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1. When did Christopher Columbus claim Puerto Rico for Spain?
Answer: 19 November 1493
2. What does Puerto Rico mean?
Answer: Rich Port
3. Who founded Caparra?
Answer: Juan Ponce de Leon
4. Who captured and burned down San Juan in 1625?
Answer: Bowdoin Hendrik
5. When was the Grito de Lares?
Answer: 23 September 1868
6. Where did Nelson A. Miles land on 25 July 1898?
Answer: Guanica
7. When did Puerto Rico become a commonwealth associated with USA?
Answer: 25 July 1952
8. Which is the highest point in Puerto Rico?
Answer: Cerro de Punta
9. Which is the capital of Puerto Rico?
Answer: San Juan
10. Who was Puerto Rico’s governor in 1949-1965?
Answer: Luis Munoz Marin
11. Who was the first native Puerto Rican to be Governor?
Answer: Jesus T. Pinero
When Puerto Rico passed on to the USA, the President always named the governor. In the 1940s, President Truman named a Puerto Rican J.T. Pinero as Governor.
12.Who was the first Governor of Puerto Rico elected by the people?
Answer: Luis Munoz Marin
The President let people of the island choose their governor for themselves. In 1948 the people elected Marin, who was beloved by all the country. He also signed a ‘commonwealth’.
13. In what year was the Puerto Rican flag first raised?
Answer: 1895
14. What did the Native Americans call the island before Columbus arrived?
Answer: Borinken
Before the island was discovered by the Europeans, the Taino called the island Borinken.
15. What is the main language of the island?
Answer: Spanish
It was the same language of the first people to conquer the island. The Spaniards.
16. Where is the island located?
Answer: Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean
The island is the smallest of the Greater Antilles, and the biggest of the Lesser Antilles. It is are located next to the Dominican Republic and has the Atlantic Ocean on the north and Caribbean Sea on the south. It is also one point of the famous “Bermuda Triangle”.
17. What famous artist is from Puerto Rico?
Answer: Ricky Martin
Ricky Martin was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He was part of teen sensation boy band MENUDO, that was an all P.R. boy band for many years.
18. What important NASA location is in Arecibo, Puerto Rico?
Answer: The radiotelescope observatory
The Arecibo Radio telescope observatory is the biggest in the world and was built on the island by NASA because was the only place in the world where there was a valley surrounded by four mountains which could act as ‘corners’.
19. What’s the capital city of Puerto Rico?
Answer: San Juan
The capital city was first Guaynabo, but later passed to San Juan.
20. What famous rum brand originated in Puerto Rico?
Answer: Don Q
Don Q is one famous rum known world wide.The headquarters are in Ponce,P.R. Don Q. stands for Don Quixote. Bacardi is also a famous rum that is made in P.R. and other Latin countries but originally from Cuba.
21. What country has the same flag as Puerto Rico only that with the colors inverted?
Answer: Cuba
As a sign of the only two remaining colonies of Spain, Puerto Rico adopted the Cuban flag only they inverted the colors. Later on Cuba got their independence and Puerto Rico was passed to the U.S. in the Spanish-American War.
22. Which two famous baseball players of the Hall Of Fame are from Puerto Rico?
Answer: Roberto Clemente and Orlando Cepeda
Orlando Cepeda and Roberto Clemente were both from Puerto Rico. They both loved playing baseball and were very important to the baseball world. Roberto Clemente died in 1972 while sending supplies to the people of Nicaragua who had suffered from a fatal earthquake. Other famous baseball players from P.R. are Juan Gonzalez, Ivan Rodriguez, Bernie Williams, Edgar Martinez, Roberto Alomar, Sandy Alomar, Jose Cruz jr., Ben Molina, Joey Cora and many others.
23. When was Puerto Rico discovered?
Answer: 1493
On Christopher Columbus second journey he discovered the island now called Puerto Rico.
24. Puerto Rico has the status of a ‘commonwealth’ of ______ ?
Answer: U.S.A.
In 1952 Governor Luis Munoz Marin signed a ‘commonwealth’ with President Harry Truman.
25. Who was the first Governor of Puerto Rico?
Answer: Juan Ponce de Leon
When the island became a Spanish colony the King of Spain named De Leon Governor of the island.