 Ang karunungan ay kapangyarihan. Now, let's put that power to the test. It's time for... K-Check! So everyone, I am Jonella Boer. Ako po si Julian Baldo-Cobelo and this is K-Check. Hindi lang ito tagisa ng talino para sa ating mga contestants. Ito ay para rin sa inyong lahat na gustong laging nagdagadang ang inyong mga kaalaman. Every K-Check is an opportunity for us to teach and learn. Sumahin nyo kami until the final week of competition when we find out kung sino ang tatangalin kaunaw na hang K-Check champion. Apat na contestants ang dadaan sa ating karunungan check sa araw na ito. Contestant number one ay Sikat na mula sa colegion ng arte at literatura at sumasa ilalim sa programang malikaing pagsulat sa Filipino. He's also part of the University Student Council. Contestant number two si Inday na isang lumad at labibilang sa ethno-linguisticong obo-manobo kasalokuyan siya nagaaral sa UP at kumukuhan ng programang associate in arts sa malikaing pagsulat sa Filipino. Contestant number three si Alex na isang BA philosophy student, athomist, and a la-naval devotee. Contestant number four si Aileen na BS geology graduate from UP Dileman at isa na ngayong research associate sa isang international company sa Makati. She loves volcanoes and science in general. These four will be competing under the watchful eyes of today's K-Check panel of experts. Professor Neil Santillian, Chairperson of the UP Dileman Department of History. And we have Professor Glesy Athensa of the College of Arts and Letters UP Dileman. And we have Professor Ricky Nelyas from the Institute of Chemistry UP Dileman. And now contestants papasulat ka tayo sa K-Check paramihan where each correct answer is worth 10 points. This is your chance to bank as many points as you can and take the all-important early lead. Let's begin! Kat, Tion Young is a capital of what country? China. Malaysia, North Korea. In day, how many years are there in two decades? 20. K-Check. Alex, how many legs does a mosquito have? 6. K-Check. Aileen, Baghdad is a capital of what country? Iraq. K-Check. Kat, when a queen celebrates her golden jubilee, how many years has she been on the throne? 10. Malaysia, 50. In day, Wellington is a capital of what country? Answer is New Zealand. Alex, how many years are there in half a century? 50 years. K-Check. Aileen, what NBA team has LeBron James played for since 2018? Correct answer is Los Angeles Lakers or LA Lakers. Kat, in what continent can you find about 10 million kangaroos? Australia. In day, what is the color of the hair or fur of a polar bear? Brown. Malaysia. Alex, Brussels is a capital of what country? Belgium. K-Check. Aileen, if you were celebrating your silver wedding anniversary, for how many years would you have been married? 75. Malit, 25. And that's it for our first round, the K-Check Paramiyan Round. Nakaraang Q&H. Ito na patas nga ako na akong sleeves, kasi talagang hindi ako nakahingaday na round. Pero magaling mga ating mga contestant. May malaki ang promise nilang lahat. Okay. Mam, Glesy, kamusta naman ang round na yan para sa'yo? Ay, naku nakakastress pala yung ganyan. Pero ang suggestion ko, enjoy, enjoy lang tayo, mga kapatid. Energy, energy lang. Focus, go, go, go. Pwede kang imigay sa kanila mga tips kung pa na mawala ang stress. Oh, oh, oh. Hinga-hinga lang pag may time. Correct. Maganyan lang. Relax. Thank you, Prof. Glesy. May question ako kay Alex na pala. Sabi mo isa kang Thomas, at galing ka sa USD. Requirement ba maging Thomasian para maging Thomas ka? Actually, you don't need to be a Thomasian in order to be a Thomas talagang. You just need to read the readings of Saint Thomas Aquinas and many more na mas supplementary readings nila. Okay. Anong top-of-mind mo na sinabi ideology ni Saint Thomas Aquinas? Dito yung mga upunta dito yung existence of God and yung theories natin of justice and of course, pati na rin yung mga metaphysical na mga paniniwala natin. Okay. Metaphysical. Can I? I'm not taking ako dito. Ah, ah. So, I'm dumb ko ang mga naishare sa ating ayong mga baga ni Alex. At ngayon, ready na ba kayong lahat for our Publish and Round? Next, here on Key Check! Anong ating karunungan check? Points, recap mo na tayo. Si Kat ay merong zero, pero hindi napang hihinalan ng lob. Si Inday naman ay merong 10 points. Si Alex ay merong 30 points at si Aileen ay merong 10 points. Napakakuality di mamdiyon. Ninya in order talaga yun. Hindi ganoon talaga. Hindi kasi nila mo, ano yung pag-eramdam niya ay tama. Alam kung di remind mo akong na parang aking nature ay very random. Correct ko. Ano tinay mo naman doon sa mga kahabul pa kaya? O naman, kasi talagang warm up. Kaya nakailangan siguro nila kitaas ang mga sleeves. At nararamdaman ko lahat tayo dito ay maagan ating gising. So, maya-maya, mag-i-init at, believe ako, nang makakahabul ang iba. Correct ko. Speaking of lage-init, Prof. Riki, anong pag-eramdam mo sa round na yun? Nag-i-init ka ba doon? Nag-i-init din. Nag-i-init din. O, tanong mo ako kay Inday. Okay. Inday, pwede mo pang kilala sa amin yung Lumad na Manobo? Ako po ay isang Obo Manobo. Tapos yung Lumad po ay sa Mindanao lang nakatira. Tapos Obo Manobo ay sa Nord Katabato lang po. Pag isa kang Obo Manobo, ano yung kadalasan na characteristics, so to separate from the other communities Inday? Syempre po, nandun kami sa bundok nakatira at yung pinaka takay ba po siguro sa amin, yung kasuotan namin, may mga kasuotan po kami sa ayun pa. Okay, malami salamat, Inday. We're now going into K-check pabilisan Buz in first for the right to answer the question. Correct answers are worth 20 points, pero sa round na ito minus 10 points ang maling sagot. Kaya contestants, pang isipan muna bako i-press ang buzzer. Let's begin! Born in Nepal in the 6th or 5th century B.C., which religious leader had the original name si Darta Gautama? Alex. Gautama Buddha. That's correct. K-check. After a native god of winds, what wind from the southeast brings heavy rainfall during the rainy season. Eileen. Habagat. K-check. Most references say that the world's largest monolithic croc is Uluru, or Ayers Rock, which can be found in what country? And the answer is Australia. Okay, next question. Which male music artist interrupted Taylor Swift's acceptance speech? Eileen. Can you, Wes? K-check. I'll just finish the question speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. Next. In the game Dungeons & Dragons, a player might use a die in the shape of an icosahedron. How many faces does an icosahedron have? Okay? The answer is 20. Next. In October 2021, the parent company of Facebook changes name to what? Okay, Eileen. Meta. K-check. In the current PBA season, what is the European Nationality of Magnolia Hot Shots import, Nick Rakocivic. Kocivic. Nobody got that. The answer is Serbian. Next. Arthur Conan Doyle's first novel, a study in Scarlet introduced fictional detective who rose to become one of the most portrayed characters on film. Alex. Game Spawn. Eileen? Sherlock Holmes. K-check. Okay. Let's move on. According to Guinness, what bird runs the fastest on land reaching speeds of about 45 kph? Eileen? Ostrich. K-check. In 2021, which male singer teamed up with Daniel Caesar and gave you on for peaches with chance, the rapper for Holy and Kid Leroy for state? Okay, nobody got that. It's Justin Bieber. Okay? We are down to the second to the last question. Okay? Breathe in, breathe out. The question is, what term is given to the horseshoe shaped belt about 40,000 km long at the rim of the Pacific Ocean? Eileen? Pacific Ring of Fire. K-check. I'll just finish the question where many volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur. The last question for this round, which boxing champion visited Manila in late September never lost in 50 professional bouts? Alex. Mayweather. K-check. That's the end of our K-check pabilisan round. Point three cap muna tayo na na una si Eileen with 150 points. Kasunod si Alex with 30 points. Si Inday has 10 points at si Kat ay hahabol. Grabe yung ano yun, parang energy ng mga contestants. Ang ikaw yung napapasiliti. Andaming nangyayari sa aking utak. Salamat naman. At napandindiga ko yung pagtatano. Kasi Misen, gusto ko sa pag-involva siya. Ikaw prof nil-involved kabado sa last na round na yun? Well, super-involved kasi nakikinig ako sa mga tanong at nagtatrya kong sagutin. I think nakasagot ako mga kalahati dun sa mga tanong. Pero I think na sobrang napabilib ako ni Eileen, sa round one, 10 points, sa round two, 140 points. So I think overwhelma ko sa performance mo. Gusto kung malaman, paan mo pinagandaan ang k-check performance mo ngayong araw. Pero I read some trivia, question sa ganyan. So ya. So kung, sa madaling sabi, stock knowledge lang pala, ang karamiyan wala. Okay. Okay. Pero may mensahi din ako para sa 3 contestants. Hindi patapos ang laban, meron pang round three. Okay. So laban lang. Laban lang. Bush lang. So this time, our contestants will face their toughest challenge yet dahil ang ating ultimate pagalingan round, na here on, k-check. So mula sa pinakamatas, we have Ailino lang tulog with 150 points. Tapos si Alex, okay, na nandijan pa rin ang energy with 30 points at ang makahumahabul at palaban pa rin with Inday with 10 points and si Kat with zero. Okay. So ako kaya talaga, ito, ito, ito ko na. Ay lahat na talaga nang kailang ako isama sa aking energy. Ay papaso ko na sa aking aura. Yes. May tanong ako kaya Kat, ano maging strategy mo ngayong gusto-gusto mo talagang manalo, niba? Kasi randam natin, kasi the fact na hindi pa napakihinaan ang low. Hindi ko po alang parang go with the flow lang. Okay, go with the flow. Okay. Nabangkit mo kami na na USC, versus student council, ano? Anong role mo doan sa USC? Ako po yung committee head ng people's struggles kumiti pa. Pakikibaka ang pangmasa. Tama naman, yung, okay? Okay. So, we'll find out kung sino sa kanila ang manalo, sa ating ultimate pagalingan where correct answers are worth 30 points. Wrong answers to get a 15-point deduction. At para mas madagdagan ng kaalaman ng ating mga contestants and viewers sa round ito sa mga professors ng ating panel of experts manga galing ang mga tanong. At the end of this round malalaman na natin kung sino ang tatang haling K-check daily winner, contestants. Let's begin. Let's begin our third round. Prof Neal, question number one, please. This refers to the rigid racial segregation and political domination of blacks. Alex. Apartheid. Tapusing ko mo na yung tanong. Okay. This refers to the strict racial segregation and political domination of blacks implemented by the National Party Government of South Africa from the late 1940s to the early 1990s. Tinapos ang rasistang patakaran na ito nung panahon na naging pangulo ng South Africa sinelson-mandela. Pinangunahan niya ang Partido ng Africa National Congress. Ang tamang sagot ay apartheid K-check. Okay. Madami-sadami. Prof Glassy, question number two, please. Kayo pa ay tagamay nila puwede rin naman hindi pero masasagot nyo to. The city of Malabon was named after this plant. What is the name of the plant which gave Malabon city its current name? Ang hala ang city of Malabon. Anong halaman? Halaman. Pangalan ng halaman. Sagot po natin ay tambobong. Ang tambobong ay isang uri ng kawaya parang isa siyang uri ng kawayan. Siguro meron din ito sa inyo sa minta nawa. Ibalang ang tawag. Ano bang tawag ng kawayan sa inyo? May bolo po. Bolo. Bolo. Ay, ba-ibaren. So dito, ang Malabon ay pinangalan sa tambobong yun po ang sagot. Thank you so much, Prof Glassy. Prof Riki. Question number three, please. Okay, sa sciences naman tayo. The science that deals with the structure of matter and the interactions between the fundamental constituents of the observable universe. Alex. Chemistry. Physics. Age. Thank you, Prof Riki. Prof Neil. Question number four, please. Which US president saw the collapse of communist governments in Eastern Europe? Alex. And the dissolution of the Soviet Union? Ronald Reagan. Nick. John F. Kennedy. Ang tamang sagot, ay ang 41st US president, George Herbert Walker Bush. Atin, ay batay sa babasahin ko, haf. Mayaron ba kayong mga kamay o daliri? Pwede ka yung gumanyang ganyan. Ang tubig may malalim, malilirip kung lidin. Itong budhing magaling, maliwanag paghanapin. Ang tubig may malalim. Okay. This old Tagalog verse, often in mono-rhythmic Heptasilabic lines, speaks of values or a view of the world. Ano ang tawag sa Tagalog poetic form na ito? Hindi. Hindi talang ka. Sounds like malapit na. Talaga. Tama. Ang tawag ay talaga. Ito yung sinabi ng mga espanol nung unang sapit dito na maganda, bagamat, hindi tulag, kasi hindi gano ng bilang nila. Pito kasi sa atin, sa kanila, walo o kaya, dosin. Yon. Okay, check. Thank you, prof freaky. Next question. Science is only short and sweet. What is the smallest unit of classification of living things? Sir, ang tamang sagot, species. Thank you, prof freaky. Prof Neil, next question. Anong lung sod sa Pilipinas ang maybansa na Asia's Latin city? Alec. Zambuanga. Ang tamang sagot ay lung sod ng zambuanga. Thank you, prof glassy. Next question, please. Susunod natin tanong ay what is the meaning of Jose Rizal's Noli metanghere? No, ang ibig sabihin nang... Touch me not. Tamang sagot, kaycheck, o wag mo akong salingin. Science again, what is the type of ecological succession in which plants and animals recolonize a habitat after such major disturbances? Tamang sagot, secondary succession. Secondary succession for anyone, okay? Last round of questions, prof Neil. Huling tanong mula sa akin, ano ang kabuang bilang ng banga riyon sa Pilipinas. Nung pumasok si Pangulong Duterte ng 2016, may kabuang bilang na 18. Sa unang taon na kanyang pamumuno, tinanggal niyang 18 region, nang tawag ay Negros Island region. Ang tamang sagot ay 17. Pana rito na muli, ito ay tungkol sa isang libro. This religious material was considered as the first book published in the Philippines. Eileen, Doctrina Cristiana. Kaycheck, tutuloy ko lang ha, it's spearheaded thousands of other devotionals that pave the way for the natives' colonization through Christianization. Ang sagot ay Doctrina Cristiana. Kaycheck, prof-freaky huling katanungan. Okay, sa chemistry tayo. What is the type of chemical bond where two atoms share a pair of electrons? Ang tamang sagot, covalent bond. Malaming salamat sa mga tanong and that's the end of our third round. That's it for Kaycheck Ultimate Pagalingan. Congratulations to Eileen, our Kaycheck daily winner with a final score of 225 points. We'll see her again on Friday when she competes with our other daily winners for a spot in our semi-final. Thanks to Kat, Inday, and Alex for joining and to the members of our panel of experts, Prof Neal, Prof Blessie, and Prof Freaky. This is Julian Baldo-Cobelo. And I am Jonella Bor. Join us again tomorrow for another Kaycheck!