Hispanic Heritage Quiz

Celia Cruz

• Dressed as a male Confederate soldier

• Known as the Queen of Salsa

• 1st Hispanic woman on US Cabinet

• 1st female and 1st Hispanic Surgeon General

Mario Molina

• Won Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research of the effect of CFCs on the Ozone Layer

• Won Nobel Prize in Physics for his research of the effect of CFCs on the Ozone Layer

• Starred in I Love Lucy

• 1st Hispanic in Astronaut Hall of Fame

Dennis Chávez

• Won Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

• King of Tejano music

• Wrote The House on Mango Street

• First Hispanic to serve a full-term in the Senate

Ellen Ochoa

• First Hispanic in Astronaut Hall of Fame

• First Hispanic woman that went to space

• Activist for women's and civil rights

• First female Hispanic Surgeon General

Luis Walter Álvarez

• Won Nobel Prize in Chemistry

• 1st Hispanic to serve a full-term in the Senate

• Won a Pulitzer Prize for Physics for his investigations into subatomic particles

• Won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his investigations into subatomic particles

Sandra Cisneros

• Dressed as a male Confederate soldier

• Wrote The House on Mango Street

• 1st Hispanic woman on US Cabinet

• 1st female and 1st Hispanic Surgeon General

Desi Arnaz

• Won Nobel Prize in Chemistry

• 1st Hispanic to serve a full-term in the Senate

• Won a Pulitzer Prize for Physics for his investigations into subatomic particles

• Starred in I Love Lucy

Loreta Janeta Velázquez

• Won Nobel Prize in Chemistry

• 1st Hispanic to serve a full-term in the Senate

• Dressed as a Male Confederate soldier during the Civil War

• Won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his investigations into subatomic particles

Severo Ochoa

• First Hispanic in Baseball Hall of Fame

• First Hispanic in Rock 'N Roll Hall of Fame

• Won Nobel Prize in Physiology or medicine

• First Female and first Hispanic Surgeon General

Nydia Velázquez

• First Puerto Rican woman to serve in Congress

• Won Nobel Prize in Physics for his research of the effect of CFCs on the Ozone Layer

• Starred in I Love Lucy

• 1st Hispanic in Astronaut Hall of Fame