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Question 1

Where could be the term bikol derived from?

Answer 1

Biko

Question 2

Where could be the term bikol derived from?

Answer 2

Biko

Question 3

the name of a river which drains into San Miguel Bay.

Answer 3

Biko

Question 4

Downstream to its estuarine mouth

Answer 4

San Miguel Bay

Question 5

Where does bikol river starts from?

Answer 5

Lake bato

Question 6

It is located at southeastern end of luzon

Answer 6

Region V

Question 7

What is the bikol river surrounded with?

Answer 7

Visayan sea in the south, Pacific Ocean in the east, Lamon Bay in the north and Sibuyan Sea and Quezon province in the west.

Question 8

What are possible origins line rivulets and the ancient native word biko meaning “twisted” or “bent”.

Answer 8

Bikul or Bikal Bamboo tree

Question 9

Does bicol have a rugged topography?

Answer 9

Yes

Question 10

consists of a series of mountain ranges with varied peaks, valleys and deep gorges.

Answer 10

Rugged topography

Question 11

What place has rugged area of land is uneven and covered with rocks, with few trees or plants.

Answer 11

Bulusan Volcano in Sorsogon

Question 12

What are 6 provinces of Bicol Region?

Answer 12

Camarines Sur
Camarines Norte
Catanduanes
Albay
Sorsogon
Masbate

Question 13

What are the capitals of each province?

Answer 13

Pili, Daet, Virac, Legazpi, Sorsogon and Masbate

Question 14

What is the population in the 2020 census population?

Answer 14

6,082,165

Question 15

Before the spanish conquest of the philipphines in 1570, bikol was written in?

Answer 15

Bahasan script

Question 16

What is similiar to bahasan script

Answer 16

Baybayin script

Question 17

Until what extent bahasan script was used?

Answer 17

Mid-19th century

Question 18

The Spanish used the Latin alphabet to write Bikol, and one of the earilest
Bikol publications was

Answer 18

Vocabulario de la lengua Bicol, compiled by Father Marcos de Lisboa

Question 19

Who is a franciscan friar between 1602 and 1611

Answer 19

Father Marcos de Lisboa

Question 20

wrote Catecismo de la Doctrina Cristiana (Cristian Doctrine) in Bikol in 1577

Answer 20

Fr. Alonzo Jimenez

Question 21

wrote Catecismo de la Doctrina Cristiana (Cristian Doctrine) in Bikol in 1577

Answer 21

Fr. Alonzo Jimenez

Question 22

It is also called Dictionary of the Bikol language between 1590 and 1620

Answer 22

Vocabulario Lengua Bikol or Vocabulario de la lengua Bico

Question 23

The bikol language is adaptations of some Arabic, Indian, Chinese and Spanish words.

Answer 23

Malayo Polynesian

Question 24

What is the standard idiom of bikol

Answer 24

Naga Bikol

Question 25

What was the bikol region known as?

Answer 25

Ibalon

Question 26

people from the other side or people who are hospitable and give visitors gifts to bring home

Answer 26

Ibalon

Question 27

To bring to the other side

Answer 27

Ibalio

Question 28

When was a barangay or village system exist in bikol?

Answer 28

1569

Question 29

another word for datu

Answer 29

Chieftain

Question 31

the natives in bicol are what?

Answer 31

Apolitical

Question 32

what situation where the datu's influence mattered the most?

Answer 32

during crises like wars

Question 33

where was pre-colonial leadership based on what?

Answer 33

Stregnth, Courage and Intelligence

Question 34

When did spaniards arrive in masbate?

Answer 34

1567

Question 35

Under who's leadership did the spaniards arrive in masbate?

Answer 35

Mateo del Saz and Martin de Goiti

Question 36

When did colonization happened and who did it?

Answer 36

Luis de Guzman in 1569

Question 37

Who pioneered and converted bikol, the first natives of Luzon to be Christianized?

Answer 37

Agustinian priests, Alonzo Jimenez and Juan de Orta

Question 38

when was the region subdivided into Partido de Ibalon and Partido de Camarines

Answer 38

1636

Question 39

It is the former composed of Albay, Catanduanes, Sorsogon, Masbate and the Ticao and Burias Islands

Answer 39

Partido de Ibalon and Partido de Camarines,

Question 40

Refers to the ancient name of the bikol region where one of the major ethnic groups in the philipphines called Bikolano resides

Answer 40

Ibalon or Ibalong

Question 41

when was camarines split into norte and sur?

Answer 41

1829

Question 42

when was camarines sur and norte formally established as provinces?

Answer 42

1919

Question 43

When was camarines sur and norte reunited?

Answer 43

1893

Question 44

Where did spanish abuse started?

Answer 44

in Bicol

Question 45

Who was the very first one to oppressed the natives in bikol during 1570?

Answer 45

Andres de Ibarra

Question 46

Who exploited the gold mines in Bikol, during his explorations of northern Bikol in 1571

Answer 46

Juan de Salcedo

Question 47

it is the ordering the adoption of spanish surnames during 1854

Answer 47

Claveria Law

Question 48

what was also introduced during the hispanization of Bikol?

Answer 48

introduction of religious education

Question 49

When did Claveria issued a long lists of spanish and local surnames to the chiefs of the provinces?

Answer 49

November 21, 1849

Question 50

What is the important of claveria law?

Answer 50

To let everyone have spanish surnames

Question 51

What would be the surname for people who's name started with A and M?

Answer 51

Alimodian and Miagao

Question 52

What surnamed did the provincial capitals received?

Answer 52

Starting with A

Question 53

What surnames were given to secondary towns?

Answer 53

B

Question 54

What surnames were given to tertiary towns?

Answer 54

C

Question 55

how many surnames does the catalago alfabetico de apellidos contain?

Answer 55

61,000 surnames

Question 56

What are some common surnames?

Answer 56

De los Santos De La Cruz

Question 57

Does having a spanish surname indicate a spanish ancestry?

Answer 57

No, making it difficult for filipinos to accurately trace their lineage

Question 58

How many family names does albay have?

Answer 58

106,956 family names

Question 59

How many is the number of surnames in legazpi city, being the most number of surnames?

Answer 59

27,013 or 12.5% of the province total surnames

Question 60

what si the percentage of surnames of Daraga and Ligao City?

Answer 60

10.9% and 10.7% respectively

Question 61

What places has the least number of surnames at just 2%, 1.9% and 1.7% ?

Answer 61

Manito, Rapu-Rapu and Jovellar

Question 62

What letters in the surnames in albay constituted with 58.2% of the population?

Answer 62

B,M,C,A, and R

Question 63

What is the percentage of surname of B in Albay

Answer 63

22.3%

Question 64

What are the letters with the least number of surnames starting in them with a less than 0.1% count?

Answer 64

U, K, W, Ñ, and X

Question 65

While it has always been believed that the Bikol region had an abnormally large number of surnames that begin in the same letter, which province exhibit peculiarity?

Answer 65

Sorsogon?

Question 66

What letter of surname in Bulan is composed of 25%?

Answer 66

G

Question 67

How many unique surnames does sorsogon have?

Answer 67

68,407 surnames

Question 68

Which place has the most number of surnames in the province making up of 16% of all family names in sorsogon?

Answer 68

Sorsogon City

Question 69

How many percentage is the family names of Bulan and Irosin

Answer 69

14% and 10% respectively

Question 70

What are the towns in sorsogon with the least number of surnames with 2% each?

Answer 70

Prieto Diaz and Santa Magdalena

Question 71

What are the letters that composed of sixty-six percent of sorsogon's surname?

Answer 71

B, G, M, D, A, L, C, and E,

Question 72

What are the most numeroues surname starting with what letters?

Answer 72

B and G

Question 73

What was introduced during the eighteenth century reforms?

Answer 73

principales or local elite into local office

Question 74

Was the ruling and usually educated upper class in the pueblos of the Spanish Philipphines, comprising the gobernadorcillo, and the cabezas de barangay who governed the districts

Answer 74

Principalia or noble class

Question 75

Who had functions similar to a town mayor

Answer 75

Gobernadorcillo

Question 76

Heads of the barangahys

Answer 76

Cabezas de Barangay

Question 77

was selected from 12 electors who were of this class and who were preferably well versed in spanish

Answer 77

Gobernadorcillo

Question 78

What was the assurance of Simon de Anda during 1781 that the taxes are timely collected?

Answer 78

Barangay heads should be wealthy

Question 79

What was the reason why there was an anomaly in the leeksyon of barangay heads?

Answer 79

because of exemption to tributes or taxes

Question 80

how were bikols described by spanish chroniclers

Answer 80

Fierce warriors

Question 81

what did sorsogon participated in 1649?

Answer 81

Samar's Sumuroy Revolt

Question 82

where did minor rebellions occurred contemporaneously with the Sumuroy rebellion and during the British occupation of Manila between 1762 and 1764.

Answer 82

Camarines

Question 83

runaway slaves or those who had gone back to the mountains.

Answer 83

Remontados or cimarrones

Question 84

It was a refuge for remontados or cimarrones

Answer 84

Mt. Isarog

Question 85

What did the americans encourage so as to entrench themselves in the region

Answer 85

Native collaboration

Question 86

What happened when the rebels rejected peacemaking and overtures, what did the americans retruned to force?

Answer 86

Burning, pillaging and killing

Question 87

When was the american military government was replaced by provincial civil government under the philipphine commission?

Answer 87

April 1901

Question 88

How many american thomasites arrived in bikol to help execute the first philipphine commissions's policy on public institution in the first decade of the century

Answer 88

fifty three american thomasites

Question 89

Another word for scholars for an educated american

Answer 89

American-educated pensionados

Question 90

The said name came from report of the Philipphine commission to the secretary of war

Answer 90

Sorsogon institute

Question 91

When did Japanese soldiers landed in legazpi?

Answer 91

December 12 1941

Question 92

who organized the first guerilla force agains the japanese in the philippines of camarines norte in 1941

Answer 92

Wenceslao Vinzons

Question 93

is a coastal municipality in the province of Camarines Norte

Answer 93

Indan, now known as Vinzons

Question 94

Who was the american which was aided by the filipinos in march and april 1945 that defeated the japanese in the region?

Answer 94

Douglas McArthur