Question: What did the State Council declare a period of?
Answer: national mourning

Question: This was the biggest display of mourning since the death of who?
Answer: Mao Zedong

Question: When did the Chinese hold a moment of silence?
Answer: May 19, 2008

Question: What came to a halt during the moment of silence?
Answer: Cars and trucks

Question: How long was the national mourning for the quake victims to last?
Answer: three-day period

Question: What was suspended for the duration of the mourning period?
Answer: Olympic torch relay

Question: Where was the relay scheduled to take place?
Answer: Ningbo

Question: What was suspended during the period of mourning?
Answer: Beijing Olympic torch relay

Question: Where was the torch relay supposed to take place?
Answer: in Ningbo

Question: What part of the relay did they change?
Answer: The route

Question: Where was there a minute of silence during the relay?
Answer: Ruijin, Jiangxi

Question: What colors did many websites convert their home pages to?
Answer: black and white

Question: What did internet portals remove from their home pages?
Answer: all advertisements

Question: Many of what shut down completely?
Answer: various gaming sites

Question: What did the crowds in Tiananmen Square do after the moment of silence?
Answer: burst out cheering

Question: What business closed in Macau?
Answer: Casinos

Question: Who was the principal of Sangzao Middle School? 
Answer: Ye Zhiping

Question: What was the principal credited with?
Answer: proactive action that spared the lives of all 2,323 pupils in attendance when the earthquake happened

Question: How many students attended the school?
Answer: 2,323

Question: How much money was used to strengthen the construction of the school?
Answer: 400,000 yuan

Question: What school principal strengthened his school?
Answer: Ye Zhiping

Question: Where is the Sangzao Middle School?
Answer: Sangzao

Question: The Sangzao school is one of the biggest in what county?
Answer: An County

Question: How many years was Ye Zhiping involved in the school overhaul?
Answer: three-year period

Question: Why were the schools inspected?
Answer: to gain first-hand material of construction quality

Question: What was to be carried out at schools after the quake?
Answer: safety checks

Question: Who has joined an official inquiry into the school scandal?
Answer: Chinese prosecutors

Question: What investigation are the prosecutors pursuing?
Answer: professional crime

Question: Where are the Chinese going to perform safety checks?
Answer: schools across China

Question: What group reported that Chinese prosecutors were involved in investigating the schoolhouse collapses?
Answer: Reuters

Question: What was given in exchange of signing the document?
Answer: money

Question: What other methods were used to break up protests?
Answer: riot police

Question: Who did the New York Times report was investigating the school collapses?
Answer: government officials

Question: What are officials seeking to do about protesting parents?
Answer: limit protests

Question: What are officials offering parents in exchange of protests?
Answer: money

Question: What has happened to some who refuse to agree to not protest?
Answer: were threatened

Question: What did officials order Chinese news media to stop reporting?
Answer: on school collapses

Question: Who was a Sichuan school teacher?
Answer: Liu Shaokun

Question: What was Liu's family told?
Answer: that he was being investigated on suspicion of the crime of inciting subversion

Question: What was Liu Shaokun's profession?
Answer: Sichuan school teacher

Question: Why was he investigated?
Answer: crime of inciting subversion

Question: What did Liu Shankun do with the pictures he took of collapsed schools?
Answer: put them online

Question: Where did he call the schoolhouses shoddy?
Answer: in a media interview

Question: What was his assigned punishment ?
Answer: one year of re-education

Question: When did the sentencing occur?
Answer: in 2007

Question: When was the article published about the case?
Answer: January 2010

Question: What did he think that the poor construction led to?
Answer: massive casualties

Question: What did UNICEF report?
Answer: that China formally requested the support of the international community

Question: What did foreign nations offer China because of the severity of the quake?
Answer: condolences and assistance

Question: When did China formally ask for help from the international community?
Answer: May 14

Question: What organization reported that China asked for help?
Answer: UNICEF

Question: Why did the world community notice the need for help?
Answer: magnitude of the quake

Question: How much did Yao Ming donate?
Answer: $214,000 and $71,000

Question: How much did the Red Cross collect in donations?
Answer: $26 million

Question: How much money had been donated by May 14?
Answer: 10.7 billion yuan

Question: What group donated the 10.7 yuan?
Answer: the Chinese public

Question: What famous basketball player made two large donations to the crisis?
Answer: Yao Ming

Question: How much has the Red Cross Society  collected?
Answer: 26 million

Question: What did Francis Marcus say of the Chinese relief effort?
Answer: swift and very efficient

Question: What uncharacteristic attitude did China display?
Answer: openness

Question: What kind of attitude did Burma display in response to a cyclone a few days earlier?
Answer: secretive

Question: How long before the quake did Cyclone Nargis strike Burma?
Answer: 10 days

Question: What organization did Francis Marcus represent?
Answer: International Federation of the Red Cross

Question: What did stations replace programming with?
Answer: live earthquake footage

Question: What was the source of the live feeds?
Answer: CCTV-1

Question: What about pay TV channels?
Answer: programmes suspended

Question: What government blocked aid after Cyclone Nargis?
Answer: Myanmar

Question: Over what scandal did the Chinese government lose in public opinion?
Answer: school construction scandal

Question: What was the Chinese government first praised for?
Answer: response to the quake

Question: What did parents accuse builders of doing?
Answer: cutting corners

Question: As of July 17, 2008 what did parents complain of not receiving?
Answer: any reports

Question: What kind of stories were being censored in the media?
Answer: poorly built schools

Question: Who has ignored the school issue?
Answer: state-controlled media

Question: Who gave instructions to ignore the school issue?
Answer: propaganda bureau

Question: What media source has reported this happening?
Answer: The AP

Question: Why are the buildings so shoddily built?
Answer: builders cut corners

Question: What did builder's use in place of steel rods as re-inforcement?
Answer: thin iron wires

Question: Who was supposed to inspect building to see if they met national standards?
Answer: supervising agencies

Question: Who has not been brought to justice?
Answer: corrupt government officials

Question: Who is still looking for compensation and justice?
Answer: many families

Question: What has the government threatened people with to keep them from protesting?
Answer: threat of arrest

Question: What media reported the threat of arrest?
Answer: the Times

Question: What did many families lose in the earthquake?
Answer: their only child

Question: What city in the United States has the highest population?
Answer: New York

Question: In what city is the United Nations based?
Answer: New York

Question: What city has been called the cultural capital of the world?
Answer: New York

Question: What American city welcomes the largest number of legal immigrants?
Answer: New York

Question: The major gateway for immigration has been which US city?
Answer: New York City

Question: The most populated city in the United States is which city?
Answer: New York City