GENERAL EDUCATION 2.0 Q & A Part 5

1. Which has a greater density, a lake full of water or a cupful of water?

A, The cup full of water

B. They have the same density

 

2. True of noble gases:

A. Able to react with any other atoms

B. Includes Neon and Helium

 

3. Which of the following is the element represented by the symbol B?

A. Bismuth 

B. Boron

 

4. The most abundant constituent of atmospheric air is:

A. Oxygen 

B. Nitrogen

 

5. What element has six protons, neutrons and electrons?

A. Carbon 

B. Calcium

 

6. What is the correct formula of the product when lithium and sulfur react to produce lithium sulfide?

A. LiS2      

B. Li2S

 

7. The product of a reaction between alcohol and organic acid is:

A. Ester     

B. Ether

 

8. Which of the following statements best describes a hypothetical element with an electron configuration of 1s22s22p63s23p5?

A. The hypothetical element is in the fifth position in the p-block, along the third period of the periodic table.

B. The hypothetical element is located at the third position of the p-block, along the fifth period of the periodic table.

 

9. Who is the French physicist who, while studying about fluorescence working with uranium compound, accidentally discovered radioactivity?

A. William Roentgen     

B. Antoine Becquerel

 

10. Sound waves travels the slowest in:

A. Solid     

B. Gas

 

11. Which of the following subatomic particles are located in the nucleus of an atom?

A. Protons and electrons

B. Protons and neutrons

 

12. What part of the nucleus determines the isotope?

A. Both protons and neutrons

B. Neutrons only

 

13. What is the charge of the plastic comb when it loses some  electrons when rubbed in a silk cloth?

A. Positively charge      

B. Negatively charge

 

14. Which of the following examples best illustrates application of Boyle's Law?

A. A balloon expands and bursts when exposed to direct sunlight.

B. A scuba diver stops at certain depths as he ascends to the ocean's surface.

 

15. Milk is classified as:

A. Colloid  

B. Acid

 

16.     Which of these objects would have greater mass: Object A that weighs 50N on earth of Object B with a weight of 50N on the moon?

A. Object A         

B. Object B

 

17.  is the distance traveled by the body per unit time and tells how fast or slow the body moves.

A. Acceleration

B. Speed

 

18.     What rock is formed when clay or mud is hardened and cemented?

A. Conglomerate  

B. Shale

 

19. Which is considered as the highest rank of coal?

A. Bituminous     

B. Anthracite

 

20.     Where does the lava emitted during volcanic eruption come from?

A. Crust     

B. Mantle

 

21. Why is earthquake experienced when there is volcanic eruption?

A. Because of the movement of magma through the vents

B. Because of the movement of rock layers along the faults 14

 

22. On which of the following variables does the color of a star depend?

A. Distance from the earth

B. Temperature

 

23. Which among the color light has the least frequency but the longest wavelength?

A. Green    

B. Red

 

24. It occurs when the Earth is between the sun and the moon, with the Earth's shadow cast over the moon.

A. Lunar eclipse  

B. Total eclipse

 

25, What seasonal wind is experienced from July to September?]

A. Southwest monsoon

B. Southeast monsoon

 

26. The evolution of life forms on earth has been dependent on:

A. The rate of change occurring in different earth environments

B. The typical and chemical evolution of the earth

 

27. What causes high and low tides?

A. Earth's gravitational pull

B. Moon's gravitational pull

 

28. Who made the geocentric model of the solar system?

A. Fred Hoyle      

B. Ptolemy

 

29. Tides, caused by gravity, is gradually slowing down earth's rotation speed. A million years from now, scientists predict that earth's _________________.

A. Day is longer  

B. Day is shorter

 

30. Energy is transferred from the sun to earth mainly by:

A. Electromagnetic waves

B. Molecular collision

 

31. What is the point in the moon's orbit nearest to the earth called?

A. Perihelion        

B. Perigee

 

32. What motion of the Earth causes the occurrence of day and night?

A. Rotation

B. Revolution

 

33. How long does it take for the earth to complete one rotation?

A. 24 hours

B. 365 days

 

34. How far is the sun away from the earth?

A. 149.6 million km      

B. 126.9 million km

 

35. Why do we see the sun rise in the east?

A. The earth revolves eastward

B. The earth rotates from west to east

 

36. Who formulated a heliocentric model of the solar system?

A. Copernicus     

B. Galileo Galllei

 

37. When does a temperature inversion occur?

A. Cool air is trapped under warm air

B. Warm air is trapped under cool air

 

38. Which planet has no moon?

 

A. Mars      

B. Venus

 

39. What process enables the star to produce large amounts of energy?

A. Nuclear fusion

B. Nuclear fission

 

40. The study of contemporary human societies.

A. Cosmetology   

B. Cultural anthropology

 

41. Right to life, liberty and genuine happiness is fundamental to:

A. Civil rights      

B. Constitutional rights

 

42. To what classification of rights does the right to love and to love belong?

A. Constitutional  

B. Natural

 

43. Which of the following state is the right to human dignity?

A. Honor and reputation

B. Fair trial

 

44. Every rights have a built-in duty. Which of the following illustrates this correctly?

A. I have the right to vote and it is the duty of the COMELEC to allow me to vote.

B. I have the right to drive my car but I must see to it that I obey traffic rules.

 

45. It is perceived as the most important need and most pressing problem of the Filipino family:

A. Broken family

B. Unemployment or financial problem

 

46. What is the power of the state to take private property for public use with just compensation?

A. Expropriation

B. Taxation

 

47. Of the following, which is an indirect tax?

A. Capital gross tax

B. Excise tax

 

48. In what way does the government tax a person's gains from his labor?

A. Income tax     

B. Value added tax

 

49. What does SALN stands for?

A. Statement of Assets, Losses and Net worth

B. Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net worth

 

50. Article IV of the 1987 Constitution, who has the power to declare the existence of the state war?

A. President

B. Congress

 

51. In which form of government are all citizens treated as equals on certain dimensions such as religion, politics, economics, social status and culture?

A. Totalitarianism 

B. Egalitarianism

 

52. What intergroup interaction is secessionist movement in Mindanao?

A. Domination     

B. Segregation

 

53. Which of the following is a developing country?

A. England 

B. India

54. As an effect of our geography, in which of the following island/s do people travel mostly by water?

A. Luzon    

B. Visayas

 

55. As an insular country, to which principle does the Philippines adhere when it comes to territorial boundary?

A. Three hundred fifty nautical miles from shore

B. Archipelagic doctrine

 

56. Which part/s of the Visayas has/have comparatively more excessively moist climate and limited arable lands?

A. Western  

B. Eastern

 

57. Which attitude will most likely result from pleasure principle?

A. Avoiding leisure and rest

B. Refusal on any sacrifice

 

58. Which of the following will you choose to be true?

A. Children with disabilities require only behavioral intervention

B. Exceptional learners include both the gifted and those with behavioral problems

 

59. What exemplifies that no two individuals are the same?

A. Individual difference

B. Conditioning

 

60. Upon which is based the claim that there is no single universal standard to be used to judge any culture-based?

A. Ethnical relativism     

B. Cultural relativism

 

61. It refers to the rightness and wrongness of our decisions:

A. Morality

B. Theology

 

62. If you keep seeing your ways of doing things as the right way and everybody else's as the wrong way, you tend to have the attitude called:

A. Cultural relativism     

B. Ethnocentrism

 

63. How is the so-called colonial mentality manifested?

A. Xenocentrism 

B. Ethnocentrism

 

64. Which is a negative consequence of our value of close family ties?

A. The development of prolonged dependence

B. Permanence of marriage

 

65. The practice of "pamamanhikan" in the rural areas is classified as:

A. Mores   

B. Values

 

66. The ordering of things according to the importance a person attaches to them is known as:

A. Hierarchy of needs    

B. Values hierarchy

 

67. The Philippines is dominantly a Christian country in the Orient, yet according to survey it is the top 5 as the most corrupt nation in Asia. What does this point to in Philippine Society?

A. Lack of cultural integration

B. Presence of cultural differences

 

68. Material culture refers to the tangible and concrete objects  produced by man. Which are examples of material culture?

A. Ceremonies of Ivatans

B. Stone walls of Tasadays

 

69. The first mass in the Philippines occurred in _______________.   

A.      Limasawa 

B.      Mactan

 

70. In 1565, Legaspi concluded a blood compact with the Chief of Bohol named:

A,      Sikatuna   

B.      Lakandula

 

71. Birth place of Jose Rizal:

A. Malolos, Bulacan      

B. Laguna

 

72. The Spanish expedition responsible for naming the archipelago Filipinas:

A. Legaspi expedition

B. Villalobos expedition

 

73. The imaginary line that separates the northern and southern hemispheres:

A. Prime meridian

B. Equator

 

74.What crime Rizal was tried by the Spanish military court?

A. Rebellion and organizing illegal societies

B. Falsification of documents

 

75. How can Dr. Jose Rizal/s La Liga organization be likened according to present day social groups/movement?

A. Street parliamentarian movement

B. National socio-civic organization

 

76. In which poem did Rizal write about offering one's life for one's country?

A. A La Juventud Filipina        

B. Mi Ultimo Adios

 

77. Rizal's famous sculptural work was _________________, a clay sculpture of a naked young woman with overflowing hair, standing on a skull while bearing a torch held high.

A.      Mi Ultimo Adios

B.      The Triumph of Science over Death

 

78. Jose Rizal faced the firing squad in Bagumbayan de Luneta on December 30, 1896. This is a genuine manifestation of Rizal's strong sense of:

A. Patriotism      

B. Loyalty

 

79. The Kartillla of the Katipunan consisted of 13 teachings which the members of the society were expected to follow. Who prepared the Kartilla of the Katipunan?

A. Emilio Aguinaldo      

B. Emilio Jacinto

 

80. Who is remembered for his famous quotation, "My loyalty to my party ends where my loyalty to country begins?"

A. Carlos P. Garcia

B. Manuel L. Quezon

 

81. Who among the Presidents abolished tenancy?

A. Ramon Magsaysay

B. Diosdado Macapagal

 

82. Which follows Pres. Garcia's "Filipino First Policy"? Filipinos

A. Should be selective in the entry in the entry of foreign professionals in the country

B. Were to be given first preference in all matters related to the economic development of the country

 

83. In the Philippine history, who was known as "The Great Dissenter"?

A. Claro M. Recto        

B. Manuel Roxas

 

84. The military provinces that were unpacified during the Spanish period were called:

A. Corregimientos        

B. Alcaldia

 

85. He established the tobacco monopoly during the Spanish era:

A. Jose Basco      

B. Rafael lzquierdo

 

86. During the Spanish period, it refers to the privilege of the provincial governor to engage in trade:

A. Corregimientos        

B. Indulto de comercio

 

 

87. The first Filipino who led a revolt against the Spaniards is:

A. Raja Lacandula       

B. Raja Humabon

 

88. Which Katipunan member commuted from Cavite to Manila to buy materials used to make ammunitions?

A. Teresa Magbanua      

B. Agueda Esteban

 

89. Who first used the name "Filipinos" considering that native Filipinos in the Philippines were simply called "indios?"

A. Natives of pure blood of islanders

B. Creoles (Mixed Hispanic Filipino blood)

 

90. The public announcer of the barangay to announce the promulgation of the new rules and regulations:

A. Umalohokan  

B. Judicial

 

91. The term that refers to the class of Filipinos who were free and independent:

A. Timawa

B Maharlika

 

92. The secret society Jose Rizal established designed to promote civic and patriotic education among the Filipinos:

A. Propaganda     

B. La Liga Filipina

 

93. When the Filipino reformists asked for the assimilation of the Philippines by Spain, what did they ask for? For the Philippines to

A. Become independent from Spain

B. Become a province of Spain

 

94. Ang tawag sa mga Pilipinong pumupunta sa ibang bansa upang magsimula ng HIMAGSIKAN laban sa mga dayuhan?

A. Pilibustero      

B. Dayuhan

 

95. Is an economic policy in the century in Europe that influenced Spain's expansionist policy to discover new lands:

A. Colonialism     

B. Mercantilism

 

96. What factor was a major cause of both World War I and World War II

A. The spread of Marxian ideas into Europe

B. The rise of totalitarian fascist states

 

97. The measurement of the total value of a country's economic production:

A. Per capita income

B. Gross National Product (GNP)

 

98. In economics, _______________ is a rise in a general level of prices of goods and services in an economy over a period of time.

A. Mercantilism   

B. Inflation

 

99. Stagflation occurs when the economy experiences___________________.      

A. Falling prices and rising output

B. Rising prices and falling output

 

100. The theory that population increases by geometrical ratio while the means of subsistence increases by arithmetical ratio is attributed to?

A Thomas Robert Malthus

B. Emile Durkheim


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