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What is tango?
This dramatic and passionate dance originated in Argentina.
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What is comida?
The word for the main meal of the day in Mexico and Spain.
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What is (a) quinceñera?
When a girl turns 15. This involves a court of her friends known as damas and chambelanes.
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What is Panama?
This country has a canal running through it.
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What is Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and South America?
The four regions of Latin America.
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What is salsa?
The most popular genre of dance in Latin America.
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What is guacamole?
A sauce made from mashed avocado, tomatoes, lime juice, cilantro, and onions.
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What is Dia de los Muertos (or) Day of the Dead?
A festival in celebration and honor of the souls of the dead. It is primarily celebrated in Mexico.
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What was Columbian Exchange?
The movement of animals, plants, people, and diseases between the Old World and the New World.
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What is Mexico?
The Yucatan Peninsula is found in this country.
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What is Colombia?
The cumbia's country of origin.
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What is a burrito?
Tortillas wrapped around a meat or bean filling.
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What is Brazil?
Where Carnaval is celebrated. A large parade with floats, dancing, and fun.
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What are pampas?
A grassy plain that stretches from Argentina to Uruguay.
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What is communism?
Cuba is the only country in the Western Hemisphere based on this this kind of government system.
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What is the guittaron?
This six-stringed instrument is traditionally used in Mariachi groups in Mexico.
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What is paella?
A Spanish rice dish cooked with meat, pork, chicken, vegetables or shellfish.
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What is Fiesta de San Fermin?
Where is Spain?
This festival can get dangerous if someone is accidentally gored by a bull's sharp horns. Where is it located?
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Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
He named the Pacific Ocean. His crew was the first to sail all the way around the world but he died halfway there.
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Who are the Mayans?
This empire created the number system using zero.
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What is flamenco?
This is an art of Andalusian origin known for its great emotional intensity and energetic tapping, intense laments and guitar strumming.
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What is an arepa?
A corn pancake similar to a tortilla that is a traditional Venezuelan bread.
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What is Three Kings Day?
This festival celebrates wise men, who found the divine child by following a star across the desert for twelve days to Bethlehem.
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What is Roman Catholicism?
The most common religion in Latin America.
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What is the Atacama?
This is a major desert in South America.
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