
October 15, 2026
Season 42 Episode 6 | 15mVideo has Closed Captions
Features include Nobel Prize winners, Hurricane Isaias, a Rubik’s Cube champion, nail art and more!
This episode of News Quiz features stories about two Nobel Prize winners, the impact of Hurricane Isaias, the World Health Organization’s work, a lawsuit against oil companies over climate change, solar power in the Amazon rainforest, a high-flying air traffic controller, a young Rubik’s Cube champion, amazing nail art, and more!
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October 15, 2026
Season 42 Episode 6 | 15mVideo has Closed Captions
This episode of News Quiz features stories about two Nobel Prize winners, the impact of Hurricane Isaias, the World Health Organization’s work, a lawsuit against oil companies over climate change, solar power in the Amazon rainforest, a high-flying air traffic controller, a young Rubik’s Cube champion, amazing nail art, and more!
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Hope you're enjoying wherever you are, as we move started today with an Question!
What does ISS stand for?
space.
ISS is an initialism, a word.
And these three words led to exploration outside our What does ISS stand for?
after the news.
In our news Prizes have been awarded for for Alfred Nobel, a Swedish interests including business, This year the prize for physics hunts mysterious ghost Francis Halzen realized ice at track neutrinos -- tiny cosmic believe offer clues to how the involves a huge array of light Antarctic ice.
The original This year's Nobel Peace Prize her efforts to promote peace times of great conflict.
in chemistry, medicine, Areas of the Gulf Coast and the aftermath of Hurricane Isaias.
landfall near Destin, Florida Oct.
9th.
The wind and rain way up to parts of central region.
The storm has caused at the hurricane-force winds left many residents without first hurricane of the Atlantic June 1st through November 30th.
first hurricane to happen this the Pacific hurricane season recently bringing Tropical California, causing major Time now for the first part of are celebrated achievements.
Questions 3 and 4 are about the Back to the news.
The World monitoring diseases in two The World Health Organization acronym, WHO -- is part of the protect people's health around that makes up most of Russia, a pneumonia.
Her death raised because she worked in an disease.
And in central Africa, outbreak centered in the Congo.
Mobile laboratories have and treatment for the disease, Kenya.
The World Health diseases as being "low risk" of Here in the United States, the regarding climate change, played a role in worsening the county of Boulder, Colorado about dangerous emissions -- from their plants in the Boulder officials believe those temperatures that helped fuel 2018.
Now the Supreme Court is case and will decide if the oil they must pay for wildfire have a huge effect on other change issues.
In South America warming spurred a change in water help in times of drought.
Rainforest only has one link to that runs through it.
When a to run terribly low, residents to get water.
Now they are to El Niño and hope new help provide water.
Solar that fill storage tanks and panels and water pumps will and health centers in the Think about those stories as we today's Quiz.
Question 5 is Question 6 is a climate change And Question 7 is pulling power If you've ever had dreams about An air-traffic controller has to work -- he flies!
Once a propeller to his back, lays out runs until he's lifted in the minutes to his job... at the him a little longer than it work... but clearly, it is a to get clearance to land on the How long would it take you... Well, a 6-year-old in China cube.
Lian Yunzhi recently set becoming the only speedcuber to seconds.
She says she started and it used to take her 90 her family says she spends training.
Now, this next story would make LOT harder.
We go to London for Olympic games for nail artists.
to show off the most elaborate The competitions include many creative are in the Fantasy artist gets just ONE HOUR to London competition is just one global competition around the And now here's the final part flying high.
Question 9 is all about speed.
Question 10 could be hard to Got all your answers marked?
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Oliver is a seventh grader who His choice is exciting and dragon-filled!
Sixth grader Jojo attends Indiana and wants to share a And Colton is in the fourth grade Montana.
His pick is a survival What great answers!
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We still have time with us if you haven't already.
Why would you suggest it to title, the author and what What would you say to convince Send your letters to us via Or use the form at include your name, grade, your response!
Did your mind today's Challenge Question?
now.
What does ISS stand for?
the International Space laboratory is a home for and orbits the Earth.
On Crew-12 mission undocked from Earth.
The four crew members on space station since Valentine's eight months in space tests to help us learn more ----- And here are the rest of The answer to question 1 is... C. Antarctica is where the The answer to question 2 is... The Nobel Peace Prize was work with international law.
The answer to question 3 is... C. Hurricane Isaias hit the The answer to question 4 is... The hurricane was rare because The answer to question 5 is... B. The World Health diseases.
The answer to question 6 is... Oil companies are the focus of change case.
The answer to question 7 is... A. Solar-powered water pumps The answer to question 8 is... B. The tower controller flies a The answer to question 9 is... A 6-year-old holds the new Cube.
And the answer to question 10 C. London is home of the recent finally today... When a kindle >> animal shelter was taken to America in Minnesota, it was young children, the kittens sea life.
And then many got nap while sharks and other it for us today.
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