Famous Personalities Quiz

Who is known for her activism for indigenous rights and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992?

• Rigoberta Menchú

• Eva Peron

• Cesar Chavez

• Emilina Zapata

Which Argentine political leader was the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952?

• Rigoberta Menchú

• Eva Peron

• Cesar Chavez

• Emilina Zapata

Who was a Mexican-American labor leader and civil rights activist who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association?

• Rigoberta Menchú

• Eva Peron

• Cesar Chavez

• Emilina Zapata

Which Mexican revolutionary leader was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution and advocated for land reform?

• Rigoberta Menchú

• Eva Peron

• Cesar Chavez

• Emilina Zapata

Which Mexican artist is known for his mural paintings depicting Mexican history and culture?

• Frida Kahlo

• Pablo Picasso

• Salvador Dali

• Diego Rivera

Who is the first Hispanic woman to travel to space?

• Gloria Estefan

• Ellen Ochoa

• Rigoberta Menchú

• Jennifer Lopez

Who is the indigenous Mayan beekeeper who led a coalition that successfully halted Monsanto's planting of genetically modified soybeans in southern Mexico?

• Leydy Pech

• Ellen Ochoa

• Rigoberta Menchú

• Evita Peron

Mexican painter best known for her uncompromising and brilliantly colored self-portraits that deal with such themes as identity, the human body, and death.

• Leydy Pech

• Alicia Alonso

• Rigoberta Menchú

• Frida Kahlo

One of the best-known Latin American writers in history won a Nobel Prize for Literature, mostly for his masterpiece of magic realism,

He wrote 'Cien años de soledad' (1967; One Hundred Years of Solitude).

• Gabriel García Márquez

• Ellen Ochoa

• Cesar Chavez

• Emiliano Zapata

He was a historian, writer, collector, and activist of Puerto Rican descent, with African and German ancestry. He researched and raised awareness of the contributions that Afro-Latin Americans and African Americans have made to society.

• Gabriel García Márquez

• Salvador Dalí

• Arturo Schomburg

• Emiliano Zapata