History I
This was the first European Settlement in the present United States.
Saint Petersburg
What is the largest group of Latinos living in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area?
Salvadorans
Awarded the Presidential Medal of Excellence and inducted into the National Teachers Hall of Fame, the movie, "Stand and Deliver" is about his work in getting a large number of Hispanic students to pass the AP Calculus test.
Jaime Escalante
What is the art capital of Mexico?
Mexico City
Astronaut and engineer, she was the first Hispanic woman in space.
Ellen Ochoa
What was the general name of the towns that hispanic people from Mexico came to establish in California?
Missions
What is the English name of the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos?
The Day of the Dead
The first U.S. born Hispanic woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics (Rice University).
Ruth Gonzalez
Why is Hispanic art so colorful?
Because of the abundance of metals, clays, fibers, stores, paper, wood and dyes.
She was a microbiologist who researched how viruses can cause cancer.
Sarah Stewart
What happened in Mexico in 1914?
the Mexican Revolution
What country is Shakira from?
Colombia
The youngest person and first woman to serve as Chief Scientist at NASA.
France Cordova
What is Mexican art called?
Artesania
First Hispanic person to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine, discovering an enzyme that can synthesize RNA.
Severo Ochoa
When and where was the 1st immigration raid in America?
In what year did the Latin Grammy Awards debut?
2000
She is a the leader of the Latin American division of Stripe, an online payment-processing firm.
Maria Teresa Arnal
Why do Hispanics paint their houses pink?
To mark the family's location ("we live in the pink house").
An epidemiologist who discovered that yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitos.
Carlos Juan Finlay
The country of Bolivia is named after this Hispanic revolutionary.
Simon Bolivar
What country is famous for the dance of the meringue?
Dominican Republic
First working at Google for 10 years, she is now a leader at Netflix, developing markets in Europe, Africa and the Middle East
Maria Ferreras
Name one famous Hispanic or Latino painter.
Frida Kahlo, Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera, David Alfero Siqueiros
Her research uncovered a way to use bacteria to make insulin, a treatment for diabetes.
Lydia Villa-Komaroff