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Hispanic Heritage Month trivia

Hispanic Heritage Month trivia

Assessment

Flashcard

English

10th Grade

Practice Problem

Hard

Created by

Terra Cummings

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1.

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Who became the first Latina Supreme Court Justice in U.S. history?

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Sonia Sotomayor

2.

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Who was the first Latina to win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Westside Story?

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Rita Moreno

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Who was the first Mexican director to win an Oscar for his 2013 drama, Gravity?

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Alfonso Cuarón

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__________________ was one of the most beloved baseball players in the history of the sport thanks to his strong batting average and philanthropic efforts off the field. The Puerto Rican right fielder became the first Latin American and Caribbean player to be enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame after his untimely death in 1972.

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Roberto Clemente

5.

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Who penned her way to fame with books like How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies?

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Julia Alvarez

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_______________ became the first Hispanic woman to go to space when she served on the nine-day STS-56 mission aboard the space shuttle Discovery. She would go on to venture to space four times, logging nearly 1,000 hours in orbit before returning to Earth to make history again, this time as the Johnson Space Center’s first Hispanic director and only its second female director.

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Dr. Ellen Ochoa

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____________________ lyrical talent, love of traditional Broadway tunes, and fondness for hip hop helped catapult his musical to new heights and earned him a Pulitzer Prize, two Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and multiple Tony Awards. Options: Cesar Chavez, Roberto Clemente, Lin Manuel Miranda, Alfonso Cuaron

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Lin Manuel Miranda

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