Pinoy Trivia

Subject: Pinoy Trivia March 9th 2008, 12:39 pm

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The exotic jeepney is a post-war creation inspired by the GI
jeeps that the American soldiers brought to the country in the 1940s.
Enterprising Filipinos salvaged the surplus engines and came out unique
vehicles of art.
Short distance and feeder trips could not be more exciting than
via Philippine quick transports – the tricycle, a motorcycle with asidecar, and the pedicab, a bicycle with a sidecar.
The world’s longest underground river system accessible to man can be found at the St. Paul National Park in the province of Palawan.

Subject: Re: Pinoy Trivia March 9th 2008, 1:00 pm

4. The Philippines, a democratic country in Southeast Asia that declared
its independence from Spain on June 12, 1898 but only obtained its full
sovereignty on July 4, 1946, has a total land area covering 300,000
square kilometers (115,830 sq. miles) and distributed in 7,107 islands.
According to the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority,
15,854,922 hectares or 53 percent of the country's total land area were
forestlands while the remaining 14,145,078 hectares or 47 percent were
alienable and disposable lands as of December 2000. The three major
island groupings are Luzon (7 regions, 38 provinces), Visayas (3 regions,
16 provinces), and Mindanao (6 regions, 25 provinces).

Subject: Re: Pinoy Trivia March 13th 2008, 10:41 pm

5. According to the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), there are 78 language groupings and over 500 dialects in the Philippines. While Filipino is regarded as the national language, it was mainly based on Tagalog (from the local phrase taga-ilog meaning residents near the river) language. The main language of instruction is English and the country's laws are also recorded in this language. Filipinos are said to be the world's second largest English-speaking people, after the Americans. This, of course, is subject to debate since only a few Filipinos actually talk in English on the street.

Subject: Re: Pinoy Trivia April 5th 2008, 8:14 pm

(6) 20 Typhoons Each Year

Situated between latitude 21°25'N and 4°23'N and longitude 116°E and
127°E, the Philippines is a tropical country with an average year-round
temperature of 27°C (82°F). The Philippine time is Greenwich Mean Time
(GMT) plus eight hours. According to the Philippine Atmospheric,
Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), about
20 typhoons visit the Philippines between June and October each year.
In 1993, the Philippines had 32 typhoons, the highest in many years.

Subject: Re: Pinoy Trivia April 7th 2008, 1:52 am

7. Tagala - the Philippines first Filipino-Spanish dictionary which was
printed in 1613, 25 years older than the first book printed in the
United States.

Subject: Re: Pinoy Trivia April 21st 2008, 10:57 pm

8. Dionisio Scored First Basket

Joy Dionisio, who was playing for Concepcion-Carrier against Mariwasa-Noritake,
made the first shot in the PBA. He scored a layup on April 9, 1975, at the
Araneta Coliseum. But Mariwasa-Noritake went on to win the PBA's first
game, 101-98, behind Cisco Oliver's 48 points.

Subject: Re: Pinoy Trivia May 2nd 2008, 10:55 pm

9. The term Pilipinas, as distinguished from Filipinas, made its first public appearance in a stamp issued during the Japanese Occupation of Manila in World War II. Not until 1962 did the Philippine government make a similar change from Filipinas to Pilipinas in officially describing the nation.

Subject: Re: Pinoy Trivia May 4th 2008, 11:58 pm

10. The antibiotic erythromycin — used to treat a wide variety of bacterial
infections, such as respiratory tract infections, middle ear
infections, and skin infections — was created by Filipino scientist
Abelardo Aguilar, and has earned American drug giant Eli Lilly billions
of dollars. Neither Aguilar nor the Philippine government received
royalties.

Subject: Re: Pinoy Trivia May 28th 2008, 11:17 am

11. In the Philippines, Filipinos were introduced to the English language in 1762 by British
invaders, not Americans. Philippines is the world's 3rd largest
English-speaking nation, next to the USA and the UK.

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ROCK ON!

Subject: Re: Pinoy Trivia September 17th 2008, 6:50 pm

12. Longest Underground RiverThe world’s longest underground river system accessible to man can be found at the St. Paul National Park in the province of Palawan. It is 8 kilometers long.

Subject: Re: Pinoy Trivia September 24th 2008, 4:41 pm

3. Winner of Best Underwater Images: Diving paradise Anilao, in the province of Batangas, is the theme of a picture book that bagged the International Prize for Underwater Images at the 27th World Festival of Underwater Images in France in November 2000. “Anilao” book creators and Filipino scuba divers Scott Tuason and Eduardo Cu Unjieng defeated big names in underwater photography such as Jacques Mayol, Pascal Kobeh, Monique Walker, and Alessandro Tommasi.

Subject: Re: Pinoy Trivia February 20th 2009, 9:06 am

4. Women Live Longer

Life expectancy is estimated at 72.2 years for Filipino women and 66.9
years for Filipino men. Around 38 percent of the population is younger
than 15 years old and 28 percent belongs to the 15 to 24 age bracket.
Population experts claim it would take 25 years before the Philippine
population reaches its peak.

Subject: Re: Pinoy Trivia April 28th 2009, 10:48 pm

ano po meron dito??

Subject: Re: Pinoy Trivia June 13th 2009, 5:45 pm

Dr. Jose Rizal, the national hero of the Philippines can read and write at the age of 2. He grew up speaking 20 foreign languages including French, Greek, Chinese, Latin and German.

Subject: Re: Pinoy Trivia June 20th 2012, 5:35 pm

I Found this bit funny....

"Chorva” was derived from the Greek word cheorvamus, which means “for lack of the right word to say” or “in place of something you want to express but cannot verbalize.”

very happy

Subject: Re: Pinoy Trivia February 5th 2015, 1:35 pm

1. Juan Luna killed his wife and mother-in-law. he was later acquited of his "crime of passion".
2. JAZ COLA a beverage produced by coca-cola company,was specifically made ofr the people in the visayan islands.
3. Aluling bridge in Ilocos Sur took 35 years to complete.(35 years and 6 presidents)
4. the first same sex marriage in the Philippinesis between two NPA members in 2005.

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