
February 26, 2026
Season 41 Episode 21 | 14m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
Features include an AI summit in India, Jesse Jackson, the Lunar New Year, doggie fashion and more!
This episode of News Quiz features stories about the AI summit in India, the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, the blizzard in the Northeast, the death of civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, a new material to protect athletes’ heads, medical help for a rhino, the Lunar New Year, doggie fashion, and more!
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February 26, 2026
Season 41 Episode 21 | 14m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
This episode of News Quiz features stories about the AI summit in India, the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, the blizzard in the Northeast, the death of civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, a new material to protect athletes’ heads, medical help for a rhino, the Lunar New Year, doggie fashion, and more!
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>> Hi and welcome to KET's News Starks.
It's the end of for March?
Let's jump right our Challenge Question.
Think What is the word for a mass of You often hear about this event Or you might recall a scene in snow comes crashing down from a hear about this sudden snow roadways and people are What is the word for a mass of More on that after the news.
Topping our news today, the AI Impact Summit to discuss developed and dominated by the India is one of the largest in Asia.
It borders Pakistan, into the Arabian Sea and the Indian capital.
That's where world leaders on hand.
India is Global South -- countries that Many of these nations are found America.
This was the first AI Impact South with the hope of bridging well-developed nations, like that need help with their All around the world people of holy seasons.
For many And those in the Muslim faith Ramadan.
During this time, sunset as a time of worship, means they do not eat or drink gather for congregational, or sundown, families and friends as iftar.
Iftar breaks the spend time together.
Ramadan is even in war-torn areas of the season began in ancient times.
Palestinians gathered for a on the first day of this holy Time now for the first part of are not >> AI generated.
Questions 3 and 4 are a daily >> Back to the news.
It may be but Old Man Winter isn't people in New York City and a northeastern U.S.
are digging A blizzard is a severe winter snow for several hours -- at Northeast region were hit with As the snow started, officials and off the roads unless it was schools were closed throughout In other news... An American followed in the steps of the has died.
The Reverend Jesse Rights Movement for decades also a U.S.
presidential advocated for the poor and U.S.
and abroad on voting education.
Memorials were several locations in Illinois, Carolina, where he was born and Jackson was 84 years old.
And in science news, rugby wear protective gear -- may helmet... of sorts.
These scrum a material with extreme, The material contains a new of molecules that can withstand >> Scientists say this reduce head injuries for rugby athletes as well.
They hope to available by the end of 2026.
Think about those stories as we today's Quiz.
Button up your Question 6 is in remembrance of And Question 7 may offer good >> Happy New Year!
Thousands of celebrate the Lunar New Year.
"Year of the Horse" ... one of zodiac.
Alongside the people humanoid robots, which have the festivities.
The Lunar New annual holiday in China and An endangered wild rhino in differently after a plan Thuza had an eye infection and but thanks to a team of he can now get eye drops that they had to coax him into a foods, and then they had to get by gradually squirting small The safari workers in Zimbabwe but it worked.
After building the medicine he needs.
Our next story is a competition players from around the number of athletes in the Pokemon Europe International London, England.
Competitors Pokemon Go and Pokemon Unite game... all vying for the Players come from all corners London, and more than 17,000 the e-sport tournament!
And >> now here's the final part of It's Question 8.
Question 9 is not ridiculous.
And Question 10 is shiny.
Take a little break from the about the Winter Olympics!
wrapped up over the weekend, the most medals with 41 total, second in the medal count with are gold!
That's the most gold a Winter Olympics.
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Maybe it's a sport it's a less strenuous Olympics.
What do you think?
at: NewsQuiz@ket.org... Or use Be sure to include your name, name in your response!
Did you feel challenged by our back up the mountain and share Avalance is the word used to down a slope.
Take a look... like.
This avalanche was Mountains.
There was a deadly California.
Weather watchers snow drought that we talked fresh snow layers bond together a stable surface.
This time, the fresh snow quickly slid off And here are the rest of The answer to question 1 is... India, where the AI Summit was The answer to question 2 is... A. India and other part of the Global South.
The answer to question 3 is... Ramadan is one of the Muslim The answer to question 4 is... Also C. Iftar is the The answer to question 5 is... C again.
A Blizard dropped York and other parts of the The answer to question 6 is... Jesse Jackson followed Martin The answer to question 7 is... A superpolymer was used to make The answer to question 8 is... B again.
It is the year of the The answer to question 9 is... The rhino's eyes were infected.
And the answer to question 10 C. London hosted the Pokemon And finally today... American showed off some of his canine in New York.
>> He creates outfits for models down the runway with the bond between people and today.
We'll see you here again Bye!

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