Guco, Augustus Botrous DV.

February 2017

UST History

1. This flowering plant was named after Rector Fr. Herminio Dagohoy,
O.P. after its discovery in Agusan del Norte by Grecebio Alejandro,
director of the Office for Graduate Research.
Mycetia dahogoyana
2. Named after Pope Francis, this plant that can only be found in the
area surrounding Mt. Madja-as, Antique usually flowers in April and
grows in places of secondary forest, with its purple calyx-lobed white
flowers appearing in almost every leaf axil.
Hedyotis papafranciscoi
3. It was under the tenure of this rector that the Varsitarian was
established in 1928.
Rector Rev. Fr. Serapio Tamayo, O.P.
4. He was the first editor-in-chief of the Varsitarian.
Pablo Anido
5. He was the Father of the Varsitarian, serving as its associate editor,
business manager, and editor of the Alumni and Humor sections at
the time of its foundation.
Jose Villa Panganiban
6. Name one of the first two moderators of the Varsitarian.
Rev. Fr. Juan Labrador, O.P. (then dean of the College of Liberal
Arts)
Prof. John Jefferson Siler
7. This was the date when the maiden issue of the Varsitarian came off
the press.
January 16, 1928
8. This Peruvian-Spanish author was named honorary professor by the
University on November 7, 2016 for being a “divinely gifted
storyteller”, receiving the medallion and diploma from Vice Rector Fr.
Richard Ang. Tackling issues in Latin America such as revolution,
dictatorship, racism, religious fanaticism, and messianism in his
 works, he won the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Mario Vargas Llosa
9. Representing Germany in the recent Miss Universe pageant, she
donated her castle headpiece (inspired by the tales of the Grimm
brothers) to the UST Museum of Arts and Sciences last February 13,
with the display being now open to the public.
Johanna Acs
10. Known as the Dean of Fashion Illustrators, he took up a fine
arts major in advertising at the old College of Fine Arts and
Architecture. Becoming well-known for his hand-painted fabric art in
his work in the fashion industry, he designed the evening gowns that
were worn by candidates in this year’s Miss Universe pageant.
Danilo Franco
11. University archivist Regalado Trota Jose led the inauguration
of a museum for this cemetery, founded by Fr. Francisco Velloc,
OFM in 1845 and declared a National Historical Landmark in 1981,
on December 16, 2016.
Nagcarlan Underground Cemetery
12. Before becoming the third Archbishop of Manila and the
founder of what would become the University of Santo Tomas, Fr.
Miguel de Benavides, O.P. served as the first bishop of which diocese
in the Philippines?
Nueva Segovia

Humanities

1. This refers to an annual 3-day free and non-ticketed alternative

music festival held between June and September in Singapore
launched in 2002 by John Chiong and organized by Esplanade,
meant to create a platform to showcase indie-rock musicians in Asia,
especially local musicians, and to expose the country to quality acts
in the genre.
Baybeats
2. A kingdom in the western part of central Anatolia, it became well-
known in Greek mythology for its leaders' exploits, such as Gordias'
famous knot, Mygdon's conflict with the Amazons, and Midas' golden
touch, with the kingdom itself known for allying with the Trojans
 against the Achaeans in the Trojan War.
Phrygia
3. This refers to the crime of violating majesty, an offense against the
dignity of a reigning sovereign or against a state.
lese-majeste
4. This word was coined during WWII after an English city was
completely destroyed during an air raid in 1940.
coventrated
5. A 1927 American musical film about a young man who winds up
having to choose between his career as an entertainment singer or
his heritage as a cantor, this movie, starring Al Jolson, was the first
feature-length motion picture to have synchronized sound.
The Jazz Singer
6. Combining elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American
jazz and R&B and characterized by a walking bass line accented
with rhythms on the off-beat, this was a music genre that originated
in Jamaica in the late 1950s, becoming the precursor to rocksteady
and reggae.
ska
7. Often cited as the most trusted man in America, he was an
American broadcast journalist, best known as an anchorman for the
CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981. He reported many events,
such as the assassinations of Kennedy, MLK, and Lennon, as well as
combat in WWII and the Vietnam War, along with progress in this
US space program (from Project Mercury to the Moon landings to the
Space Shuttle). He is well known for his departing catchphrase "And
that's the way it is".
Walter Cronkite
8. Most famous today for his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters,
Sculptors, and Architects, he was an Italian painter, architect,
biographer who was the first to use the term Renaissance in print.
Giorgio Vasari
9. This is a term describing a propaganda technique used by the Soviet
Union in its dealings with the Western world during the Cold War
where when criticisms were leveled at the Soviet Union, the response
would be "What about..." followed by the naming of an event in the
Western world. It represents a case of tu quoque or the appeal to
 hypocrisy, a logical fallacy which attempts to discredit the
opponent's position by asserting the opponent's failure to act
consistently in accordance with that position, without directly
refuting or disproving the opponent's initial argument.
Whataboutism
10. It was under this pope that the Gregorian calendar began to
be instituted throughout the world.
Pope Gregory VIII
11. This is a tiling puzzle that requires the assembly of often oddly
shaped interlocking and tessellating pieces. Originally done with
maps of Europe in previous centuries, each piece usually has a
small part of a picture on it, which when complete produces a
complete image.
jigsaw puzzle
12. These are figures of Greek mythology, led by Apollo, are
traditionally considered goddesses of literature, science, and the
arts.
Muse

Science

1. A Persian polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant

thinkers and writers of the Islamic Golden Age, his foremost works
are The Book of Healing, a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia,
and The Canon of Medicine, a medical encyclopedia which became a
standard medical text at many medical universities, remaining in
use as late as 1650.
Avicenna
2. Nicknamed Pentathlos (after the Olympians who were well-rounded
competitors) for proving himself knowledgeable in every area of
learning, he was best known for being the first person to calculate
the circumference of the Earth, creating the first map of the world,
and founding scientific chronology.
Eratosthenes
3. Also known as Syntaxis Mathematica, this is a 2nd-century
mathematical and astronomical treatise on the apparent motions of
stars and planetary paths written by Claudius Ptolemy, putting forth
 the geocentric model that would become dominant until Copernicus.
Almagest
4. The Guinness Book of Records lists two smelliest substances, the US
Government Standard Bathroom Malodor, a mixture of eight
chemicals with a stench resembling and much stronger than human
feces, and Who me?, a mixture of five sulfur-containing chemicals
and smells like rotting food and carcasses, with both these
substances being this device.
stink bomb
5. Known for their ability to spray strong-smelling liquid (a mixture of
sulfur-containing chemicals like thiols/mercaptans), these
omnivorous mammals are the one of the primary predators of the
honeybee and are most commonly found in the Americas.
skunk
6. A result of British and French cooperation, this was the first
supersonic airliner, capable of flying the Atlantic in less than 3.5
hours.
Concorde
7. This refers to a species selected to act as an ambassador, icon, or
symbol for a defined habitat, issue, campaign, or environmental
cause.
flagship species
8. Literally meaning nose horn, this refers to any of five extant species
of odd-toed ungulates. This animal is critically endangered due to it
being hunted for its horns for ornamental and medicinal purposes.
rhinoceros
9. Also the name of the ship Charles Darwin traveled on, this is a breed
of small-sized hound, developed primarily for hunting hare, and now
employed as detection dogs for prohibited agricultural imports and
foodstuffs in quarantine around the world.
beagle
10. One of a family of fibrous structural proteins, it is the protein
that protects epithelial cells from damage or stress. It is the key
structural material making up the outer layer of human skin.
keratin
11. This refers to an area of thermal springs and gas vents where
magma or igneous rocks at shallow depths release gases or interact
 with groundwater.
fumarole field
12. This is a large earthen dam across the Chagres River in
Panama that at the time of its completion in 1913 was the largest
earth dam in the world, with its eponymous lake being the largest
artificial lake in the world.
Gatun Dam

History

1. Occurring between 1480 and 1481, only less than three decades
since the fall of Constantinople, the siege of this southern Italian city
struck fear into the Papacy, who feared they would be next, with
plans for the evacuation of Rome and its citizens made. Eventually
repelled by the forces of France, Naples, Aragon, Hungary, Sicily,
and several Italian city-states in a crusade, the siege ended up as an
abortive attempt at an Ottoman invasion and conquest of Italy.
Otranto
2. Initially a military coup in Lisbon, this revolution ended up
overthrowing the regime of the Estado Novo, Antonio Salazar’s
authoritarian dictatorship in Portugal, as well as making Portugal
from her colonies in Africa and East Timor, becoming remarkable for
nearly having no shots fired, and when the citizens went out the
celebrate the end of the dictatorship, flowers were put into the
muzzles of rifles and the uniforms of soldiers.
Carnation Revolution
3. This term is used to refer to three powerful Muslim empires ruled by
dynasties of Turkic origin, viz. the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal
empires, which gained considerable military success using the newly
developed firearms, especially cannon and small arms, in the course
of their empires.
gunpowder empires
4. Becoming the first native dynasty since the Sasanian Empire to
establish a unified Iranian state, this Shia dynasty controlled all of
modern Iran, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Armenia, most of Georgia, the
North Caucasus, Iraq, Kuwait, and Afghanistan, as well as parts of
Turkey, Syria, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan at the
 height of their power, often battling the Sunni power that was the
Ottoman Empire regarding territories in Eastern Anatolia, the
Caucasus, and Mesopotamia.
Safavid
5. Developed during the early Islamic era, this was a Persian word for
hospital, literally meaning house/place of the sick, referring to a
building where the ill were welcomed and cared for by qualified staff,
with separate wards for the genders being further divided into
mental disease, contagious disease, non-contagious disease,
surgery, medicine, and eye disease, and that contained a lecture
hall, pharmacy, library, mosque, and on occasion a chapel for
Christian patients.
bimaristan
6. Born Jean Bernadotte, he served a long career in the French Army,
becoming appointed a Marshal of France by Napoleon as well as
Prince of Pontecorvo, before ending up as heir-presumptive and
eventually King of Sweden and Norway, siding his realms against
Napoleon in the 6th and 7th Coalitions against France.
Charles XIV John of Sweden/Charles III John of Norway
7. His name meaning the Aaron the Just, he ruled from 786 to 809, at
the peak of the Islamic Golden Age. He established the legendary
library Bayt-al-Hikma (House of Wisdom), a major intellectual center
(that became truly established under his son al-Mamun), in
Baghdad. His time was marked by scientific, cultural, and religious
prosperity as well as the establishment of cordial relations with the
Carolingian France, who he had a common enemy with in the
Byzantine Empire.
Harun al-Rashid
8. Known as Pater Europae for uniting most of Western Europe for the
first time since the Roman Empire, he was the King of the Franks
who served as the first Holy Roman Emperor, the first recognized
emperor in Western Europe since the fall of the Western Roman
Empire in 476. His rule spurred the Carolingian Renaissance, a
period of cultural and intellectual activity.
Charlemagne
9. The word being Middle Low German for convoy, this term referred to
a commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and
 their market towns that came to dominate Baltic maritime trade for
three centuries along the coast of Northern Europe.
Hanseatic League/Hansa/Hanse
10. This referred to a term used from the 15th century to denote a
self-ruling city that enjoyed a certain amount of autonomy and was
represented in the Imperial diet, being subordinate only to the Holy
Roman Emperor through Imperial immediacy.
free imperial city
11. Featuring the Siege of Port Arthur, the Battle of Mukden, and
the Battle of Tsushima, this war saw the first major military victory
in the modern era of an Asian power over a European one,
concluding with the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by Theodore
Roosevelt (for which he would go on to win the Nobel Peace Prize in
1905).
Russo-Japanese War
12. These referred to state and local laws enforcing racial
segregation in the Southern United States enacted after the
Reconstruction period, mandating de jure racial segregation in all
public facilities in the states of the former Confederate States of
America.
Jim Crow laws

Mathematics

1. This simple algorithm for finding prime numbers, which does so by

iteratively marking as composite numbers the multiple of each
prime, starting with the multiples of 2, was proposed by
Eratosthenes.
Sieve of Eratosthenes
2. Give the factors of x3 – 27
x2 + 3x + 9, x – 3
3. Give the roots of x3 + 3x2 -16x -48
-4, -3, 4
4. Give the remainder if x2 – 6x +12 is divided by x – 3
3
5. Give the factors of 9x3 + 63x2 + 108
9x, x + 3, x + 4
 6. The sum of the fourth and sixth terms of a geometric sequence is
810. Find the value of these terms if the first term is 3 and the fifth
term is 243.
81, 729
7. The sum of the sixth and eight terms of an arithmetic sequence is
210 and their difference is 34. Find the third term if the fourth term
is 59.
42
8. Give the 9th term of an arithmetic progression if its 2nd term is 38
and its 7th term is 133.
171
9. Give the difference of 812 and 802.
161
10. Give the quotient of (216x^2 + 36x)/18x.
12x + 2
11. Give the roots of x3 – 9x.
0, 3, -3
12. How many prime numbers are there between 1 and 100?
25

General Information

1. Having Enric Marfany Bons for its composer and Joan Benlloch i
Vivo as its lyricist, El Gran Carlemany is the national anthem of
which country (which has the unique distinction of being ruled by
two sovereigns known as Co-Princes1), celebrating the nation’s
status as the only remaining daughter of the Carolingian Empire?
Andorra
2. Also the only monarch in the world to be elected by common
citizens, he is also the only person to be a monarch and the head of
state of a republic at the same time.
President of France (Francois Hollande)2
3. Literally meaning the Skagen Channel and containing some of the
busiest shipping routes in the world, this is a strait running between
the southeast coast of Norway, the southwest coast of Sweden, and
the Jutland peninsula of Denmark.
Skagerrak
4. Deriving from the Dutch words kat (cat) and gat (hole or gate) for a
comparison to the straits being so narrow that even a cat would
have difficulty in passing through, this shallow sea is bound by the
Jutlandic peninsula to the west, the Danish straits islands to the
south and the Swedish provinces of Vastergotland, Scania, Halland,
and Bohuslan to the east.
Kattegat
5. This was a due paid for the use of the Oresund, a strait in Denmark
that connected the North Sea and the Baltic Sea instituted by King
Eric of Pomerania in 1429 that provided up to two-thirds of
Denmark’s state income until its abolition in the Copenhagen
Convention of 1857.
Sound Dues/Sound Toll
6. Built into a rocky hillside above a forest garden in Northumberland,
England, this country house owned by armaments manufacturer
Lord Armstrong was the first house to be lit using hydroelectric
power.
Cragside
7. An American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of
the United States, he founded the Tuskegee University, a private,
historically black university, and the only campus to be designated a
national historic site in the U.S.
Booker T. Washington
8. This is a civil rights organization in the United States formed in 1909
by W. E. B. du Bois, Mary White Ovington, and Moorfield Storey as a
bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans.
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
9. Based on barrio guys that formed the basis of an amateur comic
strip, this line of toys are a series of two-inch plastic collectible
figurines representing various Chicano Mexican American characters
was created by David Gonzales.
Homies
10. This 1971 song by the English band Yes from their fourth
studio album Fragile was made popular in recent times by its usage
as the ending song for the first season of the JoJo’s Bizarre
Adventure anime series, leading to it and the series’ To Be
Continued insert to become a collective Internet meme, in which
 videos feature the song’s introductory bass riff before coinciding with
the “To Be Continued” insert.
Roundabout
11. This term refers to a prank and an Internet meme involving an
unexpected appearance of the music video for the 1987 Rick Astley
song “Never Gonna Give You Up”.
rickrolling
12. Cited as being the world’s first Internet sensation in 1995,
these are a line of stuffed animals stuffed with plastic pellets or
beans rather than conventional stuffing made by Ty Warner Inc that
became a fad in the 1990s, making up as much as 10% of eBay’s
sales at its peak.
Beanie Babies

Note:

1 - The Co-Princes are the President of France and the Bishop of Urgell.

2 - This is subject to change.