Hispanic Heritage Month Trivia Questions

Sept. 15th and 16th p. 76

Question: During World War II, were Mexican workers in the U.S. called braceros, naranjas, or cajas?
Answer: Braceros
Sept. 17th p. 89
Question: Was Mario Alvarez Soto a Latin American champion in chess, Ping-Pong or deep-sea fishing?
Answer: Ping-Pong
Sept. 18th p. 83
Question: The motto of civil rights leader Csar Chvez was s se puede. What does the phrase mean?
Answer: Yes, we can! or We can do it
Sept. 19th p. 84
Question: If a person says Lo siento mucho, how is that person feeling?
Answer: very sorry!
Sept. 22nd: p.86
Question: Do campesinos come from the country or the city?
Answer: The country! Campesinos means farmers or peasant workers.
Sept. 23rd p. 82
Question: Which is the Spanish word for infinity, infinidad or infinito?
Answer: Infinidad! Infinito means infinite!
Sept. 24th p. 86
Question: In Mexico, is the governor of a state called el gobernador, el goberdor, or el presidente?
Answer: El gobernador
Sept. 25th p. 90
Question: Which latin pop star had her first English-language album, Laundry Service, go triple platinum?
Answer: Shakira!
Sept. 26th p. 85
Question: Which South American River is the worlds second longest river?
Answer: The Amazon (Four thousand miles long, its second in length only to Africas Nile River)
Sept. 29th p. 97
Question: What fruit is in the expression a diario una manzana es cosa sana ?
Answer: an apple; the phrase literally means an apple daily is a healthy thing which is like the phrase in
English, an apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Sept. 30th p. 89
Question: Who is the country of Bolivia named for?
Answer: Simn Bolvar who led the South American independence movement in the 1810 and 1820s.
Oct. 1 p. 91
Question: Which is polite to say when you meet someone for the first time: Mucho gusto or Mucha
basura?

Answer: Mucho gusto (Pleased to meet you)! Mucha basura means a lot of trash.
Oct. 2nd p. 85
Question: En espaol, can a millionaire and a chocolate cake both be rico?
Answer: Yes! Rico can mean rich in both money and taste!
Oct. 6th p. 101
Question: Hispanics live in EVERY state if the U.S. Which state has the highest percentage of Hispanics?
Answer: California; about 14.4 million Hispanics!
Oct. 7th p. 108
Question: Whats the best place to stop for barbacoa: the carnicera, frutera or panadera?
Answer: carnicera- carne is the word for meat. So, a frutera is where fruta is sold and a panadera is
where pan is sold!
Oct. 8th p. 124
Question: What fruit did many Americans boycott in the 1960s to support a strike by the United Farm
Workers?
Answer: grapes!
Oct. 10th p. 142
Question: In which country is the oldest active lighthouse located; Spain, Mexico, or Per?
Answer: Spain
Oct. 13th
Question: What is the most common Hispanic last night in the United States; Garcia, Martinez, or
Rodriguez?
Answer: Garcia
Oct. 14th p. 23
Question: What is the name of the squiggly wiggly accent mark in Spanish that appears over the letter
n?
Answer: a tilde!!