Things Found in Storage Units
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Q 01What is the most frequently stored category of bulky household items found in self-storage units?
- AArtwork
- BClothing
- CFurniture
- DBooks
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Furniture
Furniture is the single most common thing Americans put in self storage - StorageCafe's survey of nearly 17,000 people found 51% of users store furniture, with clothing second.
Q 02Which type of item, used only part of the year, often fills self-storage units?
- ADaily cookware
- BSeasonal decorations
- CSchool textbooks
- DPet supplies
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Seasonal decorations
Seasonal items - holiday decorations, patio furniture, winter gear - are among the most commonly stored belongings, and in Alaska, Colorado and Utah they are what renters store most of all.
Q 03In which US state did the first modern self-storage facilities open in the late 1960s?
- ATexas
- BCalifornia
- CFlorida
- DOhio
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Texas
Most homes in Texas have no basement, which elsewhere doubles as storage space. Europe's first facility, Abbey Self Storage, opened in central London in 1979.
Q 04Besides household goods, what large personal property is often kept in storage units?
- AVehicles
- BUnregistered firearms
- CHazardous chemicals
- DLarge collections of artwork
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Vehicles
Alongside household goods, self-storage operators list cars, RVs and boats among the things customers keep in units, usually because there is no room at home. Firearms and hazardous chemicals are prohibited by essentially every facility.
Q 05Which Chicago nanny's 150,000 street negatives were auctioned from a storage unit in 2007?
- ADiane Arbus
- BVivian Maier
- CHelen Levitt
- DLisette Model
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Vivian Maier
Collector John Maloof bought about 30,000 of the negatives because he was researching a book on a Chicago neighbourhood; when he put a selection on Flickr in 2009 they went viral, and Maier had died only months earlier without knowing.
Q 06Roughly what unpaid bill led to Paris Hilton's storage locker being auctioned in 2007?
- A$208
- B$2,080
- C$12,000
- D$52,000
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$208
The material appeared on ParisExposed.com in January 2007. Hilton, then one of the most photographed people alive, had reportedly let a locker's rent lapse for a sum smaller than most people's monthly phone bill.
Q 07The Bond submarine car bought for under $100 from an abandoned storage unit came from which film?
- AThe Spy Who Loved Me
- BThunderball
- CLive and Let Die
- DGoldfinger
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The Spy Who Loved Me
The Lotus Esprit submarine 'Wet Nellie' from The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) sat forgotten in a Long Island storage unit; the buyers paid under $100 for the unit sight unseen. In September 2013 it sold at RM Auctions in Battersea for 550,000 pounds to Elon Musk.
Q 08Which 1938 comic featuring Superman's debut was stolen from Nicolas Cage and recovered in 2011?
- ADetective Comics #27
- BAmazing Fantasy #15
- CMarvel Comics #1
- DAction Comics #1
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Action Comics #1
Nicolas Cage's stolen copy of Action Comics #1, which introduced Superman to the world, was found in a storage locker in 2011, over a decade after its disappearance.
Q 09On which network did Storage Wars, the abandoned-locker bidding show, premiere in December 2010?
- ATLC
- BHistory
- CA&E
- DDiscovery
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A&E
Its second-season premiere drew 5.1 million viewers, then the most-watched programme in A&E's history, and spawned spin-offs set in Texas, New York, Miami, Canada and France.
Q 10In 2012 a Pensacola storage-unit buyer found over 100 containers of what, left behind by a former medical examiner?
- APreserved human organs
- BConfiscated exotic snakes
- CUnlabelled prescription drugs
- DRadioactive lab samples
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Preserved human organs
Michael Berkland, fired from the Pensacola medical examiner's office in 2003, had kept brains, hearts and lungs from private autopsies in soda cups and plastic food tubs. He was charged with improper storage of hazardous waste, not with any crime against the dead.
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