Indigenous People
Latin American Revolutions
Halloween
Hispanic Heritage
Christopher Columbus
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The day designated as Indigenous Peoples' Day in the United States every year

What is the second Monday of October?

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The largest country in South America, formerly part of the Portuguese Empire.

What is Brazil?

100

What is celebrated in Mexico and many other Latin American countries instead of Halloween?

Dia de los Muertos

100

The two European countries that make up the peninsula of Hispania.

What are Spain and Portugal?

100

The year Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue

What is 1492?

200

The name of the famous native woman, daughter of the Powhatan chief, noted for her association with the Jamestown settlement

Hint: Think Disney

Who is Pocahontas?

(Pocahontas was much younger than depicted during the events of the Disney movie, she was actually probably 11 or 12)

200

Toussaint L'Ouverture helped to liberate this Caribbean nation, that shares an island with the Dominican Republic.

What is Haiti?

200

The most common symbol for the Day of the Dead; the calaveras de azúcar .

What are sugar skulls?

200

This country, made up of over 7,000 islands, is one of the most well-known Hispanic countries in Asia.

What is the Philippines?

200

Christopher Columbus' place of birth

What is The Republic of Genoa (modern day Italy)?

300

Around how many Indigenous People were in the Americas when discovered by Columbus?

A. 1 Million

B. 25 Million

C. 100 Million

D. 1 Billion

C. 100 Million

300

The name of the priest who's Grito de Dolores set off the Mexican War of Independence.

Who is Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla?

300

What is the original purpose of a jack o' lantern?

To ward off evil spirits.

300

The name of the Hispanic people who lived in northwest Mexico and the modern state of California?

What is Californios?

300

Where Columbus was trying to get to on his famous journey.

What is India?

400
The name of an indigenous tribal group in North America.

Who are the Algonquin, Puebloan, Muscogee Creek, Haudenosaunee (Shawnee), Cherokee, and many more?

400

The man that liberated northern South America and has a country named after him. The George Washington of South America.

Who is Simón Bolívar?

400

This director is famous for films that use a unique artistic style in his dark movies. 

Who is Tim Burton?

400

The name of the Hispanic people who lived in northern Mexico and the modern US state of Texas?

What is Tejanos?

400

Cristopher Columbus' reasoning for why his journey would be possible, which conflicted with most scholars' beliefs at the time.

What is that the Earth was much smaller than had been theorized?

500

One way that historians determined regions of Indigenous Peoples in North America.

What is shared language? What is cultural practices?

What is political systems?

500

The man that liberated southern South America.

______ de San _______

José de San Martín

500

What's the name of the leading role character in "The Nightmare Before Christmas"

Jack Skellington

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The date Hispanic Heritage month begins and the reason why it begins on this date.

What is September 15th and because it is the date that most Central American countries, Mexico, and Chile gained their independence?

500

This is where Columbus actually landed at the end of his famous journey.

What is the Bahamas?