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2. Which baseball player enjoyed a 23-year career in major league baseball? After leaving Cuba, he played with the “Big Red Machine” teams that dominated baseball in the 1970s, winning two World Series championships. His career statistics include 379 home runs and 1,652 runs batted in.
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3. Which national hero helped lead Argentina, Chile, and Peru in the revolution against Spanish rule? Although of Spanish descent, he sided with revolutionaries against the Spanish and contributed military skill and determination to the cause for independence. ___________________________________________________________________________
4. Which Belize musician was also a cultural activist who sought to preserve the culture and language of the Garinagu, performing a Garinagu musical genre called punta rock, a mixture of Garinagu rhythms, meringue, calypso, and Caribbean zouk? ___________________________________________________________________________
5. Who wrote the first song written in Spanish to win an Academy Award, and was the first Uruguayan recipient of an Oscar?
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6. Which Latin American writer won a Nobel Prize in Literature and also ran for his country’s presidency?
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7. Which Mexican scientist studied the effects of synthetic compounds on the earth's atmosphere and earned the Nobel Prize in Chemistry?
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8. Which Puerto Rican native made her Broadway debut at age 13, and went on to win an Tony, Emmy, and Grammy—one of the first artists to win all four awards.
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9. Which Colombian scientist invented a vaccine against malaria and, donated the rights to the vaccine to the World Health Organization (WHO) on behalf of the Colombian people?
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