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Question 1

1 in how many residents of which four states spoke Spanish at home in 2007?

Answer 1

1 in 5

Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and California.

Question 2

Which metro area in the US has the highest percentage of Spanish speakers at home over age 5? Which is second? What are the percentages?

Answer 2

Los Angeles, 53.6%

Miami, 49.1%

Question 3

What is the oldest Hispanic village in the US? When was it founded? By whom? What does it have of significance?

Answer 3

San Agustin, en 1565
By Pedro Menéndez de Avilés.
A wooden schoolhouse

Question 4

How many states have 5.2-9.5% Spanish speakers?

Answer 4

15

Question 5

How many states have 12.2-21.4% Spanish speakers?

Answer 5

7

Question 6

How many states have 28.1-29.0% Spanish speakers?

Answer 6

3, California, New Mexico and Texas.

Question 7

What province has 95>%?

Answer 7

Puerto Rico

Question 8

What is the Hispanic population in New York?

Answer 8

3,871,522 people

Question 9

What is the Hispanic population in Los Angeles?

Answer 9

5,576,583 people.

Question 10

What is the Hispanic population in Miami?

Answer 10

2,013,725 people

Question 11

What is the Hispanic population in Chicago?

Answer 11

1,761,026 people

Question 12

What is the Hispanic population in Phoenix?

Answer 12

1,109,740 people

Question 13

When as the university of Puerto Rico started? How large is it? How many faculty?

Answer 13

1903, 70,000 and 5,000 professors.

Question 14

What are garitas?

Answer 14

Circular sentry boxes

Question 15

How many native Spanish speakers are there? In how many countries is it an official language? Where are said countries?

Answer 15

358 million, 21 countries and 1 in Europe, Africa and North America, and 9 in Central America and South America.

Question 16

How many speak Spanish as a second language? What is before it?

Answer 16

435 million and Mandarin, English and Hindu.

Question 17

When did Simón Bolívar live and die? Where did he die?

Answer 17

1783-1830 and Santa Marta, Columbia

Question 18

What are the drum patterns in Santeria called?

Answer 18

Toques- examples are the Rumba, Congo and Son Montuno.

Question 19

Where is La Alhambra? What city is it in and when was it built?

Answer 19

Spain, Granada, and between 133-1391

Question 20

Teotihuacan is what? How close is it to Mexico City? What does its name mean?

Answer 20

Largest pre-columbian city of the Americas, 25 miles northeast of MC, “the place where men become gods”

Question 21

There is/ There are?

Answer 21

Hoy

Question 22

Where are the Canary Islands?

Answer 22

South of Spain, close to the African coast.

Question 23

Where are the Baleares Islands?

Answer 23

East of Spain

Question 24

What percent of the population group in the US is Hispanic?

Answer 24

15.1

Or 45.5 Million