1. Cinco de Mayo is not an important holiday in Mexico. When do Mexicans celebrate their Independence Day?

2. Which Spanish-speaking country is 99% black?

3. What is the goal of the online movement Proyecto Más Color?

4. Black Hispanics account for what percent of the U.S. Hispanic

population according to the 2010 Census?

5. The U.S. Postal Service issued a Latin Music Legends stamp series in 2011 including Tito Puente, Carmen Miranda, Selena, Carlos Gardel,

and which Afro-Cuban “Queen of Salsa”?

Hispanic Heritage Month Trivia Quiz

Sponsored by Bowie State University’s Department of English & Modern Languages

E-mail your answers to Dr. Horacio Sierra at hsierra@bowiestate.edu by Oct. 15. The winner receives a gift certificate to the BSU Bookstore.

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Singer Selena Gomez

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Sonia Sotomayor