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What do the Philippine eagle,
sea cow and giant panda have
in common?

ALL ARE ENDANGERED

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What do you call a substance
that can be solidified into a
definite geometrical form?

CRYSTAL

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What is the name of Mr. Shoo-
li’s sidekick in the TV show,
Mongolian Barbecue?

KUHOL

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What do you call a number
that has no factor except 1 and
itself?

PRIME NUMBER

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What’s the name of the
delicious, but bad-smelling
fruit native to Mindanao?

DURIAN

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The average height of three
people is always the height of
the one who is neither tallest
nor smallest. Yes or NO?

NO

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Buddha, the founder of
Buddhism, was born in what
country?

INDIA

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What kind of defense is illegal
in professional basketball?

ZONE DEFENSE

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Which is stronger, a typhoon
or a tropical storm?

TYPHOON

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Malacanang Palace is in what
district of Manila?

SAN MIGUEL

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What do you call the part of a
computer that accepts disks,
write to them and reads from
them?

DRIVE

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Iraq’s invasion of what
country started the Persian
Gulf War in 1991?

KUWAIT

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In what country would you be
if you were using yen to buy
souvenirs?

JAPAN

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If 5 horses can run 50 miles in
5 hours, how many miles can
one horse run in1 hour?

10 miles

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What Manila structure
literally means ‘within the
walls’?

INTRAMUROS

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Your eyes are always in
motion, even during sleep.
True or False?

TRUE

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A number divided by 5 and
then 14 is added. If the total is
20, what is that number?

30

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What do you call a person who
uses stars to make
predictions?

ASTROLOGER

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Name the first Marine Corps
officer to become chief-of-
staff of the Armed Forces of
the Philippines.

RODOLFO BIAZON

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Which type of tree often
becomes Christmas tree –
chestnut, evergreen or oak?

EVERGREEN

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According to the saying, what
speaks louder than words?

ACTION

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What days of the week were
named after heavenly bodies?

SUNDAY and MONDAY

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Who was the premier of the
Soviet Union before its
dissolution in 1992?

MEKHAIL GORBACHEV

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Jonathan Knight, Jordan
Knight and Joe McIntyte and
Donnnie Wahlberg and Danny
Wood are better known as
what?

NEW KIDS ON THE

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The Central University of the
Philippines and San Agustin
University are in what Visayan
city?

ILOILO

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What happens to water at 32
degrees Fahrenheit?

IT FREEZES

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Who was voted in 1993 by a
group of experts as the
greatest Filipino basketball
player of all time?

CALOY LOYZAGA

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What large distance is
equivalent to 5,280 feet?

A MILE

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The handshake originated
because early men wanted to
show that they did not carry
what?

WEAPONS

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What do you call a six-sided
polygon?

HEXAGON

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Whom did Bary Kasparov beat
to win the world chess title in
1985?

ANATOLY KARPOV

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What instrument does a
scientist use to look at very
small objects?

MICROSCOPE

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