Pre-Colonial Times
In the ancient Filipino caste system, this was the elite level.
What was the Maharlika?
This was the tribesman who slaughtered Ferdinand Magellan in Mactan, Cebu.
Who was Lapu-Lapu?
The first president of the Philippine Commonwealth.
Who was Manuel L. Quezon?z
The harbor that was bombed in December 7, 1941, which resulted in the US and the Philippines joining World War 2.
What is Pearl Harbor?
Who was Ferdinand Marcos?
He was the tribesman who was baptised in order to help colonizers quell the rebellion of Lapu-Lapu.
Who was Datu Zula / Don Carlos?
After the condemnation of the La Liga Filipina, and the arrest of Dr. Jose Rizal, the group split into the KKK and this group.
What is the Cuerpo de Compromisarios?
Who was William Howard Taft?
The leader of the communist rebel group HUKBALAHAP.
The first (and so far, only) president to die in office of an unnatural cause.
The Filipino word for a city-state and/or village, which comes from a local word for a trading boat.
What is a Barangay?
This was the Spanish word used when talking about the displacement of Filipinos in settlements known as plazas.
What is Reduccion?
The act that became the predecessor of the Tydings-McDuffie law, which gave the same features, but was vetoed by then-president, Herbert Hoover.
What was the Hare-Hawes-Cutting Act?
U.S. General Douglas MacArthur was authorized to declare Manila at this state before it was captured by the Japanese.
What is an open city?
He was the founder of the MNLF.
Who was Nur Misuari?
He was the engineer of the first ever mosque in the Philippines, located in Sulu.
Who was Makhdum al-Karim?
He was the last Governor-General of the Philippines.
Who was Diego de los Rios?
The name of the 600 American re-education teachers during the early days of their hold on the Philippines.
What are the Thomasites?
This was the destination for the Filipino and American Prisoners of War who participated in the Bataan Death March.
What was Camp O'Donnell?
He was an actor, a member of the KNP, and the opponent of sitting president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo during the 2004 Presidential elections.
Who was Fernando Poe Jr.?
This was the first written work and evidence of mathematics in the Kingdom of Tondo.
What is the Laguna Copperplate?
This was the first Chirstian-influenced university that was built by Spanish friars and priests, known back then as "Colegio de Nuestra Senora del Santissimo Rosario".
What is the University of Santo Tomas?
This is the man who fired the first shot of the Philippine-American War.
Who was William Grayson?
This was the largest naval battle in history, which helped liberate the Philippines.
What was the Battle of Leyte Gulf?
This is the military group led by Gringo Honasan, which played a role in the 1986 EDSA Revolution and carried out an attempted coup d'etat which was quelled with the help of the US military.
What was the Reform the Armed Forces Movement (RAM)?