Music
The highest natural human singing voice range, typically assigned to female vocalists, sits above alto and tenor.
What is soprano?
If you point your finger directly at a grave or a passing funeral hearse, pamahiin dictates that you must immediately do this to your finger to avoid bad luck or a swollen finger.
What is biting your finger?
Favored by his father Jacob with a coat of many colors, this Old Testament patriarch was sold into Egyptian slavery by his jealous brothers for 20 pieces of silver.
Who is Joseph?
DENR is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for the conservation, management, development, and proper use of the country's resources.
This is the letter N of DENR.
What is Natural?
[Department of Environment and Natural Resources]
In chemistry, this measure represents the abundance of a solute divided by the total volume of a solution, often expressed in molarity (M).
What is concentration?
In basic music notation, this symbols-and-lines grid has five horizontal lines where musical notes are written.
What is the staff (or stave)?
A strict cemetery superstition warns that as you walk out through the cemetery gates, you should never do this action, or else a spirit might take it as an invitation to follow you.
What is looking back?
According to the Book of Genesis, these two brothers—a farmer and a shepherd—were the first two sons born to Adam and Eve.
Who are Cain and Abel?
SOGIE is a framework used to describe distinct aspects of a person.
This is the letter I of SOGIE.
What is Identity?
[Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression]
In optics and geometry, this term describes a surface or lens that curves outward like the exterior of a sphere or the back of a spoon.
What is convex?
Marked by a curly symbol, this clef is used for higher-pitched instruments like the violin, flute, and right hand on the piano.
What is the treble clef or G-clef?
According to cemetery pamahiin, if you eat or steal the food left on a puntod for the dead without permission, you will be haunted by spirits or suffer from this sudden physical symptom.
What is severe stomachache?
Before Pharaoh finally agreed to release the Israelites from bondage in Egypt, God unleashed this total number of devastating plagues upon the land.
What is ten?
PAGASA is the national weather bureau of the Philippines.
This is the second A in PAGASA.
What is Astronomical?
[Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration]
A con man is a person who uses lies, deception, and charm to gain someone's trust and trick them out of their money or property. The "con" in con man is short for this word.
What is confidence?
This four-stringed, guitar-like instrument originated in Hawaii and translates to "jumping flea."
What is the ukulele?
Accidentally stepping on or sitting directly on a tomb without saying "Tabi-tabi po" is believed to cause unexplained bruises or make the spirit do this to you.
What is following/tagging along home?
Dedicated under a lifelong Nazirite vow from birth, the Israelite judge Samson lost his legendary physical power after Delilah uncovered and compromised this true source of his strength.
What is his hair?
LASER, a device that produces a narrow, concentrated, and coherent beam of light, is an acronym.
This is the letter E in LASER.
What is Emission?
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
Figures like Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, and Miguel López de Legazpi belong to this class of 16th-century Spanish and Portuguese soldiers and explorers who colonized parts of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Oceania during the Age of Discovery.
What are conquistadors?
Directly translating to "in the manner of the chapel," this Italian musical term originally referred to sacred polyphonic music performed without organ or instrumental doubling.
What is a cappella?
Elders warn that if kids collect and steal melted candle wax or unlit candles from someone else's grave, the spirits of the dead will do this to them while they sleep.
What is "pulling their feet"?
According to the Book of Exodus, God inscribed the Ten Commandments onto stone tablets and delivered them to Moses atop this desert mountain peak.
What is Mount Sinai (or Mount Horeb)?
A CAPTCHA is a type of challenge–response Turing test used in computing to determine whether the user is human in order to deter bot attacks and spam.
This is the letter H in CAPTCHA.
What is Humans?
Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
Before falling to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 and being renamed Istanbul, this historic capital of the Byzantine Empire was named after a Roman Emperor.
What is Constantinople?