Smarddy Daily #8: the answers

Friday, July 24, 2026. The same seven questions everyone got that day, with the right answers and the fun facts from the recap.

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What is the name of McDonald's classic clown mascot?
- Ronald McDonald ✓
- Jack
- Wendy
- Grimace
In tennis scoring, what comes immediately after 30?
- 40 ✓
- 45
- 50
- Game
Fun fact: After forty, one more point wins the game unless both players reach deuce first.
Which video game franchise, set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, features locations such as the Mojave Desert and the Commonwealth, and is published by Bethesda?
- Fallout ✓
- Metro
- Borderlands
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Fun fact: Fallout began as an Interplay CRPG before Bethesda's 3D wasteland reinvention.
Which city hosted the 2006 Winter Olympics?
- Turin ✓
- Salt Lake City
- Vancouver
- Nagano
Which actor played lawyer Atticus Finch in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird?
- Gregory Peck ✓
- James Stewart
- Henry Fonda
- Spencer Tracy
Fun fact: Gregory Peck won Best Actor for playing Atticus Finch.
What term describes light splitting into its component colors as it passes through a prism?
- Dispersion ✓
- Refraction
- Diffraction
- Polarization
Fun fact: Raindrops and ice crystals can disperse sunlight into a rainbow.
Which U.S. political scandal of the mid-1980s involved secretly selling arms to Iran to fund Nicaraguan rebels?
- Iran-Contra affair ✓
- Watergate
- Teapot Dome
- Whitewater
Fun fact: The Iran-Contra affair led to congressional investigations and criminal charges.

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