Monday's Mysterious Men

Q1: Entertainment
This well-known American songwriting duo, usually referred to as X and
Y, created a string of popular Broadway musicals in the 1940s and
1950s during what is considered the golden age of the medium. With X
composing the music and Y adding the lyrics, five of their shows,
Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of
Music, were outstanding successes. In all, among the many accolades
that their shows (and their film versions) garnered were thirty-four
Tony Awards, 15 Academy Awards, the Pulitzer Prize, and two Grammys.
Name the duo X and Y.

Q2: Business
Easily workoutable. X's family was involved in sake, miso and soy
sauce production in the Chita Peninsula, since 1665. He was the oldest
of four siblings and his father Kyuzaemon trained him as a child to
take over the family business. X later joined the navy and served as a
lieutenant during World War II. During his service, X met his future
partner Masaru Ibuka in the Navy's Wartime Research Committee.On May
7, 1946, X and Ibuka founded Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha with
about 20 employees and initial capital of ¥190,000. Ibuka was 38 years
old, X was 25 years old. In 1961, the firm became the first Japanese
company to be listed on the NYSE. Name X.

Q3: Geopolitics
Born Nguyễn Ái Quốc, X led the VietMinh independence movement from
1941 onward, establishing the communist-governed Democratic Republic
of Vietnam in 1945 and defeating the French Union in 1954 at Dien Bien
Phu. He lost political power inside North Vietnam in the late 1950s,
but remained as the highly visible figurehead president until his
death. The former capital of South Vietnam, Saigon, after the Fall of
Saigon, was renamed in X's honor.

Q4: Hospitality
Born to parents of Czech origin in Chicago, Illinois, in 1902, X grew
up in Oak Park. During the First World War he trained to become an
ambulance driver though the war ended before he ever saw action.
Between the end of the war and the early 1950s, X tried his hand at a
number of trades including paper-cup salesman, pianist, jazz musician,
band member and worked at a Chicago radio station. He eventually
became a multi-mixer machine salesman, traveling across the country.
From mixer salesman, X branched out into the restaurant business
buying out a restaurant franchise. Former Dire Straits guitarist and
lead vocalist Mark Knopfler released a song about X on his 2004 album
Shangri-La. It was inspired by X's autobiography Grinding It Out.

Q5: Advertising
X is credited with spawning brand icons such Jolly Green Giant, the
Marlboro Man, the Pillsbury Doughboy and Tony the Tiger, among other
familiar characters. By the late 1950s, X had emerged as a prime mover
in advertising's creative revolution, which grew in the glow of
television's rise as America's consummate commercial medium. By 1960
X's roster of clients had grown exponentially; at the time of his
death the agency's billings exceeded $400 million annually. By last
year that figure approached $6 billion.

Q6: Science
In 1938, X won the Nobel Prize in Physics at the age of 37 for his
"demonstrations of the existence of new radioactive elements produced
by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear
reactions brought about by slow neutrons". After X received the Nobel
Prize in Stockholm, he, his wife Laura, and their children emigrated
to New York. This was mainly because of the anti-Semitic laws
promulgated by the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini which threatened
Laura, who was Jewish. Also, the new laws put most of X's research
assistants out of work. X even moved to Los Alamos in the later stages
of the Manhattan Project to serve as a general consultant.

Q7: Research
X was born in the small English city of Cambridge to a middle class
family. His father, John Neville, was a lecturer at the university and
his mother Florence Ada a local social reformer. X won a scholarship
to study at Eton, where he displayed talent in a wide range of
subjects, particularly mathematics, classics and history. In 1902, X
left Eton for King's College, Cambridge, to study mathematics. Xs own
inclinations drew him towards philosophy - especially the ethical
system of G.E. Moore. X's Civil Service career began in October 1906,
as a clerk in the India Office. He enjoyed his work at first, but by
1908 X had become bored and resigned his position to return to
Cambridge and work on probability theory. By 1913 he had published his
first book, Indian Currency and Finance. He was then appointed to the
Royal Commission on Indian Currency and Finance. X went on to research
and propound an entire branch of study named in honour of his theory.

Q8: Freedom of Expression
This incident took place near the south end of the Forbidden City,
Beijing, on June 5th, 1989, one day after the Chinese government's
violent crackdown on public protests. Shortly after the incident,
British tabloid the Sunday Express named him as Wang Weilin, a
19-year-old student who was later charged with "political hooliganism"
and "attempting to subvert members of the People's Liberation Army."
Numerous theories have sprung up as to the man's identity and current
whereabouts. He is more popularly referred to as X.