Andrés Bonifacio Trivia
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50 free Andrés Bonifacio trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Andrés Bonifacio was born in Tondo in 1863, sold canes and paper fans to feed his siblings, read Les Misérables and Rizal's novels on his own, and went on to found the Katipunan and start the Philippine Revolution. He died at 33, executed by the revolution he began. This quiz covers his early life, the Katipunan's secret workings, the Cry, the battles around Manila, the Cavite power struggle, the Tejeros Convention and the trial at Maragondon. It is built for Araling Panlipunan review, Bonifacio Day quizzes and anyone curious why some historians call him the first President of the Philippines. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Andrés Bonifacio is popularly known by what title?
Father of the Philippine Revolution
Father of the Philippine Revolution is one of several titles he carries: he is also the Great Plebeian, the man of humble Manila origins who launched the revolt that wealthier reformists had held back from.
Q 02In which district of Manila was Bonifacio born in 1863?
Tondo
Tondo is where he was born on the feast day of Saint Andrew, Manila's patron saint, which is why his parents named him Andrés; the family home stood near the spot where Tutuban railway station was later built.
Q 03Which woman fed Bonifacio's Katipuneros from her own rice stores on her farm in the days before the 1896 uprising?
Melchora Aquino
Melchora Aquino, known as Tandang Sora, gave the rebels 100 cavans of rice and her livestock; days later the Spanish arrested her and shipped her to Guam, where she stayed until 1903.
Q 04What did Bonifacio make at home with his brothers to sell in Manila's streets and plazas?
Walking canes and paper fans
Walking canes and paper fans were a family trade, not a sign of destitution: his sister recalled that the business did fairly well, and he also drew advertising posters for Manila firms.
Q 05Bonifacio worked as a broker for which British trading firm?
Fleming and Company
Fleming and Company made him its agent for tar, rattan and other goods; he later left for a German trading house, most likely for better pay.
Q 06Which legendary hero's story did Bonifacio rework with Tagalog place names for his amateur theatre troupe?
Bernardo Carpio
Bernardo Carpio, in the Tagalog legend, is a hero of superhuman strength held in a mountain cave until he breaks free to liberate the oppressed; in 1895 Bonifacio led Katipunan comrades to those very caves near Montalban.
Q 07Which Victor Hugo novel was among the books the self-taught Bonifacio read?
Les Misérables
Les Misérables reached him in Spanish translation, one of the books he pored over by lamplight; a friend recalled that he would go without sleep to read.
Q 08Which woman, known in the Katipunan as its Lakambini, married Bonifacio in the 1890s?
Gregoria de Jesús
Gregoria de Jesús, nicknamed Oriang, was 18 when he began courting her; once initiated into the society she took custody of its papers and seals.
Q 09Why did the parents of Bonifacio's future wife at first oppose the match?
He was a Freemason
He was a Freemason, and her father, she wrote, shared the friars' view that Masons were bad men; the couple wed in church to please her parents, then again a week later before the Katipunan.
Q 10Bonifacio's first wife, Mónica, died of which disease?
Leprosy
Leprosy killed Mónica, the neighbour who had been his first wife; he later met his future wife through her cousin Teodoro Plata, a fellow founder of the Katipunan.
Q 11Bonifacio was a founding member of which reformist organisation set up by Rizal in 1892?
La Liga Filipina
La Liga Filipina collapsed within days when Rizal was arrested and exiled; Bonifacio helped revive it, but the recruits he brought in had lost faith in peaceful reform, and its leaders dissolved it.
Q 12What was the Katipunan's first method of recruiting members called?
The triangle system
The triangle system kept each new recruit from knowing anyone but the man who brought him in, but it proved so slow and clumsy that the society dropped it within months for ceremonies that initiated several men at once.
Q 13What pseudonym did Bonifacio use inside the Katipunan?
May pag-asa
Q 21The provinces that first rose in Bonifacio's 1896 revolt are honoured by which feature of the Philippine flag?
The sun's rays
The sun's rays number eight, one for each of those provinces; on the day Bonifacio attacked, the Spanish governor declared a state of war in eight provinces around Manila, from Tarlac down to Batangas.
Q 22Bonifacio's first big battle was an attack on a Spanish powder magazine in which town?
San Juan del Monte
San Juan del Monte, now San Juan City, recalls the fight as the Battle of Pinaglabanan; Spanish reinforcements routed the rebels with heavy losses, yet within days the revolt had spread across the provinces around Manila.
Q 23What name for the nation appears on the seal and letterhead Bonifacio used as head of the revolution?
May pag-asa, 'there is hope', is the alias he signed in cipher on the society's papers, and a Katipunan council in Manila's Trozo district later took Maypagasa as its name.
Q 14Bonifacio became the Katipunan's third leader after which two men had held the post?
Arellano and Basa
Arellano and Basa were each eased out by Bonifacio himself: he found Deodato Arellano too passive, then fell out with Román Basa over the society's funds and its initiation rites.
Q 15Bonifacio set aside his own 'Decalogue' of members' duties in favour of which text by a younger colleague?
The Kartilya
The Kartilya was printed and handed to every recruit; Bonifacio judged its wording better than that of his own Decalogue, though the two taught much the same ideals.
Q 16What was the name of the Katipunan newspaper, which printed only one issue?
Kalayaan
Kalayaan, 'Freedom', came out in March 1896 under a false masthead; a second issue was being prepared when the hunt for the secret press forced its printers to abandon it.
Q 17Which pen name did Bonifacio sign to his writing in the Katipunan's newspaper in 1896?
Agapito Bagumbayan
Agapito Bagumbayan signed 'Ang Dapat Mabatid ng mga Tagalog', the essay credited to Bonifacio, which said three centuries of sacrifice for Spain were repaid with treachery; his poem on love of country ran beside it over the initials A.I.B.
Q 18Whom did Bonifacio send to Dapitan in 1896 to consult Rizal about starting the revolution?
Pío Valenzuela
Pío Valenzuela, a young physician, brought back Rizal's advice to wait; his own account later shifted, from a Rizal who condemned the revolt outright to one who only thought it premature.
Q 19Disguised as what did Katipunan rescuers approach Rizal's ship in 1896 to offer him escape?
Sailors
Sailors is what the rescuers posed as in the veterans' telling; Rizal, waiting to leave for Cuba as an army doctor, turned them down, and by the year's end he had been shot.
Q 20The Katipuneros signalled the start of the revolt by tearing up what?
Their cédulas
Their cédulas were the identity papers every colonial subject had to carry, so when Bonifacio asked the crowd to rip them up it was a public sign that they no longer accepted Spanish rule.
Haring Bayang Katagalugan
Haring Bayang Katagalugan means Sovereign Tagalog Nation, but the Katipunan used 'Tagalog' for everyone born in the archipelago, whatever their island or language.
Q 24Bonifacio commissioned a national anthem in 1896 from which composer, who later married his widow?
Julio Nakpil
Julio Nakpil, a piano teacher from Quiapo who had joined the rebels in the hills, wrote his hymn in late 1896; Aguinaldo later chose instead the march by Julián Felipe that became Lupang Hinirang.
Q 25In May 1896 Bonifacio met officers of a visiting warship to seek arms and support from which country?
Japan
Japan was the Katipunan's great hope for rifles: its delegates gave the cruiser Kongo's officers a letter for the Emperor asking for help, but came away with courtesies and no promise of arms.
Q 26Which friend was Bonifacio said to be shielding when a Spanish bullet tore through his collar in late 1896?
Emilio Jacinto
Emilio Jacinto was the friend he was protecting in the classic account of the rout near San Mateo; after Bonifacio's death Jacinto fought on in Laguna and refused to serve under Aguinaldo.
Q 27Which two rival Katipunan councils divided Cavite's rebels when Bonifacio arrived in late 1896?
Magdiwang and Magdalo
Magdiwang and Magdalo were both organised when Bonifacio toured Cavite in April 1896; by the year's end the two councils were at odds over who should govern the province.
Q 28Which Cavite leader did Bonifacio twice draw a gun on after being insulted?
Daniel Tirona
Daniel Tirona was suspected of spreading slanders about Bonifacio and then belittled his schooling in public; within three weeks of that second clash, Tirona had surrendered to the Spanish under an amnesty.
Q 29To which post was Bonifacio elected, last of all, at the Tejeros Convention?
Director of the Interior
Director of the Interior was the last post filled; when a delegate sneered that it needed a lawyer, Bonifacio, who was chairing, declared everything the convention had decided null and void.
Q 30Which general signed Bonifacio's protest against the Tejeros election, then hours later took his oath in the government it rejected?
Artemio Ricarte
Artemio Ricarte signed the protest on the afternoon after the vote and was sworn into the new government that same night; the next day he put in writing that he had taken the oath under pressure.