General Knowledge
World Geography & Philippine History
Science & Mathematics
Music & Cinema
Arts & Literature
100
A world-renowned football player who married his childhood friend and crush who he grew up in the same neighborhood with.
Lionel Messi
The couple is also known for their philanthropic works; Messi is a UNICEF ambassador and created his own NPO - the Leo Messi Foundation where he and wife Antonella extend help especially to children and teenagers.
100
With a toothy coastline of 4,265 km, this razor-thin country accounts for more than half of the western coastline of South America.
Chile
100
With height reaching up to 100 feet, this plant is considered the tallest grass.
Bamboo
With comprehensive strength twice as that of concrete and tensile strength close to steel, bamboo makes good scaffolding. It's lighter but it's internal structure allows it to withstand compression.
100
She became known as "The Material Girl" after her hit single of the same name hit the charts in 1984.
Madonna
Also known as the "Queen of Pop," Madonna is also famous for her song, "Like a Virgin."
100
He is known as the father of cubism, a revolutionary approach to art representing reality in a fragmented and abstracted way.
Pablo Picasso
Picasso is one of the most notable artists in contemporary history. He was also an activist. In fact, his works reveal his thoughtful thinking with regard to the world around him.
200
Name these two body parts that keeps growing throughout the lives of humans
Nose and Ears
Our noses and ears are unique compared to the rest of our bodies because they're composed of soft tissue enveloped in cartilage. It's this tissue that keeps growing throughout our entire lives.
200
The sultan of Maguindanao who fought off the Spanish conquistadors that halted the spread of Catholicism in Mindanao.
Sultan Kudarat
200
A French philosopher, scientist and mathematician known for the Cartesian plane.
Rene Descartes
Famous for the dictum, "Cogito, ergo sum" (I think, therefore I am), Descartes believed he had prophetic dreams which led him to the path of knowledge.
200
Guess the Movie Title
"I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her."
Notting Hill
Romance ensues as Hollywood star Anna Scott meets William Thacker in his bookstore.
200
Guess the painting
The Scream
Painted by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, the art is about his personal emotions of anxiety and exhaustion.
300
Name the dog that was the first living creature to be launched into Earth orbit aboard Sputnik 2.
Laika
Laika was launched to test the safety and conditions of sending a human in space. She was sent on a one way trip because Sputnik 2 lacked the technology to ensure safe reentry. Laika isn't the first animal to be sent to space. Other animals were sent before her but only for sub-orbital launches.
300
This country is home to over 200 pyramids, more than twice that of Egypt.
Sudan
300
The Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer and inventor who's regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity. He is famous for shouting, "Eureka!" - an exclamation attributed to discovery, epiphany and invention.
Archimedes
Archimedes had his Eureka moment while having his bath in a tub thinking of proving why King Hieron's crown is not pure gold through water displacement, citing that the density of gold and silver are different.
300
Guess the movie
Magnifico
The movie tells the story of a street-smart and kindhearted 9 year old boy who built a coffin for his dying grandmother while raising money for her sister who has cerebral palsy.
300
Guess the Shakespearean work:
"To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die - to sleep,
No more; and by sleep to say we end
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks"
Hamlet
The play tells the story of Prince Hamlet whose father's ghost, the former king of Denmark, demands him to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet's uncle.
400
Guess the Filipino teleserye
"Nakikilala n'yo ba ako? Ako si Carissa, ang taong unggoy!"
A. Kambal sa Uma
B. Bakekang
C. Hiram na Mukha
D. Galema: Anak ni Zuma
C. Hiram na Mukha
400
He was the leader of the united socialist and communist anti-fascist front called HukBaLaHap during the WWII.
A. Leandro Locsin
B. Damiana Eugenio
C. Amado Hernandez
D. Luis Taruc
D. Luis Taruc
A child of peasant parents, Luis Taruc became involved in the cause of the country's landless farmers. He was elected to the Philippine house of Representatives althought he was barred from his seat when Comelec charged him on winning through terrorism.
400
This Polish scientist is added to two elements to the periodic table for her discovery of Radium and Polonium.
A. Marie-Sophie Germain
B. Marie Sklowdowska-Curie
C. Marie Antoinette
D. Maria Goeppert-Mayer
B. Marie Sklowdowska-Curie
Curie used radium to be the gamma ray source on x-ray machines. This allowed for more accurate and stronger x-rays. She also created smaller and portable x-ray machines that could be used by medics in the field during the war. Today, her notebooks are still radioactive and will likely remain so for another 1500 years.
400
One of the following is not one of the nicknames Dory gave Nemo.
A. Chico
B. Fabio
C. Elmo
D. Fino
E. Harpo
D. Fino
The happy-go-lucky regal Blue Tang suffers from anterograde amnesia or the inability to create new memories, reason for giving Nemo a handful of names.
400
Guess the artist
A. Albrecht Durer
B. Claude Monet
C. Vincent van Gogh
D. Jan van Eyck
B. Claude Monet
Monet is a French painter and founder of the impressionist movement which is characterized by small, visible brushstrokes, unblended color and an emphasis on the accurate depiction of natural light.
500
The Egyptian queen who led a religious revolution to change Egypt's polytheistic tradition to a monotheistic one, the worship of the sun god Aton/Atum.
A. Hatshepsut
B. Nefertiti
C. Cleopatra
D. Nefertari
B. Nefertiti
500
Considered a traitor among Filipinos, this person was responsible for leading Major Peyton March and his army of 300 soldiers to the trail that led to Gregorio del Pilar's demise.
A. Januario Galut
B. Pedro Alejandro Paterno
C. Antonio Surabao
D. Jose Joya
A. Januario Galut
Discrimation against Galut's kin, the Igorot people, is said to be the primary reason why he/they never felt fealty to the revolutionary government.
500
The potent hallucinogenic drug LSD came from
A. Animal cells
B. Seaweed
C. Mushrooms
D. Volcanic ash sediments
C. Mushrooms
LSD is derived from the fungus Claviceps purpuria. It alters a person's ability to think and feel.
500
Name the Filipino instrument
A. Gandang
B. Kudyapi
C. Kudlong
D. Bungkaka
D. Bungkaka
A percussion instrument made out of bamboo, bungkaka is common to numerous indigenous tribes such as Ifugao, Kalinga and Ibaloi.
500
Which Paulo Coelho book is it?
"When you want something, all the universe conspires to help you achieve it."
A. Aleph
B. Veronika Decides to Die
C. The Valkyries
D. The Alchemist
D. The Alchemist
The Alchemist tells the story of the shepherd Santiago who set out to discover his personal legend; a beautiful tale about discovering one's destiny and never losing faith.