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September 20, 2026

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

1.

Max Ernst was a German-born artist who became a naturalized French citizen after World War II.

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Max Ernst fled Europe during WWII, lived in the United States, and later returned to France, becoming a French citizen in 1958.

2.

Steve Jobs famously refused to let his own children use the iPad when it first launched.

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In a 2010 New York Times interview, Jobs stated his children hadn’t used the iPad and that his family limited technology at home.

3.

Hammerhead sharks can survive in freshwater environments for extended periods.

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✗ FALSE

Hammerhead sharks are strictly marine and cannot tolerate freshwater. Only a few shark species, like the bull shark, can survive in rivers and lakes.

4.

Pablo Picasso painted The Starry Night in the year 1889.

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✗ FALSE

The Starry Night was painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1889. Picasso was only eight years old at the time.

5.

Penicillin works by weakening the cell walls of bacteria, causing them to burst.

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Penicillin inhibits enzymes that build bacterial cell walls, leading to osmotic lysis—bacteria literally pop.

6.

Ibn Sina was the first person to discover that light travels faster than sound.

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✗ FALSE

This is false; Ibn Sina (Avicenna) made no such discovery. The fact that light travels faster than sound was observed since antiquity (e.g., lightning before thunder). The first measurement of light's speed was by Ole Rømer in 1676.

7.

Piranha are exclusively carnivorous and eat only meat.

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✗ FALSE

Many piranha species are omnivorous, consuming plants, fruits, seeds, and insects alongside fish and meat. Their diet varies by species and habitat.

8.

Morgan Freeman was once a professional race car driver in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

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Freeman is an actor and car enthusiast, known for narrating racing documentaries like 'NASCAR: The IMAX Experience,' but he has never been a professional race car driver and never competed in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

9.

Gustave Courbet's painting 'The Origin of the World' was not publicly exhibited until 1995.

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This explicit realist painting of a female nude was privately owned for over a century and first shown to the public at the Musée d'Orsay in 1995.

10.

Andy Warhol survived a shooting by Valerie Solanas in 1968.

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On June 3, 1968, Valerie Solanas shot Warhol in The Factory. He suffered serious injuries but survived the assassination attempt.

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