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August 31, 2026

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

1.

Max Ernst studied at the Bauhaus school under Walter Gropius.

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✗ FALSE

Max Ernst never attended the Bauhaus. He studied philosophy and art history at the University of Bonn and was largely self-taught as an artist.

2.

Steve Jobs personally designed the iconic 'Think Different' ad campaign featuring black-and-white portraits.

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✗ FALSE

The campaign was created by ad agency TBWA\Chiat\Day, led by creative director Lee Clow. Jobs approved it but didn't design it himself.

3.

Utagawa Hiroshige's work was a major influence on the European Impressionist movement.

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Artists like Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet admired and collected Hiroshige's prints, and his compositional techniques influenced their work.

4.

Marina Abramović won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012 for her performance art.

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✗ FALSE

Marina Abramović has never won a Nobel Prize. The 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Mo Yan. This statement is entirely fabricated.

5.

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

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

6.

The iconic 'Default Dance' emote was based on a real person's dance from a YouTube video.

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✓ TRUE

The Default Dance (also called 'Hype') was inspired by a viral dance video from Scottish YouTuber 'TheGunRun'.

7.

Gustave Courbet's painting 'The Stone Breakers' survived World War II and was later displayed at the Louvre.

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The painting was destroyed in the 1945 bombing of Dresden; it never entered the Louvre, and only photographs of it remain.

8.

Wu Zetian was a devout Buddhist and promoted Buddhism over Confucianism.

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She used Buddhist prophecies to legitimize her rule and funded many temples, shifting state favor from Confucian scholars.

9.

A tarantula's venom is generally not lethal to humans.

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Most tarantula venom is mild, comparable to a bee sting, and no species has caused a confirmed human fatality. Exceptions exist but are rare.

10.

Norman Rockwell painted the famous painting 'American Gothic'.

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✗ FALSE

'American Gothic' was painted by Grant Wood in 1930. Norman Rockwell is known for his Saturday Evening Post covers, not that iconic work.

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