Part 2 - Self-Administered Test on the Lives of Great Men and Women

Dr. Abe V. Rotor and Ms. Melly Tenorio
DZRB 738 AM Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid
Monday to Friday, 8 to 9 Evening Class

1. England has William Shakespeare; we have Francisco Balagtas (Shakespearean and Balagtasan. (T)

Francisco Balagtas, foremost Filipino poet laureate

2. America has Henry Kissinger; we have Carlos Romulo – two world’s peacemakers. (T)

3. If Russia has Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace), we have Jose Rizal (Noli Me Tangere – both world’s acclaimed political novels that changed the thinking of the world against colonialism and aristocracy.

4. If Europe has Alexander the Great; Asia has Attila the Hun (F) Genghis Khan

5. If Germany has the Grimm Brothers (children’s story teller), and Denmark has Hans Anderson, we have Lola Basiang. (T)

6. Alexander Fleming’s discovery of Penicillium is a classical example of serendipity – providential discovery. (T)

7. Chiang Kai Shik led PROC, while Mao Tse Tung led the Republic of China. (F)

8. The genius of the world’s greatest composers is Beethoven. (F) Johan Sebastian Bach

9. The genius and benevolence behind the building of the Rice Terraces can be compared with the genius and benevolence behind the building of the Great Wall of China. (F) Terraces is a work of love and peace to secure peace; the Great Wall was built for war to secure peace.

10. The old civilization of the Aztecs was genius in astronomy, but did not even think of inventing the wheel. (T)

11. There is a saying “you cannot re-invent the wheel,” simply means that the basic principle of the wheel is the same but it has many applications. (T)

12. All recipients of the Nobel Prize contributed to the welfare of mankind. (F) DDT discoverer plunged the world into the worse kind of biological decimation of animal organisms.

13. The first explorer who reported that he can see the Pacific Ocean on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other, is Christopher Columbus. (F) Francis Drake atop a tree at the Isthmus of Panama.

14. Marco Polo saw the tomb of the Three Wise Men in a town called Saveh, near Baghdad. The Christ child’s parting gift to the Wise Men was a small casket. When they opened it all it contained was small stone, which when they threw down a well in disappointment – the well burst into miraculous flame, and has been burning ever since. Allegedly, True.

15. Aesop and Socrates had one sad fate in common: They drew the ire of people displeased or angered by the moral of their stories or philosophies, (T)

16. I can only promise blood and tears. There will be forwards and retreat .. definitely there will be no withdrawal –Hitler. (F) Churchill.

17. There was a time Napoleon angered De Gaulle. The latter said, “I can eat you alive.” “Then there will be more brains in your stomach than in your head sir.” (False of course.)

18. “The 1001 Nights” ancient Persian, Arabian and Indian tales – they live by word of mouth for hundreds of years. Scheherazade wife of the Sultan was condemned to death for her wickedness – manage to put off her execution by telling of the stories to her sister each night, in the presence of the sultan. (T)

19. The Founders of Methodism were the Puritans from England. (F) John Wesley,

20. He lived for his faith – others died for their faith 18th century – Wesley. (T)

21. Alexander son of God Pharaoh kissed his feet – God (T)

22. Gordian Knot - instead of untying it, cut it just like Alexander did. (T)

23. It took the Pope to crown Napoleon, emperor of France. (F)

24. When they say, “It’s your waterloo, it means like it’s your Achilles Heels.” (T)

25. Locomotives opened new frontiers in the 19th century leading to establishment of settlements, expanded agriculture and industrialization. (First railway opened was in 1830. (T)

Mao Zedung, greatest Chinese leader

Trivia: The eight real;ms of multiple intelligence are Logic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, music, spatial, kinesthetics, languages,and naturalism.

Four attributes of man: Homo sapiens (the reasoning man), Homo ludens (man the maker), Homo jugens (man the player), Homo spiritus (the praying man).