Become An Honorary Puerto Rican! Welcome to the“Become An Honorary Puerto Rican” quiz.Please complete every field in the form below exactly as requested. The information will be used to fill and email your “Honorary Puerto Rican” certificate. We will not share visitor data or send duplicate certificates. Full Name (first name + surname) Email Cristopher Columbus first set foot in Puerto Rico… On the afternoon of October 12, 1492 On the morning of November 19, 1493 On the morning of August 8, 1508 Columbus never set foot on Puerto Rican soil. He never got off the ship. The first governor of Puerto Rico was… Luis Muñoz Marín Jesús T. Piñero Juan Ponce de León Nicolás de Ovando The capitol of Puerto Rico is… Old San Juan Puerta de Tierra San Juan Ponce The original natives of Puerto Rico were the… Caribe Arawak Guanahatabey Taíno Puerto Ricans call the night before Christmas… Christmas Eve December 24th ”Noche vieja“ “Nochebuena” El Yunque National Forest was declared a nature reserve by… U.S. President William McKinley in 1898 U.S. President Harry S. Truman in 1945 The U.S. Congress in 1946 King Alfonso XII of Spain in 1876 The largest military structure built by the Spaniards in the New World is… Fort San Felipe del Morro Fortaleza Ozama Cuartel de Ballajá Fort San Cristóbal Puerto Rico’s national dish is… Yellow rice with pigeon peas and roasted pork Fried cod with root vegetables Rice and beans Red snapper and french fries Old San Juan’s cobblestones are made of… Blue stone Concrete Slag Gray marble Palacio de Santa Catalina (La Fortaleza) is… The smalest executive mansion in the New World in continuous use The oldest executive mansion in the New World in continuous use The only executive mansion in the world sitting next to the water The largest castle-like executive mansion in the world El Yunque National Forest is… The smallest tropical rainforest in the world The largest tropical rainforest in the world The only tropical rainforest in the U.S. Forest Service The only tropical rainforest in America El “coquí” is a small frog indigenous to Puerto Rico. It is also found abundantly in… The Dominican Republic Cuba Florida Hawaii This feature of the Puerto Rican landscape is not indigenous to the Island “Flamboyán” trees Pineapples Ceiba trees Coconut trees The deepest point in the Atlantic ocean is located South of Puerto Rico West of Puerto Rico East of Puerto Rico North of Puerto Rico Puerto Ricos national anthem “La Borinqueña” was an adaptation in 1901 by Manuel Fernandez Juncos (a Spaniard) of a popular Puerto Rican danza written in 1867 by… Juan Morel Campos Manuel G. Tavarez Félix Astol Artés Braulio Dueño Colón Puerto Rico has 3 of the world’s only 5 bioluminescent bays. They are… “Laguna Cartagena”, “Bahía Mosquito” and “Laguna San José” “Laguna San José”, “Laguna Tortuguero” and Laguna Grande” “La Parguera”, “Bahía Mosquito” and “Laguna Grande” “Laguna San José”, Laguna Cartagena” and “Laguna Tortuguero” Puerto Rico is said to have one of the longest Christmas seasons in the world. They extend… from Thanksgiving Day to the last day of “las octavitas”. from Labor Day to New Year’s Day from Thanksgiving Day to Three Kings Day from Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day Puerto Ricans are U.S. Citizens because… the Island is a U.S. territory. U.S. citizenship has been given to U.S. Armed Force recruits and it has spread among the citizenry. it was granted through an Act of Congress in 1917. they became U.S. citizens when the Island was ceded by the Spaniards in 1898. The Old San Juan city walls are… an average of 60 feet high, 10 feet thick and filled with stone. an average of 20 feet high, 10 feet thick and filled with sand. between 20 and 100 feet high, 50 feet wide at the base and 20 feet wide at the top and filled with rubble and garbage. an average of 50 feet high, 18 feet thick and filled with dirt. The first woman major of a capitol city in the Americas was a Puerto Rican. She was… Sila Calderón Teresa Capó Trinidad Padilla de Sans Felisa Rincón De Gautier The first hispanic to be inducted into de Major League Baseball (MLB) Hall of fame was… Hirám Bithorn Orlando Cepeda Roberto Alomar Roberto Clemente The first hispanic actress to win an Oscar (Academy Award) was… Rita Moreno Raúl Juliá José Ferrer Benicio del Toro The first Puerto Rican to be elected to the Supreme Court of the United states is… Herminia Tormés García Rosa Emilia Rodríguez Sonia Sotomayor Carmen Consuelo Cerezo The first Puerto Rican bred thoroughbred to win the Triple Crown was… Don Paco Camarero Salientito Rodriguito Which of the following Puerto Rican musical artists is actually a musician? Jennifer López Marc Anthony José Feliciano Ricky Martin Time’s up
