National Best Friends Day

0:03 Calaruga Shark Media. Hi, I'm Mark Ellison. In today's theme is National Best Friend's Day. Famous duos, great friendships and legendary partners in history? Question one. In nineteen fifty three, a New Zealand bee keeper teamed up with a Scherpa climber to become the first confirmed pair to stand on the summit of Mount Everest. Who were this history making duo? Question two? Two close friends at Oxford met with a literary group called the Inklings, trading drafts about Middle Earth and a magical wardrobe. Name the duo whose friendship helped shape twentieth century fantasy. Question three? Working in Paris before World War One? Which pair of artists collaborated so closely that critics said they had invented cubism, fragmenting form and perspective in revolutionary ways? Question four? Which scientific duo at Cambridge announced the double helix model of DNA in nineteen fifty three, laying the foundation for modern molecular biology. Question five?

1:19 Who were the best friend? Reformers who co founded the National Woman Suffrage Association, wrote speeches and petitions together and became the most prominent partnership in the US women's suffrage movement. We'll be right back with these answers after this break. Welcome back. Question one. Who were the first confirmed pair to summit Everest in nineteen fifty three? Answer Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Hillary and Norgay reached the summit on May twenty ninth, nineteen fifty three, during a British led expedition. Their partnership symbolized teamwork across cultures and remains one of exploration's most celebrated collaborations. Question two. Which Oxford friends in the Inklings were Tolkien and Lewis? Answer? JR. R.

2:10 Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. Tolkien and Lewis critiqued each other's work at the Eagle and Child pub, influencing The Lord of the Rings and the Chronicles of Narnia. Their bond, sometimes rivalrous, spurred both to create enduring classics. Question three. Which duo pioneered cubism in Paris? Answer Pablo Picasso and George Brock. From about nineteen oh eight to nineteen fourteen. Picasso and Brock developed analytic cubism side by side. Brock like in their collaboration to two Mountain climbers roped together, highlighting their near synchronous innovations. Question four, Who proposed the DNA double helix in nineteen fifty three? Answer? James Watson and Francis Crick. Watson and Crick's model drew on X ray diffraction data, including Rosalind Franklin's pivotal photo fifty one.

2:56 They shared the nineteen sixty two Nobel Prize with Maurice Wilkins for the discoscovery's impact on genetics. Question five, which duo led the NWSA and the US Suffrage Cause. Answer Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Katie Stanton. Anthony and Stanton spent decades strategizing and campaigning for women's rights, editing the newspaper The Revolution, and shaping public debate. Their alliance helped lay groundwork for the eventual nineteenth Amendment that concludes today's five daily Trivia questions. I'm Mark Ellison, and today's questions were crafted with the help of AI technology. See you tomorrow,