Daily True or False
October 20, 2026

In 1529, Michelangelo was appointed to oversee the fortifications of Florence, which was under siege by Papal and Imperial forces.

Hiroshige was incredibly prolific, with estimates of his total print output ranging from 5,000 to over 10,000, including multiple famous series.

Wildebeest are indeed called gnus, a name derived from the Khoikhoi word for these antelopes.

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.

Tarantulas are terrestrial and cannot breathe underwater. There are aquatic spiders like the diving bell spider, but no tarantula species lives submerged.

Caravaggio had no known children. Artemisia's father was Orazio Gentileschi, a contemporary of Caravaggio but a different painter entirely.

John Singer Sargent was born in 1856 in Florence, Italy. His parents were American expatriates, and he spent much of his childhood traveling in Europe.

When exhibited in 1884, the revealing dress strap of Madame X shocked Parisian audiences. Sargent later repainted the strap to a more modest position.

Steffi Graf holds the record with 377 weeks at No. 1; Serena Williams had 319 weeks, placing her third behind Graf and Martina Navratilova (332 weeks).

Jordan was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 1988 MLB Draft, but it was in the 22nd round (506th overall), not the first round.