
November 11, 2021
Season 37 Episode 10 | 14m 51sVideo has Closed Captions
A KET-produced current events program for upper-elementary and middle school students.
This episode of News Quiz features stories about the COVID-19 vaccine for kids, saving sequoias in California, COP26 and stopping deforestation, flooding solutions in Venice, Diwali celebrations, a Swiss apple harvest, food delivering robots, giant sculptures and more.
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November 11, 2021
Season 37 Episode 10 | 14m 51sVideo has Closed Captions
This episode of News Quiz features stories about the COVID-19 vaccine for kids, saving sequoias in California, COP26 and stopping deforestation, flooding solutions in Venice, Diwali celebrations, a Swiss apple harvest, food delivering robots, giant sculptures and more.
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Are you ready for to it with our Challenge Major League Baseball's which event?
It isn't just one football's Super Bowl that Instead, it's a series of seven the home stadiums of the two The first team to win four Can you name it?
Major League decided during which event?
- and this year's winner - Topping our news... Children a COVID-19 vaccination.
The Control, or CDC has approved a of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
shipping across the country as ok'd.
For months now the virus available to people 12 years school children ages five vaccinated against the illness.
children are still in progress.
hope this will ease some concerned about getting back to children.
Next, we’ve talked about the California, and the impact sequoia trees.
An aerial view shows just how extensive the covers more than 950 THOUSAND fire is out, there are still of thousands of the giant has joined with middle school tree population.
Archangel save trees that are endangered.
massive sequoias, the project creates saplings that students Nevada Mountains.
All hope to grow and replace at least Time now for the first part of 2 are a shot in the arm.
Questions 3 and 4 are a revival Back to the news.
U.S. joined other world leaders in preserving forests.
He spoke COP26 Climate Conference in removal of trees and forests.
for roads, businesses and late to save parts of the stretches through numerous Major chunks of the Amazon were cattle farming.
Other parts now them.
Brazil is working to curb the rainforest, but other South that pledge, yet.
In Venice, Italy, business are noting a rise in the water lagoon.
It includes more than a 150 canals.
Flooding is a of year.
But since 2019, Acqua strong winds and high tide frequently.
The city has that can be raised when sea area.
Some worry, however, that spill over those barriers In Greenland scientists are change as well, but in a unique largest island.
It’s about and sits between the Arctic and Canada.
It’s a territory of extensive, local government.
island is ice capped, meaning round.
Over the past century, collected and stored for looking at those samples again ice sheet, how it has changed warming climate will continue Now let's dig into the second 5 should be replanted.
You'll need boots for Question And Question 7 is a frigid In India recently, thousands of part of the Diwali holiday.
celebration of lights, light over darkness.
The Indian record for the number of oil celebration, and they are third straight year.
900 were lit and kept burning for Lamplighters and visitors also fireworks to end off the In Switzerland volunteers are avoid food waste.
The SOS Fruit volunteers with apple tree come and pick what they want.
orchards that are no longer thousands of apples rot without get to take home the apples take a share, then SOS takes fruit juice, which is sold at stop the food waste, and growing.
And in this day of contactless coming in handy on college electric food transporters are and streets.
Restaurants and instead of hiring delivery cameras, sensors and GPS to slowly and usually travel Once the food arrives, their phones and open the lid The rolling robots are becoming around the world as well.
Let's roll into the final part up the night.
You may offer to help with And Question 10 is rolling >> Well if that last story Opinion Letters might!
Let's favorite holiday goodies.
Pikeville Elementary in potluck of sorts on the menu.
pot is Chinese food and you get pot and it is our tradition."
5th Graders from Calgary, piece of their Dutch heritage "Our favorite... is a Belgian It is flavoured with anise oil.
part of our Beppe's or that!
Birthdays are a favorite for Elementary's 4th Grade in layered cake... for everyone We just made one last night.
frosting..." Another Annabelle Elementary in Boone County, dad's home country.
"Yorkshire England and it is a tradition."
And Naylin is a 5th Grader at Colorado who has a bit of a "My favorite holiday food is ...you can eat it when the day Pan dulce is a sweet bread and chocolate milk!
They go so good sound really good right now!!
us your answers!
What is your it a fav?
We'd like to know if meal for Easter, or Passover.
treat on your birthday!
What is taste buds?
Send your opinion NewsQuiz@ket.org ... Or use the sure to include your name, name in your response!
Time to Did you hit a home run with the WORLD SERIES, you knocked in a Baseball teams play in the determine who gets that the honor goes to the Atlanta where fans were celebrating the Houston Astros four games home for the first time since And here are the rest of As we leave today, take a look Santiago, Chile.
The urban art town includes a GIANT rubber that's the main attraction.
including a wooden troll - Kentucky's Bernheim Forest... >> and a giant toy robot That's it for us... join us normal-sized News Quiz!
Bye!
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