Smarddy Daily #1: the answers
Friday, July 17, 2026. The same seven questions everyone got that day, with the right answers and the fun facts from the recap.
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- Which 1961 musical follows rival New York street gangs, the Jets and Sharks?
- West Side Story ✓
- The Music Man
- Gypsy
- Bye Bye Birdie
- Which actor provided the voice of Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy?
- James Earl Jones ✓
- David Prowse
- Alec Guinness
- Mark Hamill
- How many musicians typically make up a standard string quartet?
- 4 ✓
- 3
- 5
- 6
- In 1983's WarGames, Matthew Broderick's character nearly triggers a nuclear war by hacking into what?
- A military supercomputer ✓
- A nuclear submarine
- A satellite network
- A missile silo directly
- Which 1997 real-time strategy game let players build civilizations from the Stone Age through the Iron Age?
- Age of Empires ✓
- Command & Conquer
- StarCraft
- Civilization II
- Which singer released the 1996 album Tidal?
- Fiona Apple ✓
- Alanis Morissette
- Jewel
- Sarah McLachlan
- The Aswan High Dam on the Nile created which large artificial reservoir?
- Lake Nasser ✓
- Lake Volta
- Lake Kariba
- Lake Tana
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