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"Sólo sí es sí" - ✔✔✔-Law passed against rape in March 2020
"Yo soy tú, mézclate" - ✔✔✔-Campaign trying to promote diversity in young people
2006 models and Madrid Fashion Week - ✔✔✔-In 2006, Madrid Fashion Week banned models
with a body mass index (índice de Masa Corporal) of less than 18 from walking the runway
(desfilando); 30% of aspiring models (modelos aspirantes) did not meet the threshold
2017 Catalan independence referendum - ✔✔✔-1 October 2017, 92% voted for independence
but the vote was declared unconstitutional
21 de marzo - ✔✔✔-Día internacional contra el racismo y la xenofobia
5 foods introduced to Spain after colonisation (Colombian exchange) - ✔✔✔-Maize (maíz),
tomato, potato, vanilla, cacao
Alfonso XIII - ✔✔✔-Last king before the Segunda República Española
Aljafería Palace - ✔✔✔-11th Century palace in Zaragoza which was once the palace of the
Muslim kings of Zaragoza
Ampurias - ✔✔✔-Ancient city in Girona, Catalonia from the Greek era
Annual decrease in foreigners in Spain from 2011-17 - ✔✔✔-300,000
Annual number of racist hate crimes in Spain - ✔✔✔-515
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Answering a call on the road - ✔✔✔-Answering a call causes drivers to lost 80% of their vision
of the road
Antisemitic attitudes in Spain - ✔✔✔-According to a survey, about 70% of Spaniards agreed that
Jews have too much power in international finance markets in 2012
Antisemitism under Franco - ✔✔✔-Israel was not recognised by Spain from 1948 to 1986
Antoni Gaudí - ✔✔✔-Catalan architect whose works such as La Sagrada Familia and El Parque
Guell heavily shaped the Catalan Modernista movement, incorporating religious and organic
elements.
Antoni Gaudí death - ✔✔✔-Died when he was hit by a tram in Barcelona in 1926
Approximate number of gypsies (gitanos) in Spain - ✔✔✔-500,000
Approximate number of immigrants in Spain - ✔✔✔-5 million
Approximate number of immigrants in Spain from within the EU - ✔✔✔-2 million
Artículo 3 de la Constitución Española - ✔✔✔-"El castellano es la lengua española oficial del
Estado. Todos los españoles tienen el deber de conocerla y el derecho a usarla."
Augusto Pinochet - ✔✔✔-Dictator of Chile from 1973-1990
Average age for children to be emancipated from the family home in Spain? - ✔✔✔-30
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Average age to get a smartphone in Spain - ✔✔✔-Estimated to be around 13-14 years
Aztec language - ✔✔✔-Nahuatl. Today has about 1.7 million native speakers and give us words
like avocado, tomato, chocolate, coyote, chili
Basharat Mosque - ✔✔✔-The name means 'good news' in Arabic; first Mosque to be built in
Spain since the end of Muslim rule, in 1980.
Basque cuisine - ✔✔✔-Meat and fish dominate, particularly cod (bacalao) and grilled meat
(carne a la parrilla)
Best Hispanic country to be a homosexual - ✔✔✔-Uruguay, Argentina
Bien de interés cultural - ✔✔✔-Category of properties with cultural interest
Biggest anti-racist legislation in Spain - ✔✔✔-La ley orgánica de diciembre de 2004
Biggest gender pay gap in Hispanic countries? - ✔✔✔-Nicaragua, 43% in 2021 according to WEF
Bolero - ✔✔✔-Cuban music style known for romantic ballads (romances) and soft, melodic
instruments like guitar and piano
Bourbon Restauration (Restauración borbónica) - ✔✔✔-1874-1931
Campaign against racism in sport - ✔✔✔-Tarjeta roja al racismo since 1996
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César Pelli - ✔✔✔-Argentine architect who designed some of the tallest buildings in the world
and influenced modernism
Challenges faced by indigenous groups in Latin America - ✔✔✔-Limited access to education,
healthcare, and economic opportunities, as well as cultural and linguistic suppression
Cider in Asturias - ✔✔✔-Poured (vertida) from a great height by experts
Climate and cuisine in Spain - ✔✔✔-Coastal, mountain, and inland (tierra adentro) climates all
have distinctive cuisine
Communities in Spain which have banned conversion therapy - ✔✔✔-Madrid, Valencia,
Andalusia, y Aragon
Consequences of el pacto de olvido - ✔✔✔-Many politicians who held positions of power under
Franco were allowed to continue holding power in the new democratic government.
Constitution of 1876 - ✔✔✔-Established a liberal constitutional monarchy following the
Bourbon Restauration (Restauración borbónica) of 1874
Cuba and the USA - ✔✔✔-Very fraught (tiradas) relations because of the Cold War
Cuban missile crisis - ✔✔✔-12-day global crisis in October 1962, the Soviet Union placed
nuclear missiles in Cuba to deter (disuadir) an invasion. Closest the world has ever come to
nuclear war (lo más cerca que ha estado el mundo de una guerra nuclear)
Current dictators of Hispanic countries - ✔✔✔-Daniel Ortega, president of Nicaragua since 2007
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"Sólo sí es sí" - ✔✔✔-Law passed against rape in March 2020
"Yo soy tú, mézclate" - ✔✔✔-Campaign trying to promote diversity in young people
2006 models and Madrid Fashion Week - ✔✔✔-In 2006, Madrid Fashion Week banned models
with a body mass index (índice de Masa Corporal) of less than 18 from walking the runway
(desfilando); 30% of aspiring models (modelos aspirantes) did not meet the threshold
2017 Catalan independence referendum - ✔✔✔-1 October 2017, 92% voted for independence
but the vote was declared unconstitutional
21 de marzo - ✔✔✔-Día internacional contra el racismo y la xenofobia
5 foods introduced to Spain after colonisation (Colombian exchange) - ✔✔✔-Maize (maíz),
tomato, potato, vanilla, cacao
Alfonso XIII - ✔✔✔-Last king before the Segunda República Española
Aljafería Palace - ✔✔✔-11th Century palace in Zaragoza which was once the palace of the
Muslim kings of Zaragoza
Ampurias - ✔✔✔-Ancient city in Girona, Catalonia from the Greek era
Annual decrease in foreigners in Spain from 2011-17 - ✔✔✔-300,000
Annual number of racist hate crimes in Spain - ✔✔✔-515
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Answering a call on the road - ✔✔✔-Answering a call causes drivers to lost 80% of their vision
of the road
Antisemitic attitudes in Spain - ✔✔✔-According to a survey, about 70% of Spaniards agreed that
Jews have too much power in international finance markets in 2012
Antisemitism under Franco - ✔✔✔-Israel was not recognised by Spain from 1948 to 1986
Antoni Gaudí - ✔✔✔-Catalan architect whose works such as La Sagrada Familia and El Parque
Guell heavily shaped the Catalan Modernista movement, incorporating religious and organic
elements.
Antoni Gaudí death - ✔✔✔-Died when he was hit by a tram in Barcelona in 1926
Approximate number of gypsies (gitanos) in Spain - ✔✔✔-500,000
Approximate number of immigrants in Spain - ✔✔✔-5 million
Approximate number of immigrants in Spain from within the EU - ✔✔✔-2 million
Artículo 3 de la Constitución Española - ✔✔✔-"El castellano es la lengua española oficial del
Estado. Todos los españoles tienen el deber de conocerla y el derecho a usarla."
Augusto Pinochet - ✔✔✔-Dictator of Chile from 1973-1990
Average age for children to be emancipated from the family home in Spain? - ✔✔✔-30
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Average age to get a smartphone in Spain - ✔✔✔-Estimated to be around 13-14 years
Aztec language - ✔✔✔-Nahuatl. Today has about 1.7 million native speakers and give us words
like avocado, tomato, chocolate, coyote, chili
Basharat Mosque - ✔✔✔-The name means 'good news' in Arabic; first Mosque to be built in
Spain since the end of Muslim rule, in 1980.
Basque cuisine - ✔✔✔-Meat and fish dominate, particularly cod (bacalao) and grilled meat
(carne a la parrilla)
Best Hispanic country to be a homosexual - ✔✔✔-Uruguay, Argentina
Bien de interés cultural - ✔✔✔-Category of properties with cultural interest
Biggest anti-racist legislation in Spain - ✔✔✔-La ley orgánica de diciembre de 2004
Biggest gender pay gap in Hispanic countries? - ✔✔✔-Nicaragua, 43% in 2021 according to WEF
Bolero - ✔✔✔-Cuban music style known for romantic ballads (romances) and soft, melodic
instruments like guitar and piano
Bourbon Restauration (Restauración borbónica) - ✔✔✔-1874-1931
Campaign against racism in sport - ✔✔✔-Tarjeta roja al racismo since 1996
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César Pelli - ✔✔✔-Argentine architect who designed some of the tallest buildings in the world
and influenced modernism
Challenges faced by indigenous groups in Latin America - ✔✔✔-Limited access to education,
healthcare, and economic opportunities, as well as cultural and linguistic suppression
Cider in Asturias - ✔✔✔-Poured (vertida) from a great height by experts
Climate and cuisine in Spain - ✔✔✔-Coastal, mountain, and inland (tierra adentro) climates all
have distinctive cuisine
Communities in Spain which have banned conversion therapy - ✔✔✔-Madrid, Valencia,
Andalusia, y Aragon
Consequences of el pacto de olvido - ✔✔✔-Many politicians who held positions of power under
Franco were allowed to continue holding power in the new democratic government.
Constitution of 1876 - ✔✔✔-Established a liberal constitutional monarchy following the
Bourbon Restauration (Restauración borbónica) of 1874
Cuba and the USA - ✔✔✔-Very fraught (tiradas) relations because of the Cold War
Cuban missile crisis - ✔✔✔-12-day global crisis in October 1962, the Soviet Union placed
nuclear missiles in Cuba to deter (disuadir) an invasion. Closest the world has ever come to
nuclear war (lo más cerca que ha estado el mundo de una guerra nuclear)
Current dictators of Hispanic countries - ✔✔✔-Daniel Ortega, president of Nicaragua since 2007
