The Trending Quiz — Week of September 7, 2026

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Seven more days, seven more things worth knowing. This week a spider in a red suit climbed to third place on the all-time worldwide box-office chart, stepping over a James Cameron film to get there; a detector a mile underground in South Dakota logged a single flash of light that physicists cannot yet explain away; an iceberg the size of Manhattan hit an island in the Arctic and simply kept going; and a small black flower with what look like glowing eyes turned out to have been living under the leaf litter of a Thai national park all along. There is a Super Bowl halftime show that just became the most decorated one in Emmy history in here too, a K-pop group's first American number one, a chicken shop closing its doors after twelve years, and a supplement from a sea creature most people have never eaten that did something surprising to elderly mice. 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.