A law otherwise known as RA 1425, which mandated that the Rizal course be included by the Commission of Higher Education in the tertiary-level curriculum

Rizal LawThe commission during the American period that chose Rizal as the “national hero” of the Philippines

Philippine CommisionRizal’s best friend in Europe

Ferdinand BlumentrittAn eminent German geographer and ethnographer

Dr. Friedrich RatzelDirector of the Museum of Ethnography of Dresden and an eminent Filipinologist

Dr. A. B. MeyerDirector of the Ethnographic Museum of Munich and a noted Malayologist

Prof. M. BuchnerOfficial organ of the revolutionary Philippine government

El Heraldo de la RevolucionProclaimed December 30 as “Rizal Day”

Pres. Emilio AguinaldoAuthor of Republic Act 1425

Claro M. RectoHonorary President of the Katipunan

Jose RizalOne of the representatives in the Spanish Cortes in 1888 and 1889 who attacked Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere

Fernando ViolaThe date of Rizal’s execution

December 30, 1896The place where Rizal was sentenced to death

BagumbayanConsidered Rizal “the greatest man that the Malayan race has produced”

Dr. Ferdinand BlumentrittA distinguished Malayologist and librarian of the India Office in London

Dr. Reinhold RostOrganizer of the Indios Bravos

Jose RizalTranslated Rizal’s “My Last Farewell” to German

Dr. EselerEditor of “La Independencia”

Antonio LunaAuthor of Philippine Travels

Dr. Feodor JagorWas considered a great philologist in Vienna

Dr. F. MuellerPresident of the Anthropological Society of Berlin

Dr. Rudolph VirchowHonorary president of La Solidaridad

Jose RizalThe body that condemned Noli Me Tangere and banned its distribution to the Philippines

Permanent Censorship Committee

Delivered a eulogy of Rizal at the floor of the United States House of Representatives

Allen CooperA distinguished French linguist and anthropologist and author of Memoria on the Philippines

Dr. J. MontanoJose Rizal’s parents

Doña Teodora and Don FranciscoA poem written by Rizal that teaches love of language

Sa aking mga KabataA secular priest from Calamba

Fr. Leoncio LopezRizal’s Godfather

Fr. Pedro CasañasThe cause of Rizal’s first sorrow

The death of ConchaThe age when Rizal learned the alphabet

Three years oldThe person who taught Rizal the rudiments of Latin

Leon MonroyThe date of Rizal’s birth

June 19, 1861The lowest position in the Spanish colonial government in the Philippines

Cabeza de BarangayA feudalistic system introduced during the Spanish period

EncomiendaOtherwise known as forced labor

Polo y serviciosThe compulsory sale of agricultural produce to the Spanish colonial government in the Philippines

BandalaThe oldest school for boys in the Philippines

College of ManilaThe oldest school for girls in the Philippines

Colegio de Santa PotencianaThe highest social class in the Philippines during the Spanish period

PeninsularesServed as the Supreme Court in the Philippines

Royal AudenciaThe highest position occupied by a native in the Spanish colonial government in the Philippines

GobernadorcilloThe exact time of Rizal’s birth

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