Site of the First Mass: Butuan or Limasawa

Question 1

An uninhabited island where Magellan and his men landed to rest and secure more food and water.

Answer 1

Homonhon

Question 2

True or false: The presence of arable lands supports that Butuan is the site of the first mass.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

True or false: The assertion that the first mass was held in Limasawa was backed up by the National Historical Institute/ National Historical Commission of the Philippines.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

What is Zubu known today?

Answer 4

Cebu

Question 5

What is the nationality of Magellan?

Answer 5

Portuguese

Question 6

What month did Magellan and his men reach the Philippines?

Answer 6

March

Question 7

What day of the week did Magellan and his men reach the Philippines?

Answer 7

Saturday

Question 8

What was the first island in the Philippines did Magellan and his men saw?

Answer 8

Samar

Question 9

True or false: The ten balanghais suspected to have been used by Magellan’s troops to reach the island of the first mass were excavated in Limasawa.

Answer 9

False

Question 10

The Butuan papers argue that Mazaua must have been the barrio ____ of the present-day Butuan City.

Answer 10

Masao

Question 11

True or false: The place “Limasawa” was mentioned by both Pigafetta and Francisco Albo.

Answer 11

False

Question 12

True or false: Gold was considered the currency of the Butuan kingdom before the Spaniards came to the Philippines.

Answer 12

True

Question 13

What is another term for blood compact or sanduguan?

Answer 13

Casicasi

Question 14

What name did Magellan give to the Philippines?

Answer 14

Archipelago de San Lazaro

Question 15

Ladrone or Ladrones (Island of Thieves) is known as what place in the Pacific today?

Answer 15

Mariana Islands (Guam)

Question 16

Who was the pilot of Magellan’s flagship named Trinidad whose logbook was also used as primary evidence in Magellan’s expedition

Answer 16

Francisco Albo

Question 17

Raja Siaua (Siagu) was the ruler of what place?

Answer 17

Butuan

Question 18

True or false: Limawasa island has no worthwhile “hunting grounds,” unlike Masao/Butuan.

Answer 18

True

Question 19

True or false: For 300 years during the Spanish colonial period, the Catholic Church in the Philippines believed in the Butuan tradition as the location of the first mass in the country.

Answer 19

True

Question 20

How many native chieftain(s) were in attendance during the First Mass?

Answer 20

2

Question 21

Maluku or Moluccas (Spice Islands) is found today in what country?

Answer 21

Indonesia

Question 22

This is a small boat used by pre-colonial Filipinos, which Pigafetta mentioned in his chronicles.

Answer 22

Balanghai

Question 23

Pigafetta tells us that the First Mass celebrated on Philippine soil was held on Easter _______.

Answer 23

Sunday

Question 24

True or false: Pigafetta mentioned a river in the place where the first mass happened.

Answer 24

False

Question 25

True or false: The "balanghais" found in Butuan in the 1980s are examples of historical sources that are unwritten and archaeological.

Answer 25

True

Question 26

True or false: If I examine the genuineness of the Butuan "balanghais," I am doing internal criticism.

Answer 26

False

Question 27

Listing every name, location, date, and event mentioned in the records of Francisco Albo and Antonio Pigafetta is akin to doing: Context Analysis or Content Analysis

Answer 27

Content Analysis

Question 28

Researching the backgrounds of the authors of the two primary sources (Pigafetta and Albo) that historians refer to in identifying the site of the first mass in the Philippines: Doing content or context analysis

Answer 28

Doing Context Analysis

Question 29

This is an act declaring the site in Magellan's, Limasawa Island in Leyte as the location of the first mass in the Philippines.

Answer 29

RA no. 2733

Question 30

This is formerly called as National Historical Institute.

Answer 30

National Historical Commission of the Philippines

Question 31

He asserted that Magellan could not possibly land at a dangerous coral reef elongated island, the Limasawa, considering that it was never a port or harbor since time immemorial. Until today, he maintains that the Limasawa shoreline is unsuitable for docking.

Answer 31

Fr. Joesilo Amalla

Question 32

A place mentioned by Pigafetta as the site of the first mass in the country and is considered the birth of Christianity in the Philippines.

Answer 32

Mazaua

Question 33

The priest who officiated the first Catholic mass in the country.

Answer 33

Fr. Pedro De Valderrama

Question 34

Agusan de Norte: Butuan // Southern Leyte: _____________

Answer 34

Limasawa

Question 35

What is the title of Fr. Joesilo Amelia's book about the site of the first mass?

Answer 35

An Island They Called Mazaua, The Truth About the Site of the First Holy Mass in the Philippines

Question 36

He is a Roman Catholic priest of the Butuan diocese who has spend the last 46 years researching about the controversy of the first mass.

Answer 36

Fr. Joesilo Amalla

Question 37

This is the era where the church and state were so tightly enmeshed in conquest and Christianization, they acted as one.

Answer 37

Patronato Real

Question 38

What rekindled the First Mass controversy?

Answer 38

The discovery of the remains of the Butuan plank boats in the 1980s by archaeologists of the National Museum

Question 39

This place is an elongated island with perilous coral reefs. It was never a port nor a harbor since time immemorial.

Answer 39

Limasawa

Question 40

What date according to Pigafetta was the first mass celebrated on?

Answer 40

March 31, 1521

Question 41

As far as Pangasinan is concerned, when was the first mass celebrated?

Answer 41

in 1324 by a Franciscan missionary

Question 42

This is a high and at a distance of three hundred leagues from the islands of Ladroni, an island named Zamal.

Answer 42

Samar

Question 43

Palm wine

Answer 43

Uraca

Question 44

Why did Magellan name the Philippines "Archipelago de San Lazaro?"

Answer 44

Because there are many islands and as they were discovered on the Sunday of St. Lazarus.

Question 45

What was the former name of Zamatra?

Answer 45

Taprobana

Question 46

Who is the first king of Butuan?

Answer 46

Raia Colambu

Question 47

What sport did the captain-general arrange a tournament of?

Answer 47

Fencing

Question 48

True or false: There was a mention of the word "Limasawa" in the accounts of Pigafetta and Albo.

Answer 48

False