Algebra
Growing up, you lived in a small barrio in the province. When you left for college, the population was 840. You recently heard that the population has grown by 5%. What is the present population?
The population is now 882.
What is a multi-cellular animal with no circulatory system, and hence no heart?
Jellyfish
How were the 3 Martyr Priests (GomBurZa) killed?
By means of Garote or a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
Who is the author of The Inferno?
Dante Alighieri
What musical instrument's sales escalated from 228,000 in 1950 to 2.3 million in 1971?
The guitar
A real estate agent received a 3% commission on the selling price of a house. If his commission was $5,895, what was the selling price of the house in $?
$196500
What is the longest bone in the body?
Femur
One of the last Filipino generals who fought the Americans and established the so-called 'Tagalog Republic'
Macario Sakay
Macario Sakay was seen merely as a bandit by the Americans but documents prove that he had the necessary concept of the Filipino nation to merit being a genuine military leader.
What is the real name of Francisco Balagtas, widely considered one of the greatest Filipino literary laureates for his impact on Filipino literature?
Francisco Baltazar
In baseball, the diamond is arranged with the batter facing east to avoid the afternoon sun.
A left-handed pitcher facing west would therefore have his pitching arm toward the south of the diamond.
What do you call a left-handed pitcher?
Southpaw
The area of a rectangular field is equal to 300 square meters. Its perimeter is equal to 70 meters. Find the length and width of this rectangle.
l = 20 and w = 15
What is the tubelike elongated mouthpart of a butterfly called?
Proboscis
In 1851, the first commercial bank in the Philippines and the Far East was established. What is the present name of this bank?
Bank of the Philippine Islands
Established on August 1, 1851 under Spanish colonial rule, BPI was originally known as El Banco Español Filipino de Isabel II, named after then Queen of Spain, Isabel II. The bank was the firstto be established in the Philippines, and was responsible for starting the country's banking and finance industry.
Harry Potter is a series of fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the life of a young wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
What is the title of the first Harry Potter book?
HP and the Philosopher’s (or Sorcerer's) Stone
The pitch of a sound is decided by the _____________ of its vibrations.
Frequency
The sum of two numbers is 18. Twice the smaller number decreased by 3 equals the larger number. What are the two numbers?
smaller number = 7
larger number = 11
Night blindness is caused by lack of which vitamin?
Vitamin A
Who was the 8th President of the Philippines?
Carlos P. Garcia
Carlos Polestico García (November 4, 1896 – June 14, 1971) was a Filipino teacher, poet, orator, lawyer, public official, political economist, organized guerrilla and Commonwealth military leader.
The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the Bear, what is the name of the panther?
What bacteria live in the human mouth, intestines and on our skin and help protect us from harmful bacteria?
Resident Bacteria
Matt sold 35 tickets to the school play and Renee sold 45 tickets. What is the ratio of the number of tickets Renee sold to the number of tickets Matt sold?
9:7
Which part of the human eye contains receptors that detect light?
Retina
Who is the politician called as the Great Dissenter?
Claro M. Recto
He was called Great Dissenter because of his uncomprising stand against pro-American policy of R. Magsaysay, the very same man whom he helped to put in power.
Who is the foreigner alluded to in Rizal's immortal poem ‘Mi Ultimo Adios’ (My Last Goodbye)
Josephine Bracken
The bodies ability to change direction at speed is called
Agility