City's celebrate by?
Mixed Questions
Battle
Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?
Spring Break
100
This specialty dish of south-central Mexico, are made by pressing a thin layer of masa dough and then deep frying the result to produce crisp, shallow corn cups they are a fan favorite at Taco Bell
What are chalupas?
100
This actor on the show "How I Met Your Mother" was born in Mexico
What is Neil Patrick Harris?
100
Who was fighting who in the battle? (what countries)
What is French and Mexico
100
Mayans drilled holes into their front teeth and inlaid them with jade and turquoise as a status symbol inspiring this modern day equivalent.
What is a grill?
100
What is Tequilla distilled from
What is Agave
200
This is the location of the World's Largest Cinco de Mayo Celebration
What is Los Angeles?
Fiesta Broadway over 600,000 people!
200
This sport is a variant of surfing popular during spring break in South Padre Island
What is Kiteboarding/surfing?
200
This nation defeated the other in the War
What is France?
Despite winning the battle, Mexico still fell under French control for five years. Emperor Maximilian of Austria was put in charge.
200
The Incas considered this location to be the birth place of the sun and its' people. In essence, they believe the world began here as the "cradle of the world".
What is Lake Titicaca?
200
In the Mexican state of Sonora it is illegal to name a child this iconic JK Rowling Character
What is, If you're on a bike, you must keep both feet on the pedals?
300
This delicious food is used to celebrate Cinco de Mayo
What is mole
There is a 2 day food festival with celebrity chefs who compete with this dish in a certain Mexican town
300
People visit this area of mexico to cliff dive?
What is Acapulco?
300
What was the name of the town where the battle took place?
What is Puebla
300
Daily Double: What are the musicians who play guitars, trumpets, and violins called?
What is "mariachis"
300
These are the top 2 most popular destinations for spring break
What are Cancun and Miami Beach?
400
This country celebrates cinco de mayo with the skydiving boogie (an acrobatics show)
What is Canada?
400
This is the second most popular sport in Mexico
What is bull fighting?
400
What is the significance of the holiday? Why is it important?
What is the mexican army defeated the french army even though the french army has twice as many soldiers. Also, since this battle, no other army has tried to invade Mexico.
400
Marco Polo saw these in China and bought them back to Spain. Missionaries showed them to the Aztecs To honor the Aztec god of war with these were placed at the foot of the god's statue.
What are Piñatas?
400
Name the beverage in Rupert Holmes' best selling song, Escape
Piña colada
500
What is the national fruit of Mexico?
Avocado or Aguacate
500
What is a pinata made out of?
What is a clay pot covered with bright colored tissue paper.
500
Daily Double: On what date did the battle occur? (year)
What is 1862
500
To feed their enormous population, the Aztecs ingeniously built these to convert the marshy wetlands of Lake Texcoco into arable farmland.
What are floating gardens?
500
What Cancun Resort is MTV's Resort filmed at?
What is Grand Oasis Cancun?
