
September 3, 2026
Season 42 Episode 1 | 15mVideo has Closed Captions
Features include new social media restrictions, the flood in Nepal, Dolly Parton, AI and more!
This episode of News Quiz features stories about the devastating flood in Nepal, summer wildfires in the United States, the lawsuit that forced new restrictions on social media, a look at artificial intelligence, a remembrance of Dolly Parton, the humanoid robot games in China, the London Zoo weigh-in, a giant omelet and more!
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September 3, 2026
Season 42 Episode 1 | 15mVideo has Closed Captions
This episode of News Quiz features stories about the devastating flood in Nepal, summer wildfires in the United States, the lawsuit that forced new restrictions on social media, a look at artificial intelligence, a remembrance of Dolly Parton, the humanoid robot games in China, the London Zoo weigh-in, a giant omelet and more!
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Challenge Question like this What is the term for an animal creatures don't have a spinal them stand upright.
Think of jellyfish.
Can you think of it?
without a backbone?
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Topping our news today, the shock after a devastating Democratic Republic of Nepal is country.
It borders China and of Nepal.
The country is known Range, including the world's Everest.
On August 26th, an mass of ice, snow, rock and and crashed into the valley glacier collapse was due to our The crash triggered a massive that swept through the valleys seconds.
Hundreds of people devastated by the rush of crews from around the world are country recover.
Back in the U.S., active multiple states.
In Nevada, the of acres near Reno, forcing homes.
Nevada is a landlocked States.
Extreme temperatures and dry of the fast-moving wildfires in the west and northwest.
Utah, Colorado and other states past month.
Many other states Kentucky, which is between its Firefighters from the Kentucky on 100 out-of-state assignments that recently returned from Time now for the first part of concern the natural disaster.
Questions 3 and 4 are about the Back to the news.
Big changes platforms after a landmark Meta - the company that owns to pay a record 17 billion child-safety measures to its the 47 states, including intentionally creating and harm teen's mental health.
include daily time limits, age controls for teenagers.
People around the world are use of artificial intelligence everything from jobs to adoption of AI is pushing others trying to adapt to the can now perform many human directing traffic, or even U.S., many schools are policies about what kinds of allowed for students and for Fans around the world are music superstar Dolly Parton.
throughout the world for her goodwill.
She grew up in East Tennessee and rose to entertainers of all time.
book from her!
She launched the which sends books to children years old, to encourage young leaving memorabilia outside her Dollywood, her Pigeon Forge was 80 years old.
Think about those stories as we today's Quiz.
Like and Use your HUMAN brain for What's between 9 to 5?
It's At first glance you may think but the athletes in these The World Humanoid Robot Games last week of August.
Robot these machines to the test in events to martial arts, dance soccer and football.
The games ability to balance, how well situations, and how difficult knocked down.
These athletic the impressive strides that development.
>> In England, it's time once annual weigh-in.
That means Zookeepers weigh every creature and gorillas to capybaras, every animal is put on the weight is an important part of all of the data they collect that offers information to zoos the globe.
This next story may make you in fact, it was a massive attention to the small European northwestern Europe and Netherlands and France.
Its gigantic omelet is cooked each southeastern Belgian town.
required 7,200 eggs and a LOT Town leaders say the Giant simple things can bring a And now here's the final part reaction time are on display Question 9 could be a little And Question 10 isn't just for OK - time for a little break -- and schools I got to visit at the friends over at Norton Commons Elementary... and Carter County.
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Be grade, school, and teacher's right... did you feel a little Challenge Question?
We asked... without a backbone?
Well, an vertebrae, or a spinal column, And as we mentioned, jellyfish know that the first jellyfish now open in Pompano Beach, brought the idea to the U.S.
in Kyiv.
With no brain and no 500-million-year-old mystery Visitors can walk through and hypnotic creatures bring.
And here are the rest of question 1 is... B. Nepal is where the natural The answer to question 2 is... A massive FLOOD was triggered The answer to question 3 is... B. Reno, NEVADA is where the The answer to question 4 is... C. FIREFIGHTERS were sent from wildfires.
The answer to question 5 is... A. META is putting more its social media platforms.
The answer to question 6 is... C. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE is The answer to question 7 is... B. TENNESSEE is the home state The answer to question 8 is... Also B. HUMANOID robots Robot Games.
The answer to question 9 is... London Zoo workers weighed ALL weigh-in.
And the answer to question 10 A. A humongous OMELET is the festival.
And finally today... How do you celebrate their birthday?
Leni and Lotti enjoyed treats cake made from frozen beetroot shoots, of course!
Happy That wraps it up for us today.
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