Trivia For August 17, 2026

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Question 1:

What is the official state fruit of Florida?

Orange

  • Florida produces more oranges that any other U.S. state. About 95% of commercial orange production in the state is destined for processing (mostly as orange juice, which is also the official state beverage.)

Question 2:

What space station was in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001? It was launched and managed first by the Soviet Union and later by the Russian Federation.

Mir

  • Mir held the record for the longest continuous human presence in space at 3,644 days until it was passed by the ISS in 2010.

Question 3:

A 7-year-old girl attends a Parisian Catholic boarding school in this classic 1939 children's book by Ludwig Bemelmans.

Madeline

  • After the success of the first book, Bemelmans wrote five sequels between 1953 and 1961, as well as a seventh that was discovered after his death and published posthumously. His grandson, John Bemelmans Marciano, has continued the series with several more books in the same style.

Question 4:

"The toughest job you'll ever love" is the long-running recruitment slogan of this U.S. government agency.

Peace Corps

  • The slogan was developed by the New York advertising firm Backer & Spielvogel in 1970 to capture the intense, life-changing experience of its volunteers.

Question 5:

What was the first commercially produced computer? The very first machine built was purchased by the U.S. Census Bureau.

UNIVAC I

  • UNIVAC was short for Universal Automatic Computer. It was built by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly who had earlier designed and built the ENIAC at the University of Pennsylvania. They formed a company to produce the UNIVAC, which would later be sold to Remington Rand.

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