Philippine Facts
What are Filipino and English?
This Portuguese explorer, who was the first person to circumnavigate the world, was killed in the Philippines in 1521.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
This Filipino dish that typically involves meat, seafood, or vegetables marinated in vinegar, soy sauce, garlic, black peppercorns, and bay leaf.
What is adobo?
This famous Filipino is a professional boxer and currently holding the office of a senator in the Philippines.
Manny Pacquiao
This is the Philippine capital.
Manila
This is the currency of the Philippines coming from the Spanish word for weight.
This country colonized the Philippines from 1521 to 1898.
What is Spain?
This popular Filipino dish is a whole roast pig that takes about a day to cook.
What is lechon?
This Filipina was crowned Miss Universe 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand.
Who is Catriona Gray?
This Filipino volcano recently erupted on January 12th, 2020.
What is Taal?
This is the current Philippines president. He was also the Mayor of Davao City.
Who is Rodrigo Duterte?
This country invaded and occupied the Philippines between 1942 to 1945.
What is Japan?
This Filipino dish that was introduced by China and is fried noodles combined with chicken and vegetables.
What is pancit?
This Filipina was crowned Miss Universe 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.
Who is Pia Wurtzbach?
These are the three major geographical regions of the Philippines.
What are Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao?
This was the monarch of Spain that the Philippines was named after.
Who was King Philip the II?
What was the Philippine-American War?
This Filipino cold dessert comprised of crushed ice, evaporated milk, various fruits, and topped with ice cream.
What is halo-halo?
This Filipina singer was the singing voice of Princess Jasmine in Aladdin (1992) and Fa Mulan in Mulan (1998).
Who is Lea Salonga?
This city in the Philippines was hit by Typhoon Haiyan (or Super Typhoon Yolanda) which formed on November 3rd, 2013 and lasted until November 11th, 2013.
What is Tacloban?
This is the color on the top of the Philippines flag during war times.
What is red?
This was the year the Philippines became fully independent from all its colonizers.
When was 1946?
This Filipino street food that is a fertilized duck embryo.
What is balut?
This Filipino nationalist and writer is regarded as the national hero of the Filipino people. He was executed on December 30th, 1896.
Who was José Rizal?
This city in the Philippines is popular in the summer for unusually cool temperatures. Also known as the Summer Capital of the Philippines: City of Pines.
What is Baguio?