UGRD-GE6108 Philippine Popular Culture Quiz 5
UGRD-GE6108 Philippine Popular Culture Quiz 5
UGRD-GE6108 Philippine Popular Culture Quiz 5
1. Philippine literature's diversity and richness grew with the country's culture.
- False
2. Renowned artists in the 1990s included Eraserheads, April Boy Regino, Rivermaya, Jaya, Agot
Isidro, Vina Morales, Donna Cruz, Jolina Magdangal, Jessa Zaragoza, Ariel Rivera, South Border,
Carol Banawa, Yano, Introvoys, AfterImage, Side A, Andrew E., Lani Misalucha, April Boys, Color
It Red, Roselle Nava, and Blakdyak, among many others.
- True
3. Popular artists in the 1970s included Nora Aunor, Tirso Cruz III, Eddie Peregrina, Ramon Jacinto,
Victor Wood, and Asin.
- True
4. Music of the Philippines involves musical performance arts developed in various genres and
styles in the Philippines or by Filipinos.
- True
5. Original Pilipino music, now more commonly called original Pinoy music or OPM, originally only
referred to Philippine pop songs, particularly ballads, such as those popular after the collapse of
their predecessor, the late 1970s Manila sound.
- True
6. Philippine literature is literature from prehistory, through its colonial legacies, and through the
present, connected with the Philippines.
- True
7. OFM is currently used by Filipino musicians and singers as a catch-all term for popular music
written and performed by it.
- False
8. Pre-Hispanic literature in the Philippines was in fact epics passed down from generation to
generation, initially through written tradition.
- False
9. Metro Manila Popular Music Festival, the country's first songwriting competition, was first
founded in 1977 and launched by the Philippine Popular Music Foundation.
- True
10. The typical unfamiliarity of Filipino with his indigenous literature was primarily due to what was
impressed upon him: that his country had been "discovered" and, thus, Philippine "history" only
began in 1521.
- True
11. Folk song, is a form of folk lyric that expresses hopelessness and failures, people's struggles as
well as their death.
- False
12. The advent of Pilita Corrales, Sylvia La Torre, Diomedes Maturan, Ric Manrique Jr., Ruben
Tagalog, Helen Gamboa, Vilma Santos, Edgar Mortiz, Carmen Camacho and many others
occurred during the 1950s, 1960s and before the 1990s.
- False
13. From its roots, OPM was based in Manila, where the dominant languages are Tagalog and
English.
- True
14. Between the 1990s and 2000, OPM was led by such artists as Regine Velasquez, Pops Fernandez,
APO Hiking Society, Kuh Ledesma, Jose Mari Chan, Dingdong Avanzado, Janno Gibbs, Ogie
Alcasid, Martin Nievera, Manilyn Reynes, Lea Salonga, Francis Magalona, Sharon Cuneta, Sheryl
Cruz, Zsa Zsa Padilla, and Gary Valenciano, among many others.
- False
15. The nationalistic pride rousings of the 1960s and 1970s have helped bring about this change of
mindset among a new generation of Filipinos concerned about the "Filipino heritage."
- True
16. The pre-colonial inhabitants of our islands show a rich past through their folk speeches, folk
songs, folk narratives, and indigenous rituals and mimetic dances that confirm our ties with our
Western neighbors.
- False
17. The most important of the folk speeches is the riddle of tigmo in Cebuano, bugtong in Tagalog,
paktakon in Ilongo, and patotototdon in Bicol.
- True
18. The extended form, the tanaga, the mono-riming heptasyllabic quatrain, which expresses
insights and lessons about life, is "more emotionally charged than the treacherous proverb, and
thus has an affinity with folk lyrics."
- True
19. Proverbs or aphorisms express norms or codes of conduct, community beliefs or values by
offering nuggets of wisdom in a short, rhyming verse.
- True
20. Sarah Geronimo, Julie Anne San Jose, Angeline Quinto, Jonalyn Viray, Rachelle Ann Go, Christian
Bautista, Kitchie Nadal, Barbie's Cradle, Moonstar88, Aiza Seguerra, Toni Gonzaga, Richard Poon,
Nina, Yeng Constantino, KZ Tandingan, Nyoy Volante, Hale, Spongecola, Jake Zyrus, Jed Madela,
Erik Santos, Parokya Ni Edgar, Kamikazee, Abra, and Gloc-9 are among the leading OPM artists in
the 2000s and 2010s.
- True