Scientists and Space Explorers
Inventors
Law and Government
Education
Business and Economics
100
Ellen Ochoa
Who is a veteran of four space flights and the first Hispanic woman in space?
100
Manuel Corominas
The mop was designed by a Spanish inventor named ________.
100
Hernandez v. Texas
The Supreme court case that declared Mexican Americans and all other racial groups had equal protection under the 14th amendment.
100
Telpochcalli
What was the name of the school attended by "common" people in Aztec culture?
100
Cesar Chavez
In 1962, he founded the National Farm Workers Association, later to become the United Farm Workers - the UFW. He was joined by Delores Huerta and the union was born. Who is he?
200
Mario Molina
Born in Mexico City in 1943, this chemist was so interested in science that he created his own chemistry lab in a bathroom at his home. Who is he?
200
The lollipop
Eric Bernat created this child's favorite in 1958
200
Henry B. Gonzalez
Who was the first Hispanic to represent Texas in the U.S. Congress?
200
The Great Temple of Huitzilpochtli and Tlaloc
What was the name of the main temple in the center of Tenochtitlan?
200
Emilio Estefan
_________ has been nominated to 28 Grammy Awards, winning the honor 14 times.
300
pulmonary circulation
Michael Servetus also known as Miguel Servet, was a Spanish physician, cartographer, and Renaissance humanist. He was the first European to correctly describe the function of what?
300
Ajedrecista
Leonardo Torres y Quevedo invented the first computer game in Spanish history known as the ___________, an autonomous robotics chess game.
300
Judge Sonia Sotomayor
Name the Latina judge named to the country's highest court?
300
Knotted cords
The Inca had no method of writing so they developed a system of?
300
Arturo Moreno
Billionaire _________ __________, a fourth-generation Mexican American, not only is the first Latino team owner in major U.S. sports but also is changing the rules of the game.
400
Luis Walter Alvarez
Named after his grandfather, a famed Spanish American physician, this physicist is known for his work with radioactive nuclei.
400
Nervous System
Santiago Ramon y Cajal who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1906 for his work on the structure of the _______________.
400
Ernesto Galarza
He was a Mexican-American labor activist, professor, poet, writer, and key figure in the history of immigrant farm worker organization in California?
400
Mendez v. Westminster and Hernandez v. Texas
What two major legal battles were won that directly affect Hispanic education in the United States?
400
Jorge Perez
Of 400 richest Americans, 39 are immigrants who came to the United States from 23 nations and fulfilled the American Dream, and only one of them is Latino. Who is he?
500
Antonia Novello
in 1990, _________ became the first Hispanic person, and first woman to be appointed as Surgeon General of the United States.
500
Combustion engine-driven submarine
Spanish inventor and engineer Narcis Monturiol Estarriol designed the first _____________________ in 1859 that was propelled by an early form of air-independent propulsion.
500
Linda Chavez-Thompson
Who worked in the cotton fields picking cotton, cleaning houses, and eventually represented workers for various labor unions in Texas?
500
Jaime Escalante
What Hispanic American became famous for his work with troubled, "unteachable" high school math students? His story was told in the 1988 film Stand and Deliver.