
April 27, 2023
Season 38 Episode 30 | 14m 56sVideo has Closed Captions
Features include the STLP State Championship,
This episode of News Quiz features stories about the 2023 STLP State Championship, cloud seeding in Colorado, SpaceX’s Starship launch, the post populous country, a dinosaur auction, goliath frog conservation, a tribute to a Kentucky Derby winner, Dolly Parton’s new book and more!
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April 27, 2023
Season 38 Episode 30 | 14m 56sVideo has Closed Captions
This episode of News Quiz features stories about the 2023 STLP State Championship, cloud seeding in Colorado, SpaceX’s Starship launch, the post populous country, a dinosaur auction, goliath frog conservation, a tribute to a Kentucky Derby winner, Dolly Parton’s new book and more!
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>> Hi and welcome to KET's News Starks.
We hope you're gearing last month of school is in along with that challenge, here ... What type of astronomical passes between the Earth and the event named for the sun - leaves us in the shadows ... each year but usually they can or a continent each time.
What type of astronomical event between the Earth and the sun?
after the news.
Topping our STLP state competition here in crowd yet in Rupp Arena -- more out as students from schools part of the Student Technology program designed to integrate variety of ways.
Students are and demonstrate how they have to improve their school or sure showed up!
We saw some Minecraft creations to robots Many of you were also part of We'll have that episode out at In other news, we have talked a One thing you may not realize States are still in drought haven't gotten enough rain, and water for their crops and turned to CLOUD SEEDING to Colorado is one state using to 'plant' rain-and-snow-making trying to replenish the tributaries, and reservoirs of people from Wyoming to To seed the clouds, scientists iodide.
Once in the clouds, substance, forming ice that That snowpack high in the water that's released into melts.
Time now for the first part of two are about the Kentucky Questions 3 and 4 are a Launching back to the news blasted off ...but exploded launch pad.
The 400-foot-tall the Earth, leaving from the Mexican border.
There were no board.
SpaceX scientists are wrong.
The first attempt to because of a stuck valve in the Around the globe, the country most POPULOUS nation.
More in any other country on Earth.
bordering China and Pakistan Delhi is India's capital.
That Most Populous title had when the United Nations started India now has around 1 BILLION, people living there.
That's more than China.
And Tyrannosaurus rex bones been auctioned in Switzerland dollars.
The bones were dug up fashioned into a single named 'Trinity.'
This was the has been auctioned in Europe.
Think about those stories as we today's Quiz.
Question 5's It's hard to count the numbers And Question 7 is worth a lot!
Back to the news the world's Scientists are hoping people habitat can help save the Goliath frog and it's native to central Africa, specifically in Cameroon and north of Over the past 15 years, the more than 50-percent because to eat or sell.
The frog can Now scientists are recruiting help conserve the species with population instead of hunt the A new exhibit at the Kentucky "America's Horse."
This year Secretariat won the Kentucky sweeping the Preakness and the considered the greatest of his racing records still permanent exhibit at the Derby racing footage, artifacts and movie that was made about him.
to the public on April 21st The Kentucky Derby happens at A new children's book by Kentucky connection.
MacKenzie illustrator for Dolly Parton's Makes it Big."
It's all about in real life and has his own story, the French bulldog goes in country music.
The illustrated many other books.
April 25th.
Time to release the final part goliath.
Question 9 is the greatest of And Question 10 has made it Time now to do some mental more of your Opinion Letters!
Middle School in Iowa says, "I beautiful mountains of and I would have so much fun sounds fun!
Izabella is in the 5th Grade at Grayson County, Kentucky.
student!
"I would pick Paris, Eiffel Tower.
I heard that it thing I would like to do there are merveilleux or marvelous.
do is window-shopping."
Sounds is a 7th Grader who is has a traveling goal to reach.
Antarctica because I am hoping and Antarctica is one of the It would also be cool to tell the largest desert in the is a 6th Grader at Payneville Kentucky who picked a location like to travel to News Quiz's who helps make this amazing how the show is made."
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Were you looking to the sky to It's quite an event when a the astronomical event that between the Earth and the sun.
Australia and Indonesia eclipse.
In this, the disc of partially, leaving a ring of then it becomes a TOTAL the sun... and then goes back the U.S. will experience a in October ... and a TOTAL one And here are the rest of The answer to question 1 is ... B. STLP integrates TECHNOLOGY The answer to question 2 is ... C. Students showcased projects AND community.
The answer to question 3 is B.
CLOUD SEEDING is used to create The answer to question 4 is ... C. COLORADO is one of the The answer to question 5 is ... A. SPACEX built the Starship The answer to question 6 is ... B. INDIA is now the world's The answer to question 7 is ... C. Trinity is a Tyrannosaurus The answer to question 8 is ... B. Goliath frogs are native to The answer to question 9 is ... C. Secretariat won the Triple And the answer to question 10 also C. DOLLY PARTON is the it Big.'
And finally today we >> of you who were at the STLP of you asked if we could show, and that would take me shout-out to ALL of you!
of you.
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