Dates
This is celebrated September 15 thru October 15th
What is Hispanic Heritage Month.
Spanish is the primary language in how many countries.
What is 21?
This celebration occurs when a Hispanic girl turns 15.
What is Quincenera.
Spanish is the blank most spoken langauge in the US.
This person was the first Latino to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame
Who is Roberto Clemente
This is celebrated May 5th because of the battle of the Puebla
What is Cinco De Mayo.
The Spanish language has this langauge root.
What is Latin?
This is created during Dia De Los Muertos to honor the dead. Photos, food, candles, incense, and water are placed on it.
What is an offrenda.
Name the three main indegenious people in South America.
What is the Aztec, Mayas and Incas
This is the largest river in the world.
What is the amazon river
This is celebrated October 31-November 1
What is Dia de Los Muertos
This type of puncutation is inverted in the Spanish language.
What is exclamation point and question mark
Pinatas traditionally have 7 points and those points were made to symbolize this. Then the stick was used to destroy it.
What is the 7 deadly sins.
This means someone descended from Latin America, which includes non-Spanish speaking countries like Brazil.
What is Latino
Machu Picchu is in what country?
Hispanic heritage month was enacted by Lyndon B Johnson in this year
What is 1986.
Spanish is classified as this type of langauge. Similar to Latin and Greek
What is a romance language?
This is a term that is associated with those from Spanish-speaking countries.
What is hispanic?
These three states have the largest Hispanic population of any states.
What is California, Texas and Florida.
Name two states that that formally part of Mexico
California, Nevada, Utah, Texas and New Mexico, along with most of Arizona and Colorado, and some of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming.
Semana Santa is a holy week in the hispanic culture and is celebrated in this month.
What is April?
These words sound the same in English and in Spanish.
What is a cognate?
This is the main religion typical of the Hispanic and Latino people
What is Catholisisim
There are how many Spanish speakers around the world.
What is 500 million
From which country did Latin American countries declare their independence?