1Top 10 biggest Islands in the Philippines
Palawan, Panay, Luzon, Leyte, Mindanao, Mindoro, Samar, Cebu, Negros, Bohol
2Total land area of Philippines
300,000 km²
3Coastline of the Philippines
36,289 km²
4Philippines is defined by UN as:
Mid-ocean archipelagic state
5One of the most finest natural harbor in the world
Manila Bay
6One of the deepest trenches in the world, near Samar and Leyte.
Philippine Deep
7Tallest mountain peak in the Philippines
Mt. Apo
8Longest mountain range in the country
Sierra Madre Mountain Range
9Most active volcanoes of the country, erupted no less than 25x
Mayon and Taal
10Philippines is within the _______ that's why we experience earthquakes.
Seismic belt
11Philippines has _____&______ climate
tropical & maritime
12Dry season of the country
December - May
13Wet season of the country
June - November
14season where typhoons frequent
July - October
15Also called black gold, which was first found in Palawan
Oil
16Biodiversity and natural habitat conservation act
R. A. 7586
17Main crop of the countryman
Rice
18Approximate population of the Philippines today according to NSO
100 million Filipinos
19Birth rate of the Philippines
26.42 births/1000
20Ethnic group where majority of the filipinos came from
Austronesian
21The offspring of a native filipino and a foreigner
mestizo
22National language of the country
Filipino
23Official languages of the country
Filipino,
English
24Government of the Philippines
Constitutional Republic
25One of the 3 co-equal branch of the government in the Philippines wherein the president and their vice-president leads the country's department heads
executive
26One of the 3 co-equals who is responsible for enacting bills into law, is composed of the Senate (Upper House) and the House of Representatives (Lower House)led by the Senate President and the Speaker of the House, respectively.the unit of society
legislative
27One of the 3 co-equals that consists of the system of courts with the Supreme Court as the highest court in the land and headed by the Chief Justice.
judiciary
28The smallest political unit of the country, composed of 30-100 family
Barangay
29Most important trait of the Filipinos
Hospitality
30It is the unit of society
Family
31It is one of the best Filipino traits
Respect for the elders
32Are those aspects in life that include customs, traditions, etc., which the people regard as necessary and important in their dealings with one another.
values
333 major filipino values
Hiya(sense of shame)
Pakikisama(sense of togetherness)
Utang na loob(debt of gratitude)
34Other name of homo erectus philippinensis
Cagayan men
35In some languages of the Philippines, including Tagalog, the word for elephant is?
gadya
36 The main source of Filipinos' sustenance.
Agriculture
37In the_____, the land was cleared, land was then planted with crops.
kaingin system
38In the ______ the land was plowed and harrowed, then followed by planting.
tillage system
39They increased their crop production by ________.
irrigating ditches
40No currency was used in trading. Goods were bought and sold, through the barter system called
baligya
41Economic life of ancient filipinos
Agriculture
fishing
logging and shipbuilding
42In the Tagalog region, the nobles usually carried the title of ___or____
Gat or Lakan
43Among the Tagalogs, the dependent who had his own house and family is called?
aliping namamahay
44On the other hand, the ______ had no house of his own, he lived with his master, and could not marry without the latter’s consent.
aliping sagigilid
45Among the Visayans, the dependents were of three kinds: the ____, who worked for his master when told to do so; the _____, who worked one day a week for his master; and the _____, who worked three days a week for his master.
tumataban
tumarampuk
46In ancient filipino marriages, the man was required to give a dowry, called ______, which usually consisted of a piece of land or gold.
bigay-kaya
47The dowry given for the bride's parents is called:
panghimuyat
48The dowry given to the girl's wet nurse is called:
bigay-suso
49The tribute given to the chieftains of barangays
buwis
50An alliance was sealed through a ritual called _______ or blood compact.
sanduguan
51The town-cryer that announces the approval of the law made by the chieftain and their elders
umalohokan
52Ancient filipino male clothings
Kangan-jacket/ Bahag-lower / putong-headwear
53Female clothing (lower)
tapis/saya-lower (patadyong in visayas)
54Ancient filipino & filipinas wore armlets called
kalumbig
55The ancient house was built of
bamboo, wood, nipa palm
56Our ancestor possessed a system of writing or alphabet called a _____:,_____or_____ where every letter is pronounced as a syllable.
syllabary: baybayin or alibata
57Negrito's favorite instrument
kulibaw
58Known as the aborigines
Negritos
60Traded with the buranuns but in a fit of jealousy, the buranuns massacred some of them
Orang Dampuan
61Traded with Buranuns successfully by establishing diplomatic ties through arranged marriage of their rulers
Banjar
62Sent by Emperor Yung-lo to exercise suzerainty over Luzon, but failed to do so
Admiral Cheng Ho
63Description of the lucrative trade between China and the Philippine archipelago can be found in Chao Jukua’s
Chu fan-chi
64Gold coins used as medium of exchange.
Piloncitos
65Contains an inscription in an old Philippine language, stating the full payment of a loan obtained by a woman trader from her contacts in the nearby Indonesia.
Laguna Copperplate
66In the Philippines, Islam was introduced by ____, a trader from Malaya
Tuan Masha’ika
67Ten years later (1480), _____arrived from Sumatra. He further deepened Islamic consciousness among the Muslims in Sulu by building more madrasahs in the area.
Rajah Baginda
68Succeeded in establishing a government similar to the sultanate of Arabia.
Abu Bakr
69Holy book of muslim
Quran
70Is held at the ninth month of the Muslim calendar where fasting is observed.
Ramadan
71A council of elders composed of datus and panglimas (teachers)
Ruma Bichara
72One of the most famous Portuguese navigators, called "the navigator"
Prince Henry
73the Portuguese navigator Bartholomew Diaz “discovered” the
cape of good hope
74Spanish pope that issued a bull in 1493 dividing the world into two.
Pope Alexander VI
75According to this treaty, an imaginary line was drawn from north to south at a distance of 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands. Lands to be discovered east of this line would belong to Portugal, and those on the west would belong to Spain.
Treaty of Tordesillas
76First land/mountain Magellan saw in the Philippines
Samar
77First islet the Spaniards landed
Homonhon
78This is where the first Mass was celebrated in the Philippines.
Islet of Limasawa
79Rajahs who did sanduguan with Magellan
Rajah Kulambu (limasawa); Rajah Humabon (Cebu)
80One of the five boats Magellan used in the expedition and the only one to reach Spain
Victoria
81The treaty under which Portugal won possession of the Moluccas after paying Spain the sum of 350,000 ducats. To avoid future misunderstanding between the two countries, another imaginary line was drawn from north to south at 2971/2 leagues east of Moluccas. Lands to be found on the west of this line would belong to Spain, while those on the east would belong to Portugal.
Treaty of Zaragoza
82Named Samar and Leyte "felipinas"
Ruy Lopez de Villalobos
83Pilot of Legazpi voyage
Father Andres de Urdaneta
841st governor-general of the Philippines
Miguel Lopez de Legazpi
85Portuguese captain who blockaded Legazpi in Cebu
Gonzalo de Pereiro
86Colonialized Manila
Juan de Salcedo
87First printing press that the Dominicans introduced to the filipinos
xylography
88Movable type of xynography
typography
89These two institutions were introduced to stop the abuses of high Spanish officials in the colonies.
residencia & visita
90Legazpi gave lands to those who had helped in the conquest of the Philippines, the_____
encomienda
91Forced labor for the filipinos
polo y servicios