Birthday Boy
Favorite hobby growing up
Basketball
The U.S. president
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
"Hound Dog", the #1 song on the Billboard's Top 100 Songs of The Fifties was sang by this singer.
Elvis Presley
Popular Filipino street or snack food made of fried bananas cooked with brown sugar until caramelized and then skewered onto bamboo sticks
Banana cue
City of birth
Cebu City
The FBI started to keep surveillance of this singer because of fears that his popularity was being used to prepare the masses to accept a new "Hitler"
Frank Sinatra
Chubby Checker's rock-indebted dance track “The Twist” was the biggest hit from which decade
The 1960's
Name of main character in Filipino teleserye who rises to be one of the biggest outlaws in Quiapo, Manila.
Tanggol
Earth, Wind & Fire's "September" song has the same date as this special event in Cris' life.
His wedding
Because so many players joined the WWII military service, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles combined to become this team
The Steagles
Otis Redding actually wrote and recorded this song first, but it was stage diva Aretha Franklin who really brought it to life in 1967.
RESPECT
A favorite during Filipino karaoke sessions, "My Way" is a song popularized in 1969 by this singer
Frank Sinatra
In the Philippines, Cris worked for 12 years with this international agency before moving to the U.S.
World Vision
The elected Philippine president
Jose P. Laurel
This group became the unlikely kings of disco thanks to their hugely successful Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.
The Bee Gees
Filipino song written by Mike Velarde, Jr. and sung by Rogelio de la Rosa. A version with English-Tagalog lyrics, recorded in 1964, was a hit in the United States
Dahil Sa Iyo
Year that Cris accepted Jesus and became a Christian.
1989
Mechanical engineer Richard James invented this toy after accidentally knocking some samples off a shelf & watched in amazement as they gracefully “walked” down instead of falling
The Slinky
1976 hit "Dancing Queen" was sang by ABBA, whose name actually stands for this.
ABBA stands for the first letters of each of the four members names: Agnetha Faltskog, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad
Filipino braised pork hock dish slow-cooked until very tender in soy sauce, black peppercorns, garlic, bay leaves, and star anise sweetened with muscovado sugar
Patatim