HISTORY
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TRADITIONS AND CULTURE
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
FUN FACTS
100

On March 11, 1942, he said the famous line, "I shall return"

Who is General Douglas McArthur?

100

The highest mountain in the Philippines.

What is Mt. Apo?

100

It is a Filipino core value that inspires community to be living heroes to each other. It is the practice of helping a kababayan, a member of the community who is in need.

What is Bayanihan?

100

This is the national language in the Philippines. It is used mainly in Manila Area and nearby provinces such as Batangas, Bulacan, Cavite, Nueva Ecija, and Laguna. This is the only language that is generally used and can be understood around the country.

What is Tagalog?

100

The region of Asia where the Philippines is located.

What is Southeast Asia?

200

On March 16, 1521, Magellan's expedition landed in the Philippines on this island:

A. What is Homonhon Island?
B. What is Suluan Island?
C. What is Guiuan Island?

A. What is Homonhon Island?

200

The smallest province in the Philippines.

What is Batanes?

200

A traditional game played on a board game using small sea shells in which players try to take all shells. The winner is determined by who has the most shells at the point when all small pits become empty.

What is Sungka?

200

The number of letters in modern Filipino alphabet.

What is 28?

200

A geographical term that describes Philippines.

A. What is a Plateau?
B. What is an Archipelago?
C. What is a Peninsula?

B. What is an Archipelago?

300

He changed the date of celebration of the Phillipine Independence from July 4 to June 12.

A. Who is Ferdinand Marcos?
B. Who is Diosdado Macapagal?
C. Wo is Emilio Aguinaldo?

B. Who is Diosdado Macapagal?

300

This is the province that was dubbed as the "Mango Capital of the Philippines".

A. What is Guimaras?
B. What is Camiguin?
C. What is Cebu?

A. What is Guimaras?

300

The number of plants mentioned in the Filipino folklore song Bahay Kubo.

What is 18?

300

In the Filipino linguistics and grammar, this is a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g., ako, ikaw) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g., sya, ito, sila).

What is Panghalip?

300

The last words of Jose Rizal.

A. What is "Mi Ultimo Adios"?
B. What is "Consummatum est!"?
C. What is "Fuego!"?

B. What is "Consummatum est!"? (It is Finished!)

400

The youngest general that died in Tirad Pass.

Who is Gregorio del Pilar?

400

The four provinces and 1 city in SOCCSKSARGEN.

What is South Cotabato, Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani, and General Santos?

400

This is a folk dance for courtship. Philippine folk dances include women characters that have a shy and Maria Clara personality. This famous folk dance originated from Panay Island.

A. What is Carinosa?
B. What is Pandanggo sa Ilaw?
C. What is Tinikling?

 A. What is Carinosa?

400

This was the name of the newspaper the Propaganda Movement put up in 1895 to help achieve its goals.

What is La Solidaridad?

400

The tagalog word for orange.

What is kahel?

500

The number of years the Philippines was a colony of Spain.

What is 333?

500

The number of provinces in the Philippines.

 What is 81?

500

It is s a creature of Philippine folklore said to lurk in the mountains and forests of the Philippines. It is a tall, bony humanoid creature with the head and hooves of a horse and disproportionately long limbs, to the point that its knees reach above its head when it squats down. In some versions, it is a transformation of an aborted fetus sent to earth from limbo.

What is a Tikbalang?

500

Short poems consisting of four lines with seven syllables each that rhyme at the end of each line.

A. What is Korido?
B. What is Dalit?
C. What is Tanaga?

C. What is Tanaga?

500

In Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere, he is the father of Maria Clara.

Who is Padre Damaso?