Hispanic Heritage Trivia

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When was the first time Hispanic Heritage Week (now Hispanic Heritage Month) was celebrated in the U.S.?

• 1988

• 1990

• 1978

• 1968

Hispanic Heritage Month starts on Sept. 15 in part because it coincides with the independence dates of these countries.

• Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala

• Honduras and Nicaragua

• Mexico and Chile

• All of the above

What does the United States celebrate during Hispanic Heritage Month?

• The culture and traditions of people with Hispanic-American roots

• The traditions of Spain

• The people and culinary culture of Mexico

• The first Caribbean immigrants

How large was the self-described U.S. Hispanic population as of 2019?

• 27.8 million

• 60.6 million

• 50.5 million

• 132 million

In the 1960s, this civil rights activist founded the first successful union for farmworkers, helping thousands of laborers obtain better pay and working conditions. Who was he?

• Maurice Ferré

• Cesar Chavez

• Hector Garcia

• John Baez

Luis von Ahn is a Guatemalan-born computer expert. He co-founded the language-learning platform Duolingo, but you may know him best as one of the creators of a special tool that some websites use to distinguish individual humans from bots or spammers. The tool asks you to read a squiggly series of words or numbers and type them into a box. What's it called?

• Spam Filter

• CAPTCHA

• Bot Destroyer

• Spam Catcher

This Grammy Award-winning singer sold millions of records and was considered to be the Madonna of the Tejano (Texan-Mexican) music world in the early 1990s. Who was she?

• Shakira

• Jennifer Lopez

• Gloria Estefan

• Selena