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This legendary Puerto Rican outfielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates was the first Latin American player inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Who is Roberto Clemente?
This Puerto Rican artist shattered streaming records with the release of their mega-hit 2022 album Un Verano Sin Ti.
Who is Bad Bunny?
The Mexican day of Independence.
What is September 16th?
This Latin American country is home to Machu Picchu, a famous ancient Inca city.
What is Peru?
This person in robes sits at the front of the courtroom and makes the final rulings.
What is el/la juez?
This legendary Brazilian athlete—the only player to win three FIFA World Cups—was universally recognized as "The King of Football."
Who is Pelé?
This judge became the first Hispanic justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who is Sonia Sotomayor?
Known as "El Libertador," this South American leader fought for independence in countries like Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.
Who is Simón Bolívar?
This is the largest country in South America by land area.
What is Brazil?
The formal reply a criminal defendant gives to a charge, such as "guilty" or "not guilty".
What is la declaración?
This dynamic Colombian attacking midfielder won the Golden Boot at the 2014 FIFA World Cup for scoring the most goals in the tournament.
Who is James Rodríguez?
For playing Anita in the 1961 film version of West Side Story, this Puerto Rican legend made history as the first Latina to win an Academy Award.
Who is Rita Moreno?
This president issued the first National Hispanic Heritage Week proclamation in 1968.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This river is South Americas longest.
What is the Amazon?
A professional trained to give legal advice and represent clients in legal matters
What is el abogado or la abogada.
This Dominican slugger became the first unanimous Hall of Fame inductee in MLB history in 2020.
Who is Mariano Rivera?
Known for blending dark fairy-tale elements with historical settings, this Mexican director helmed Pan's Labyrinth and The Shape of Water.
Who is Guillermo del Toro?
This civil rights organization, founded in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1929, is the oldest and largest continuously active Hispanic civil rights group in the U.S.
What is LULAC? (League of United Latin American Citizens?
This Colombian city, known as the “City of Eternal Spring,” is famous for its annual flower festival.
What is Medellín?
A civil legal action brought by one person or organization against another in a court of law to seek a remedy for a wrong or loss.
What is la demanda.
This South American nation treats the high-speed equestrian sport of Polo as a national obsession and dominates global competitions.
What is Argentina?
Known for his magical realism, this Colombian wrote “One Hundred Years of Solitude.”
Who is Gabriel García Márquez?
This 1947 landmark federal court case in California ruled that separating Mexican-American children into "Mexican schools" was unconstitutional, paving the way for Brown v. Board of Education.
What is Mendez v. Westminster?
Name three countries in South America and their captial cities.
Venezuela, Suriname, Guyana, French Guyana, Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina.
A formal meeting in a court where evidence is presented to a judge or jury to decide a legal case
What is el juicio?