| Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
|---|---|---|---|
| K | Last name of a popular painter known for her self-portraits | Frida Kahlo | 78%
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| N | Lingua franca of the Aztec Empire, variants of which are still spoken by over a million people | Nahuatl | 66%
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| O | Earliest known major Mesoamerican civilization | Olmecs | 66%
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| C | Wife of Maximilian I of Mexico | Carlota of Mexico | 53%
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| L | President who nationalized all petroleum reserves and foreign oil companies in 1938 | Lázaro Cárdenas | 41%
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| Z | State which rebelled in 1935 against the centralist government as part of the Mexican Federalist War | Zacatecas | 41%
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| H | Patron of Tenochtitlan and main deity of the Mexicas | Huītzilōpōchtli | 34%
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| E | The last of the uninterrupted 71-year line of presidents from the Institutional Revolutionary Party | Ernesto Zedillo | 31%
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| Q | Cradle of Mexican Independence and the site of a conspiracy who started the armed struggle against Spain | Querétaro | 31%
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| U | University that was the birthplace of the Mexican Movement of 1968 and hosted the 1968 Summer Olympics | UNAM | 31%
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| X | City in Veracruz in which the Battle of Cerro Gordo happened | Xalapa | 31%
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| A | Nickname of the 201st Fighter Squadron that fought in World War II | Aztec Eagles | 28%
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| D | Multi-day coup d'état in February of 1913 during the Revolution | Decena Trágica | 25%
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| V | President who proclaimed the Plan of Guadalupe and died due to the Plan of Agua Prieta | Venustiano Carranza | 25%
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| P | Common name for the First French Intervention | Pastry War | 22%
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| Y | Series of armed conflict in Sonora which were the longest and last conflicts of the Mexican Indian Wars | Yaqui Wars | 22%
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| I | Liberal president immediately before Benito Juárez who was the author of many of the Reform laws | Ignacio Comonfort | 19%
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| T | Conservative soldier of Otomi origin who was executed alongside Emperor Maximilian and General Miramón | Tomás Mejía | 19%
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| B | Governor of Nuevo León who alongside José Yves Limantour was seen as a potential sucessor to Porfirio Díaz | Bernardo Reyes | 16%
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| G | English name for the agreement of 1854 in which the US purchased a relatively small region of northern Mexico | Gadsen Purchase | 13%
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| J | Last viceroy of New Spain, who ratified the Treaty of Córdoba | Juan O'Donojú | 13%
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| W | American filibuster who declared the Republic of Baja California and the Republic of Sonora | William Walker | 13%
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| F | Second oil tanker whose sinking by Germany contributed to Mexico's declaration of war | Faja de Oro | 9%
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| R | Spanish NKVD agent who assasinated an important Bolshevik revolutionary in Mexico City | Ramón Mercader | 9%
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| M | Anarcho-Communist movement whose followers caused a rebellion in Baja California in 1911 | Magonism | 6%
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| S | Main site of the Bear Flag Revolt in 1846 during the Mexican-American War | Sonoma County | 3%
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