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Which Filipino boxer is known for his nickname Pac-Man

A: Manny Pacquiao

Who said this immortal words A Filipino is worth dying for ?

A: Ninoy Aquino

What is the color of the 1,000 peso bill?

A: Blue

What is the national flower of the Philippines?

A: Sampaguita

What is a fertilized duck egg called?

A: Balut

What is the title of the Philippine National Anthem?

A: Lupang Hinirang

What is the meaning of the acronym NAMFREL?

A: NAMFREL National Citizens Movement for free Elections

What is the original name of LunetaPark?

A: Bagumbayan

Which Philippine president has an initial of MLQ?

A: Manuel L. Quezon

What are the provinces that consist the acronym CALABARZON (Name them)

A: Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon

History trivia questions and answers.

What British royal spent over $26,000 on underwear in the 1980s?


A: Princess Diana.

What First Lady became the first wife of a sitting president to appear under subpoena before a grand
jury?
A: Hillary Rodham Clinton.

What war was Lt. Hiroo Onoda ordered by his commanding officer to stip fighting, in 1974?
A: World War II.

What Beverly Hills 90210 star led the Pledge of Allegiance at the 1992 Republican convention?
A: Shannen Doherty.

Whose assassination resulted in the Lorraine Motel being named the National Civil Rights Museum?
A: Martin Luther King Jrs.

What Arab intoned: I want a homeland even if the devil is the one to liberate it for me?
A: Yasir Arafat.
What name was the last word uttered by Napoleon?
A: Josephine.

What nation bid adieu to the United Kingdom in 1921?


A: Ireland.

History trivia questions and answers.

What Nazi propagandist said: Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can
play?
A: Joseph Goebbels.

What cleric addressed the U.N. in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Chinese in 1995?
A: Pope John Paul II.

What mobster sighed: Ive been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War?
A: Al Capone.

What was the first company in the world to post $1 billion in annual earnings, in 1995?
A: General Motors.

What Uganda citys airport saw an Israeli commando raid rescue 103 hostages in 1976?
A: Entebbes.

What 20th-century conflict saw U.S. soldiers die for a tie?


A: The Korean War.

What increased in the U.S. from 1.5 million to seven million in 1930?
A: Unemployment.

What city had the first public school, college and newspaper in the thirteen British colonies?
A: Boston.

What scandal was the Tower Commission set up to investigate in 1986?


A: The Iran-Contra affair.

What Filipino was acquitted of fraud charges in the U.S. in 1990?


A: Imelda Marcos.

What were the Soviet Unions symbols for work in the factory and on the land?
A: Hammer and sickle.

Who expected to be paid 2,000 pounds for surrendering West Point to the British?
A: Benedict Arnold.

What did an official U.S. investigation call the greatest military and naval disaster in our nations
history?
A: The attack on Pearl Harbor.

Whose migraine headache vanished after he read Robert E. Lees note of surrender?
A: Ulysses S. Grants.

What did loose lips do, according to a popular rhyming World War II slogan?
A: Sink Ships.

What city had North Americas first medical school, bank and city-paid police force.
A: Philadelphia.

What Filipino was nicknamed the iron butterfly.


A: Imelda Marcos.
What did Jack McCall fall off, seconds after he shot Wild Bill Hickok?
A: His Horse.

Who was the longest-serving president in French history?


A: Francois Mitterrand.

What countrys rampant political corruption was probed by the Mani pulite, or Clean Hands, of the
1990s?
A: Italys.

What flying ace averaged a kill every 11 days between September of 1915, and April of 1918?
A: Manfred von Richthofen, or The Red Barron.

Math trivia questions and answers.

Q: What mathematical symbol did math whiz Ferdinand von Lindemann determine to be a
transcendental number in 1882?
A: Pi.

Q: What do you call an angle more than 90 degrees and less than 180 degrees?
A: Obtuse.

Q: Whats the top number of a fraction called?


A: The numerator.

Q: What Greek math whiz noticed that the morning star and evening star were one and the same, in
530 B.C.?
A: Pythagoras.

Q: Whats a polygon with four unequal sides called?


A: A quadrilateral.

Q: Whats a flat image that can be displayed in three dimensions?


A: A hologram.

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Q: What number does giga stand for?


A: One billion.

Q: What digit did Arab mathematician al-Khwarizmi give to the West around 800 B/B.?
A: Zero.

Q: What word describes a number system with a base of two?


A: Binary.

Q: How many equal sides does an icosahedron have?


A: Twenty.

Q: What do mathematicians call a regular polygon with eight sides?


A: An octagon.

Q: What T-word is defined in geometry as a straight line that touches a curve but continues on with
crossing it?
A: Tangent.

Q: What geometrical shape forms the hole that fits and allen wrench?
A: The hexagon.
Q: What number is an improper fraction always greater than?
A: One.

Q: What two letters are both symbols for 1,000?


A: K and M.

Q: Whats short for binary digit?


A: Bit.

Q: What century did mathematicians first use plus and minus signs?
A: The sixteenth.

Q: What number, a one followed by 100 zeros, was first used by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta in 1940?
A: Googol.

Q: What handy mathematical instruments days were numbered when the pocket calculator made the
scene in the 1970s?
A: The Slide rules.

Olympics trivia questions and answers.

Q: How many of Carl Lewis Olympic gold medals were won in long jump competitions?
A: Three.

Q: What legendary strongman laid out the 600-foot race course for the only event in the earl years of
the ancient Olympics?
A: Hercules.
Sports trivia for the massesright on this site.

Q: What U.S. athlete was about a week pregnant when she broke the world 200-meter record at the
1984 Olympics?
A: Evelyn Ashford

Q: What woman was the only U.S. athlete to win a gold medal at the 1968 Winter Olympics?
A: Peggy Fleming.

Many other sports trivia pages available too.

Q: What former IOC president wanted to eliminate team sports and the Winter Games?
A: Avery Brundage.

Q: What U.S. team did 59 percent of American viewers root against during the 1996 Olympics,
according to an ESPN poll?
A: The Dream Team.

Q: What grueling Olympic event saw Josia Thugwane become the first black man from South Africa to
win a gold medal, in 1996?
A: The Marathon.

Q: What sport did Margaret Abbott play to become the first U.S. woman to win Olympic gold, in
1900?
A: Golf.

Q: What future screen star was the first person to swim 100 meters in under a minute, in 1922?
A: Johnny Weissmuller.

Q: What Olympic champ played an HIV-infected chorus boy in the play Jeffery in 1993?
A: Greg Louganis.

Q: What did members of the Canadian swim team swear to give u during the 1996 Olympics?
A: Sex.
Q: What alpine city hosted the Winter Olympics in 1964 and 1976?
A: Insbruck.

Q: What country had a swim team that swore off drinking and Big Macs for the 1996 Olympics?
A: The U.S..

Q: What L.A. Laker stars height was listed as two meters in 1996 Olympic programs?
A: Sahquille ONealss.

Q: What Soviet gymnast performed the first back somersault on a balance beam?
A: Olga Korbut.

Q: What 37-year-old middle distance runner qualified for her fourth Olympic team in 1996?
A: Mary Slaney.

Q: What sport is played with stones and brooms?


A: Curling.

Q: What contest of team strength was an official Olympic event from 1900 to 1920?
A: Tug of War.

Q: What Olympic aquatic event includes such positions as the Flamingo, crane and fishtail?
A: Synchronized swimming

Q: How many athletes competed for Israel in the 1994 Winter Olympics?
A: One

Q: What 1960 Olympic champion lit the torch to start Atlantas 1996 Olympic festivities?
A: Muhammad Ali.
And yet even more sports trivia below this point

Q: What apparatus do male gymnasts refer to as the pig?


A: The pommel horse.

Q: What event earned Norways Johann Olay Koss three golds at the 1994 Winter Olympics?
A: Speed skating.

Q: What new womens team sport was played on sand at the 1996 summer Olympics?
A: Beach Volleyball.

Q: Who passed Eric Heiden to become the most decorated U.S. Winter Olympian ever?
A: Bonnie Blair.

Q: What was the only thing Brianna Scurry wore during her Gold Medal celebration lap through the
late night streets of Atlanta?
A: Her gold medal.

Q: What decathlon champ was the first black student body president at UCLA?
A: Rafer Johnson

Places trivia questions and answers.

What Nations treasures include the Sistine Chapel?


A: Vatican Citys.

Which extends further North- Japan, North Korea or turkey?


A: Japan.

What country can an Afghani escape to on the Khyber Pass?


A: Pakistan.
What two countries sandwich the dead sea?
A: Israel and Jordan.

What U.S. state is said to have as many cows as people?


A: Wisconsin.

What continent boasts the most telephone lines?


A: Europe.

What future Soviet republic produced one-half of the worlds oil in 1901?
A: Azerbaijan.

What African country is bordered by Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique?


A: South Africa.

Whats the only Central American country without a coastline on the Caribbean?
A: El Salvador.

What North American mountain range is an apt anagram for o, manski country?
A: Rocky Moutntians.

What city is headquarters for Zero Population Growth and the Impotence Institution of America?
A:Washington, DC.

What city boasts a Board of Trade that buy and sells half the worlds wheat and corn?
A: Chicago.

What island boasts Mount Fuji?


A: Honshu.

What European countrys most common last name is De Vries?


A: The Netherlands.

What desert do Botswana, Namibia and South Africa have in common?


A: The Kalahari.

What U.S. state has the highest percentage of residents born in other countries?
A: California.

How many U.S. states are named after a president>?


A: One.

Whats the worlds highest island mountain?


A: Mauna Kea.

What was the only country still building steam locomotives in 1990?
A: China.

Which two European countries lead the world n wine consumption pr capita?
A: France and Italy.

What was the worlds highest man-made structure for 4,000 years before being passed by the central
tower of Lincoln Cathedral?
A: The Great Pyramid of Cheops.

What western state is less than thrilled to be known as the Vermin State?
A: New Mexico.

Whats the only South American country that has both a Pacific and a Caribbean coast?
A: Colombia.
What interstate highway connects Boston and Seattle?
A: I-90.

What state boasts all or part of the ten largest American Indian reservations?
A: Arizona.

What Canadian citys name means muddy water?


A: Winnipegs.

What desert did David Livingstone have to cross to reach Lake Ngami?
A: The Kalahari.

What country sent out 15,000 census workers to count its homeless population, in 1990?
A: The U.S.

What do Americans call the Huang Ho, Chinas second-longest river?


A: The Yellow River.

What Russian republic has its capital in Grozny?


A: Chechnya.

What state made the U.S. the fourth largest country in land mass in 1959?
A: Alaska.

What state does the Yellowstone River rise in?


A: Wyoming.

What island has endured Mount Etnas wrath over 140 times?
A: Sicily.

How many months per year do residents of Tromso, Norway go without seeing a sunset?
A: Three.

President trivia questions and answers.

What U.S. presidents State of the Union address lasted a record 81 minutes?
A: Bill Clintons.

What U.S. president was born William Jefferson Blythe IV?


A: Bill Clinton.

What 1970s president openly discussed his battle with hemorrhoids?


A: Jimmy Carter. Presidential trivia questions and answers.

What U.S. president had the shortest life?


A: John F. Kennedy.

What former president was on an African hunting trip when his enemy J. P. Morgan quipped: Let
every lion do his duty?
A: Theodore Roosevelt.

What conspirator in the Lincoln assassination was pardoned for saving the lives of prison guards
during a yellow fever epidemic?
A: Dr. Samuel Mudd.

What president opined: Once you get into this great stream of history you cant get out?
A: Richard Nixon.

Who was the first president to utter We shall overcome before a joint session of Congress?
A: Lyndon B. Johnson.
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What future president was the only U.S. senator from a Confederate state to remain in Congress after
secession?
A: Andrew Jackson.

What presidents mug graces a $100,000 bill?


A: Woodrow Wilson.

What future U.S. president received the last rites of the Catholic Church after an infection following
spinal surgery in 1954?
A: John F. Kennedy.

What war saw James Madison become the first U.S. president to command a military unit during his
term in office?
A: The war of 1812.

What document did President Andrew Johnson want a copy of placed under his head upon his burial?
A: The U.S. Constitution.

Who was the first daughter of a U.S. president to pose nude for a Playboy video?
A: Patti Davis.

How many U.S. states are named after a president?


A: One.

Who is the only president to have survived two assassination attempts by women?
A: Gerald Ford.

What portly U.S. president was the first to be a golf nut?


A: William Howard Taft.

What future presidents Texas classmates ran a shot of a jackass under his yearbook photo?
A: Lyndon B. Johnsons.

What day does the U.S. president traditionally deliver a weekly radio address?
A: Saturday.

What horse-loving future president cheated on an eye exam to join the cavalry reserves in the 1930s?
A: Ronald Regan.

What U.S. president threw out the most Opening Day baseballs?
A: Franklin D. Roosevelt.

What card game did Dwight D. Eisenhower play fanatically while planning for D-Day?
A: Bridge.

What White House lawyer first revealed the existence of an enemies list and hush money at the
Watergate hearings?
A: John Dean.

What date saw FDR sign the U.S. declaration of war against Japan?
A: December 8, 1941.

What U.S. president installed solar panels on the White House roof?
A: Jimmy Carter.

What First Lady of the 1980s was shocked to find a tremendous rat swimming with her in the White
House Pool?
A: Barbara Bush.
What future anchor was the only female reporter to tag along with Richard Nixon on his historic trip
to China?
A: Barbara Walters.

Who revealed that the U.S. had a hydrogen bomb in his last State of the Union speech?
A: Harry S. Truman

Rock Groups Bands and Rock Bands?

Which band recorded the album The Joshua Tree?


A: U2.

In the 70s who put a Message In A Bottle?


A: Police.

Which band had a big hit with You Make Me Wanna?


A: Usher.

Money For Nothing was an 80s NO 1 for which band?


A: Dire Straits

Which Dimension had a 60s smash with Aquarius?


A: 5th Dimension.

Which US Boys band featured three members of the Wilson Family?


A: The Beach Boys.

Keith Richards rocked on in which super group?


A: The Rolling Stones.

Who was backed by The Shondells?


A: Tommy James.

How many boys were there in The Pet Shop Boys?


A: Two.

Who fronted The Heartbreakers?


A: Tom Petty.

Which heavy metal group took the name of Dutch-born members guitarist Eddie and drummer Alex?
A: Van Halen

Which 60s icon was backed by The Band?


A: Bob Dylan.

Which band included Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel?


A: Genesis.

Mickey Dolenz was in which 60s sensation group?


A: The Monkees.

In which state did Chicago get together?


A: Illinois.

Which band produced the album Dark Side Of The Moon?


A: Pink Floyd

Which group flew into the Hotel California?


A: The Eagles.

R.E.M. cut the No 1 album Out Of what?


A: Time.
Which band recorded the album Parallel Lines?
A: Blondie.

Which band sang I want to Know What Love Is?


A: Foreigner.

How many brothers were in the original Jackson family line up?
A: Five.

Tusk was a best-selling album for which band?


A: Fleetwood Mac.

What did the letter O stand for in ELO?


A: Orchestra.

Whose hits include Bad Moon Rising and Green River?


A: Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Which all time great band featured Harrison and Starkey?


A: The Beatles.

Free boxing trivia questions with answers.


Boxing trivia questions and answers.

Q: What boxing class is heaviest flyweight, bantam weight or feather weight?


A: Feather weight.

Q: What nickname do boxing fans call 300 pound Eric Esch, King of the Fouro-Rounders?
A: Butter Bean.

Q: Who beat Michael Moorer in a 1994 heavyweight title fight hyped as One for the Ages?
A: George Foreman.

Q: What boxer made his first title defense in 21 years, in 1995?


A: George Foreman.

Q: Who did Joe Frazier say he wanted like a hog wants slop?
A: Muhammad Ali

Q: What percentage of Mike Tysons 1995 earnings came from endorsements?


A: Zero.

Q: What boxer answers to the nickname Sweet Pea?


A: Pernell Whitaker

Q: What heavyweight champion was nicknamed Real Deal?


A: Evander Holyfield

Q: Who received a reported $25 million for a 1995 boxing match that lasted 89 seconds?
A: Mike Tyson.

Q: How old was George Foreman when he became the oldest heavyweight champ in history?
A: Forty-five.

Q: What pro sport gives its participants an 87 percent chance of suffering brain damage?
A: Boxing.

Q: What boxing weight class is limited to 190 pounds?


A: Cruiserweight.

Q: What Mexican boxing champ lost for the first time to little known Frankie Randall?
A: Julio Cesar Chavez.
Q: What had to occur for a round to end when John L. Sullivan beat Jake Killrain in 75 rounds, in
1889?
A: A knockdown.

Q: Who was the first sports announcer to address Muhammad Ali by his Muslim name?
A: Howard Cosell.

Q: What year in the 1970s was Muhammad Alis last as heavyweight champ?
A:1979.

Q: What boxing promoter was indicted for filing a false insurance claim with Lloyds of London?
A: Don King.

Q: What boxer successfully defended his title against George Foreman and Larry Holmes?
A: Evander Holyfield.

Q: Who reigned as heavyweight boxing champ of Uganda from 1951-1960?


A: Idi Amin.

Q: What did boxer Nelson Azumah change his name to?


A: Azumah Nelson.

Q: What boxing promoters favorite expression is Only in America?


A: Don Kings.

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