HomeDaily TriviaJuly 20, 2026
📅 Daily Quiz

Daily True or False
July 20, 2026

10 true or false questions from this day's daily challenge. Click each one to reveal the answer and explanation.

1.

Pablo Picasso died at the age of over 100 in 1973.

Click to reveal answer ›

Easy
✗ FALSE

Picasso died on April 8, 1973, at age 91. He did not reach 100.

2.

Alexander Calder created the large red stabile "Flamingo" in Chicago.

Click to reveal answer ›

Medium
✓ TRUE

Calder's "Flamingo" is a 53-foot-tall red stabile installed in Chicago's Federal Plaza in 1974.

3.

The Fukushima disaster led to a global phase-out of all boiling water reactors.

Click to reveal answer ›

Hard
✗ FALSE

Many countries continued using BWRs with safety upgrades. Only Japan and Germany significantly shifted away from nuclear power.

4.

Man Ray created the iconic photograph 'Le Violon d'Ingres' in 1924.

Click to reveal answer ›

Medium
✓ TRUE

This surrealist photograph features a woman's back with f-holes drawn on it, referencing the painter Ingres. Man Ray made it in 1924.

5.

The first modern Olympics included a cycling race that lasted over 12 hours.

Click to reveal answer ›

Hard
✗ FALSE

No cycling race lasted that long. The longest cycling event in 1896 was the 100 km race, which took about 3.5 hours. The 12-hour myth likely stems from early endurance events.

6.

Galileo was the first person to observe sunspots and realize they were on the Sun's surface.

Click to reveal answer ›

Hard
✗ FALSE

False. Chinese astronomers recorded sunspots earlier. Galileo correctly argued they were on the Sun, but Thomas Harriot and others observed them around the same time.

7.

Cate Blanchett has directed an opera at the Sydney Opera House.

Click to reveal answer ›

Hard
✓ TRUE

She directed the opera 'A Streetcar Named Desire' at the Sydney Opera House in 2013.

8.

John Singer Sargent won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925.

Click to reveal answer ›

Medium
✗ FALSE

John Singer Sargent was a painter, not a writer. The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925 was awarded to George Bernard Shaw. Sargent never won any Nobel Prize.

9.

Pablo Picasso produced over 50,000 artworks, including paintings, sculptures, and ceramics.

Click to reveal answer ›

Medium
✓ TRUE

Picasso's prolific career yielded an estimated 50,000 works across many media, a record in the art world.

10.

Marina Abramović's performance 'The Artist is Present' lasted a total of 736 hours and 30 minutes.

Click to reveal answer ›

Hard
✓ TRUE

From March to May 2010 at MoMA, Abramović sat motionless for 736.5 hours across 75 days, making it one of the longest silent performances ever.

Want to play in real time?

Swipe right for True, left for False. New daily quiz every day on PopBluff — free forever.

Play PopBluff Free →