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1. What ethnic group has the largest
population in the United States?
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2. What is the approximate number
of Latinos in the United States?
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3. Hispanic Heritage Month begins
on what day?
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4. Can you name the Mexican American
woman golfer who has earned more than $1 million during her career?
(She is one of only five women to do this!)
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5. In 1984 he earned the distinction
of being the first Latino baseball player ever featured on a
U.S. postage stamp and voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame?
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6. What Latino major leaguer is
a member of the respective professional Baseball Halls of Fame
in Cooperstown, NY; Monterrey, Mexico; La Havana, Cuba; and the
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri?
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7. Between 1990 and 2000 the Hispanic
population grew more than ____ times as fast as the population
as a whole.
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8. Who was the first Latino to
win the Pulitzer Prize?
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9. This singer helped popularize
folk music and has spent a lifetime promoting non-violence and
humanitarian causes.
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10. Luis Walter Alvarez won a Nobel
Prize in __________?
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11. This nine-fingered guitarist
has a devoted fan base and was honored with an eponymous Ben
and Jerry's ice cream flavor.
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12. Who is the first Hispanic to
have served in the U.S. Congress?
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13. Roberto C. Goizueta is credited
with improving visibility worldwide and greatly increasing the
stock price of what major U.S. company?
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14. This musician/composer/actor
ran for president in his native country.
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15. Who is the first Hispanic woman
to become an astronaut?
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16. This journalist received the
Robert F. Kennedy award for her story, Manhood Behind Bars, which
ran on National Public Radio.
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17. Puerto Rican heartthrob Ricky
Martin acted on which daytime drama before making it big as a
solo artist?
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18. Which Tejano star was gunned
down by a fan?
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19. Who was the only Mexican-born
actor to play the Cisco kid in film?
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20. He received the 1959 Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the synthesis of ribonucleic
acid (RNA), an organic compound that carries hereditary qualities
in all reproduction.
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