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Easy Round

1. What is the title of Dr. José Rizal's first novel?


o Answer: Noli Me Tangere
2. What is the term for the part of a story that introduces the setting and characters?
o Answer: Exposition
3. Who is known as the 'Father of Filipino Grammar'?
o Answer: Lope K. Santos
4. What is the Filipino word for ‘literature’?
o Answer: Panitikan
5. What type of poem has 14 lines and follows a specific rhyme scheme?
o Answer: Sonnet

Average Round

1. Who wrote the poem “Sa Aking Mga Kabata”?


o Answer: Dr. José Rizal
2. In mythology, what is the name of the bird in Ibong Adarna?
o Answer: Ibong Adarna
3. What literary genre is characterized by fictional stories set in the future or alternate
realities?
o Answer: Science Fiction
4. Which Filipino author wrote Mga Ibong Mandaragit?
o Answer: Amado V. Hernandez
5. What is the central message of a story called?
o Answer: Theme

Difficult Round

1. What epic from Mindanao tells the adventures of the hero Bantugan?
o Answer: Darangen
2. Who was the first National Artist for Literature in the Philippines?
o Answer: José García Villa
3. What is the term for a play written for the stage in literature?
o Answer: Drama
4. Name the literary piece considered as the first Filipino modern short story, written
by Manuel Arguilla.
o Answer: How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife
5. What do you call the conflict in a story that involves a character struggling with
their inner thoughts?
o Answer: Internal Conflict
Clincher Round

1. What is the oldest existing Tagalog epic?


o Answer: Biag ni Lam-ang
2. In Florante at Laura, who is the author, and what type of poetry is it?
o Answer: Francisco Balagtas, Awit
3. What novel is often considered the sequel to Noli Me Tangere?
o Answer: El Filibusterismo
4. What is the literary device that uses symbolic images or narratives to express a
hidden meaning, often moral or political?
o Answer: Allegory
5. Who wrote Dekada ’70, a novel about martial law in the Philippines?
o Answer: Lualhati Bautista

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Easy Round

1. What is the title of Dr. José Rizal’s second novel?


a. Noli Me Tangere
b. El Filibusterismo
c. Sa Aking Mga Kabata
d. Mga Ibong Mandaragit
o Answer: b. El Filibusterismo
2. Who is the author of Harry Potter?
a. J.K. Rowling
b. Suzanne Collins
c. Rick Riordan
d. C.S. Lewis
o Answer: a. J.K. Rowling
3. What is the Filipino word for ‘poem’?
a. Tula
b. Dula
c. Awit
d. Talambuhay
o Answer: a. Tula
4. What is the main setting of the novel Ibong Adarna?
a. Bundok Tabor
b. Kaharian ng Berbanya
c. Kaharian ng Albanya
d. Bundok Makiling
o Answer: b. Kaharian ng Berbanya
5. Who wrote Romeo and Juliet?
a. William Shakespeare
b. Mark Twain
c. Charles Dickens
d. Homer
o Answer: a. William Shakespeare
6. What is the term for the climax of a story?
a. Ending
b. Rising Action
c. Turning Point
d. Resolution
o Answer: c. Turning Point
7. Which Filipino writer is known for Mga Kwento ni Lola Basyang?
a. Severino Reyes
b. Lope K. Santos
c. José Garcia Villa
d. Francisco Balagtas
o Answer: a. Severino Reyes
8. What genre does The Hunger Games belong to?
a. Fantasy
b. Dystopian Fiction
c. Historical Fiction
d. Science Fiction
o Answer: b. Dystopian Fiction
9. What is the Filipino term for a short story?
a. Sanaysay
b. Nobela
c. Maikling Kwento
d. Alamat
o Answer: c. Maikling Kwento
10. Who is the author of The Little Prince?
a. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
b. Hans Christian Andersen
c. J.R.R. Tolkien
d. Victor Hugo
o Answer: a. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Average Round

1. Which character in Greek mythology is known for his journey home to Ithaca?
a. Achilles
b. Odysseus
c. Hector
d. Perseus
o Answer: b. Odysseus
2. Who wrote Ang mga Ibong Mandaragit?
a. Amado V. Hernandez
b. Lualhati Bautista
c. José Rizal
d. Nick Joaquin
o Answer: a. Amado V. Hernandez
3. What is the main theme of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald?
a. The American Dream
b. Revenge
c. War and Peace
d. Freedom
o Answer: a. The American Dream
4. What is the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s first book in The Lord of the Rings trilogy?
a. The Two Towers
b. The Fellowship of the Ring
c. The Return of the King
d. The Hobbit
o Answer: b. The Fellowship of the Ring
5. What is the title of Francisco Balagtas’ famous literary work?
a. Florante at Laura
b. Ibong Adarna
c. Noli Me Tangere
d. El Filibusterismo
o Answer: a. Florante at Laura
6. What literary device involves giving human qualities to non-human objects?
a. Hyperbole
b. Metaphor
c. Personification
d. Irony
o Answer: c. Personification
7. Who wrote The Diary of a Young Girl?
a. Anne Frank
b. Helen Keller
c. Malala Yousafzai
d. Maya Angelou
o Answer: a. Anne Frank
8. In Noli Me Tangere, what is Crisostomo Ibarra's alias in El Filibusterismo?
a. Juan Luna
b. Simoun
c. Elias
d. Padre Damaso
o Answer: b. Simoun
9. What is the central idea of a story called?
a. Theme
b. Plot
c. Climax
d. Setting
o Answer: a. Theme
10. What is the title of the longest-running epic in the Philippines from Mindanao?
a. Hinilawod
b. Darangen
c. Biag ni Lam-ang
d. Hudhud
o Answer: b. Darangen

Difficult Round

1. Who wrote Les Misérables?


a. Victor Hugo
b. Alexandre Dumas
c. Jules Verne
d. Gustave Flaubert
o Answer: a. Victor Hugo
2. Which epic tells the adventures of the hero Aeneas?
a. The Iliad
b. The Odyssey
c. The Aeneid
d. Beowulf
o Answer: c. The Aeneid
3. What Filipino novel revolves around the life of women during the Japanese
occupation?
a. Gapo
b. Dekada ’70
c. Bulaklak sa City Jail
d. Mga Ibong Mandaragit
o Answer: c. Bulaklak sa City Jail
4. What is the original language of Don Quixote?
a. Italian
b. Spanish
c. French
d. Portuguese
o Answer: b. Spanish
5. Who wrote 100 Years of Solitude, a masterpiece of magical realism?
a. Gabriel García Márquez
b. Mario Vargas Llosa
c. Jorge Luis Borges
d. Isabel Allende
o Answer: a. Gabriel García Márquez
6. What is the term for a story that ends with a moral lesson?
a. Legend
b. Epic
c. Fable
d. Parable
o Answer: c. Fable
7. What is the real name of Bob Ong?
a. Roberto Ong
b. Unknown
c. Rogelio Ong
d. Renowned author
o Answer: b. Unknown
8. What is the most famous Greek epic written by Homer?
a. Iliad
b. Odyssey
c. Aeneid
d. Beowulf
o Answer: a. Iliad
9. Which Filipino writer won the Palanca Award for The Woman Who Had Two
Navels?
a. Nick Joaquin
b. F. Sionil Jose
c. Bienvenido Santos
d. Carlos Bulosan
o Answer: a. Nick Joaquin
10. What is the term for the introduction of a literary piece?
a. Preface
b. Prologue
c. Epilogue
d. Resolution
o Answer: b. Prologue

Clincher Round

1. What type of irony occurs when the audience knows something the characters do
not?
a. Situational Irony
b. Dramatic Irony
c. Verbal Irony
d. Cosmic Irony
o Answer: b. Dramatic Irony
2. Which Filipino writer is known for his humorous essays like My Brother's Peculiar
Chicken?
a. Alejandro Roces
b. Manuel Arguilla
c. Amado V. Hernandez
d. Carlos Bulosan
o Answer: a. Alejandro Roces
3. Who wrote the novel Pride and Prejudice?
a. Charlotte Brontë
b. Emily Brontë
c. Jane Austen
d. Mary Shelley
o Answer: c. Jane Austen
4. What is the title of the Filipino folk epic about a hero from Ilocos?
a. Darangen
b. Biag ni Lam-ang
c. Hinilawod
d. Hudhud
o Answer: b. Biag ni Lam-ang

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