
October 26, 2023
Season 39 Episode 7 | 15m 18sVideo has Closed Captions
Features include Kentucky’s gubernatorial election, the world’s hottest pepper and more!
This episode of News Quiz features stories about Kentucky’s gubernatorial election, other elections around the world, the decline in pollinators, an important tiny sea creature, the Psyche spacecraft, an accessible video game controller, the world’s hottest pepper, pumpkin enrichment for zoo animals, baseball and more!
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October 26, 2023
Season 39 Episode 7 | 15m 18sVideo has Closed Captions
This episode of News Quiz features stories about Kentucky’s gubernatorial election, other elections around the world, the decline in pollinators, an important tiny sea creature, the Psyche spacecraft, an accessible video game controller, the world’s hottest pepper, pumpkin enrichment for zoo animals, baseball and more!
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>> Hi and welcome to KET's News Starks.
Hope you're enjoying It's great weather for today's Challenge Question.
What is Major League Baseball's A team must win at least four championship.
The name given to looking for.
Can you name it?
championship called?
We'll have that answer for you, In just two weeks, voters will state leaders.
Election day in November 7th.
Kentucky is one gubernatorial election this governor, who is the executive Current Governor Andy Beshear, in 2019 and is running for a with Lieutenant Governor teacher.
His challenger is Daniel attorney general.
He is a candidate Robbie Mills, who is the ballot include secretary of This is considered an off-year presidential election isn't on presidential election happens As we prepare for elections, to the results of recent votes.
parliamentary election will Poland is a country in central nations, including Germany, the capital of Poland.
That is government is now underway.
collected the majority of seats the votes were counted.
The expected to lose their control one is formed.
But the process Meanwhile, Ecuador is a country America.
Quito is the capital Daniel Noboa is transitioning coming in as the country's Time now for the first part of are about the upcoming U-S Questions 3 and 4 are about the Back to the news... Scientists agriculture, climate change and You may think of bees when we butterflies, beetles and flies insects carry pollen from one Scientists have noted that agriculture, creating a need crops.
Clearing that land takes are pollinator habitats.
effects and pollinator loss, ways to boost crop production habitats.
Meanwhile, in the Antarctic for stricter fishing laws to populations.
A big focus is on creatures that are eaten by companies started catching source of protein and healthy researchers and that fishing companies are penguins and other wildlife in with melting ice due to climate outlook of the world's Now from the bottom of the NASA recently launched another the footsteps of OSIRIS-REx's the PSYCHE spacecraft lifted in Florida.
It will take about metallic asteroid - also named about the iron-rich asteroid the Earth's core and other Think about those stories as we today's Quiz.
Question 5 is about the flying Question 6 takes us to the And Question 7 is on a mission.
A new video game controller is people with disabilities.
developed to help people with customizable gadget that can tray and can be configured in what the user needs... thumb-sticks, programming two controllers to be used as have been working with Sony Access controller.
It will be December.
The hottest pepper in the Ed Currie set a world record ago, and now he's broken his it's a crossbreed of the old record.
He says Pepper X is bear sprays.
Currie said he ate for three-and-a-half hours.
And if that's not scary take a walk through America's I had a chance to do just a neighborhood just south of The area is a historic of its beautiful Victorian architecture that dates back to known for its paranormal past.
been passed down for story about this old tree, where people still leave curses away.
And now here's the final part about Sony's new gadget.
Question 9 is bringing the Question 10 is spooky.
>> Ready to take a break?
if you could create your own Let's look at some of your at Flaherty Primary School in wants a day for electronic called Electronics Day.
It birthday is in August) and all spend the whole day playing on Electronic companies would Electronics Day."
Now Abigail, a 6th Grader at North Carolina, would like a "A new holiday I have in mind Halloween mixed together the best holidays and mixing so fun.
In the morning you trick or treating at night."
4th Grader Anni from Sheridan similar idea.
"For my holiday I go door to door getting Hunter is a 5th Grader at Dry County, Kentucky.
Hunter wants we have.
"If I could make up a Memories Day to celebrate all had, and you could also take ... You can also make your own new memories."
Now how about own holiday, what would it be?
that isn't talked about as much with us and tell us what makes about things your family or you make holidays out of those you come up with!
Send your NewsQuiz@ket.org ... Or use the sure to include your name, name in your response!
Did you out of the park?
Let's slide answer was World Series, then The World Series is the games for Major League four of those seven games is The 2023 World Series starts on Rangers and the Arizona more about those games coming And here are the rest of The answer to question 1 is... C. A gubernatorial election elect a GOVERNOR.
The answer to question 2 is... FALSE.
The presidential in 2024.
The answer to question 3 is... Poland is located at A on the The answer to question 4 is... ECUADOR is the country Daniel The answer to question 5 is...
Bees, butterflies and some be POLLINATORS.
The answer to question 6 is... KRILL are the tiny aquatic to protect.
The answer to question 7 is...
The asteroid named PSYCHE is spacecraft.
The answer to question 8 is...
The new gadget is designed to The answer to question 9 is... C. Ed Currie created the And the answer to question 10 OLD LOUISVILLE is known as neighborhood.
And finally already enjoying Halloween near Chicago, Illinois, pygmy fruit bats enjoyed the seasonal >> Zoo workers say the pumpkins mental boost because they are food.
>> That's it for us today!
and we'll see you right here Bye!

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