Hosting quiz nights is a tricky business. As much as you want to go crazy and make it as difficult as a Jeopardy round, a host (and the person who makes the questions) has to realize that the quiz night was created to make the people in the venue enjoy the game. It’s really a fine balance of pleasing the crowd and making it challenging enough to foster some healthy competition.
I think I’ve done that tonight. I had a mix of fairly easy and basic questions along with some relatively hard ones. I gave gimmes as well as deceptively simple/ complicated queries as well.
Here are the questions I used for tonight’s rounds.
Money Trivia
1. In 1983, the Central Bank of the Philippines released new coins that featured flora and fauna that could be found in the Philippines. Which coin had the image of the Monkey-Eating Eagle?
2. This pioneering scientist and book author currently appears on the Ten Pound Bank Note of the United Kingdom. He lived from 1809 to 1882 and his book is considered to be one of the most important publications in modern science.
3. In December 2010, the Bangko Sentral released the new edition of bank notes featuring some of the Philippines’ best tourist attractions. Which national wonder could be seen at the back of the new 500 peso bill?
4. In the current edition of Philippine bank notes, most bills feature a well known government building at the back of the paper bill. Which building can you see at the back if the 50 peso bill?
5. The currency of this Southeast Asian country could be used in Brunei Darussalam because the former’s currency has a 1:1 exchange rate with the Bruneian Dollar.
6. The back of the current 1000-peso bill features the Banaue Rice Terraces as well as this well-known artifact used as a burial jar by prehistoric Filipinos. What is the name of this jar that could be found in the National Museum?
7. The old two-peso coin was one of the few coins that was not round-shaped. What was it’s shape?
A) octagon
B) decagon
C) dodecagon
D) it was round!
8. True or False. In the current coins in circulation, coins of higher monetary value are ALWAYS heavier than coins of lower monetary value.
9. If you were to go to India, you would notice that only one person is present in all their paper bills. This person was a topnotch lawyer and was assassinated in a prayer rally in 1948. Who is this person? Mohandas Gandhi/
Local Movies of the Last 10 Years
1. In the 2001 Metro Manila Film Festival, Cesar Montano’s “Bagong Buwan” was named the second best film of the festival. Which film was declared the best?
A. Tatarin
B. Yamashita: The Tiger’s Treasure
C. Hesusmaryosep! Four Fathers
D. Hubog
2. Angelica Panganiban plays the role of an intercessor in this 2004 film that pairs her up with Jericho Rosales. This is one of the first serious movies that Panganiban did in her career.
3. Director Brillante Mendoza won as Best Director during the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. What was the name of his award winning film? You may give the English of Filipino title.
4. Crying Ladies was the best picture for the 2003 Metro Manila Film Festival. Sharon Cuneta was the lead actress – who were the other TWO crying ladies?
5. How many children did Ai Ai Delas Alas have in the Tanging Ina series?
6. This movie with Efren Bata Reyes was the last movie that Fernando Poe Jr. did before his untimely death in 2004.
7. This film starring Toni Gonzaga and John Lloyd Cruz is the highest grossing local film of 2010. The film made 215 million pesos.
8. Who played the lead role in the movie Lapu-Lapu opposite lead actress Joyce Jimenez? Hint: he has been a fixture in politics for almost 20 years.
9. Many were shocked when Jennylyn Mercado along with veteran actor Albert Martinez were snubbed in the list of nominees for the 2010 Metro Manila Film Festival. In which movie did the two appear in?
S&M = Science and Math! 
1. The linear equation is commonly expressed as y=mx+b. It is used to determine the points that a line passes through in Cartesian plane. y is the y coordinate while x is the x coordinate. What does m stand for?
2. True or false. A square is a rectangle.
3. What is the value of the imaginary number dubbed as “i” (small letter i)?
4. This value is the ratio of the a circle’s diameter to its circumference.
5. Deficiency of Vitamin C is known to lead to this condition or disease that was known to afflict sailors during the age of the great explorers.
6. This mineral is the softest mineral in the Mohs scale for hardness. It is so soft that it is commercially made into a cosmetic powder.
7. True or false. The atomic number of an element is equal to the number of protons in its nucleus.
8. Which physics variable or value can be solved by multiplying the mass of an object with its velocity?
Colleges and Universities
1. The sercret organization Skull and Bones was founded in this Ivy League university.
2. The Islamic Azad University System in this country had 1.5 million enrolees from all its branches in this populous Muslim nation.
3. Among the member universities of the UAAP, this school founded 1942 is the youngest in terms of the year it was established.
4. The University of Tokyo has been considered to be the top university in Asia for the past decades but in the last few years, it has been overtaken by other schools – at least according to the QS rankings. Which school is now the top school in Asia according to QS.
A) Seoul National University
B) University of Hongkong
c) National University of Singapore
D) Peking University
5. Golfer Tiger Woods, Tennis player John McEnroe and gymnast Kerri Strugg all went to this prestigious California University located in a town that shares the same name as the school.
6. Mariano Marcos State University is one the largest tertiary education institutions in the Ilocos Region. What was Mariano Marcos’ relation to Ferdinand Marcos?
A) they were brothers
B) they were father and son
C) Ferdinand was Mariano’s nephew
D) they were distant relatives
7. As of present, there are four colleges/ universities inside the walled cities of Intramuros. Name two of the four.
8. According to the latest QS raitings, the top eleven universities in Africa can be found in just two countries. Three of them are in Egypt. Which country has the lion’s share of the top schools?
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