The Trending Quiz — Week of October 5, 2026

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Seven more days, seven more things worth knowing. This week a $40 million thriller beat a $180 million one so badly that the bigger film may lose more money than the smaller one cost to make twice over, and a baseball team that lost a hundred games three years running swept the division winner out of the playoffs in two games. A country song spent its twenty-fourth week at number one and took a record off a Christmas carol, Starship finally reached orbit and let go of actual satellites, and four astronauts got from Florida to the space station in less time than a working day. A twenty-year-old bear won a popularity contest his mother won in 2019, four dozen volunteers in Idaho fried three quarters of a ton of chips to beat a record set in India, and a crater buried under an Oklahoma town turned out to be a hundred million years younger than the textbooks said. It is a weekly pop culture quiz: multiple-choice questions drawn from the most talked-about moments of the past few days, with instant answers and a short explanation after each one. A fresh edition arrives every week.