Rizal

Question 1

Which law orders all schools to study Rizal?

Answer 1

RA 1425

(Clue: Rizal died at 35.)

Question 2

What was the full name of Rizal?

Answer 2

Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso

(JP-RM-YA)

Question 3

Rizal came from which social class during his time?

Answer 3

Principalia

Question 4

How many siblings did Rizal have and what was his birth order?

Answer 4

10 siblings (9 sisters, 1 brother); he was 7th.

Question 5

Rizal born on [date] and three days later, he was baptized on [date]?

(Clue: Rizal is a Cancer)

Answer 5

June 19, 1861; June 22, 1861

Question 6

Rizal grew up in what area in Laguna?

Answer 6

Calamba

Question 7

This priest baptized Rizal

(Clue: Go go go, baptized na to!)

Answer 7

Rev. Rufino Collantes

Question 8

This woman was the equivalent of T.Thess. She was Rizal’s first tutor and discovered his talent for poetry.

Answer 8

Dona Teodora

Question 9

Rizal’s first poem

Answer 9

Sa Aking Mga Kababata

Question 10

When Rizal was young, he studied in a private school in what area of Laguna?

Answer 10

Binan

Question 11

When he was in elementary, Rizal went to what Top 4 university?

Answer 11

Ateneo de Manila (Escuela Pia)

Question 12

Rizal didn’t use the surname “Mercado” in Ateneo because?

Answer 12

His brother Paciano was under close monitoring

Question 13

Which school helped enhance Rizal’s spanish?

Answer 13

Sta.Isabel College

Question 14

What was Rizal’s first major in UST?

Answer 14

Philosophy (because of his dad)

Question 15

During his college years in UST, what course did Rizal shift to and why?

Answer 15

Medicine; to cure his sick mother’s eyesight

Question 16

This woman was Rizal’s inspiration for Maria Clara. He regarded her as his greatest love.

Answer 16

Leonor Rivera

Question 17

One of Rizal’s best poems which won him the grand prize in a contest.

Answer 17

A La Juventud Filipina (To the Filipino Youth)

Question 18

Rizal’s first essay was [name] and was published in [newspaper] using his pen name [blank].

Answer 18

El Amor Patrio (Love of Country); Diariong Tagalog; Laong Laan

Question 19

Where Rizal get his master’s degree?

Answer 19

University of Madrid (Major in Medicine)

Question 20

What was the code name that Rizal used when he was recruited into the freemasonry by Morayta?

Answer 20

Dimasalang

Question 21

Who funded Rizal’s Noli me Tangere?

Answer 21

Maximo Viola

(Clue: Jake the Dog is rich.)

Question 22

Who wrote the preface in El Filibusterismo? He was one of Rizal’s confidants.

Answer 22

Prof. Blumentritt

Question 23

Where did Rizal first publish Noli me Tangere?

Answer 23

Berlin

Question 24

Who was Rizal’s first patient in the clinic he set up at Calamba?

Answer 24

His mother

Question 25

What were the three aims of the propaganda movement?

Answer 25

• Philippines be made a province of Spain
• Have a Pinoy representative in the Spanish court
• Secularization of parishes

Question 26

Which person saved the publishing of El Fili by providing funds?

Answer 26

Ventin Ventura

Question 27

What were Rizal’s three reasons for going back to the PH depsite moving to Hong Kong?

Answer 27

1. He wanted to talk to some general about his Borneo Colonization project
2. Establish La Liga Filipina
3. To prove to some guy that he wasn’t living comfortably in Hong Kong?

Question 28

Who was hired to spy on Rizal?

Answer 28

Florencio Namanan (Pablo Mercado)

(Clue: Florence Pugh is a spy in Black Widow, accompanied by Pablo. Pugh & Pablo)

Question 29

When did Rizal die?

Answer 29

December 30, 1896

Question 30

Who approved of Rizal’s shooting?

Answer 30

Gov. Camilo Polaveija