WE FILIPINOS ARE MILD DRINKERS

Question 1

WE FILIPINOS ARE MILD DRINKERS is written by?

Answer 1

Alejandro R. Roces

Question 2

Filipinos drink for three good reasons:

Answer 2

(1) We drink when we are very sad.
(2) We drink when we are very happy.
(3) And we drink for any other reason

Question 3

when did the liberation forces landed in the Philippines?

Answer 3

1945

Question 4

We Filipinos were very glad to see the Americans back, not so much because ___________________

Answer 4

they were Americans but because they were not Japanese.

Question 5

In our barrio, alcoholized Americans became a ________.

Answer 5

common sight

Question 6

A favorite story in the barrio then was that of the Yank soldier who stumbled with a bottle of whisky in his pocket. According to the story, the first thing the G.I. did was to feel his pocket. Finding it wet, he alarmingly looked at his hands; then, with a sigh of relief, he exclaimed:

Answer 6

“Thank God, it is blood! I thought it was my whisky!”

Question 7

name of the carabao?

Answer 7

Carpio

Question 8

used to refer to an American enlisted man

Answer 8

G.I. or G.I. Joe

Question 9

term for a soldier

Answer 9

Joe

Question 10

What do filipinos drink if they do not drink whisky?

Answer 10

lambanog

Question 11

lambanog is called _______ by GIs

Answer 11

Jungle Juice

Question 12

American drinks based on the story?

Answer 12

whisky, rum, Brandy, tequilla, gin, champagne, saki, vodka.

Question 13

When the first American troops invaded the Philippines in ____, ________used to chase the Yankee soldiers off the fields

Answer 13

1898, carabaos

Question 14

Oh, it is tall and stately. It goes straight up to the sky like a skyscraper. It symbolizes the States.

What does the soldier refer to?

Answer 14

Pine Tree

Question 15

the __________ represents the Philippines. It stands up to the sky, but then its leaves sway down to earth as if remembering the land that gave it life.”

Answer 15

coconut tree

Question 16

chaser for the lambanog

Answer 16

kalamansi or Philippine lemon

Question 17

where is lambanog came from?

Answer 17

coco palm

Question 18

is a potation procured from the coconut bud, with pulverized mangrove bark thrown in to forfend spontaneous combustion. We use it as a remedy for snake bites, as a counteractive for malarial chills, as an insecticide, and for tanning carabao hide.

Answer 18

Lambanog

Question 19

I poured some of my drink on the bamboo floor. It went through the slits to the ground below.

“Hey, what are you doing.” Joe asked, “throwing good liquor away?”

“No, Joe,” I said.

Answer 19

“It is the custom here always to give back to the earth a little of what we have taken from the earth.”