Q 01/05

Which Florida city, founded by Spain in 1565, is the oldest lasting European settlement in the contiguous US?

A) Pensacola

B) St. Augustine

C) Fort Lauderdale

D) Key West

Answer · why

B) St. Augustine

St. Augustine was founded by the Spanish admiral Menéndez de Avilés, 42 years before the English landed at Jamestown. It has been lived in ever since.

Q 02/05

Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, grew up in public housing in which New York City borough?

A) Brooklyn

B) Queens

C) The Bronx

D) Manhattan

Answer · why

C) The Bronx

The Bronx was home to Sotomayor's family, who moved into the Bronxdale Houses project in 1957. In 2010, a year after she joined the court, the buildin...

Q 03/05

Cinco de Mayo, a major celebration for Mexican Americans, marks an 1862 battlefield victory over which country's army?

A) Spain

B) France

C) Austria

D) Britain

Answer · why

B) France

France sent a well-equipped army of about 6,000 that lost to a smaller, poorly armed Mexican force at Puebla. The day is often mistaken for Mexico's I...

Q 04/05

Which Pittsburgh Pirates star died in a 1972 plane crash while flying earthquake relief supplies to Nicaragua?

A) Orlando Cepeda

B) Manny Sanguillén

C) Roberto Clemente

D) Juan Marichal

Answer · why

C) Roberto Clemente

Roberto Clemente had chartered the cargo plane himself for a New Year's Eve flight from Puerto Rico. The Baseball Hall of Fame changed its rules so he...

Q 05/05

Which Boston Red Sox legend, who batted .406 in 1941, was the son of a Mexican American mother from El Paso?

A) Ted Williams

B) Carl Yastrzemski

C) Jimmie Foxx

D) Bobby Doerr

Answer · why

A) Ted Williams

Ted Williams was raised in San Diego by May Venzor, a lifelong Salvation Army evangelist. He entered the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966, in his first y...