 Ang karunungan ay kapangyarihan. It's time once again to put that power to the test here on... K-Check! Hello everyone, I'm Gaby Concepcion, the attorney not the artista. Correct, K-Check. At ako naman si Jones Guyang and this is K-Check with another season of teaching and learning. Patuloy pa rin ang paghanap natin ng mga gustong sanayin at palawakin ang grain power nila through competition. Alamin natin kung kaya nila ang brain workout na inihanda natin for them this season. Yasamahan nyo kami until the final week of competition dahil may tatang halina naman tayong panibagong K-Check champion. Apat na contestants ang dadahan sa ating karunungan check sa araw na ito. Aying is a geography student of UP Dileman. His hobbies are watching anime and creating maps. Bagay siya sa course. He also listens to K-Pop. Ko eto na, Steph. Steph is a BS statistic student. She enjoys watching movies, listening to music and playing gunfight games. Akala in wayang. Meet Rob. He's an undergrad studying geography at UP Dileman. When he's not jamming into tunes, he's all about using remote sensing to explore different parts of the world and diving into virtual spaces to understand them. And last but not least, RG is an industrial engineering student of UP Dileman. His hobbies are working out, playing the guitar and watching Korean dramas. He also loves listening to OPM music. His favorite band is The Ridley. So, of course, this forum will be competing under the watchful eyes of today's K-Check panel of experts. Firstly, we have Professor Mitzi Reyes, former dean of the College of Fine Arts, UP Dileman. Up next, we have Professor Ricky Nelyas of the Institute of Chemistry from UP Dileman. Finally, we have Professor Luisa De Leon Bulinau, former chair of the Department of History from UP Dileman. At ngayon, contestants, handano ba kayo for our first round? Get ready to buzz in and collect those points. Correct answers are 10 points deep. Let's begin. This is Round 1. Let's begin. Question No. 1. What is the capital city of the United States of America? Ram. Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. is correct. K-Check. Question No. 2. What popular pasta, which is usually baked with cheese, is made from semolina and shaped in the form of slender tubes? Ram. Lasagna. Lasagna is male. Ready mag-steal. Five seconds. Pasta-pasta. Okay, the correct answer is Macaroni. Question No. 3. Which former TBA champion team has a name that is the same as the largest state in the United States? The correct answer is Alaska. Question No. 4. This is a mental problem in geometry. The side of a square is 4 inches long. What is its area in square inches? RG. 16 square inches. 16 is correct. K-Check. Question No. 5. What ocean separates the Philippines from South America? Pacific Ocean. Pacific Ocean is correct. K-Check. Question No. 6. In what province can you find the municipalities Baliwag and Obando? Ram. Bulakan. Bulakan is correct. K-Check. Question No. 7. What fictional 2021 Netflix series featured 456 mostly Korean contestants and was remade as a reality survival game show in 2023? Ram. Squid games. Squid game is correct. K-Check. Question No. 8. Voiced by Jack Black. What is the name of the title character in the 2008 film Kung Fu Panda? So, no, ang vida doon. What's the name of the character? Oomapot. The answer is Ho. Okay. Question No. 9. The Eiffel Tower dominates the skyline of which European city? Ram. Paris. Paris is correct. K-Check. Question No. 10. What chemical element and mineral has the symbol P? RG. Phosphor. Phosphor arong? Phosphorus. Phosphorus is correct. K-Check. Question No. 11. What do you call the traditional form of courtship in the Philippines where men serenade women at night? RG. Harana. Harana is correct. K-Check. Last question for this round No. 12. How many years are there in a century? RG. 100 years. 100 years is correct. K-Check. That ends round No. 1. Thank you very much, Jules. After that round, we have Rav in the lead with 60 points, followed by RG with 30. I-ing and staff have zero points each. Of course, there's always opportunity to catch up. May naman, attorney, kawusapin nata ulit ang contesens natin, si Ayin, very interesting yung habi niya kasi gumagawa sa ng mapa. So ano-ano na yung mga lugar na nagawaan mo ng mapa? Different places in the Philippines, I also create map for the whole country. So more than 100 of maps na yung nagawa ko. And then, ginagawa ko na rin siya as opportunity para maka-earn ng money as a supporting student sa UP. So parang yun na yung work ko ngayon as a freelance map maker. Different kind of map from done for analysis, gastronomic map, historical mapping, and other kind of maps ko. Gastronomical mapping. Magusap tayo para sa magingawa. Parang yung kakagutom na naman yan. Si Steph naman daw makilig sa gunfight games. Yung ating unik ayah for today, may violence streak ka ba? Or asintado ka lang talaga? It depends on the mood lang ko talaga. If I'm currently playing games, mas asintado ko. Kapag mahirap yung mga pabagilig di sa stat, mungan na gala. Watch out for her guys. Parang yung salamat. Mamaya ako sabi natin, iba pa natin ma-contestants, pero kailangan muna natin balikan ang round two ng ating competition. Susunod na yan sa pagbabalik ng K-Chang. At tuloy-tuloy pa rin ang ating karunungan seks. Dika po na tayo ng points, leading si Rav with 60 points, followed by RG with 30 points, and kailangan pang humabol nila aying at Steph sa ating susunod na round. Pero bago yan, Rav, ang ating lead person for now. Ano ba yan si Desai mo sa bayo mo na? Remote sensing. Well, yung remote sensing basically is ginagamit sa field ng geography, and sa mapping, tulad ng kaya yun. Basically, habi ko siya, mahilig akong umikot around the world, gamit yung Google Maps and yung Google Earth. Basically, I don't have money to go around the world pa, pero hopefully in the future, magamit natin yung iba-tibang sensors na yan. Narinig ninyang aking intake of bread sa around the world. Sumula dun sa around the world, sa remote sensing to naman si RG. Takay iba rin. Kung yung imanta, hirap na hirap, hirap hilitin yung sarili na mag-workout sa habi nilang naman. So RG pa nung muto naging motivation? Growing up po kasi, is, lage po kasi akong insecure sa sarili ko tapos, and mahilig din po kasi ako sa sports and physical activities. So, one time po na, invite pa ako ng friends ko na pumunta po sa gym, tapos, lage na po akong kami nag gym, and then nung nakikita ko po yung results and yung progress ko, lage na po akong nagpupunta ng gym, kasi it makes me feel good po. Pasample ng maskang. Pasample? How many times a week ka nag-workout? Kapag wala po exams three times a week po, pero kapag may exams po one time. So yan na sana ma-motivate yung mga nanunod ng K-check. Sana ma-motivate tayo. Yes. And now it's time for round two. Contestants, get ready to buzz in but make sure you strategize. Correct answers are worth 20 points each but you lose 10 points if you answer incorrectly. Let's begin. This is round two. Question number one. Originally established in 1863 for war victims, which international humanitarian agency now has 16 million volunteers whose aim is to alleviate human suffering, protect life and health, and uphold human dignity, especially during armed conflicts and other emergencies? The correct answer is the Red Cross or the Red Crescent. Question number two. What island country is only 150 kilometers from the northern most point of the Philippines? Rav. Taiwan. Taiwan is the correct answer. K-check. Question number three in pop music. You Broke My Heart is a 2023 hit. Which male artist sang this song whose name also means a male duck? What is a Drake? Question number four. Which plant contains oil that is a popular mosquito and insect repellent as well as an ingredient for soap, candles, and perfumes? The correct answer is Citronella. Question number five. Makamas madalito para sa mga contestants natin In mathematics, how many prime numbers less than ten are there? Sabi sa inyong, bilis ni RG. Five. The answer is wrong. Steph. Three. The answer is wrong. Rav. Four. They are two, three, five, and seven. The answer is four. Question number six. What part of the human cell is separated from the rest of the cell by the nuclear membrane, regulates the activities of the cell, and carries the gene? The correct answer is Nucleus. Alam ni Rav. Question number seven. The game of ping pong is more formally called as What Olympic Sport? Aying. Table tennis. Table tennis is the correct answer. K-check. Question number eight. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, what is the most consumed fruit in the world together with its relative, the plantain? Aying. Banana. Banana is the correct answer. K-check. Question number nine. Known as the king of rock and roll, who recorded the number one songs, Love Me Tender, and Jailhouse Rock? And I thought people would be making a B-line for the buzzer. The correct answer is Elvis Presley. Is that sound familiar? Yes. Thank God it sounds familiar. Question number ten. Toronto. Is the most popular city in what country? Rav. Canada. Canada is the correct answer. K-check. Question number eleven. In 2016, which female singers' best selling songs were Focus, Dangerous Woman, and Side-to-side Rav? Ariana Grande. Ariana Grande is the correct answer. K-check. Last question for this round. Which special administrative region in China banned and regulated the use of single-use plastic in 2023? Rav. Hong Kong. Hong Kong is the correct answer. K-check. And that's it for our second round. So contestants, tingan natin ang naging performance ninyo sa round dyan. Rav has 160 points followed by I-ing with 40 points, RG with 20 points, and Steph has negative 10, pero kaya mo pang humabual sa ating next round. Parang statistically impossible nyan. I'm just kidding. Pero hindi pa tapos ang laban ultimate pagalingan na sa pagbabalik ng K-check. And welcome back to K-check at nandito nang atayo sa ultimate pagalingan round. Dito po, correct answers are worth 30 points each at my 15-point deduction for wrong answers. So let's go for the win. Remember sa ating panel of experts magagaling ang mga katanungan. Let's begin. First question will come from Prof Mitzi. Okay, the question is what is the title of the painting of Juan Luna, which he worked on for eight months and this gardener garnered the first gold medal out of three at the Exposition National de Bellas Artes in 1884 in Madrid. A. Odalis. B. Spolarium. B. Spolarium. This was restored and donated to the Philippines by the Spanish government and this is currently exhibited at the National Museum. Spolarium is correct. K-check. Within the human body, which system is responsible for transporting nutrients, oxygen and waste products to and from the cells? A. Nervous system. A-ing. A-ing nervous system. Pale. B. Mascular system. C. Circulatory system. Red. C. Circulatory system. The circulatory system, including the heart and blood vessels, transports essential substances throughout the body. K-check. Asian history. What religion that originated in India was divided into the white robe and skyclad sex in the 5th century schism? Letter A. Hinduism. A-ing. Hinduism. Incorrect. Let me continue. Letter B. Buddhism. B. Buddhism. B. Buddhism. Incorrect. Letter C. Jainism. Letter D. Sikhism. C. Sifok. The correct answer is C. Jainism. K-check. What classification do you refer to any form of visual art that possesses the dimensions of length and width, but does not possess depth? A. Mix media. B. Pop art. Three-dimensional art. D. Two-dimensional art. RG. Letter D. Two-dimensional art. Two-dimensional art. This includes art forms such as drawings, prints and photographs but not sculptures, installations and 3D paintings. The correct answer is correct. K-check. K. What's the primary component responsible for the formation of coral reefs, providing the structural foundation for these underwater ecosystems? A. Calcium carbonate. B. Silica. C. Magnesium sulphate. D. Sodium chloride. And E. Potassium sulphate. Coral reefs are primarily formed by the accumulation and hardening of calcium carbonate skeletons executed by coral polyps. The correct answer is letter A, calcium carbonate. Philippine history question. After the death of her husband, Andres Bonifacio, Gregoria de Jesus was later married to whom? Letter A. Julio Naktil. Letter B. Felipe Calderon. Letter C. Juan Arellano. Letter D. Aurelio Tolentino. And letter E. Isabelo de Los Reyes. The correct answer is A. Julio Naktil. This is a national artist who created Calabog and Bosho in Philippine comics. A. Ben Alcantara. B. Nonoy Marcello. C. Larry Alcala. D. Tony Villas. Paul Medina Jr. That more than 500 characters, his most iconic work was Slice of Life, about images of Filipino everyday life. The answer is Larry Alcala. This is Dr. D. Sa chemistry naman tayo. Within the periodic table, elements in the same column share similar chemical properties. What are these vertical columns called? A. periods. B. groups. C. actinites. D. series. And E. metalloids. Groups or families in the periodic table are the vertical columns and elements within the same group exhibit similar chemical behavior. The correct answer is D. groups. Philippine geography naman tayo ay exciting times. What is the capital of the province of Apayaw? Letter A. Putol. Letter B. Luna. Letter C. Santa Marcela. Letter D. Kabugaw. Letter E. Flora. D. Kabugaw. D. Kabugaw is correct. Last set of questions for this round. Profnit C. The question is on painting. What is this type of questionism? Realism. D. Modernism. E. Naturalism. C. Realism. Incorrect. Artists who founded this movement were Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Camille Pizarro, among others. It is a style based on practice of painting out of doors and spontaneously on the spot rather than in the studio for sketches. The answer is Impressionism. State check. Prof Ricky. Mayology naman tayo na yung. What is the process by which a cell engulfs and internalizes large particles or even other cells? A. Indocytosis. B. Exocytosis. C. Phagocytosis. D. Pinosytosis. Or E. Active Transport. Aing. Let's receive phagocytosis. The correct answer is phagocytosis. This is the process by which cells engulf and internalize large particles or other cells. K-check. Thank you. Last question for the round. Prof Lu. Asian history. Which dynasty was responsible for starting the construction of the Great Wall of China? Letter A. Shang Dynasty. Letter B. Zhao Dynasty. Letter C. Qin Dynasty. Letter D. Han Dynasty. Or letter E. Sui Dynasty. Aing. Letter C. Qin Dynasty. The correct answer is Qin Dynasty. K-check. And that's it for K-check Ultimate Pagalingan. Congratulations to Rav, our K-check daily winner with a final score of 220 points. We'll see him again on Friday when he competes with our other daily winners for a spot in the semifinal. Thanks to Aing, Steph and R.G. for joining and of course to the members of our panel of experts, Prof. Mitzi, Prof. Ricky and Prof. Lu. This is Attorney Gaby Concepcion. And I am Jules Giang. Join us again tomorrow for another K-check.