
April 25, 2024
Season 39 Episode 29 | 15m 23sVideo has Closed Captions
Features include the 2024 Olympic flame, record-breaking ballet dancers and more!
This episode of News Quiz features stories about the impeachment of Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the 2024 Olympic flame, flooding in Dubai, presidential elections in U.S. territories, the Perseverance rover, the Lights Out program and bird migration, record-breaking ballet dancers and more!
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April 25, 2024
Season 39 Episode 29 | 15m 23sVideo has Closed Captions
This episode of News Quiz features stories about the impeachment of Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the 2024 Olympic flame, flooding in Dubai, presidential elections in U.S. territories, the Perseverance rover, the Lights Out program and bird migration, record-breaking ballet dancers and more!
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>> Hi and welcome to KET's News Starks.
We want to start with a from Longbranch Elementary's in our Lexington studio for Now here's our Challenge historic writers.
What English the "Bard"?
This writer is in the 16th and 17th centuries.
more than 150 poems!
Students school or college, and there his works.
Can you name him?
playwright is known as the for you after the news.
Topping our news today, the Secretary will not be removed the U.S. House of impeach Secretary Alejandro the Department of Homeland a government official is Mayorkas's department has a into the United States.
said Secretary Mayorkas between Mexico and the U.S. and office.
But last week the U.S. impeachment charges.
They said representatives were not used against Alejandro Let the games begin!
The flame for this summer's Paris ceremony in Greece.
Ahead of is lit in the ancient site and then carried all the way to other modes of transportation.
This year the torch will be miles through in Greece.... and Mediterranean... across France ceremony of the games.
The combustible materials, is lit mirrored half-globe... and it journey.
It's a tradition that Olympics in Athens in 1896. different at this year's track!
For the first time, the red-brick color.
The Paris Games happen July 26th through Time now for the first part of are about the impeachment Questions 3 and 4 are about the Back to the news.
You may not desert, but at least one Middle with the worst flooding in its Emirates is a country in West end of the Arabian Peninsula.
Arabia as well as the Persian of the U.A.E.
Heavy rains - country - flooded Dubai the world's busiest travel a historic weather event, roadways across the desert As we continue primaries and presidential election, the States are also making their populated U.S. territories are elections.
Those locations are: Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Samoa.
Remember, the primaries political parties to choose general elections in November.
territory votes end, however.
locations are not allowed to general elections.
Turning our eyes toward space to bring Mars rocks back to rover, nicknamed Percy, has rock samples on the Red Planet Originally, NASA expected to further study by 2040.
Now, bring the samples back sooner, Scientists are looking for Mars.
Think about those stories as we today's Quiz.
Question 5 is Question 6 is all about And Question 7 needs further Back to the news.
Almost a from light pollution.
But an Audubon Society says you can as turning off the lights.
encouraging people to turn off especially in big cities like peak migration season.
Lights migrate at night.
Here in 4-million birds migrate over during this spring migration An extinct species of butterfly closest living relative.
in San Francisco's national development led to habitat loss Researchers at California's studying the genetic makeup of found a close match in the They recently transported a Monterey County to San successfully fill the role in the Xerces Blue.
And how many ballerinas does it The answer... is 353!
Hundreds York City's iconic Plaza Hotel the Guinness World Record for the same time for one minute.
306 ballerinas set in 2019. the world to be part of the And now here's the final part in the dark.
Question 9 is taking flight.
Question 10 is on pointe.
>> Time now for a little break you've sent in for our Opinion at Northwood Elementary in this poem: "Tonight is filled with the ever so far.
As we sleep, our that leap, even though we did This one, titled "She Had Some a 4th Grader at Anchorage Kentucky.
It has a repeating "She had some notebooks That her inside She had some notebooks She had some notebooks That still found room to write She had some notebooks She had some notebooks Whose angel's Singing in the night She had some notebooks She had some notebooks That somehow She was still able to And Finnley, from the 6th Grade Bowling Green, Kentucky shared "The land was fair.
As if self.
A gentle breeze trickled the sunrise dance in the sky.
time passes by."
Do you have an original poem We'd LOVE to hear it.
What poem Remember, we would like this to So again... What poem would you via email at: NewsQuiz@ket.org KET.org/newsquiz.
Be sure to school, and teacher's name in If you are a poetry fan, you today's Challenge Question.
William Shakespeare is known as plays like "Hamlet" and "Romeo known for poems like "Venus and Turtle," and numerous sonnets.
historians believe - and he reason this is National Poetry And here are the rest of The answer to question 1 is... B.
The Department of HOMELAND Alejandro Mayorkas.
The answer to question 2 is...
The U.S. SENATE dismissed the The answer to question 3 is... B. GREECE is where the Olympic on its way to France.
The answer to question 4 is...
TRUE.
The Olympic torch is lit The answer to question 5 is...
The U.A.E.
is located at B on The answer to question 6 is...
TRUE.
Residents in U.S. presidential primaries - but The answer to question 7 is... C. MARS is where Percy has been The answer to question 8 is... C. The Lights Out program is The answer to question 9 is... B. BUTTERFLIES are being And the answer to question 10 353 ballerinas on pointe record.
>> And finally today... Meet camel.
>> Omar was born March 10th at Omar is unique with his light white Bactrian camels are >> That's it for us today.
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