Vehicles that ended up where they shouldn't be
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Vehicles That Ended up Where They Shouldn't Be — Daily trivia Monday, April 20, 2026: questions and answers
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Q 01What dummy payload from SpaceX's first Falcon Heavy test flight now orbits the Sun, crossing Mars's orbit?
- AA concrete block
- BA Tesla Roadster
- CA replica Wright Flyer
- DA grand piano
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A Tesla Roadster
Musk promised the risky launch would carry 'the silliest thing we can imagine', so his own Tesla Roadster flew, with a spacesuited mannequin called Starman at the wheel.
Q 02One of MIT's most famous student 'hacks' involved placing what vehicle on top of the campus's Great Dome?
- AA police cruiser
- BA yellow school bus
- CA Zamboni
- DA hearse
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A police cruiser
A police cruiser, lights flashing, appeared atop the Great Dome in 1994; other dome hacks have included a full-size Wright Flyer replica and turning the dome into R2-D2.
Q 03The container ship Ever Given ran aground and blocked traffic in which crucial global waterway?
- APanama Canal
- BSuez Canal
- CStrait of Malacca
- DEnglish Channel
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Suez Canal
Ever Given, one of the world's largest container ships, ran aground across the Suez Canal on 23 March 2021 and blocked it for six days. More than 300 vessels were held up at either end, with at least 369 queuing by 28 March.
Q 04What caught an empty Rotterdam metro train that smashed through the buffers at De Akkers station?
- AA parked lorry
- BA canal barge
- CA whale-tail sculpture
- DA shipping container
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A whale-tail sculpture
A whale-tail sculpture by architect Maarten Struijs, standing at the end of the sidings since 2002, held up the lead car and kept the train from falling into the canal below.
Q 05Where did Air Canada's 'Gimli Glider' land after its Boeing 767 ran out of fuel in mid-flight?
- AA racetrack at a former air base
- BA frozen lake
- CA golf course
- DAn unfinished highway bypass
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A racetrack at a former air base
It glided onto a racetrack at a former air base in Gimli, Manitoba, while a sports-car race was underway; nobody was seriously hurt, and the jet flew on until 2008.
Q 06In which US city did a bridge collapse beneath a transit bus into a park ravine?
- ANew York City
- BLos Angeles
- CPittsburgh
- DChicago
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh's Fern Hollow Bridge fell with the bus and four passenger vehicles on it; no one died, and the NTSB blamed a deteriorated steel tie plate the city had failed to act on.
Q 07Where did the locomotive end up after crashing through the facade of Paris's Gare Montparnasse?
- AA public park
- BA residential courtyard
- CA river
- DA bustling street
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A bustling street
It plunged onto a bustling street, the Place de Rennes, and came to rest standing on its nose; the passengers survived, but falling masonry killed a woman below.
Q 08A runaway Stockholm commuter train with only a cleaner aboard crashed into what?
- AA shopping mall
- BA library
- CA police station
- DAn apartment building
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An apartment building
It overran the buffers at Saltsjöbaden and slammed into an apartment building; the cleaner, badly injured, was first suspected of stealing the train but was later cleared.
Q 09Which van did Cambridge engineering students hoist onto the roof of the Senate House as a prank?
- AMorris Minor
- BAustin Seven
- CReliant Regal
- DFord Popular
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Austin Seven
Gonville & Caius engineering students found a derelict Austin Seven van in Harston, stripped its engine and rear axle, and hauled it onto the Senate House roof with cables and scaffolding from King's College. It took a week to get down.
Q 10Which London landmark opened beneath Albert Gunter's number 78 bus, forcing him to jump the gap?
- AWestminster Bridge
- BLondon Bridge
- CBlackfriars Bridge
- DTower Bridge
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Tower Bridge
Tower Bridge's south bascule started rising under the bus, so Gunter accelerated over the gap onto the north bascule; he was given £10 for his bravery.
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