
February 19, 2026
Season 41 Episode 20 | 14m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Features include social media, Winter Olympics, Lunar New Year, a discovery about apes and more!
This episode of News Quiz features stories about social media platforms on trial, snow drought in the Western United States, a landslide in Sicily, the Lunar New Year, a new discovery about apes, a Winter Olympics light show, Mardi Gras beads, fun floating on a salty lake, and more!
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February 19, 2026
Season 41 Episode 20 | 14m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
This episode of News Quiz features stories about social media platforms on trial, snow drought in the Western United States, a landslide in Sicily, the Lunar New Year, a new discovery about apes, a Winter Olympics light show, Mardi Gras beads, fun floating on a salty lake, and more!
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>> Hi and welcome to KET's News Starks.
I hope you're having a any of the Winter Olympic a few minutes.
But first, we for today's Challenge Question.
Animals that have no backbone backbone, or spine.
Lots of than 90 percent of all animal creatures like insects, worms, specific name for them.
Can you Animals that have no backbone We'll have that answer for you, Topping our news this week, social media companies are on are harmful to children.
Los Angeles and New Mexico.
owns Instagram, and Google, charges the platforms children's mental health.
the lawsuit, but paid money to to trial.
This is the first jury in the United States.
countries have banned, or using social media.
If the it could lead to new use the social media platforms.
In weather news... Our recent to believe, but in the Western snow drought.
A drought is a snowfall, that leads to a water in the Western U.S., like are reporting their lowest in the mountains, >> since the early 1980s.
is due to our warming climate western states through December on that snowpack.
As it melts the water flows into creeks and be a more severe drought, which agriculture, cities and >> Time now for the first part and 2 are about the court Questions 3 and 4 have us Back to the news.
Heavy rains dangerous landslide on the located just off the "toe" of buildings are balancing on the when a landslide collapsed the Sicilian city was built on become soft and unstable in hundred people were evacuated, back into the area because of who have homes here have been housing until the ground dries In Asia, the Lunar New Year is people in China.
The holiday 15th through the 23rd this officials are expecting a making time to celebrate of people will return to their "world's largest movement of language as chunyun.
The Lunar festival of the year in many And if you've ever imagined ape... that may not be a or theirs!
Now, for the first be able to use their much like humans do.
experiments similar to a bonobo.
The animal chose to participate in the activity and tea back into the pitcher.
Think about those stories as we today's Quiz.
Safety is a Question 6 includes lots of And pretend you have the answer Back to the news.
The Olympic Italy is more than just a Hundreds of people gather each light show with the cauldron, Leonardo da Vinci's geometric designer says the cauldron is which was used to light the where the tradition of the small, she says, to encourage consumption.
Sustainability was also a focus celebrations in New Orleans.
millions of plastic green, gold tossed to the crowds from the world's largest free biodegradable beads.
The developed at Louisiana State using a starch-based material.
okra seeds, which can be And in Argentina, floats of a waves.
As part of an annual are floating in Mar Chiquita Guinness World Record for the simultaneously.
They needed current record, set a decade high salt concentration, which letting even novice swimmers Time to float into the final 8 is lit.
Go green for question 9.
And let's break a record with Even though we've seen a little week here in Kentucky, let's Opinion letters about winter from the fourth grade at Jefferson County, Kentucky, perfecting his winter building Fourth grader Vincent, from has a unique activity.
Faith is a fifth grader from Faith enjoys the indoor warmth Presli is in the fourth grade Oldham County, Kentucky and Tinsley is a fourth grader at Grant County, Kentucky, who Quiz skills!
Thank you, you who sent us your new Opinion Question!
If you've Games, we want to know if This time we'd like to know: the Olympics?
And why do you competition?
There are dozens summer Olympics, but you may activity that's worthy of a What activity would you add to to us via email at: form at KET.org/newsquiz.
Be grade, school, and teacher's There may be some of those without a backbone!
Let's think Animals that don't have a invertebrates.
Lots of sea A team of scientists spent deep-sea ecosystems off the America.
Their study gave them giant phantom jellyfish -- no dozen new species including anemone.
And here are the rest of The answer to question 1 is... B. Social media platforms are The answer to question 2 is... True.
The companies are accused harm children's mental health.
The answer to question 3 is... B. A snow drought is taking The answer to question 4 is... True.
That could lead to a more and summer.
The answer to question 5 is... A. A landslide triggered by a situation in Sicily.
The answer to question 6 is... B. The Lunar New Year is when gatherings in Asia.
The answer to question 7 is... C. Apes appear to use their The answer to question 8 is... B. The Olympic cauldron hosts a The answer to question 9 is... Biodegradable beads were And the answer to question 10 High levels of salt in water And finally today... The Orchid London, England, gives a nod to for the Lunar New Year.
Floral look like Chinese wildlife -- >> even a mythical dragon made look like springtime!
That's it for more News Quiz.
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