Question: What Foundation wanted to aid Beijing?
Answer: the Tzu Chi Foundation

Question: Where was the foundation based?
Answer: Taiwan

Question: When did Beijing agree to aid from Taiwan?
Answer: late on May 13

Question: What was the first group from outside China to join in the relief operation?
Answer: Tzu Chi Foundation

Question: What did China say they would accept?
Answer: international help

Question: What did China need help for?
Answer: cope with the quake

Question: Who made a direct chartered cargo flight?
Answer: China Airlines

Question: What date did the cargo flight leave?
Answer: May 15

Question: When did a rescue team depart?
Answer: May 16

Question: How did the move the relief supplies from Taiwan to the stricken area?
Answer: chartered cargo flight

Question: From what airport did the chartered flight leave?
Answer: Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport

Question: Where did the chartered flight from Taiwan land?
Answer: Chengdu

Question: What Red Cross team left Taipei on May 16
Answer: rescue team

Question: Where did the Red Cross team from Taiwan land?
Answer: Chengdu

Question: What did the US share?
Answer: satellite images of the quake-stricken areas

Question: Who did the US share the satellite images with?
Answer: Chinese authorities

Question: How many Chinese troops were involved in the rescue efforts?
Answer: 135,000

Question: When did groups from South Korea, Japan, and others arrive in China?
Answer: May 16

Question: What did the U.S. share with China?
Answer: satellite images

Question: What was included in the the Air Force C-17 supplies?
Answer: tents and generators

Question: How many Chinese troops and medics were involved in the relief efforts?
Answer: 135,000

Question: What was extensively used to pass information to aid rescue and recovery efforts?
Answer: The Internet

Question: What did the Xinhua news agency set up?
Answer: an online rescue request center

Question: What was the purpose of this online rescue request center?
Answer: to find the blind spots of disaster recovery

Question: Where did rescue helicopters have trouble landing?
Answer: Wenchuan

Question: What was used as a communications aid in the relief efforts?
Answer: The Internet

Question: Who set up an online site to focus on blind spots in recovery?
Answer: news agency Xinhua

Question: What person suggested a landing spot for helicopters near the epicenter?
Answer: a student

Question: What kind of information were websites set up to store?
Answer: contact information

Question: On what date did a rescue helicopter crash with no survivors?
Answer: May 31

Question: What was done for the anniversary?
Answer: a moment of silence

Question: Where did the government open access to?
Answer: the sealed ruins of the Beichuan county seat

Question: How long was it opened for?
Answer: three days

Question: What did China do to mark the first anniversary of the quake?
Answer: a moment of silence

Question: What will the Beichuan county seat be used for?
Answer: earthquake relic museum

Question: What kind of event were given to raise money for quake survivors?
Answer: several concerts

Question: What is the Beichuan museum meant to remind people of?
Answer: the terrible disaster

Question: What was also donated?
Answer: blood

Question: What companies received the money?
Answer: China Unicom and China Mobile

Question: After the quake, people from where in China made donations?
Answer: all over mainland China

Question: What caused long lines in most major cities?
Answer: donated blood

Question: What were the Chinese setting up to take in donations?
Answer: booths

Question: How did a lot of people donate using mobile phones?
Answer: text messaging

Question: How much had the Chinese government designated by May 16?
Answer: $772 million

Question: How many tents were flown to the region?
Answer: 557

Question: How many quilts were flown to the region?
Answer: 2,500

Question: How much were both supplies worth?
Answer: 788,000 yuan

Question: What county were the supplies flown to?
Answer: Wenchuan County

Question: How many tents did the Sichuan Ministry provide for the homeless?
Answer: 30,000

Question: What group took tents and quilts to Wenchuan county?
Answer: Red Cross Society of China

Question: How much has the Amity Foundation designated for disaster relief?
Answer: US$143,000

Question: How many tents did the Sichuan Ministry of Affairs provide?
Answer: 30,000

Question: What were all these tents and quilts for?
Answer: those left homeless

Question: What foundation had already begun relief work in the area?
Answer: The Amity Foundation

Question: How many schoolrooms collapsed in the quake?
Answer: 7,000

Question: What catch-phrase was invented as a result of collapsed schools?
Answer: tofu-dregs schoolhouses

Question: Why did so many schools collapse during the earthquake?
Answer: inadequately engineered

Question: What are the estimations of how many schoolrooms collapsed?
Answer: over 7,000

Question: What has the citizenry started calling these type of schools?
Answer: tofu-dregs schoolhouses

Question: What can illegal children be registered as in place of their dead siblings?
Answer: legal replacements

Question: What did CCTV-1 host on the evening of May 18th?
Answer: four-hour program called The Giving of Love

Question: Who was the show hosted by?
Answer: Bai Yansong

Question: How large were the donations from the program?
Answer: Donations of the evening totalled 1.5 billion Chinese Yuan

Question: How much did Jackie Chan donate to support?
Answer: $1.57 million

Question: What was the name of the music video that Jackie Chan made for the event?
Answer: Promise

Question: What was the program that CCTV-1 hosted?
Answer: The Giving of Love

Question: What did the donations total for the program?
Answer: US$208 million

Question: What company gave the most?
Answer: CCTV

Question: How much did actor Jackie Chan donate?
Answer: 1.57 million

Question: What was the name of Chan's music video?
Answer: Promise

Question: What did a professor at the Peking University say about the handling of the earthquake?
Answer: This is the first time [that] the Chinese media has lived up to international standards

Question: What did Myanmar block after Cyclone Nargis?
Answer: foreign aid

Question: What did a Peking professor say about Chinese media coverage?
Answer: up to international standards

Question: Who praised Chinese media coverage as being democratic?
Answer: Los Angeles Times

Question: In which previous catastrophe not live up to international standards?
Answer: 1976 Tangshan earthquake

Question: What formed behind blockages?
Answer: quake lakes

Question: How many quake lakes formed?
Answer: 34

Question: How many of the lakes were a danger to people?
Answer: 28

Question: What was the magnitude of the Sichuan earthquake?
Answer: 7.9

Question: What blocked many of the area's rivers?
Answer: large landslides

Question: What formed behind the blocked rivers?
Answer: quake lakes

Question: By May 27, how many earthquake lakes had formed up behind landslide debris?
Answer: 34

Question: What had to be evacuated due to potential flooding?
Answer: Entire villages

Question: Where was the most precarious quake lake located?
Answer: Mount Tangjia in Beichuan County, Sichuan

Question: How could you only get to this quake lake?
Answer: by foot or air

Question: What machinery was airlifted into the location?
Answer: tractors

Question: How many people were evacuated downstream?
Answer: 200,000

Question: What was the fear that caused 200,000 people to be evacuated from Mianyang?
Answer: the dam bursting

Question: Where was the worst of the quake lakes located?
Answer: Mount Tangjia

Question: Where is Mount Tangjia?
Answer: Beichuan County, Sichuan

Question: How many soldiers had to travel to the area by foot?
Answer: 1,200

Question: Who declared the mourning period?
Answer: The State Council