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Term | Definition |
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What is the name of the network of roads from Alaska to Argentina that links together 17 Latin American capitals?. | Pan American Highway |
What are four Latin dances, and what country is each one from? | La Bamba - Mexico; El Flamenco - Spain; La Salsa - Puerto Rico; El Tango - Argentina |
What is the name of a country in Africa in which Spanish is one of its official languages? | Guinea Ecuatorial |
Who is the major league baseball player who earned the Triple Crown in 2012, and where is he from? | Miguel Cabrera - Venezuela |
What are these military times in ordinary time? (use am & pm) 14:15, 22:30 | 14:15 = 2:15 p.m. 22:30 - 10:30 p.m. |
Who is the teacher in California who was very successful in teaching AP Calculus to poor Hispanic students in the 80s-90s? | Jaime Escalante |
What is the former name of the capital of Mexico, a city established by the Aztecs in 1325, whose ruins are visited today in Mexico, DF? | Tenochtitlán |
Who is the conquistador who vanquished the Aztecs and established Spain's dominance of what is now Mexico back in the 1500s? | Hernán Cortés |
What did Argentina and Great Britain go to war over in 1982? | A group of islands off the coast of Argentina colonized by the British in the 1800s called the Falkland Islands. |
What are the nicknames of the twin volcanoes near Mexico's capital city? | Popo and Izti |
What is the island that originally was called San Juan Bautista and is now a territory of the U.S.? | Puerto Rico |
What was discovered by the Aztecs and used for currency, energy and appetite control, and then further developed by the Europeans? | Cacao |
Why are Spanish, French, Italian, Romanian, Catalán and Portuguese known as Romance languages? | They are derived from Latin, which was spoken by Romans. |