Puerto Rico History Test Trivia Quiz

Answer: 1493

On Christopher Columbus second journey he discovered the island now called Puerto Rico.

Answer: U.S.A.

In 1952 Governor Luis Munoz Marin signed a 'commonwealth' with President Harry Truman.

Answer: Juan Ponce de Leon

When the island became a Spanish colony the King of Spain named De Leon Governor of the island.

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.

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'.

Answer: 1895

Answer: Borinken

Before the island was discovered by the Europeans, the Taino called the island Borinken.

Answer: Spanish

It was the same language of the first people to conquer the island. The Spaniards.

Answer: Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean

The island is the smallest of the Greater Antilles, and the biggest of the Lesser Antilles. It is 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".

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.

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'.

Answer: San Juan

The capital city was first Guaynabo, but later passed to San Juan.

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.

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.

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.