LearnedCompanion: LL84 MD19 (March 16, 2020)

The following are "companion questions" to those appearing on the LearnedLeague website on March 16, 2020.

1. Which psychologist left Yale to conduct fieldwork among the Sioux tribe in 1938? He is also known for his theory of identity and for writing such works as Young Man Luther and Gandhi's Truth.

2. The New START program, drafted in 2009 and in effect as of 2011, was negotiated by Barack Obama and which Russian president, who was both preceded and succeeded by Vladimir Putin?

3. What is the title of the 2017 documentary written by Hari Kondabolu, which explores the racial and cultural implications of a South Asian character on a popular long-running sitcom?

4. A famously unproven conjecture named for which 18th century German mathematician states that every even integer greater than two may be expressed as the sum of two primes?

5. What is the name of the forum currently consisting of 120 nations (most of which are broadly considered to be members of the Third World) founded in 1961 by Jawaharlal Nehru, Sukarno and Josip Tito? Current members include Bahrain, Belarus, and Vietnam, as well as nearly every African country.

6. Photographer Annie Liebovitz maintained a romantic relationship with which philosopher and essayist from 1989 to 2004? This woman's works include Against Interpretation, Illness as Metaphor, and The Volcano Lover.

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