PRELIM 03 - Historical Antecedents (Part 2)

Question 1

A system of irrigated rice terraces in the mountains of North Central Luzon that was created more than 2,000 years ago by the Ifugao people

Answer 1

Banaue rice terraces

Question 2

Are Anito figures of the Ifugaos; represents ancestral spirit and granary gods

Answer 2

Bul-ul

Question 3

A wooden chair of the Ifugaos; signifies royalty and power

Answer 3

Hagabi

Question 4

Used for cooking and serves as a food container

Answer 4

Palayok

Question 5

A cultural treasure found in the early 1960s in Manunggul Cave, Lipuun Point, Palawan that is a secondary burial jar

Answer 5

Manunggul jar

Question 6

Used by the people who belonged in the upper class or royal families

Answer 6

Jewelry

Question 7

A Bontoc warrior’s head hunting necklace; made of shell, boar tusk, rattan, fiber, and bone

Answer 7

Boaya

Question 8

Means to make cloth and other objects

Answer 8

Weaving

Question 9

The first wooden watercraft excavated in Southeast Asia; is only found in the Philippines

Answer 9

Balangay

Question 10

An Ilocano epic

Answer 10

Biag ni Lam-ang

Question 11

A Muslim epic

Answer 11

Indarapatra at Sulayman

Question 12

Sabi (Oral literature)

Answer 12

Maxims

Question 13

Riddles (Oral literature)

Answer 13

Bugtong

Question 14

Talindaw (Oral literature)

Answer 14

Boat song

Question 15

Tagumpay (Oral literature)

Answer 15

Victory songs

Question 16

Uyayi (Oral literature)

Answer 16

Lullaby

Question 17

Ihiman (Oral literature)

Answer 17

Wedding songs

Question 18

Kumintang (Oral literature)

Answer 18

War song

Question 19

The first Asian to have entered the prestigious Harvard University’s School of Medicine

Answer 19

Fe del Mundo

Question 20

Was made up of two native laundry baskets of different sizes placed one inside of the other

Answer 20

Medical incubator

Question 21

A variety of ketchup that made use of mashed banana, sugar, vinegar, and spices

Answer 21

Banana ketchup

Question 22

A Filipino food technologist credited for the invention of banana ketchup

Answer 22

Maria Orosa

Question 23

Developed an ingenuous formula that could easily remove deeply grown moles or warts from the skin without leaving marks or hurting the patient

Answer 23

Rolando dela Cruz

Question 24

Rolando dela Cruz’s formula for a mole remover was extracted from the __________

Answer 24

Cashew nut (Annacardium occidentale)

Question 25

The formula for the mole remover won a gold medal in International Invention, Innovation, Industrial Design, and Technology Exhibition in Kuala Lumpur in __________

Answer 25

September 2000

Question 26

Rolando dela Cruz won the gold medal for __________, an anti-cancer cream at the prestigious International Inventor's Forum in November 2005

Answer 26

DeBCC

Question 27

The DeBCC cream was intended specifically for __________

Answer 27

Basal skin carcinoma

Question 28

Developed the first single-chip graphical user interface accelerator that made computers work a lot faster

Answer 28

Diosdado Banatao

Question 29

Diosdado Banatao was the first to invent the __________

Answer 29

16-bit microchip

Question 30

Inventor of Rescue 72

Answer 30

Danvic Briones

Question 31

Is equipped with compartments where one can put water-proof bags containing first aid kits, water, light snacks, and other items essential for survival

Answer 31

Rescue 72

Question 32

In 1995, __________ won the prestigious "Inventor of the Year" award from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva

Answer 32

Edgardo Vazquez

Question 33

The __________ is a pre-fabricated or ready-to-build housing system

Answer 33

Vazbuilt modular housing system

Question 34

Edgardo Vazquez opened his own construction firm, __________, to make his invention closer to the public

Answer 34

Vazbuilt

Question 35

He invented the antibiotic, erythromycin, out of a strain of bacterium called Streptomyces erytheus

Answer 35

Abelardo Aguilar

Question 36

The brainchild of Green Renewable Independent Power Producers, Inc.; it uses electricity instead of diesel, which is more expensive

Answer 36

E-Jeepney

Question 37

The president of the solar electric company in the Philippines

Answer 37

Mr. Robert Puckett