Pop Culture
If Manny Pacquiao is the "Pambansang Kamao," who is widely known as the "Pambansang Bae"?
Answer: Alden Richards
hat 2024 film, starring Kathryn Bernardo and Alden Richards, is currently the highest-grossing Filipino movie of all time?
Answer: Hello, Love, Again
What is the name of the process where liquid water changes into water vapor due to heat from the sun?
Evaporation
How many presidents has the Philippines had?
17 as of 2026
Isang bayabas, pito ang butas.
Answer: Ulo / Mukha (Head/Face—2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 nostrils, 1 mouth)
What Gen Z slang word, derived from the English "deserve," is used when someone gets what they merit (good or bad)?
Answer: Dasurv
In the Pixar hit Inside Out 2, what is the name of the new orange emotion that joins Riley’s mind?
Answer: Anxiety
What is the boiling point of water in Celsius at sea level?
100oC
(3 x 300 Points) = Total 900 Points
Which president’s term was during the Japanese Occupation?
Jose P. Laurel, who served as president of the Second Republic (1943–1945) while the Commonwealth government was in exile.
"Tinalian ko ang aking alaga, upang lalong makagala."
Answer: Saranggola (Kite)
What is the official fandom name for the P-pop group SB19?
Answer: A'TIN
Which real-life couple starred in the 2023–2024 MMFF hit Rewind?
Answer: Marian and Ding Dong Dantes
What is the term for the minimum amount of energy required to start a chemical reaction?
Activation Energy
(2 x 500 Points) = Total 1000 Points
Its eruption was the second-largest of the 20th century. It physically changed the geography of Central Luzon, burying towns in lahar and temporarily cooling the Earth's global temperature.
Mount Pinatubo (1991)
"Yinakap mo na, hinahalikan mo pa, pero sa huli, iiwan mo rin pala."
Baso
Which 2024–2025 fitness trend, combining competition and social events, has become a major lifestyle status symbol for urban Filipinos?
Answer: Pickleball
In Shake, Rattle & Roll XV (2014), which segment was filmed almost entirely inside a retired Philippine Airlines Airbus A330?
Answer: Flight 666
In Chemistry, what do you call an atom that has gained or lost electrons, giving it an electrical charge?
An Ion
(2 x 800 Points) = Total 1600 Points
The capital of the First Philippine Republic (1899) after Aguinaldo fled Manila during the Philippine-American War.
Malolos, Bulacan
"Kasama mo sa dilim, pero sa liwanag, hindi mo na ako mapansin."
Answer: Bituin (Stars)
What Gen Z term describes the act of deliberately curating an outfit or social media post just to "look cool" or make a specific impression?
Answer: Aura Farming
Which character actress became legendary for her roles as an aswang or spooky nanny without ever speaking a line of dialogue in Shake, Rattle & Roll III?
Answer: Lilia Cuntapay
What is the boundary called where the Earth’s crust meets the mantle?
Answer: The Mohorovičić discontinuity (or simply the Moho).
(2 x 1000 Points) = Total 2000 Points
It is one of the few Spanish colonial towns that survived WWII almost perfectly intact. Legend says a Japanese officer spared it because he fell in love with a local woman.
Vigan’s "Miracle"
"Binigay ko na ang lahat, pati laman ko’t buto, pero sa huli, tinapon mo lang ako."
Answer: Isda