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YESTERDAY’S QUESTIONS
1. For the promotion of her 2014 music album, which artist’s promotional campaign reminded (unintentionally) when China declared martial law that resulted in military forces against protesting students to end the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests?
2. In 1955, one month after his historical medical discovery, Jonas Salk was bestowed with many awards. He married a second time to the French painter and former Picasso’s lover Francoise Gilot. The question is, what was Salk’s historical medical discovery?
3. Which 1960 Alfred Hitchcock thriller was based on a pulp novel by Robert Bloch and adapted by Joseph Stefano, which becomes a landmark in graphic violence and cinema sensationalism? The movie also showed a flushing toilet for the first time in a mainstream US movie.
4. Benjamin Franklin took part in a campaign to help the French embrace the food item as an alternative to wheat after wheat crop failures caused a shortage. He was the guest of honour at a French pharmacist party where every course of the meal featured this item. What item?
5. Since 1904, a 43-foot bronze statue of “Christ the Redeemer” carrying a cross has marked a pass in what mountain range? The statue was placed on the border of two countries to celebrate a border dispute’s peaceful outcome. (PICTURE)
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ANSWERS
1. For the promotion of her 2014 music album, which artist’s promotional campaign reminded (unintentionally) when China declared martial law that resulted in military forces against protesting students to end the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests? Taylor Swift (TS 1989)
2. In 1955, one month after his historical medical discovery, Jonas Salk was bestowed with many awards. He married a second time to the French painter and former Picasso’s lover Francoise Gilot. The question is, what was Salk’s historical medical discovery? Polio vaccination
3. Which 1960 Alfred Hitchcock thriller was based on a pulp novel by Robert Bloch and adapted by Joseph Stefano, which becomes a landmark in graphic violence and cinema sensationalism? The movie also showed a flushing toilet for the first time in a mainstream US movie. Psycho
4. Benjamin Franklin took part in a campaign to help the French embrace the food item as an alternative to wheat after wheat crop failures caused a shortage. He was the guest of honour at a French pharmacist party where every course of the meal featured this item. What item? Potatoes
5. Since 1904, a 43-foot bronze statue of “Christ the Redeemer” carrying a cross has marked a pass in what mountain range? The statue was placed on the border of two countries to celebrate a border dispute’s peaceful outcome. (PICTURE) Andes