GEOGRAPHY
This South American jungle represents over 1/2 the world's rainforests.
What is the Amazon?
32 million Hispanics are eligible for the this activity.
What is voting?
A record 32 million Latinos are projected to be eligible to vote in November’s elections, exceeding the number of Black eligible voters for the first time
Americans eat more than 4.5 Billion of these every single year.
What are tacos?
Known for hits Wolves and Lose You to Love Me, this 29 year old from Texas is a proud Mexican American.
Who is Selena Gomez?
Portugal is a world renowned destination for this water sport.
What is surfing?
This U.S. state has the highest Hispanic population.
What is California?
In 2019, California had the highest Hispanic population in the United States, with over 15.57 million people claiming Hispanic heritage.
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
This South American country, known for hosting Darwin's studies on Evolution, was the first to grant constitutional rights to Nature.
What is Ecuador?
Rather than treating nature as property under the law, Rights for Nature articles acknowledge that nature in all its life forms has the right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles.
Hispanic desserts tend to include this spicy ingredient.
What is peppers?
The 3rd highest paid athlete in the world, this Portuguese player is world renown for not only his footwork but also his dashing looks.
Who is Cristiano Ronaldo?
Celebrated after Halloween on November 1st and 2nd, this Mexican Holiday is a commemoration of death and celebration of life.
What is the Day of the Dead?
Translating to "Rich Coast" this US island territory is densely populated with proud Hispanics.
What is Puerto Rico?
In 1947, the state of California made a landmark ruling against this practice in schools for Mexican-American students.
What is segregation?
April 14, 1947
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals makes a landmark ruling prohibiting segregation in California public schools in Mendez v. Westminster School District. In the case, the family of Sylvia Mendez, then 9, and others sued four school districts for being denied entrance to Westminster Elementary School because they were Mexican. The ruling sets precedent for the historic Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case seven years later.
Contrary to it's Roman name, this green dish was actually created in Mexico.
What is caesar salad?
This famous Spanish painter is known for his Surrealist style.
Salvador Dali
This beautiful coastal US city made Spanish it's official second language.
What is Miami?
These states, who share a name, are home to the fastest growing Hispanic populations.
What is North Dakota and South Dakota?
The number of Hispanics in North Dakota more than doubled (+148%) from 2010 to 2020, while in South Dakota it went up 75%.
Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo represented this state as the first US Senator or Hispanic descent.
What is New Mexico?
Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo of New Mexico is sworn in as the country's first Hispanic senator.
About 8,000 years old, this wrapped Hispanic food has been satisfying hunger since the Aztecs.
What is Tamales?
This "triple threat" Puerto Rican singer/dancer/actress made her debut in the 1997 movie Selena.
Who is Jennifer Lopez?
Spain is the second largest producer of this beverage.
What is wine?
Hispanic generally refers to people tracing their ancestry to the Iberian Peninsula, dominated by what two countries?
Spain and Portugal
This President is responsible for increasing anti-Mexican sentiment, and introducing the largest mass-deportation effort in US history.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
President Dwight D. Eisenhower institutes "Operation Wetback," a controversial mass deportation using a racial slur, in which the government rounds up more than 1 million people. Blaming illegal immigrants for low wages, the raids start in California and Arizona, and, according to a publication in the U.S. House of Representatives archives, disrupt agriculture.
Lunch is the most important meal of the day for most Spanish speakers, and often times is followed by this activity meaning "short nap"
What is a siesta?
Between 1519 and 1521, this famous Spaniard was the first to circumnavigate the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This Hispanic country is investing heavily in renewable energy - so much so that in 2016 the entire country ran on power generated by wind, sun, and water for five consecutive days.
What is Portugal?