
May 8, 2025
Season 40 Episode 29 | 14m 44sVideo has Closed Captions
Features include the Derby, fourth-grade flag designers, the largest North American powwow and more!
This episode of News Quiz features stories about natural food coloring innovations, the Kentucky Derby and horse speed, a Vietnam War anniversary, a temporary ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, fourth-grade flag designers, the largest North American powwow, bluebell relaxation in Belgium, a baby vulture and more!
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May 8, 2025
Season 40 Episode 29 | 14m 44sVideo has Closed Captions
This episode of News Quiz features stories about natural food coloring innovations, the Kentucky Derby and horse speed, a Vietnam War anniversary, a temporary ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, fourth-grade flag designers, the largest North American powwow, bluebell relaxation in Belgium, a baby vulture and more!
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>> Hi and welcome to KET's News Starks.
Hey, have you thanked to give all the teachers out Appreciation Week!
Be sure to appreciate all the work and day.
Now, let's get going with What animal is the largest If you don't know, a marsupial a pouch or protective skin as the young develop.
Can you largest marsupial on Earth?
the news.
In nutrition news, artificial coloring products realize it, but there are dyes foods look more appealing.
cereals to sports drinks and the extra color boosts.
But those man-made colorings and from plants and, surprisingly, food makers say it will take but many are already working on the supply of those natural will take to get the natural Experts say natural ingredients appearances and no change to Congratulations to Kentucky The 3-year-old colt, under the Junior Alvarado, pulled away in mud-soaked race -- winning with and a half seconds.
Have you such great athletes?
Well, it Physiology - the way living 1-thousand-pound animals have and long, thin legs... which wild.
A horse's heart and lungs extraordinary power.
Their much more oxygen to their extraordinary human athlete's Secretariat, ran at speeds more that in perspective, the human ran just under 28 miles Time now for the first part of are about the food changes.
Just try to keep up with Back to the news -- it has been the Vietnam War.
Vietnam is a It shares a border with China to the west, and the South the country was split into government, and South Vietnam, against communism.
Last week anniversary of the end of that on the streets of Ho-Chi-Minh the capital of South Vietnam.
on April 30th, 1975, in what is of Saigon" -- and the country today.
In Russia, the celebration of to the war in Ukraine for three 72-hour ceasefire -- or a pause the 10th.
"Victory Day" is a mark Moscow's defeat of Nazi Ukraine signed an agreement Ukraine's rare-earth minerals.
are hoping for a longer and Russia.
And back in Kentucky, an is solving a community problem.
Lexington, doesn't have a city Southside Elementary School learning opportunity for the split into groups to interview city, and talk to the mayor best represent their community.
to be presented to the city with the final flag design summer!
Think about those stories as we today's Quiz.
Question 5 is about the 50th Question 6 takes us to Russia.
And Question 7 is finding a In other news... Albuquerque, New largest POWWOW in North in the southwestern U.S.
It Oklahoma and Texas as well as is the capital of New Mexico.
the multi-day powwow -- the festival.
Native Americans and around the world.
The event costumes and clothing; parades dances.
Native leaders say the strength and reconnecting.
In England, a zoo is asking for digitize historic MYSTERY canisters were discovered in prepare for the zoo's 200th labeled with dates ranging from zoo doesn't have the equipment transfer them to digital the public can assist them -- films hold images that can help education about the London Are you looking for a way to the park or just getting into flowers and a chance to breathe natural beauty take you away!
European country that sits are doing just that, in their floors are covered with the through the flowers and trees from the city sounds and something you need as the Take a deep breath and part of today's Quiz.
Question Nations.
Question 9 is looking for help.
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you're giving News Quiz in your is a 3rd grader at Sheridan with a question suggestion.
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Be grade, school, and teacher's Did you get a kick out of If you answered kangaroo, you is the largest marsupial on tall and weighing in around 200 seen a kangaroo in the wild, recently did, sort of.
A from her enclosure at a private seen hopping along the stopped traffic and her owner And here are the rest of The answer to question 1 is...
Artificial Coloring is the The answer to question 2 is...
True.
Insects could be part of The answer to question 3 is... C. A horse's heart size and they are great athletes.
The answer to question 4 is... B.
The fastest horse ran at hour.
The answer to question 5 is... C. Vietnam is located at C on The answer to question 6 is... B.
Victory Day is the honored The answer to question 7 is... C. The students are designing a The answer to question 8 is... B.
New Mexico is located at B The answer to question 9 is... London Zoo needs help And the answer to question 10 Bluebell flowers cover the forests.
>> And finally today... How do getting attached to human vulture puppet to act as a workers at the Bronx Zoo have vulture.
They feed the baby That's it for us today so we're See you next week for the final Bye!

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