R3: Significant dates

Question 1

June 12, 1848

Answer 1

Alonso-Mercado marriage

Question 2

The oldest university in Asia and currently the largest Catholic university in the world

Built by Spanish friars in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas

Answer 2

University of Santo Tomas (UST)

Question 3

The most in-demand course offered to boys in the said seminary college

Answer 3

Priesthood

Question 4

Where was the first UST campus erected?

Answer 4

Intramuros

Question 5

The first and old name of UST

Answer 5

Colegio de Nuestra Senora del Santisimo Rosario

Question 6

Who issued the order of changing Filipino surnames to Spanish in November 21, 1849?

Answer 6

Gov. Gen. Narciso Claveria

Question 7

What happened on the midnight of Wednesday, June 19, 1861?

Answer 7

Jose Rizal was born

Question 8

Where did “Jose” come from?

Answer 8

St. Joseph

Question 9

Where did “Protasio” come from?

Answer 9

The Christian calendar

Question 10

What did the surname “Rizal” mean?

Adopted, 1849

Answer 10

Green field

Question 11

What word did “Mercado” come from?

Adopted, 1731

Answer 11

Market

Question 12

By which family members was “Realonda” adopted from?

Answer 12

Teodora Alonso’s aunt and godmother

Question 12

Batangueño priest and godfather that baptized Rizal two days after his birth (2)

Answer 12

Fr. Rufino Collantes
Fr. Pedro Casañas

Question 13

Where did Rizal spend his formative years in 1869 onwards?

Answer 13

Biñan, Laguna

Question 14

He was Rizal’s first formal teacher that opened his eyes to the reality of being an “indio” when attended school in Biñan.

Answer 14

Maestro Justiniano Aquino-Cruz

Question 15

What significant events happened on February 17, 1872?

Answer 15

Cavite mutiny and GomBurZa execution

Question 16

Where were the three priests buried?

Answer 16

Paco Park Cemetery, Manila

Question 17

The only institution Rizal took an entrance exam for

Advised by Fr. Jose Bech, his favorite professor to the refusal of his f

Answer 17

Colegio de San Juan de Letran

Question 18

On March 14, 1877, Rizal graduated secondary education from which school?

Answer 18

Ateneo Municipal de Manila

Question 19

9 days after his graduation, Rizal received his BA diploma at what age?

Answer 19

15 years old

Question 20

Rizal’s first unfinished course in UST prior to transferring to medicine from 1878 to 1882.

Answer 20

Philosophy and Letters

Question 21

Paciano financed his studies abroad post-graduation to which school?

Answer 21

Central University of Madrid

Question 22

What was Rizal conferred during his June 1884 graduation from medicine?

Answer 22

Licentiate degree

Question 23

Rizal’s subsequent area of specialization to cure his blinding mother’s cataract

He studied this in Paris and then transferred to Heidelberg, Germany

Answer 23

Ophthalmology

Question 24

Rizal's European travel companion that followed him to Berlin in 1886.

Answer 24

Dr. Maximo Viola

Question 25

Rizal mainly practiced in his hometown, Calamba in August 1887. He got his first patient a year later. Who was his patient?

Answer 25

His mother

Question 26

Lucia's husband and Rizal's brother-in-law that died of cholera in 1889

Answer 26

Mariano Herbosa

Question 27

Rizal's place of exile shortly after his trip from Macau, Hong Kong | He spent four (4) years in this island ## Footnote People still came to visit him for medical consultations which brought him more fame

Answer 27

Dapitan, Zamboanga del Norte | Also called the "Shrine city"

Question 28

The Noli Me Tangere was conceived what range of years?

Answer 28

1885-1887

Question 29

What happened on June 28, 1890?

Answer 29

Rizal's family in Calamba experienced harrassment by the friars ## Footnote They eventually lost the land case a month after.

Question 30

What date did Teodora Alonso visit Rizal in Dapitan?

Answer 30

August 29, 1893

Question 31

In the last days of February 1895, a 33-year old Rizal met an 18-year-old Irish woman during his exile in Dapitan. Who was this woman? | She was also the adopted daughter of George Taufer from Hong Kong

Answer 31

Josephine Bracken

Question 32

When did Rizal propose to Josephine Bracken?

Answer 32

February 22, 1895

Question 33

Bonifacio's emissary that visited Rizal in Dapitan to recruit him in the KKK uprising | June 21, 1896 -- 5 months before his death

Answer 33

Dr. Pio Valenzuela

Question 34

A military genius Rizal had suggested to Dr. Pio Valenzuela to help them secure the necessary arsenal and tactics for all of the revolution's operations.

Answer 34

Antonio Luna

Question 35

Rizal clarified that although he did not want to partake in the revolution, he was not completely against it; rather, he needed two (2) precautionary measures to ensure that things would go as planned:

Answer 35

1) Get the **support of the rich** and influential people of Manila 2) Consult and appoint **Antonio Luna** to direct all military operations

Question 36

Where was Rizal accepted and deployed as an undercover surgeon in July 31,1896 to take care of wounded Spanish troops, its native people, and yellow fever patients? | He never actually set foot on the island.

Answer 36

Cuba

Question 37

Rizal tried to leave Manila by boarding a steamer to Barcelona, Spain on which date?

Answer 37

September 2, 1896

Question 38

Why was Rizal arrested aboard the Barcelona-bound steamer on October 3?

Answer 38

Convicted and blamed for sedition and as an accomplice of the Katipunan's insurrection

Question 39

The place in Intramuros where Rizal was transferred to his personal prison cell for 56 days

Answer 39

Fort Santiago

Question 40

The name of Rizal's official trial lawyer whom he chose from a roster of army officers | He was chosen on December 8, 1896

Answer 40

Lt. Luis Taviel de Andrade

Question 41

Spanish barracks that was became the "Kangaroo court" and venue of Rizal's trial | Led by Lt. Col. Jose Togores Arjona

Answer 41

Cuartel de España

Question 42

The list of named people in the trial

Answer 42

Jose Rizal 6 officers in uniform Lt. Taviel de Andrade Judge Advocate Rafael Dominguez Lt. Enrique de Alcocer Josephine Bracken Other spectators

Question 43

Who was the prosecuting attorney for Rizal's case?

Answer 43

Lt. Enrique de Alcocer

Question 44

What was Rizal's penalty for pleading guilty (unanimously) by the Kangaroo court?

Answer 44

Death by firing squad

Question 45

What happened on December 27, 1896?

Answer 45

The reading of Rizal's death sentence

Question 46

What was the date when Rizal allegedly signed his letter of retraction from masonry?

Answer 46

December 29, 1896

Question 47

At exactly 7:03 am on December 30, 1896 in Bagumbayan, Rizal shouted two words which meant, "It is done/finished". | He was executed in Bagumbayan, Luneta, now Rizal Park

Answer 47

Consummatum Est

Question 48

What gravesite was Rizal secretly buried?

Answer 48

Paco Cemetery

Question 49

Who designed Rizal's "RPJ" marble plaque?

Answer 49

Doroteo Ongjunco

Question 50

On August 1898, Narcisa discreetly exhumed and brought her brother's remains to their family house and placed in an ivory urn. Where did they live?

Answer 50

Estraude St., Binondo, Manila

Question 51

Who signed a "National day of mourning" on December 30, 1898? | This included Rizal's 2nd death anniversary and all victims of the Spani

Answer 51

Emilio Aguinaldo

Question 52

What was the name of the law created by the 1901 Taft Commission to honor RIzal by changing the district of Morong to "Rizal Province"? | Was recommended by Trinidad Pardo de Tavera

Answer 52

Act 137

Question 53

When was Rizal's Luneta monument approved to be established?

Answer 53

September 28, 1901

Question 54

The name of the enacting law that made December 30 a public holiday

Answer 54

Act No. 345

Question 55

Along with the masons, what was the group that transferred Rizal's urn from Binondo to his final resting place in Luneta? | December 30, 1912

Answer 55

Knights of Rizal

Question 56

The Swiss sculptor for his original "Motto stella", an old name for Rizal's monument

Answer 56

Richard Kissling

Question 57

Appointed chairman of the National Board of Education by Pres. Quezon

Answer 57

Dr. Rafael Palma

Question 58

A 1976 national artist for literature that translated Rizal's *Mi Ultimo Adios* in English | *"Land that I love, farewell!"*

Answer 58

Nick Joaquin

Question 59

The Filipino priest that named Rizal's final poem as "Ultimo Adios" inspired by Fr. Mariano Ponce

Answer 59

Dr. Mariano Dacanay

Question 60

RA 9492 or the celebration of national heroes day every last Monday of August was signed by whom? | July 24, 2007

Answer 60

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Question 61

GMA also signed which sport as the national martial art and as a mandatory sport for PE classes?

Answer 61

Arnis

Question 62

Rizal's urn transfer was recreated as a centennial commemoration of his 116th Martyrdom anniversary by which two groups?

Answer 62

Order of the Knights of Rizal National Historical Commission of the Philippines

Question 63

# Old and new name Mercado

Answer 63

Rizal

Question 64

Bagumbayan

Answer 64

Rizal Park

Question 65

El Viejo

Answer 65

Kawit, Cavite

Question 66

Morong

Answer 66

Rizal Province

Question 67

Polo Bulacan

Answer 67

Valenzuela city

Question 68

Paang Bundok

Answer 68

Manila North Cemetery

Question 69

Cementerio General del Dilao

Answer 69

Paco Cemetery/Paco Park

Question 70

Calle Azcarraga

Answer 70

C.M. Recto Ave.

Question 71

Colegio de Nuestra Senora del Santisimo-Rosario Colegio de Santo Tomas

Answer 71

University of Santo Tomas

Question 72

Escuela Municipal de Manila

Answer 72

Ateneo de Manila University

Question 73

Tayabas

Answer 73

Quezon Province

Question 74

Morayta

Answer 74

Nicanor Reyes St.

Question 75

Gov. Forbes St.

Answer 75

A.H. Lacson

Question 76

Highway 54

Answer 76

EDSA

Question 77

What was the theme for the 2023 127th Rizal day?

Answer 77

*Pundasyon ng kahapon, isinasabuhay ngayon* | Foundation of the past, living today