Topic #2: Rizal and his Travels

Question 1

What was Rizal’s secret mission?

Answer 1

To observe keenly the life and culture, languages and customs, industries, commerce and government and laws of the European Nations in order to prepare himself in the mighty task of liberating of oppressed people from Spanish tyranny.

Question 2

What was the name that he used while travelling?

Answer 2

Jose Mercado

Question 3

The place that Jose Rizal docked where it reminded him of the “Talim Island with the Susong Dalaga”

Answer 3

Singapore

Question 4

The place where Rizal described it to be a “picturesque but lonely and quiet and at the same time sad”

Answer 4

Southern Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

Question 5

What is the capital of Ceylon

Answer 5

Colombo

Question 6

The place where Rizal described as a “more beautiful, smart and elegant than Singapore, Point Galle and Manila”

Answer 6

Colombo

Question 7

the person who built the Suez Canal

Answer 7

Ferdinand de Lesseps

Question 8

Rizal described it to be “inhospitable land but famous”

Answer 8

Africa

Question 9

The place where Rizal described in his first impression that it was “ ugly, with dirty little inns and
inhospitable residents” but later changed his thoughts

Answer 9

Barcelona

Question 10

The most famous street in Barcelona

Answer 10

Las Ramblas

Question 11

The first article Rizal has written in Spain’s soil

Answer 11

Amor Patrio

Question 12

What was Rizal’s Pen name

Answer 12

Laong Laan

Question 13

Publisher of Diariong Tagalog

Answer 13

Basilio Teodoro Moran

Question 14

The two courses he took when he was studying in the Unibersidad Central de Madrid

Answer 14

Medicine
Philosophy and Letters

Question 15

The woman from Spain who fell in love with Rizal

Answer 15

Consuelo Ortiga y Perez

Question 16

Reasons why he backed out his relationship with Consuelo

Answer 16

he was still engaged
his friend and co-worker was madly in love with Consuelo

Question 17

A poem dedicated to Consuelo Ortiga y Perez

Answer 17

A La Senorita C. O. y P.

Question 18

Novels that deepply affected Rizal

Answer 18

Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Wandering Jew

Question 19

Rizal’s only Masonic Writing

Answer 19

“Science, Virtue and Labor”

Question 20

Why was Rizal not awarded his Doctor’s Diploma in Medicine in Spain

Answer 20

he did not present the thesis required for graduation nor paid the fees

Question 21

Where did he start writing Noli Me Tangere?

Answer 21

Madrid

Question 22

Where did Rizal finished the last fourth of Noli Me Tangere?

Answer 22

Berlin, Germany

Question 23

Who was Rizal’s first patient

Answer 23

Donya Teodora

Question 24

The name Rizal was called before he came from Germany

Answer 24

Doctor Uliman

Question 25

Why Rizal was impressed with Japan

Answer 25

the beauty of the country
the polite people
the simple charm of the women
very few thieves
beggars were rarely seen

Question 26

The woman that Rizal met and fell in love with in Japan

Answer 26

Seiko Usui or “Osei-San”

Question 27

The country that Rizal described as “the land of excellence of freedom but only for the whites”

Answer 27

United States of America

Question 28

The woman that Rizal fell in love with while in London

Answer 28

Gertrude Beckett

Question 29

The three clubs that Rizal founded while in Paris

Answer 29

• Kidlat Club
• Indios Bravos
• RDLM Society

Question 30

The place where Jose Rizal started writing his second most famous novel

Answer 30

Calamba, Laguna

Question 31

Misfortunes in Madrid

Answer 31

• Almost had a duel with Antonio Luna because of Nellie Bousted
• Rizal challenges Wenceslao Retana to a duel for his Anti-Filipino newspaper
• He lost his gold watch who had a pic of Leonor Rivera
• Rizal’s darkest winter

Question 32

The place that published El Filibusterismo

Answer 32

Ghent, Belgium

Question 33

The place where he had a successful surgical procedure

Answer 33

Hong Kong