Daily True or False
October 18, 2026
10 true or false questions from this day's daily challenge. Click each one to reveal the answer and explanation.
1.Jordan never won an NBA MVP award after age 30.
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Jordan never won an NBA MVP award after age 30.
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Jordan won his fourth MVP in 1996 at age 33, and his fifth MVP in 1998 at age 35, both well after turning 30.
2.Penicillin works by weakening the cell walls of bacteria, causing them to burst.
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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.
3.Max Ernst studied at the Bauhaus school under Walter Gropius.
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Max Ernst studied at the Bauhaus school under Walter Gropius.
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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.
4.Scorpion was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.
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Scorpion was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.
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Stan Lee and Steve Ditko co-created Scorpion, along with other Spider-Man characters, in the 1960s.
5.Man Ray was a key figure in the New York Dada movement.
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Man Ray was a key figure in the New York Dada movement.
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Alongside Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia, Man Ray helped establish Dada in New York in the 1910s and early 1920s.
6.Elon Musk has a cameo as himself in the movie Iron Man 2.
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Elon Musk has a cameo as himself in the movie Iron Man 2.
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Elon Musk appears as himself in Iron Man 2 (2010) at a Monaco party, where he talks to Tony Stark about an electric jet.
7.Leonardo da Vinci was a close friend and collaborator of Michelangelo.
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Leonardo da Vinci was a close friend and collaborator of Michelangelo.
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Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were rivals, not friends. They had a public feud, with Michelangelo mocking da Vinci's inability to finish works. No record of collaboration exists.
8.Utagawa Hiroshige was a student of the artist Katsushika Hokusai.
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Utagawa Hiroshige was a student of the artist Katsushika Hokusai.
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Hiroshige studied under Utagawa Toyohiro, not Hokusai. While both were major ukiyo-e artists, they were contemporaries, with no student-teacher relationship.
9.Qi Baishi was born in 1864 and died in 1957.
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Qi Baishi was born in 1864 and died in 1957.
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Qi Baishi was born on January 1, 1864, and died on September 16, 1957, making him 93 years old at death.
10.The Fukushima disaster led to a global phase-out of all boiling water reactors.
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The Fukushima disaster led to a global phase-out of all boiling water reactors.
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Many countries continued using BWRs with safety upgrades. Only Japan and Germany significantly shifted away from nuclear power.
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