cake?
100
Italian word for "Ice Cream", it is richer and denser than American Ice Cream.
What is Gelato?
100
The national language of the Philippines
What is Tagalog?
100
The first German settlement in the original thirteen American colonies
What is Germantown?
100
He was the son of Italian immigrants, but best known as a crooner in the Rat Pack. Sang popular songs such as "New York, New York" and "Fly Me to the Moon."
Who is Frank Sinatra?
200
The only Spanish speaking country in Africa.
What is Equitorial Guinea?
200
A tile-based game played in America that is also popular in Italy.
What is Dominos?
200
A stable dish in Filipino culture consisting of of chicken or pork stewed in vinegar, garlic, soy sauce, bay leaves, and peppercorns.
What is Adobo?
200
Fest celebrated in early October in Germany and the United States.
What is Oktoberfest?
200
The most recognized Latino baseball player of all time who died in an airplane crash while delivering food to the needy in Latin America.
Who is Roberto Clemente?
300
In 2020, the percentage of the US population that is Hispanic and the number of Hispanics residing in the US.
What is 19% and 62 million Hispanics?
300
The percentage and number of Italian-Americans in the US.
What is 6% and 15.7 million Italian-Americans?
300
The percentage and number of Filipino Americans in the US.
What is 1.1% and 4 million Filipino Americans?
300
The percent and number of German-Americans in the US.
What is 12% and around 40 million Americans have German ancestry?
300
The first Latina Associate Judge chosen to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2009 by President Barack Obama.
Who is Justice Sonia Sotomayor? Who is Lin Manuel Miranda?
400
The initial timeframe of Hispanic Heritage Celebration until this president expanded it to a month by law.
What is a weeklong? Who is President Ronald Reagan?
400
The year Italian immigration to the US began.
What are the 1820s?
400
In which state did the first Filipino arrive? (1587)
What is California?
400
In the United States this culture is regarded as synonymous with all German culture.
What is Bavarian culture?
400
He is best known for his fifteen-year collaboration with Louis Sullivan, during which they created three iconic skyscrapers: the Wainwright Building in St. Louis, Missouri (1891), the Chicago Stock Exchange Building (1894), and the Guaranty Building in Buffalo, New York.
Who is Dankmar Adler?
500
The first day of Hispanic Heritage Month marks the Independence Day for these countries. (Hint: there are 5 countries)
What are Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras & Nicaragua?
500
Place where thousands of Italian American citizens were sent at the beginning of WWII.
What are Internment Camps?
500
Filipino Americans have rendered their support and contribution these movements and events throughout history.
What are World War II and the United Farm Workers movement in the 1960s (American Labor Movement)?
500
Description of lederhosen.
What are men's shorts with suspenders?
500
In 1957, she directed Seattle's Filipino Youth Activities. This American-born pinay has conducted research on Filipino Americans since the 1970s. In the early 1980s, the founded the Filipino American National Historical Society.
Who is Dorothy Cordova?
