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Museums You Can Sleep In — Daily trivia Thursday, September 3, 2026: questions and answers
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Q 01Night at the Museum was filmed mostly in which city?
- AMontreal
- BToronto
- CVancouver
- DLos Angeles
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Vancouver
Vancouver. The museum's interior was a set on a soundstage in nearby Burnaby, and only the exterior shots came from New York's real American Museum of Natural History.
Q 02What previously occupied the site of the Monterey Bay Aquarium?
- AA sardine cannery
- BA whaling station
- CA naval airfield
- DA Spanish mission
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A sardine cannery
A sardine cannery: the Hovden Cannery, the last on Steinbeck's Cannery Row to close, shut in 1973, and the aquarium opened on its site in 1984.
Q 03Which famous gem did jeweller Harry Winston send to the Smithsonian by registered mail?
- AKoh-i-Noor
- BHope Diamond
- CCullinan Diamond
- DStar of India
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Hope Diamond
Hope Diamond. In 1958 Winston posted it in a box wrapped in brown paper, paying $2.44 postage plus insurance, and it remains on show at the National Museum of Natural History.
Q 04Which science museum's giant walk-through heart is a Philadelphia icon?
- AScience Museum Oklahoma
- BMuseum of Science, Boston
- CExploratorium
- DThe Franklin Institute
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The Franklin Institute
The Franklin Institute. Its Giant Heart has welcomed visitors since 1954, and the museum's Baldwin steam locomotive was rolled inside while the building's walls were still going up.
Q 05Which company helped the Field Museum buy T. rex SUE?
- ACoca-Cola
- BBoeing
- CMcDonald's
- DSears
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McDonald's
McDonald's. With Disney and other donors it helped buy SUE for a then-record $8.36 million in 1997, and it paid for the labs that cleaned the bones.
Q 06Which institution is topped by a 2.5-acre living roof of native plants?
- ANew England Aquarium
- BCalifornia Academy of Sciences
- CShedd Aquarium
- DDenver Museum of Nature & Science
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California Academy of Sciences
The California Academy of Sciences' 2008 Renzo Piano building put an aquarium, planetarium, rainforest and natural history museum under hills of 1.7 million native plants; its 'Penguins+Pajamas' sleepovers bed guests down beneath them.
Q 07Karl Marx wrote much of Das Kapital in which museum's reading room?
- AMetropolitan Museum of Art
- BThe Louvre
- CRijksmuseum
- DBritish Museum
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British Museum
British Museum. Marx spent years studying in its domed Reading Room, whose famous readers also included Lenin, Gandhi, Virginia Woolf and Mark Twain.
Q 08Which museum ship recovered the Apollo 11 astronauts?
- AUSS Hornet
- BUSS Missouri
- CUSS Arizona
- DUSS Constitution
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USS Hornet
USS Hornet. It picked up Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins after their 24 July 1969 splashdown, recovered the Apollo 12 crew too, and is now a museum in Alameda, California.
Q 09How did Chicago's Shedd Aquarium first get seawater?
- ABy railway tank cars from Florida
- BBy tanker ship via the St. Lawrence
- CBy dissolving salt into Lake Michigan water
- DBy trucking it from the Gulf of Mexico
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By railway tank cars from Florida
By railway tank cars from Florida: in 1930, 20 tank cars made eight round trips from Key West, hauling a million gallons for the first inland aquarium with a permanent saltwater collection.
Q 10A myth about whom put the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown?
- AAlexander Cartwright
- BAbner Doubleday
- CBabe Ruth
- DJames Fenimore Cooper
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Abner Doubleday
Abner Doubleday supposedly invented baseball in Cooperstown in 1839, a myth the Mills Commission endorsed in its 1907 report, and the Hall opened in 1939 for baseball's 'centennial'.
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