Linggo, Enero 26, 2014

World Trivia and History by GROUP

GROUP
Denver Raymart S. Aragon
Pamela Jhonacel G. Bagalay
James Michael C. Alcaraz
Shaina Loraine C. Andrada

"MGA TRIVIA TUNGKOL SA
HISTORY NG MUNDO"

Which Filipino boxer is known for his nickname “Pac-Man”
A: Manny Pacquiao
Who said this immortal words “A Filipino is worth dying for” ?
A: Ninoy Aquino
What is the color of the 1,000 peso bill?
A: Blue
What is the national flower of the Philippines?
A: Sampaguita
What is a fertilized duck egg called?
A: Balut
What is the title of the Philippine National Anthem?
A: Lupang Hinirang
What is the meaning of the acronym NAMFREL?
A: NAMFREL – National Citizen’s Movement for free Elections
What is the original name of LunetaPark?
A: Bagumbayan
Which Philippine president has an initial of MLQ?
A: Manuel L. Quezon
What are the provinces that consist the acronym CALABARZON (Name them)
A: Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon
History trivia questions and answers.
What British royal spent over $26,000 on underwear in the 1980s?
A: Princess Diana.
What First Lady became the first wife of a sitting president to appear under subpoena before a grand jury?
A: Hillary Rodham Clinton.
What war was Lt. Hiroo Onoda ordered by his commanding officer to stip fighting, in 1974?
A: World War II.
What Beverly Hills 90210 star led the Pledge of Allegiance at the 1992 Republican convention?
A: Shannen Doherty.
Whose assassination resulted in the Lorraine Motel being named the National Civil Rights Museum?
A: Martin Luther King Jr’s.
What Arab intoned: ” I want a homeland even if the devil is the one to liberate it for me”?
A: Yasir Arafat.
What name was the last word uttered by Napoleon?
A: Josephine.
What nation bid adieu to the United Kingdom in 1921?
A: Ireland.
History trivia questions and answers.
What Nazi propagandist said: “Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play”?
A: Joseph Goebbels.
What cleric addressed the U.N. in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Chinese in 1995?
A: Pope John Paul II.
What mobster sighed: “I’ve been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War”?
A: Al Capone.
What was the first company in the world to post $1 billion in annual earnings, in 1995?
A: General Motors.
What Uganda city’s airport saw an Israeli commando raid rescue 103 hostages in 1976?
A: Entebbe’s.
What 20th-century conflict saw U.S. soldiers “die for a tie”?
A: The Korean War.
What increased in the U.S. from 1.5 million to seven million in 1930?
A: Unemployment.
What city had the first public school, college and newspaper in the thirteen British colonies?
A: Boston.
What scandal was the Tower Commission set up to investigate in 1986?
A: The Iran-Contra affair.
What Filipino was acquitted of fraud charges in the U.S. in 1990?
A: Imelda Marcos.
What were the Soviet Union’s symbols for work in the factory and on the land?
A: Hammer and sickle.
Who expected to be paid 2,000 pounds for surrendering West Point to the British?
A: Benedict Arnold.
What did an official U.S. investigation call ” the greatest military and naval disaster in our nation’s history”?
A: The attack on Pearl Harbor.
Whose migraine headache vanished after he read Robert E. Lee’s note of surrender?
A: Ulysses S. Grant’s.
What did “loose lips” do, according to a popular rhyming World War II slogan?
A: “Sink Ships”.
What city had North America’s first medical school, bank and city-paid police force.
A: Philadelphia.
What Filipino was nicknamed the ” iron butterfly”.
A: Imelda Marcos.
What did Jack McCall fall off, seconds after he shot Wild Bill Hickok?
A: His Horse.
Who was the longest-serving president in French history?
A: Francois Mitterrand.
What country’s rampant political corruption was probed by the Mani pulite, or “Clean Hands,” of the 1990s?
A: Italy’s.
What flying ace averaged a kill every 11 days between September of 1915, and April of 1918?
A: Manfred von Richthofen, or “The Red Barron”.
Math trivia questions and answers.
Q: What mathematical symbol did math whiz Ferdinand von Lindemann determine to be a transcendental number in 1882?
A:  Pi.
Q: What do you call an angle more than 90 degrees and less than 180 degrees?
A: Obtuse.
Q: What’s the top number of a fraction called?
A: The numerator.
Q: What Greek math whiz noticed that the morning star and evening star were one and the same, in 530 B.C.?
A: Pythagoras.
Q: What’s a polygon with four unequal sides called?
A: A quadrilateral.
Q: What’s a flat image that can be displayed in three dimensions?
A: A hologram.
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Q: What number does “giga” stand for?
A: One billion.
Q: What digit did Arab mathematician al-Khwarizmi give to the West around 800 B/B.?
A: Zero.
Q:  What word describes a number system with a base of two?
A: Binary.
Q: How many equal sides does an icosahedron have?
A:  Twenty.
Q:  What do mathematicians call a regular polygon with eight sides?
A:  An octagon.
Q:  What T-word is defined in geometry as “a straight line that touches a curve but continues on with crossing it”?
A:  Tangent.
Q: What geometrical shape forms the hole that fits and allen wrench?
A: The hexagon.
Q: What number is an improper fraction always greater than?
A: One.
Q: What two letters are both symbols for 1,000?
A: K and M.
Q: What’s short for “binary digit”?
A: Bit.
Q:  What century did mathematicians first use plus and minus signs?
A: The sixteenth.
Q: What number, a one followed by 100 zeros, was first used by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta in 1940?
A: Googol.
Q: What handy mathematical instrument’s days were numbered when the pocket calculator made the scene in the 1970s?
A: The Slide rule’s.
Olympics trivia questions and answers.
Q: How many of Carl Lewis’ Olympic gold medals were won in long jump competitions?
A: Three.
Q: What legendary strongman laid out the 600-foot race course for the only event in the earl years of the ancient Olympics?
A: Hercules.
Sports trivia for the masses…right on this site.
Q: What U.S. athlete was “about a week” pregnant when she broke the world 200-meter record at the 1984 Olympics?
A: Evelyn Ashford
Q: What woman was the only U.S. athlete to win a gold medal at the 1968 Winter Olympics?
A: Peggy Fleming.
Many other sports trivia pages available too.
Q: What former IOC president wanted to eliminate team sports and the Winter Games?
A: Avery Brundage.
Q: What U.S. team did 59 percent of American viewers root against during the 1996 Olympics, according to an ESPN poll?
A: The Dream Team.
Q: What grueling Olympic event saw Josia Thugwane become the first black man from South Africa to win a gold medal, in 1996?
A: The Marathon.
Q: What sport did Margaret Abbott play to become the first U.S. woman to win Olympic gold, in 1900?
A: Golf.
Q:  What future screen star was the first person to swim 100 meters in under a minute, in 1922?
A: Johnny Weissmuller.
Q: What Olympic champ played an HIV-infected chorus boy in the play “Jeffery” in 1993?
A: Greg Louganis.
Q:  What did members of the Canadian swim team swear to give u during the 1996 Olympics?
A: Sex.
Q:  What alpine city hosted the Winter Olympics in 1964 and 1976?
A: Insbruck.
Q: What country had a swim team that swore off drinking and Big Macs for the 1996 Olympics?
A: The U.S..
Q: What L.A. Laker star’s height was listed as two meters in 1996 Olympic programs?
A: Sahquille O’Neals’s.
Q: What Soviet gymnast performed the first back somersault on a balance beam?
A: Olga Korbut.
Q: What 37-year-old middle distance runner qualified for her fourth Olympic team in 1996?
A:  Mary Slaney.
Q:  What sport is played with stones and brooms?
A: Curling.
Q: What contest of team strength was an official Olympic event from 1900 to 1920?
A: Tug of War.
Q: What Olympic aquatic event includes such positions as the Flamingo, crane and fishtail?
A: Synchronized swimming
Q: How many athletes competed for Israel in the 1994 Winter Olympics?
A:  One
Q: What 1960 Olympic champion lit the torch to start Atlanta’s 1996 Olympic festivities?
A:  Muhammad Ali.
And yet even more sports trivia below this point
Q:  What apparatus do male gymnasts refer to as “the pig”?
A: The pommel horse.
Q:  What event earned Norway’s Johann Olay Koss three golds at the 1994 Winter Olympics?
A: Speed skating.
Q: What new women’s team sport was played on sand at the 1996 summer Olympics?
A: Beach Volleyball.
Q: Who passed Eric Heiden to become the most decorated U.S. Winter Olympian ever?
A: Bonnie Blair.
Q: What was the only thing Brianna Scurry wore during her Gold Medal celebration lap through the late night streets of Atlanta?
A: Her gold medal.
Q: What decathlon champ was the first black student body president at UCLA?
A: Rafer Johnson
Places trivia questions and answers.
What Nation’s treasures include the Sistine Chapel?
A: Vatican City’s.
Which extends further North- Japan, North Korea or turkey?
A: Japan.
What country can an Afghani escape to on the Khyber Pass?
A: Pakistan.
What two countries sandwich the dead sea?
A: Israel and Jordan.
What U.S. state is said to have as many cows as people?
A: Wisconsin.
What continent boasts the most telephone lines?
A: Europe.
What future Soviet republic produced one-half of the world’s oil in 1901?
A: Azerbaijan.
What African country is bordered by Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique?
A: South Africa.
What’s the only Central American country without a coastline on the Caribbean?
A: El Salvador.
What North American mountain range is an apt anagram for “o, man–ski country”?
A: Rocky Moutntians.
What city is headquarters for Zero Population Growth and the Impotence Institution of America?
A:Washington, DC.
What city boasts a Board of Trade that buy and sells half the world’s wheat and corn?
A: Chicago.
What island boasts Mount Fuji?
A: Honshu.
What European country’s most common last name is De Vries?
A: The Netherlands’.
What desert do Botswana, Namibia and South Africa have in common?
A: The Kalahari.
What U.S. state has the highest percentage of residents born in other countries?
A: California.
How  many U.S. states are named after a president>?
A: One.
What’s the world’s highest island mountain?
A: Mauna Kea.
What was the only country still building steam locomotives in 1990?
A: China.
Which two European countries lead the world n wine consumption pr capita?
A: France and Italy.
What was the world’s highest man-made structure for 4,000 years before being passed by the central tower of Lincoln Cathedral?
A: The Great Pyramid of Cheops.
What western state is less than thrilled to be known as the “Vermin State”?
A: New Mexico.
What’s the only South American country that has both a Pacific and a Caribbean coast?
A: Colombia.
What interstate highway connects Boston and Seattle?
A: I-90.
What state boasts all or part of the ten largest American Indian reservations?
A: Arizona.
What Canadian city’s name means “muddy water”?
A: Winnipeg’s.
What desert did David Livingstone have to cross to reach Lake Ngami?
A: The Kalahari.
What country sent out 15,000 census workers to count its homeless population, in 1990?
A: The U.S.
What do Americans call the Huang Ho, China’s second-longest river?
A: The Yellow River.
What Russian republic has its capital in Grozny?
A: Chechnya.
What state made the U.S. the fourth largest country in land mass in 1959?
A: Alaska.
What state does the Yellowstone River rise in?
A: Wyoming.
What island has endured Mount Etna’s wrath over 140 times?
A: Sicily.
How many months per year do residents of Tromso, Norway go without seeing a sunset?
A: Three.
President trivia questions and answers.
What U.S. president’s State of the Union address lasted a record 81 minutes?
A: Bill Clinton’s.
What U.S. president was born William Jefferson Blythe IV?
A: Bill Clinton.
What 1970’s president openly discussed his battle with hemorrhoids?
A: Jimmy Carter.  Presidential trivia questions and answers.
What U.S. president had the shortest life?
A: John F. Kennedy.
What former president was on an African hunting trip when his enemy J. P. Morgan quipped: “Let every lion do his duty”?
A: Theodore Roosevelt.
What conspirator in the Lincoln assassination was pardoned for saving the lives of prison guards during a yellow fever epidemic?
A: Dr. Samuel Mudd.
What president opined: “Once you get into this great stream of history you can’t get out”?
A: Richard Nixon.
Who was the first president to utter “We shall overcome” before a joint session of Congress?
A: Lyndon B. Johnson.
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What future president was the only U.S. senator from a Confederate state to remain in Congress after secession?
A: Andrew Jackson.
What president’s mug graces a $100,000 bill?
A: Woodrow Wilson.
What future U.S. president received the last rites of the Catholic Church after an infection following spinal surgery in 1954?
A: John F. Kennedy.
What war saw James Madison become the first U.S. president to command a military unit during his term in office?
A: The war of 1812.
What document did President Andrew Johnson want a copy of placed under his head upon his burial?
A: The U.S. Constitution.
Who was the first daughter of a U.S. president to pose nude for a Playboy video?
A: Patti Davis.
How many U.S. states are named after a president?
A: One.
Who is the only president to have survived two assassination attempts by women?
A: Gerald Ford.
What portly U.S. president was the first to be a golf nut?
A: William Howard Taft.
What future president’s Texas classmates ran a shot of a jackass under his yearbook photo?
A: Lyndon B. Johnson’s.
What day does the U.S. president traditionally deliver a weekly radio address?
A: Saturday.
What horse-loving future president cheated on an eye exam to join the cavalry reserves in the 1930’s?
A: Ronald Regan.
What U.S. president threw out the most Opening Day baseballs?
A: Franklin D. Roosevelt.
What card game did Dwight D. Eisenhower play fanatically while planning for D-Day?
A: Bridge.
What White House lawyer first revealed the existence of an “enemies list” and “hush money” at the Watergate hearings?
A: John Dean.
What date saw FDR sign the U.S. declaration of war against Japan?
A: December 8, 1941.
What U.S. president installed solar panels on the White House roof?
A: Jimmy Carter.
What First Lady of the 1980s was shocked to find “a tremendous rat” swimming with her in the White House Pool?
A: Barbara Bush.
What future anchor was the only female reporter to tag along with Richard Nixon on his historic trip to China?
A: Barbara Walters.
Who revealed that the U.S. had a hydrogen bomb in his last State of the Union speech?
A: Harry S. Truman
Rock Groups Bands and Rock Bands?
Which band recorded the album The Joshua Tree?
A: U2.
In the 70s who put a Message In A Bottle?
A: Police.
Which band had a big hit with You Make Me Wanna?
A: Usher.
Money For Nothing was an 80s NO 1 for which band?
A: Dire Straits
Which Dimension had a 60s smash with Aquarius?
A: 5th Dimension.
Which US Boys band featured three members of the Wilson Family?
A: The Beach Boys.
Keith Richards rocked on in which super group?
A: The Rolling Stones.
Who was backed by The Shondells?
A: Tommy James.
How many boys were there in The Pet Shop Boys?
A: Two.
Who fronted The Heartbreakers?
A: Tom Petty.
Which heavy metal group took the name of Dutch-born members guitarist Eddie and drummer Alex?
A: Van Halen
Which 60s icon was backed by The Band?
A: Bob Dylan.
Which band included Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel?
A: Genesis.
Mickey Dolenz was in which 60s sensation group?
A: The Monkees.
In which state did Chicago get together?
A: Illinois.
Which band produced the album Dark Side Of The Moon?
A: Pink Floyd
Which group flew into the Hotel California?
A: The Eagles.
R.E.M. cut the No 1 album Out Of what?
A: Time.
Which band recorded the album Parallel Lines?
A: Blondie.
Which band sang I want to Know What Love Is?
A: Foreigner.
How many brothers were in the original Jackson family line up?
A: Five.
Tusk was a best-selling album for which band?
A: Fleetwood Mac.
What did the letter O stand for in ELO?
A: Orchestra.
Whose hits include Bad Moon Rising and Green River?
A: Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Which all time great band featured Harrison and Starkey?
A: The Beatles.
Free boxing trivia questions with answers.
Boxing trivia questions and answers.
Q: What boxing class is heaviest – flyweight, bantam weight or feather weight?
A:  Feather weight.
Q: What nickname do boxing fans call 300 pound Eric Esch, King of the Fouro-Rounders?
A: “Butter Bean”.
Q: Who beat Michael Moorer in a 1994 heavyweight title fight hyped as ” One for the Ages”?
A: George Foreman.
Q: What boxer made his first title defense in 21 years, in 1995?
A: George Foreman.
Q: Who did Joe Frazier say he wanted “like a hog wants slop”?
A: Muhammad Ali
Q: What percentage of Mike Tyson’s 1995 earnings came from endorsements?
A: Zero.
Q: What boxer answers to the nickname “Sweet Pea”?
A: Pernell Whitaker
Q: What heavyweight champion was nicknamed “Real Deal”?
A: Evander Holyfield
Q:  Who received a reported $25 million for a 1995 boxing match that lasted 89 seconds?
A: Mike Tyson.
Q: How old was George Foreman when he became the oldest heavyweight champ in history?
A: Forty-five.
Q:  What pro sport gives its participants an 87 percent chance of suffering brain damage?
A: Boxing.
Q:  What boxing weight class is limited to 190 pounds?
A: Cruiserweight.
Q: What Mexican boxing champ lost for the first time to little known Frankie Randall?
A:  Julio Cesar Chavez.
Q: What had to occur for a round to end when John L. Sullivan beat Jake Killrain in 75 rounds, in 1889?
A: A knockdown.
Q: Who was the first sports announcer to address Muhammad Ali by his Muslim name?
A: Howard Cosell.
Q: What year in the 1970s was Muhammad Ali’s last as heavyweight champ?
A:1979.
Q:  What boxing promoter was indicted for filing a false insurance claim with Lloyds of London?
A:  Don King.
Q: What boxer successfully defended his title against George Foreman and Larry Holmes?
A: Evander Holyfield.
Q: Who reigned as heavyweight boxing champ of Uganda from 1951-1960?
A: Idi Amin.
Q: What did boxer Nelson Azumah change his name to?
A: Azumah Nelson.
Q: What boxing promoter’s favorite expression is “Only in America”?
A: Don King’s.


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Filipino Interesting Facts and History


In the Philippines, Filipinos were introduced to the English language in 1762 by British invaders, not Americans.


What is the world's 3rd largest English-speaking nation, next to the USA and the UK? The Philippines.
The USA bought the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam from Spain in 1898.
The Filipino-American Independence War from 1898 to 1902 ensued, killing 4,234 Americans and killing how many Filipinos? 16,000 were killed in action and 200,000 died from famine and pestilence. (The Philippines lost and was colonized until 1946.)
Los Angeles, California was co-founded in 1781 by a Filipino named Antonio Miranda Rodriguez, along with 43 Latinos from Mexico sent by the Spanish government.
What antibiotic did ! Filipino doctor Abelardo Aguilar co-discover? Hint: Brand is Ilosone, named after Iloilo. Erythromycin.
The one-chip video camera was first made by Marc Loinaz a Filipino inventor from New Jersey.
The first ever international Grandmaster from Asia was Eugenio Torre who won at the Chess Olympiad in Nice, France in 1974.
This son of two Filipino physicians scored over 700 on the verbal portion of the Standardized Achievement Test (SAT) before age 13 - Kiwi Danao Camara of Punahou School, Hawaii... Edward Sanchez, a Mensa member, bagged the grand prize in the first Philippine Search for Product Excellence in Information Technology.
Who was the Filipino-American dancer who scored a perfect 1600 on the SAT? Joyce Monteverde of California.
Who invented the fluorescent lamp? Thomas Edison discovered the electric light bulb and the fluorescent lighting was thought up by Nikola Tesla. But the flu! orescent lamp we use today was invented by Agapito Flores (a Cebu man named Benigno Flores of Bantayan Island, according to the Philippine Daily inquirer), a Filipino scientist. Americans helped then-Philippine leader Ramon Magsaysay to develop it for worldwide commerce.
(Yes! Many foreigners have noted that the Filipino population has Asia's highest rates of inventors and international beauty queens.) Two Filipina beauties, Gloria Diaz and Margie Moran, chosen as Miss Universe in 1969 and 1973.
Pure- or part-Filipino celebrities in American showbiz include Von Flores, Tia Carrere, Paolo Montalban, Lea Salonga, Ernie Reyes Jr., Nia Peeples, Julio Iglesias Jr., Enrique Iglesias Lou Diamond Phillips, Phoebe Cates and Rob Schneider.
The first Filipino act to land a top hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in the 1960s was the group Rocky Fellers of Manila.
Sugar Pie deSanto (father was from the Philippines), The Artist Formerly Known as Prince (according to the October 1984 article "Prince in Exile" by Scott Isler in the magazine Musician), Jaya,Foxy Brown and Enrique Iglesias followed.
Pure Filipinos who made success in minor charts were Jocelyn Enriquez aka Oriental Madonna, Buffy, Pinay and (Ella May) Saison.
Latina-American pop star Christina Aguilera lost to Filipina vocalist Josephine Roberto aka Banig during the International Star Search years ago. In a mid-1999 MTV chat, she said that competing against someone of Banig's age was "not fair."
Besides gracing fashion magazine covers, this international supermodel from Manila had walked the runways since the 1970s for all the major designers, like Calvin Klein, Chanel, Christian Dior, Christian Lacroix, Donna Karan,Gianni Versace and Yves Saint Laurent - Anna Bayle.
Who is the personal physician of United States Pres. William Clinton? Elea! nor "Connie" Concepcion Mariano, a Filipina doctor who was the youngest captain in the US Navy.
The first Filipino-American in US Congress was Virginia Rep. Robert Cortez-Scott, a Harvard alumnus.
Distinguished British traveler-writer A. Henry Savage Landor, thrilled upon seeing a Bicol landmark in 1903, wrote: "Mayon is the most beautiful mountain I have ever seen, the world-renowned Fujiyama (Mt.Fuji) of Japan sinking into perfect insignificance by comparison."
Mayon volcano has the world's most perfect cone.
Filipinos had their first taste of Mexican chili and corn during the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade (1564-1815). In return, Mexico's people had their initial taste of tamarind, Manila mango and a Filipino banana called racatan or lakatan.
Founded in 1595 by Spaniards, the University of San Carlos in Cebu City, Philippines is older than Harvard and is the oldest university in Asia. University of Santo Tom! as in Manila,established in 1611, is Asia's second oldest.
Who's the Filipina senator popular for her colorful jargon, delivered in a mile-a-minute speed and in a weird Harvard-meets-Ilonggo accent? Atty. Miriam Defensor-Santiago.
The first female president of the Philippines sworn into 0ffice in 1986 was Corazon Cojuangco Aquino.
In a March 31, 1997 article, The New York Times reported that the CIA manipulated Philippine elections: "(CIA operative Col. Edward Lansdale) essentially ran the successful presidential campaign of Defense Minister Ramon Magsaysay in the Philippines in 1953."
Who was the first Asian and/or Filipino to snatch America's Pulitzer Prize? Philippines Herald war journalist Carlos P. Romulo in 1941. (He was also the first Asian to become UN President.)
The first two Filipino-Americans to garner the same award 56 years later were Seattle Times' Alex Tizon and Byron Acohido, ! who is part-Korean.
Filipino writer Jose Rizal could read and write at age 2, and grew up to speak more than 20 languages, including Latin, Greek, German, French and Chinese. What were his last words? "Consummatumsst!"("It is done!")
"What's still most impressive to me about the Philippines is the friendliness of the people, their sense of humor...," wrote Honolulu journalist John Griffin in a 1998 visit to Manila.


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