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Things Found in Storage Units — Daily trivia Monday, May 11, 2026: questions and answers
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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 most common thing Americans keep in self storage, with clothing next.
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 decorations are a self-storage staple, since holiday gear sits unused for most of the year.
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
Vehicles are a self-storage staple: operators such as Public Storage rent dedicated vehicle units sized for most cars, RVs and boats.
Q 05Which Chicago nanny's street photographs were auctioned from her storage unit after she fell behind on payments?
- ADiane Arbus
- BVivian Maier
- CHelen Levitt
- DLisette Model
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Vivian Maier
John Maloof bought about 30,000 of Vivian Maier's negatives while researching a book on Chicago's Portage Park; when he posted them on Flickr in 2009 they went viral, months after she died.
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 from The Spy Who Loved Me sat unclaimed in a Long Island storage unit, was bought sight unseen for under $100, and sold in 2013 for £550,000 to Elon Musk.
Q 08Which actor's stolen copy of Superman's debut comic turned up in a storage locker?
- ANicolas Cage
- BJohnny Depp
- CBen Affleck
- DJim Carrey
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Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Cage's copy of Action Comics #1 was stolen in 2000 and found in a San Fernando Valley storage locker in 2011, long after his insurer had paid him for it.
Q 09On which network did Storage Wars, the abandoned-locker bidding show, premiere?
- 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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