He was the Indian mathematician and astronomer who defined the properties of zero, both as a

placeholder and a decimal digit.

A) Aryabatha
B) Brahmagupta
C) Madhava
D) Ibn Sina
ANSWER: B

This country was the first to develop a seismograph to detect earthquakes.

A) India
B) Africa
C) China
D) Egypt
ANSWER: C

An Arab mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden age who is considered as the
Father of Optics and modern scientific method.
A) Hasan Ibn al-Haytham
B) Jabir ibn Hayyan
C) Ibn Sina
D) Al-Zahrawi
ANSWER: A

The earliest case of man-made extinction occurred over how many years ago?
A) 10,000
B) 11,000
C) 12,000
D) 13,000
ANSWER: C

What did ancient Chinese chemists discover when trying to find the Elixir of Immortality?
A) Paper
B) Gunpowder
C) Acupuncture
D) Gold
ANSWER: B

Competition is now the new trend in the concept of flourishing.

A) True
B) False
ANSWER: B
Who wrote 'The Canon of Medicine' which became a standard textbook in medical schools for many
years?
A) Hasan Ibn al-Haytham
B) Jabir ibn Hayyan
C) Ibn Sina
D) Al-Zahrawi
ANSWER: C

Filipino scientist recognized for his research on herbal medicine.

A) Lourdes J. Cruz
B) Fabian M. Dayrit
C) Jose Bejar Cruz, Jr.
D) Lilian Formalejo Pateña
ANSWER: B

A Filipino scientist known for his research on Tilapia culture.

A) Rafael Dineros Guerrero III
B) Fabian M. Dayrit
C) Jose Bejar Cruz, Jr.
D) Lilian Formalejo Pateña
ANSWER: A

A Filipina biochemist notable for her research on sea snail venom.

A) Lilian Formalejo Pateña
B) Mari-Jo Panganiban Ruiz
C) Lourdes J. Cruz
D) Esperanza Cabral
ANSWER: C

A Filipino scientist known internationally in the field of engineering. He was elected as officer of
the famous Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
A) Jose Bejar Cruz, Jr.
B) Enrique Mapua Ostrea Jr.
C) Gregory Ligot Tangonan
D) Edgardo D. Gomez
ANSWER: A

The goal of government policies on science and technology are the following:
A) To prepare the whole country and its people to meet the demands of a technologically
driven world.
B) Capacitate the people to live in a world driven by science.
C) All of these answers
D) None of these answers
ANSWER: C
Who is the Austrian-British philosopher who said that for a theory to be considered scientific it
must be able to be tested and proven false.
A) Karl Popper
B) Martin Heidegger
C) Carl Gustav Jung
D) None of the above
ANSWER: A

The eastern concept of human flourishing is more focused on the individual rather than the
community.
A) True
B) False
ANSWER: B

This is referred to as the habit of making the right decisions, the right actions in context, and
relentless pursuit of excellence for the common good.
A) Hedonism
B) Eudaimonia
C) Phronesis
D) All of these answers
ANSWER: C

Who was the Greek philosopher who coined the word “Eudaimonia”?
A) Plato
B) Aristotle
C) Hippocrates
D) Herodutus
ANSWER: B

These are the early humans that began to sharpen stones.

A) Homo habilis
B) Homo erectus
C) Homo sapiens
D) None of these answers
ANSWER: C

They defined happiness as cocktail of emotions we experience when we do something good or

positive.
A) Neurologists
B) Behaviorists
C) Psychologists
D) None of these answers
ANSWER: B

Described happiness as a flood of hormones released in the brain as a reward for behavior that
prolongs survival.
A) Neurologists
B) Behaviorists
C) Psychologists
D) None of these answers
ANSWER: A

This refers to the term that combines the Greek words for "good" and "spirit".
A) Eudaimonia
B) Hedonism
C) Phronesis
D) None of these answers
ANSWER: A

This refers to Aristotle’s well known work which is about the philosophical inquiry into the
nature of the good life for a human being.
A) Metaphysics
B) Nicomachean Ethics
C) Prior Analytics
D) None of these answers
ANSWER: B

This is one of the notable comparisons in the advancement of technology in which lesser
women and children die during birth, assuring robust population and strong workforce.
A) Mortality Rate
B) Average Lifespan
C) Literacy Rate
D) Gross Domestic Product
ANSWER: A

This refers to pleasure and feeling good at the moment, reaching a goal, or feeling temporarily
satisfied.
A) Good Life
B) Hedonia
C) Eudaimonia
D) Good spirited
ANSWER: B
This is often used to determine the value of the country's goods and services produced within
the territory given a certain time period.
A) Mortality Rate
B) Average Lifespan
C) Literacy Rate
D) Gross Domestic Product
ANSWER: D

The American philosopher who warned us against bridging the gap between evidence and
theory by attempting to interpret the evidence according to our own biases, that is, whether or
not we subscribe to this theory.
A) Edwin Schrodinger
B) Karl Popper
C) Thomas Kuhn
D) None of these answers
ANSWER: C

Science is able to prolong lives by enhancing living status and discovering different remedies to
most diseases.
A) Mortality Rate
B) Average Lifespan
C) Literacy Rate
D) Gross Domestic Product
ANSWER: B

A group of scholars who believed on the theory that only those which can be observed should
be regarded as meaningful, and reject those which cannot be directly accessed as meaningless.
A) The Kraft Circle
B) Vienna Circle
C) The Vienna Convention
D) Falsification Theory
ANSWER: B

Science is entirely foolproof, such that it is correct 100% of the time.

A) True
B) False
ANSWER: B

This is a scientific approach to seeking knowledge that involves forming and testing a
hypothesis and used to answer questions in a wide variety of disciplines.
A) Scientific Method
B) Scientific Theory
C) Hypothesis
D) None of these answers
ANSWER: A

LESSON 2: TECHNOLOGY AS A WAY OF REVEALING

This term is attributed mainly to the changes brought about by technology.

A) Innovation
B) Development
C) Generation Gap
D) None of these answers
ANSWER: C

Early humans that have been using fire to cook, through chipping one flint over the other to
produce a spark.
A) Homo habilis
B) Homo erectus
C) Homo sapiens
ANSWER: B

This is otherwise referred to as the sixth mass extinction or Anthropocene extinction.

A) Devonian
B) Holocene
C) Cretaceous-tertiary
D) Permian-Triassic
ANSWER: B

One of the notable comparisons in the advancement of technology by which access to

education provided to more individuals generally creates more informed public that could
determine a more just society.
A) Mortality Rate
B) Average Lifespan
C) Literacy Rate
D) Gross Domestic Product
ANSWER: C
The philosopher who expounded that technology can either be perceived as first, a means to
achieve man’s end and second, that which constitutes human activity.
A) Aristotle
B) Martin Heidegger
C) John Stuart Mill
D) None of these answers
ANSWER: B

The philosopher that claims that happiness is the ‘be all and end of all’ of everything we do.
A) Aristotle
B) Pythagoras
C) Socrates
D) Plato
ANSWER: A

This is the freedom of man to carve his own destiny and to legislate his own flaws, free from the
shackles of a God that monitors and controls.
A) Theism
B) Hedonism
C) Stoicism
D) Humanism
ANSWER: D

The mantra of this school of thought is the famous, "Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we
die."
A) Materialism
B) Stoicism
C) Hedonism
D) Humanism
ANSWER: C

This school of thought espoused the idea that to generate happiness, one must learn to
distance oneself and be apathetic.
A) Humanism
B) Stoicism
C) Hedonism
D) Materialism
ANSWER: B

A belief that the world is made up of and is controlled by the tiny indivisible units in the world
called atomos or seeds.
A) Stoicism
B) Materialism
C) Humanism
D) Hedonism
ANSWER: B

This school of thought believes that communion with God is ultimate basis of happiness.
A) Theism
B) Humanism
C) Hedonism
D) Materialism
ANSWER: A

The philosopher Plato thought that things in this world are not real and are only copies of the
real in the world of forms.
A) True
B) False
ANSWER: A

The Filipino scientist who was recognized for his outstanding contribution to chemistry and
president of the National Academy of Science and Technology Philippines.
A) Edgardo Gomez
B) Ramon Cabanos Barba
C) William Padolina
D) Cezar Saloma
ANSWER: C

Aristotle agreed with Plato's position of reality and forwarded the idea that there is reality over
above what the senses can perceive.
A) True
B) False
Answer: B

The first philosopher, who approached the problem of reality from a "scientific" lens as we
know now, is also the first thinker who dabbed into the complex problematization of the end
goal of life which is happiness.
A) Plato
B) Aristotle
C) Democritus
D) Leucippus
ANSWER: B

For this philosopher, change is so perplexing that it can only make sense if there are two
realities: the world of forms and the world of matter.
A) Epicurus
B) Aristotle
C) Plato
D) Leucippus
ANSWER: C

Precisely means to be indifferent.

A) Atomos
B) Telos
C) Apatheia
D) None of these answers
ANSWER: C

The philosopher John Stuart Mill was the one who declared the Greatest Happiness Principle.
A) True
B) False
Answer: A

He was the proponent of Hedonism and Stoicism.

A) Leucippus
B) Epicurus
C) Democritus
D) None of these answers
ANSWER: B

This ancient civilization was believed to be one of the first people to produce rubber products
3,000 years before Goodyear received its patent in 1844.
A) The Incas
B) The Aztecs
C) The Mayans
D) The Olmecs
ANSWER: C

This is a form of financial support provided by different countries to fund basic and applied
researches.
A) Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
B) Overseas Development Aid
C) Millennium Development Goals
D) Asian Development Assistance Committee
ANSWER: B