The Trending Quiz — Week of August 31, 2026

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Seven more days, seven more things worth knowing. This week a telescope named after the woman who talked NASA into building Hubble left Florida on the most powerful rocket flying, bound for a spot a million miles away; a Brazilian hurdler ran the fastest lap anyone has ever run over barriers; a statue of somebody sitting on a leopard came out of the Turkish ground after eleven thousand years; and a spider in a red suit closed in on the biggest box-office record there is. There is a six-woman pop group's first number one in here too, a Czech pair winning their first Grand Slam trophies at Flushing Meadows, seven frogs that had been hiding in Madagascan leaf litter under scientists' feet, and a vaccine that appears to be doing something nobody asked it to do. 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.