Food & Drink
What dish is made with corn and wrapped in husks?
What are tamales?
When is Mexican Independence Day?
What is the 16th of September?
Who painted famous self-portraits with bold colors?
Who is Frida Kahlo?
What music style done in groups includes trumpets and violins?
What is mariachi?
What language is second-most spoken in the U.S.?
What is Spanish?
Who was Frida Kahlo’s husband?
Who is Diego Rivera?
What is Mexico’s capital city?
What is Mexico City?
What are piñatas used for?
What are birthday celebrations or fiestas?
What did the Teotihuacanos build?
What are pyramids like Teotihuacán?
What dog breed is native to Mexico?
What is the Xoloitzcuintli (or Xolo dog)?
What U.S. state has the largest Mexican-American population?
What is California?
Who was Mexico’s revolutionary leader from the south?
Who is Emiliano Zapata?
What’s mole made with that might surprise you?
What is chocolate? (Mole contains chocolate and spices)
What does Cinco de Mayo celebrate?
What is the Battle of Puebla?
What is papel picado made of?
What is cut tissue paper?
What is the Mexican Hat Dance also called?
What is Jarabe Tapatío?
True or False: Cinco de Mayo = Independence Day.
False. (Cinco de Mayo is not Independence Day.)
Name one famous Mexican-American singer.
Who is Selena Quintanilla (or Selena Gomez, Thalía, etc.)?
What is the famous Mayan ruin on the Yucatán Peninsula?
What is Chichén Itzá?
What colorful holiday celebrates the dead?
What is Día de los Muertos?
Who were known for their calendar and writing system?
Who are the Maya?
What butterfly migrates to Mexico each winter?
What is the Monarch butterfly?
What music genre grew from Mexican-American communities in Texas?
What is Tejano music?
Who wrote The Labyrinth of Solitude?
Who is Octavio Paz?
What drink is made from rice, cinnamon, and milk?
What is Horchata?
What ancient city is now Mexico City?
What is Tenochtitlán?
What is the name of Mexico’s famous muralist (Hint: he did the one in Rockerfeller center)?
Who is Diego Rivera?
What instrument is like a large bass guitar in mariachi?
What is the guitarrón?
What popular mexican food in the USA translates to "little donkey"?
What is the burrito?
What filmmaker made Pan’s Labyrinth?
Who is Guillermo del Toro?
What is the longest river in Mexico?
What is the Río Bravo (called Rio Grande in the U.S.)?
What is a girl’s 15th birthday celebration (coming of age)?
What is the quinceañera?
What civilization was dominant in Oaxaca?
Who are the Zapotecs?
What are cenotes?
What are natural sinkholes filled with water?
What is a popular Mexican-American food fusion?
What is Tex-Mex?
Who is Lorena Ochoa?
Who is a famous female golfer from Mexico?
What are chapulines?
What are (roasted) grasshoppers?
What event started in 1910 and lasted 10 years?
What is the Mexican Revolution?
What colorful skeleton is linked to Día de los Muertos?
Who is La Catrina?
What’s a famous ranchera singer’s nickname: “El Rey”?
Who is Vicente Fernández?
What is the popular small dog breed in the USA named after a Mexican State?
What is a Chihuahua?
Who was Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz?
Who was a poet, nun, and early feminist in colonial Mexico?
What’s the name of the largest pyramid (by volume) in the world?
What is the Great Pyramid of Cholula?
What’s the name of Mexico’s Day of the Children?
What is El Día del Niño?
What was the Aztec capital city?
What is Tenochtitlán?
What is Popocatépetl?
What is Mexico’s tallest volcano?
Name one city with a large Mexican population in the U.S.
What is Los Angeles (or Chicago, San Antonio, Houston)?
Who is Guillermo González Camarena?
Who invented the color TV?
What colorful fruit drinks are served cold in Mexico?
What are aguas frescas?
Who was the first Indigenous president of Mexico?
Who is Benito Juárez?
What is the name of brightly colored animal sculptures?
What are alebrijes?
Where does the music style Son Jarocho come from?
What is Veracruz?
What two day celebration is on Nov. 1–2?
What is Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)?
Who is the mexican business magnate that was once the world's richest man?
Who is Carlos Slim?
What lake did the Aztecs build Tenochtitlán on?
What is Lake Texcoco?
What’s celebrated on Dec. 12 in honor of a beloved Virgin?
What is Día de la Virgen de Guadalupe?
What did the Aztecs use as currency?
What are cacao beans?
What animal is a symbol of pre-Hispanic culture and appears in legends?
What is the jaguar?
Who was a labor leader and civil rights activist for farm workers?
Who is César Chávez?
What actress played Frida Kahlo in a Hollywood film?
Who is Salma Hayek?