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1. What involved identifying home-related problems and finding solutions to these problems?
2. What are simple replacements of worn-out parts/components or reinforcements of certain things
to make them more functional?
3. What aims to enhance an existing structure or fixture for practical and aesthetic purposes?
4. What are the 6 jobs in home repairs and maintenance?
5. What is a skilled trade and craft that involves working with wood to create, construct, and repair
various wooden structures and objects?
6. What do you call people who perform carpentry?
7. Give 3 examples of things that are fixed in carpentry.
8. What is a skilled trade and construction technique that involves the assembly and construction of
structures from individual units or pieces of material?
9. What is typically used as a bonding agent in masonry?
10. What do you call people who perform masonry?
11. What do masons construct?
12. What are common maintenance tasks in homes and buildings with plaster walls or ceilings?
13. What is the restoration and maintenance of furniture items to ensure their functionality,
appearance, and longevity?
14. Give 3 examples of things furniture repairmen fix.
15. What is involved with a wide knowledge of electricity, circuits, and wires?
16. What do you call people who perform electrical repairs?
17. What do you need to turn off before performing electrical repairs?
18. What involves the installation, maintenance, repair, or replacement of plumbing systems?
19. What encompasses water supply, drainage, sewage, and gas supply within residential,
commercial, and industrial buildings?
20. What do you call people who perform plumbing jobs?
21. Give 3 examples of things plumbers fix.
22. What are the 5 classifications of tools?
23. What are tools that cut?
24. What cutting tool is used for paper crafts?
25. What cutting tool is used to bend/cut small electrical wires and are also called needle nose pliers?
26. What cutting tool is used for many purposes such as cutting, shaping, gripping, and removing
nails?
27. What cutting tool is a hand tool used for pinching or cutting?
28. What cutting tool is used for wood?
29. What cutting tool is used for deep accurate cuts for wooden tables, chairs, etc.?
30. What cutting tool is used for metal, plastic, and wood?
31. What are tools that thrust, push, and manipulate?
32. What driving tool is used for single-slot screws (negative)?
33. What driving tool is used for cross-slot screws (positive)?
34. What driving tool is used to make indentations in wood to ease the insertion of nails/screws?
35. What driving tool is used for door hinges?
36. What driving tool is used to thrust nails into wood?
37. What are tools that grip, clench, grasp, clutch, and clasp?
38. What holding tool is used to tighten?
39. What holding tool is used to bend wires?
40. What holding tool is used to grip knots and bolts and are also called curve jaw lock pliers?
41. What holding tool is used to hold bigger wires?
42. What holding tool is used to lock wood so it would not move?
43. What are tools used for accuracy and precision?
44. What measuring/marking tool is used as a flexible ruler with a metal blade with linear measuring
for distance?
45. What measuring/marking tool is used to set your stairs?
46. What measuring/marking tool is used to mark long straight lines on relatively straight surfaces?
47. What measuring/marking tool is used to check corners and have a right angle?
48. What measuring/marking tool is used to check right angles?
49. What is a classification of tools with no specific purpose (multipurpose & varying)?
50. What miscellaneous tool is used to clear blocked pipes with the use of pressure?
51. What miscellaneous tool is a versatile tool used to scrape, paint, etc., more commonly known as a
spatula?
52. What miscellaneous tool is used to get rid of clogs and is slender and flexible?
53. What miscellaneous tool is used to sharpen knives, etc.?
54. Give 3 examples of basic materials needed for home repair.
55. What makes daily tasks easier to reduce strain or decrease the amount of energy required to
complete an activity?
56. What is used to conserve time and energy?
57. What modifies work to reduce the physical and psychological stress of the body?
58. What is it called when two or more tasks are scheduled and completed at the same time?
59. How far should you keep your work tools and equipment while working?
60. What should be the quality of the tools you pick?
61. True or false: proper posture and body movements are needed in doing any task?
62. True or false: you should never procrastinate even non-urgent tasks.
63. What is it called when you make both hands work?
64. What are devices sold in the market used to make tasks more convenient?
65. What is the condition of being protected?
66. What ensures that something is safe?
67. What is considered one of the oldest professions in the history of construction?
68. What is a mixture of quicklime/cement combined with sand and water?
69. What are the 3 common materials in masonry?
70. What are the 4 types of bricks?
71. What are also called common bricks that are made from ordinary clay or shale and are fired in
kilns?
72. What are bricks with ceramic coating?
73. What are blocks of refractory ceramic material used in lining furnaces, kilns, fireboxes, and
fireplaces?
74. What are decorative bricks made of sand and lime pressed in an atmosphere of steam may come
in different colors, but are uniform in shape and have a smooth finish?
75. What is the standard inch unit of a concrete block?
76. What is the millimeter unit of a concrete block?
77. What are the 3 types of masonry?
78. What type of masonry is used for decorative purposes and uses numerous pieces that are fitted
around another structure?
79. What type of masonry is known as the good old-fashioned brick construction?
80. What type of masonry is the most popular type and is perfect for any kind of wall (durable and
can withstand strong earthquakes)?
81. What is the partner of the light bulb?
82. What is used for pieces of furniture intended for seating or resting the body?
83. What is related to electricity?
84. What are the main components of plumbing?
85. What is a unit used in electricity?
86. What is a hollow cylinder used mainly to convey substances which can flow?
87. What measures current and is a voltage detector?
88. What is one of the most dangerous jobs?
89. What is a popular finishing for almost all types of wood?
90. What is used by pushing the step up and down to adjust water volume and moving it left and right
to adjust the temperature?
91. What is the chemical symbol for Lead?
92. What is taking precautions to identify and control electrical hazards?
93. What is a system that conveys liquid and gas and is a system of pipes, drains, fittings, valves,
valve assemblies, and devices installed in a building for the distribution of water?
94. What language is the word plumbum?
95. How many handle/s does a ball faucet have?
96. Where does the word plumbing come from?
97. What is used for holes?
98. How many handle/s does a cartridge faucet have?
99. What tool is powered by hand?
100. What thrusts screws?
101. What material was used to create pipes in the past?
102. What thrusts nails?
103. What is very common in kitchen sinks and were the first type that did not have a rubber
or neoprene washer?
104. What is used to connect, redirect, control, and adapt the flow of liquids or gases in
pipelines?
105. Who installs, operates, maintains, or repairs electric devices / electrical wiring?
106. What is also known as a power outlet?
107. Who constructs, repairs, and installs building frameworks and structures made from
wood and other materials?
108. What should the first step be in fixing electrical things?
109. What should you do to a circuit breaker before fixing something electrical?
110. What is the most common pipe fitting?
111. What trims wood?
112. What is the symbol in Electrical Hazard Safety?
113. What is any potential/actual threat to the well-being of people, machinery, or the
environment?
114. Failure to follow electrical precautions can lead to death/injury or ______.
115. What cuts wire?
116. What tool is powered by a motor/engine?
117. Give an example of a material that may be used to build a pipe.
118. What are the two types of cover?
119. What is the latest development in modern faucet technology?
120. What is the oldest type of faucet?
121. _________ wires are created with aluminum or copper.
122. What is the point of the installation system where the flow of water or gas could be
manipulated?
123. What prevents overheating?
124. What has a wide cartridge housing 2 ceramic discs that side over each other to control
water flow and mixing temperatures?
125. A tool in electrical job is ______ Plug
126. What involves the repair and creation of tangible objects?
127. What is the energy resulting from charge particles?
128. How many handle/s does a compression faucet have?
129. What are the different forms of money?
130. What are basic or essential to living and are considered the priority?
131. What depends on the work made of the living of the person?
132. What is the flow of goods and services used or available for any given period of time?
133. What are expenses that have changes month-over-month?
134. What is the formula for turning percentages into decimals?
135. What are non-essential things you can forego or set aside for the moment?
136. What type of family resources include family members and what each one possesses?
137. What includes physical assets that can be seen and touched?
138. What is the basic unit of society?
139. What are the goals you want to accomplish in the future?
140. What are things the family possesses and makes use of to achieve family goals?
141. What are the two kinds of family resources?
142. What are the 4 factors affecting the family budget?
143. What are the expenses you’re obliged to pay regularly?
144. What is it called when the family gets paid for the work done?
145. What is something available to achieve a goal?
146. What type of real income is compared to the Barter System?
147. What expenses are set aside for unexpected expenses?
148. Give 3 examples of money income.
149. Enumerate 3 advantages of having a family budget.
150. Enumerate the 5 factors of family resources.
151. What is the object of a person’s ambition or effort or an aim or desired result?
152. What are the 2 types of goals?
153. What are the 8 components of a family budget?
154. Is time a human or material resource?
155. What is available in the family without the use of money?
156. Budgeting requires the art of _________.
157. What can be attained for a short period of time?
158. What includes assets that do not have any physical existence?
159. What is the principle of budgeting or the breakdown of expenses?
160. What is the formula for the breakdown of expenses?
161. Goals require taking _________.
162. What is available to the family involving the use or exchange of money?
163. What type of family resources include things available to the family and everyone?
164. What is money achieved from rendered work?
165. What is the planned spending of the income or money of the family?
166. What may vary from family to family?

1. What involved identifying home-related problems and finding solutions to these problems? Home
Repairs and Maintenance
2. What are simple replacements of worn-out parts/components or reinforcements of certain things
to make them more functional? Repairs
3. What aims to enhance an existing structure or fixture for practical and aesthetic purposes?
Improvements
4. What are the 6 jobs in home repairs and maintenance? Carpentry Jobs, Masonry Jobs, Plaster
Repairs, Furniture Repairs, Electrical Repairs, Plumbing Jobs
5. What is a skilled trade and craft that involves working with wood to create, construct, and repair
various wooden structures and objects? Carpentry
6. What do you call people who perform carpentry? Carpenter
7. Give 3 examples of things that are fixed in carpentry. Doors, Door Hinges, Windows
8. What is a skilled trade and construction technique that involves the assembly and construction of
structures from individual units or pieces of material? Masonry
9. What is typically used as a bonding agent in masonry? Mortar
10. What do you call people who perform masonry? Masons
11. What do masons construct? Floors and Walls
12. What are common maintenance tasks in homes and buildings with plaster walls or ceilings?
Plaster Repairs
13. What is the restoration and maintenance of furniture items to ensure their functionality,
appearance, and longevity? Furniture Repairs
14. Give 3 examples of things furniture repairmen fix. Table, Chairs, Cabinets
15. What is involved with a wide knowledge of electricity, circuits, and wires? Electrical Repairs
16. What do you call people who perform electrical repairs? Electricians
17. What do you need to turn off before performing electrical repairs? Circuit Breaker
18. What involves the installation, maintenance, repair, or replacement of plumbing systems?
Plumbing Jobs
19. What encompasses water supply, drainage, sewage, and gas supply within residential,
commercial, and industrial buildings? Plumbing Systems
20. What do you call people who perform plumbing jobs? Plumbers
21. Give 3 examples of things plumbers fix. Toilets, Sinks, Faucets
22. What are the 5 classifications of tools? Cutting, Driving, Holding, Measuring/Marking,
Miscellaneous
23. What are tools that cut? Cutting Tools
24. What cutting tool is used for paper crafts? Heavy Duty Craft Knife
25. What cutting tool is used to bend/cut small electrical wires and are also called needle nose pliers?
Fine Nose Pliers
26. What cutting tool is used for many purposes such as cutting, shaping, gripping, and removing
nails? Pliers
27. What cutting tool is a hand tool used for pinching or cutting? Pincers
28. What cutting tool is used for wood? Floorboard Saw
29. What cutting tool is used for deep accurate cuts for wooden tables, chairs, etc.? Tenon Saw
30. What cutting tool is used for metal, plastic, and wood? Mini Hacksaw
31. What are tools that thrust, push, and manipulate? Driving Tools
32. What driving tool is used for single-slot screws (negative)? Single-slot Screwdriver
33. What driving tool is used for cross-slot screws (positive)? Cross-slot Screwdriver
34. What driving tool is used to make indentations in wood to ease the insertion of nails/screws?
Bradawl
35. What driving tool is used for door hinges? Cold Chisel
36. What driving tool is used to thrust nails into wood? Nailing Claw Hammer
37. What are tools that grip, clench, grasp, clutch, and clasp? Holding Tools
38. What holding tool is used to tighten? Adjustable Spanner
39. What holding tool is used to bend wires? Fine Nose Pliers
40. What holding tool is used to grip knots and bolts and are also called curve jaw lock pliers? Mole
Grips
41. What holding tool is used to hold bigger wires? Pliers
42. What holding tool is used to lock wood so it would not move? C-clamp / G-clamp
43. What are tools used for accuracy and precision? Measuring/Marking Tools
44. What measuring/marking tool is used as a flexible ruler with a metal blade with linear measuring
for distance? Steel Tape Measure
45. What measuring/marking tool is used to set your stairs? Stair Gauge
46. What measuring/marking tool is used to mark long straight lines on relatively straight surfaces?
Chalk Line Reel
47. What measuring/marking tool is used to check corners and have a right angle? Try Square
48. What measuring/marking tool is used to check right angles? Quick Square Tool
49. What is a classification of tools with no specific purpose (multipurpose & varying)?
Miscellaneous Tools
50. What miscellaneous tool is used to clear blocked pipes with the use of pressure? Plunger
51. What miscellaneous tool is a versatile tool used to scrape, paint, etc., more commonly known as a
spatula? Putty Knife
52. What miscellaneous tool is used to get rid of clogs and is slender and flexible? Plumber’s Snake
53. What miscellaneous tool is used to sharpen knives, etc.? Oil Stone
54. Give 3 examples of basic materials needed for home repair. Nails, Bolts/Knots, Screws
55. What makes daily tasks easier to reduce strain or decrease the amount of energy required to
complete an activity? Work Simplification
56. What is used to conserve time and energy? Work Simplification
57. What modifies work to reduce the physical and psychological stress of the body? Work
Simplification
58. What is it called when two or more tasks are scheduled and completed at the same time?
Dovetailing
59. How far should you keep your work tools and equipment while working? Near (Needless
walking, lifting, and reaching)
60. What should be the quality of the tools you pick? Best
61. True or false: proper posture and body movements are needed in doing any task? True
62. True or false: you should never procrastinate even non-urgent tasks. False
63. What is it called when you make both hands work? Ambidextrous
64. What are devices sold in the market used to make tasks more convenient? Labor-Saving Devices
65. What is the condition of being protected? Safety
66. What ensures that something is safe? Safety Precautions
67. What is considered one of the oldest professions in the history of construction? Masonry
68. What is a mixture of quicklime/cement combined with sand and water? Mortar
69. What are the 3 common materials in masonry? Bricks, Concrete Blocks (Hollow Blocks),
Different Stones (Marble Stone, Granite Stone, Lime Stone)
70. What are the 4 types of bricks? Building Brick, Glazed Brick, Fire Brick, Sand Lime Brick
71. What are also called common bricks that are made from ordinary clay or shale and are fired in
kilns? Building Brick
72. What are bricks with ceramic coating? Glazed Brick
73. What are blocks of refractory ceramic material used in lining furnaces, kilns, fireboxes, and
fireplaces? Fire Brick
74. What are decorative bricks made of sand and lime pressed in an atmosphere of steam may come
in different colors, but are uniform in shape and have a smooth finish? Sand Lime Brick
75. What is the standard inch unit of a concrete block? 8x8x16 inches
76. What is the millimeter unit of a concrete block? 203x203x406 mm
77. What are the 3 types of masonry? Veneer, Solid, Brick
78. What type of masonry is used for decorative purposes and uses numerous pieces that are fitted
around another structure? Veneer Masonry
79. What type of masonry is known as the good old-fashioned brick construction? Solid Masonry
80. What type of masonry is the most popular type and is perfect for any kind of wall (durable and
can withstand strong earthquakes)? Brick Masonry
81. What is the partner of the light bulb? Lamp Holder
82. What is used for pieces of furniture intended for seating or resting the body? Upholstery
83. What is related to electricity? Electrical
84. What are the main components of plumbing? Pipes and Pipe Fittings
85. What is a unit used in electricity? Amperes
86. What is a hollow cylinder used mainly to convey substances which can flow? Pipe
87. What measures current and is a voltage detector? Ammeter
88. What is one of the most dangerous jobs? Electrical Job
89. What is a popular finishing for almost all types of wood? Varnishing
90. What is used by pushing the step up and down to adjust water volume and moving it left and right
to adjust the temperature? Cartridge Faucet
91. What is the chemical symbol for Lead? Pb
92. What is taking precautions to identify and control electrical hazards? Electrical Hazard Safety
93. What is a system that conveys liquid and gas and is a system of pipes, drains, fittings, valves,
valve assemblies, and devices installed in a building for the distribution of water? Plumbing
94. What language is the word plumbum? Latin
95. How many handle/s does a ball faucet have? 1
96. Where does the word plumbing come from? Plumbum
97. What is used for holes? Electrical Drill
98. How many handle/s does a cartridge faucet have? 1 or 2
99. What tool is powered by hand? Hand Tools
100. What thrusts screws? Screwdrivers
101. What material was used to create pipes in the past? Lead
102. What thrusts nails? Nailing Claw Hammer
103. What is very common in kitchen sinks and were the first type that did not have a rubber
or neoprene washer? Ball Faucet
104. What is used to connect, redirect, control, and adapt the flow of liquids or gases in
pipelines? Pipe Fitting
105. Who installs, operates, maintains, or repairs electric devices / electrical wiring?
Electricians
106. What is also known as a power outlet? Convenience Outlet
107. Who constructs, repairs, and installs building frameworks and structures made from
wood and other materials? Carpenters
108. What should the first step be in fixing electrical things? Turning off the circuit breaker
109. What should you do to a circuit breaker before fixing something electrical? Turn off
110. What is the most common pipe fitting? Elbow
111. What trims wood? Cutter
112. What is the symbol in Electrical Hazard Safety? Lightning
113. What is any potential/actual threat to the well-being of people, machinery, or the
environment? Hazard
114. Failure to follow electrical precautions can lead to death/injury or ______. fire
115. What cuts wire? Wire Cutter
116. What tool is powered by a motor/engine? Power Tools
117. Give an example of a material that may be used to build a pipe. Metal/Ceramic/Plastic
118. What are the two types of cover? Fabric and Leather
119. What is the latest development in modern faucet technology? Disc Faucet
120. What is the oldest type of faucet? Compression Faucet
121. _________ wires are created with aluminum or copper. Electrical
122. What is the point of the installation system where the flow of water or gas could be
manipulated? Faucet
123. What prevents overheating? Fuse
124. What has a wide cartridge housing 2 ceramic discs that side over each other to control
water flow and mixing temperatures? Disc Faucet
125. A tool in electrical job is ______ Plug. Male
126. What involves the repair and creation of tangible objects? Carpentry
127. What is the energy resulting from charge particles? Electricity
128. How many handle/s does a compression faucet have? 2
129. What are the different forms of money? Cash, Checks, Gift Checks, Credit Cards
130. What are basic or essential to living and are considered the priority? Needs
131. What depends on the work made of the living of the person? Wants
132. What is the flow of goods and services used or available for any given period of time?
Real Income
133. What are expenses that have changes month-over-month? Variable Expenses
134. What is the formula for turning percentages into decimals? n/100
135. What are non-essential things you can forego or set aside for the moment? Wants
136. What type of family resources include family members and what each one possesses?
Human Resources
137. What includes physical assets that can be seen and touched? Tangible Resources
138. What is the basic unit of society? Family
139. What are the goals you want to accomplish in the future? Long-term goals
140. What are things the family possesses and makes use of to achieve family goals? Family
Resources
141. What are the two kinds of family resources? Tangible & Intangible
142. What are the 4 factors affecting the family budget? Amount of income, size and
composition of the family, values of the family, needs & wants of the family
143. What are the expenses you’re obliged to pay regularly? Fixed expenses
144. What is it called when the family gets paid for the work done? Money Income
145. What is something available to achieve a goal? Resources
146. What type of real income is compared to the Barter System? Indirect Real Income
147. What expenses are set aside for unexpected expenses? Emergency Expenses
148. Give 3 examples of money income. Salary, Pension, Benefits
149. Enumerate 3 advantages of having a family budget. Fosters unity, cooperation, and
openness among the family, reminds the family of current and future needs & wants, aids the
family to live within its available income
150. Enumerate the 5 factors of family resources. Available resources of the family, Activities
of the members of the family, Priorities of the family, Values Attitudes and Habits of the family,
Conditions in the community
151. What is the object of a person’s ambition or effort or an aim or desired result? Goal
152. What are the 2 types of goals? Long-Term & Short-Term
153. What are the 8 components of a family budget? Food, Shelter, Clothing, Health Needs,
Education, Savings, Miscellaneous, Maintenance
154. Is time a human or material resource? Material Resource
155. What is available in the family without the use of money? Direct Real Money
156. Budgeting requires the art of _________. Discipline
157. What can be attained for a short period of time? Short-term Goals
158. What includes assets that do not have any physical existence? Intangible Resources
159. What is the principle of budgeting or the breakdown of expenses? 70-20-10
160. What is the formula for the breakdown of expenses? F.I*%
161. Goals require taking _________. Action
162. What is available to the family involving the use or exchange of money? Indirect Real
Income
163. What type of family resources include things available to the family and everyone?
Material Resources
164. What is money achieved from rendered work? Income
165. What is the planned spending of the income or money of the family? Budget
166. What may vary from family to family? Resources