Hispano


1

Who was the first Hispanic to the Pulitzer Prize?

2

In 1999 who eight Grammys in one evening, including the Album of the Year Award?  

3

In which city was the signed which ended the Spanish-American War on December 10th 1898?

4

What event is commemorated year on the 5th of May?  

5

What did Luis Walter Alvarez a Nobel Prize for? 

6

Which Hispanic guitarist has only nine fingers and has a Ben and Jerry’s ice cream flavour him?

7

Isabel Allende is a famous international author. She was nominated for the Quality Paperback Book Club New Voice Award for her first novel in 1982. What is it ? 

8

Which musician, composer and actor for president in his native country? 

9

What were the names of the Spanish King and Queen who gave money to Christopher Columbus (Cristobal Colón) for his to the New World?

10

In which country was Christopher Columbus ?

11

What is Simon Bolivar famous in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Perú, and Bolivia?

12

In 1980, Fidel Castro announced that anyone who wanted to leave Cuba should go to one place in order to receive exit visas Cuba. Which place?  

13

September 16 is celebrated as Mexican Independence Day. In which year was "El Grito de Dolores" (the cry of Dolores), the first proclamation independence from Spain? 

14

Which singer helped to make folk music popular and has a lifetime promoting non-violence and humanitarian causes?   ?

15

Who hypothesized that an asteroid hit the earth, sending huge amounts of smoke and debris into the atmosphere which eventually the extinction of the dinosaurs. 

16

What sikus, quenas, wankaras, and charangos?

17

Who in Spanish Harlem and is now known as "El Rey", King of Mambo?

18

Which country do The Galapagos Islands to?

19

Which are the only two countries of South America which do not have a ?

20

How many countries are in South America?

 

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