Smarddy Daily #21: the answers

Thursday, August 6, 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 1990s fad involved collecting small round cardboard discs featuring characters from cartoons and sports teams, originally from Hawaii?
- Pogs ✓
- Marbles
- Tops
- Flippies
Fun fact: Pogs players often kept the discs they won from opponents.
Into which sea does the Nile River ultimately empty?
- Mediterranean Sea ✓
- Red Sea
- Arabian Sea
- Black Sea
Which 1985 adventure comedy follows a group of kids searching for pirate treasure to save their homes from foreclosure?
- The Goonies ✓
- Explorers
- The Monster Squad
- Flight of the Navigator
In which 1986 film did Tom Cruise play a hotshot Navy fighter pilot?
- Top Gun ✓
- Days of Thunder
- Rain Man
- Risky Business
Aside: Top Gun made volleyball look like required naval pilot training.
Due to their potassium content, which fruit is famously used as a casual unit to measure low-level radiation exposure?
- Banana ✓
- Apple
- Orange
- Grape
Fun fact: Bananas contain potassium-40, a naturally occurring radioactive isotope in tiny amounts.
Which late rapper's hologram famously performed at Coachella in 2012?
- Tupac Shakur ✓
- The Notorious B.I.G.
- Eazy-E
- Big Pun
Which actor played the shapeshifting T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day?
- Robert Patrick ✓
- Michael Biehn
- Lance Henriksen
- Edward Furlong
Fun fact: Robert Patrick trained to run without appearing to breathe for the T-1000.

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