Minute quiz bee

There will be 30 questions categorized as follows: 10 Easy 10 Average 10 Difficult ---- 1 point ----- 2 points -----3 points

Questions will cover the following areas: General Knowledge Currents Events Culture and History English Grammar and History Mathematics 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 camels 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 basketballs 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 ones 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.