Minute quiz beeThere will be 30 questions categorized as follows:

10 Easy ---- 1 point10 Average ----- 2 points10 Difficult -----3 points

Questions will cover the following areas:General KnowledgeCurrents EventsCulture and HistoryEnglish Grammar and HistoryMathematics

Easy Question:

1. The capital city of Iraq?Answer: Baghdad

2. It is a sequence of actions and events in a story?Answer: PLOT

3. It refers to the locale and period in which a story occurs?Answer: Setting

4. At present, how many regions do we have in the Philippines?Answer: 17

5. This is located at the back of the book. It includes the list of books and the article that the author has used or referred to in writing the book.Answer: Bibliography

6. It is a group of words with its own subject and verb. One o0f its kind can stand by itself as a complete sentence.Answer: Clause

7. The grandfather of all Philippine mountains. It is the highest peak in the country.Answer: Mt. Apo

8. The currency of Italy.Answer: Lira

9. The shoe capital of the Philippines.Answer: Marikina

10. What does R in CD-ROM mean?Answer: Read

11. Who created the most famous religious PIETA?Answer: Michael Angelo

12. A round lump on a camel’s back.Answer: hump

Average

1. Silence speaks to him gently. What figure of speech is this?Answer: Personification

2. One commo0n sea transport is the RO-RO. What does RO-RO stand for?Answer: Roll on-Roll off

3. A very short story often amusing, about a real person or event. Usually, it is used to illustrate or support a generalization.Answer: Anecdote

4. In the word PROFITABLE, where does the stress fall?Answer: Pro’ fitable

5. He is basketball’s greatest player, who was born on February, 1963 and he led the Chicago Bulls to NBA Championship from 1991-93/1997-1998.Answer: Michael Jordan

6. It is the opening part/ paragraph of any news story.Answer: Lead

7. How many years is the term of a senator?Answer: 6 years

8. In Greek Mythology, Who is the king or ruler of the seas?Answer: Poseidon

9. The “Science City” of the Philippines. It is found in Nueva Ecija.Answer: Munoz City

10. The newly appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines?Answer: Justice Sereno

11. In the word “independent”, in is the prefix and -ent is the suffix. What is depend?Answer: Root

12. In figure of speech, it is a similarity in things that are basically different.Answer: Metaphor

Difficult

1. The power of the president to reject a law passed by congress.Answer: Veto

2. Whose famous words are these? “Cr5y not my7 son, for die for one’s country is not an opportunity given to all.”Answer: Justice Jose Abad Santos

3. The smallest yet the most influential state in the world. It is also called the city within a city.Answer: Vatican City

4. It is pronoun that ends in self or selves and adds information to a sentence by pointing back to a noun earlier in the sentence.Answer: Reflexive

5. Name the provinces in CALABARZON region.Answer: Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Quezon

6. It is the placement of equal ideas in words, phrases, or clauses of similar types.Answer: Parallelism

7. The last recorded Japanese army leaves the Philippines stayed in Lubang Island. In what province is Lubang Island?Answer: Mindoro Occidental

8. It is the exact copy or reproduction of writing, printing or a picture.Answer: Facsimile

9. The poem that Edgar Allan Poe wrote and was dedicated to his wife?Answer: Annabel Lee

10. A short sentence expressing general truth or some practical wisdom; a maxim.Answer: Aphorism

11. It is used to express action begun in the past and is still going on the present time.Answer: Present Perfect Tense

12. A plural form of Memorandum.Answer: Memoranda.