This country has a canal that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean
What is Panama?
100
This up and coming Latina author won the Mariposa Award for the Best First Book at the 2012 Annual Latino Book Awards for her first novel, "Ocotillo Dreams," remembering the 1997 immigration sweeps.
Who is Melinda Palacio?
100
These two indigenous empires were conquered by notorious Conquistadores, Hernan Cortés and Francisco Pizarron in the early 16th Century.
What are the Aztec and Incan Empires?
100
Immigrants take away jobs.
Wrong, Immigrants add to economic demand and therefore push firms to create even more jobs.
100
6 of the 11 members on e-board are from this city.
What is Chicago?
200
This island lies near Florida and is a United States Territory.
What is Puerto Rico?
200
In 2010, this Latina author from Peru was awarded the Chilean National Prize for Literature and has written such exceptional books such as The House of the Spirits, Paula, and City of the Beasts.
Who is Isabel Allende?
200
This Latin American country became independent with the help of the monarchy in 1821, thus distinguishing it from the other Latin American countries as a peaceful transition.
What is Brazil?
200
Latin American Immigrants are excessive and endanger the country as a whole.
Wrong, if we bring immigration to a complete halt we will have about 2 workers per retiree by 2030. That is not enough.
200
The OLAS e-board members are from 5 countries ethnically. What are these 5 countries?
What are Mexico, El Salvador, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru?
300
This is the warming of sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean and leads to an increase in rainfall in many countries on the Western Coast of South America.
What is El Niño?
300
Pablo Neruda, who Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1982) considers the best poet of the 20th century, was born in this South American country.
What is Chile?
300
This program was the U.S.’s largest experiment with guest workers, bringing over millions of Mexican guest workers between 1942-1964. Name the program and the industry field it involved.
What is the agricultural Bracero program?
300
All Latinos are democrats.
Wrong, there are many republican Latinos. Not everyone is forced to think the same way.
300
Karen Cabrera-Martinez received this scholarship to attend Davidson.
What is Golden Door Scholarship?
400
This mountain range runs through 7 different countries in South America.
What is the Andes?
400
The Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa was the latest Latino/a writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in this year.
What is 2010?
400
Currently, these three countries in Latin America have legalized gay marriage
What are Argentina(2010), Uruguay(2013), and Brazil(2013)?
400
All latinos like and can take spicy foods.
False, this is more individual. I bet we'll get some who don't like spicy foods if we ask the latinos in the room.
False, this is more individual. I bet we'll get some who don't like spicy foods if we ask the latinos in the room.
400
This member was born on Friday the 13th.
Who is Miguel Angel Gonzales?
500
This country houses the volcano Calbuco, which last erupted April 30th, 2015.
What is Chile?
500
This book by the Portuguese author, Paulo Coelho, is the highest selling book by any Latino/a author in history and has sold approximately 65 million copies in 56 different languages.
What is "The Alchemist"?
500
In 1954, the United Fruit Company was involved in the overthrow of a democratically elected government of this Latin American country with the aid of the C.I.A.
What is Guatemala?
500
All latinos know how to dance Salsa, or Bachata or other forms of Latin dances. They also all know the words to "La Bamba"
Wrong, dances are specific to certain cultures within Latin America and not everyone knows about them. There are also many Latinos who don't even know how to dance...let alone sing.
500
Name the position of each eboard member.
What is Jessica(President), Ale(VP), Miguel(Treasurer, Historian), Karen(Secretary), Heidi(Service), Ix(Publicity), Valerie(Publicity), Ruben(Social), America(Social), Fabian(Liaison), Tony(Social)