
January 20, 2022
Season 37 Episode 17 | 14m 54sVideo has Closed Captions
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This episode of News Quiz features stories about Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, voting rights, unrest in Kazakhstan, a pig to human heart transplant, geology lessons for astronauts, oyster gardens, a sea dragon, robots and more.
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January 20, 2022
Season 37 Episode 17 | 14m 54sVideo has Closed Captions
This episode of News Quiz features stories about Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, voting rights, unrest in Kazakhstan, a pig to human heart transplant, geology lessons for astronauts, oyster gardens, a sea dragon, robots and more.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[MUSIC] [MUSIC] >> Hey and welcome to KET's Kelsey Starks.
We are going to today's Challenge Question!
America's pastime?
The sport in the United States.
There is professional side of it, each with a seven-game World Series.
is often called America's We’ll have that answer for you, In our news this week... President Kamala Harris visited 11th to lay a wreath at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior.
We honor Dr. King each year on Dr. King fought for equal including our U.S.
While in Atlanta, President voting rights bills that could Each state currently can have such as how citizens can vote, Some members of Congress, there should be FEDERAL or especially when it comes to leaders, like the president.
The U.S. House of voting rights bills and sent consideration.
But the 100-seat consider bills like these.
So, for now, those bills have Around the world in Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan is a country in Uzbekistan and Russia among to be part of the former Soviet the Kazakh capital.
Weeks ago protesting high fuel prices.
violent, Kazakhstan's president Collective Security Treaty protect government buildings government is being criticized during the protests.
And, in their president believed the security was trying to take coup.
As part of the C-S-T-O, settle the unrest and Now after an end to most of the headed home.
Kazakh leaders their country's security.
Time now for the first part of are all about the debate in our Questions 3 and 4 are all about And Question 4 is True or news.
In a medical first, a transplanted into a human man >> The man suffered from heart receive a human heart.
But for years to find a way to make In this case they removed to keep the man's body from the pig was genetically acceptable in the human body.
transplant will truly affect hope he will do well with close >> In Europe, astronauts are them on future missions to the called Pangaea, is teaching They do intensive classwork three different locations in On their field trips they a mountain range, a crater volcanic landscape.
In a future students may be called upon to or Mars.
They will do some send that data back to and then bring the rocks back more-detailed, testing.
And off the Gulf Coast of exactly that are benefitting shells.
Mississippi is a Alabama, Louisiana and the Gulf capital.
Mississippi is one of gardens have become student are benefitting from them.
the gardens using wire mesh.
oyster shells where baby themselves.
The wire cages are enhance natural reefs where may live.
As the spats grow students can gather and sell recycled shells to add to their Well, let's submerge into the Question 5 is about the [MUSIC] Question 6 is an ongoing study.
And Question 7 is a new form of In the United Kingdom a drained lagoon has become an Rutland sea dragon is an ocean reptile.
Paleontologists this skeleton could be 180 fossilized bones stretch out nearly as long as a school bus.
became known as sea dragons bulging eyes.
They are studying about the ancient creatures.
on display at a British museum.
Some other experts are hoping aren't as dangerous as we American Museum of Natural video, pictures and models of several different shark species can get a real-life show shark mouths and teeth even ultrasonic soundwaves a hammerhead shark.
And in Russia, a robot museum students to learn robotics.
museum in Moscow gives visitors machines.
There are industrial humanoids that read poetry and robots are hands-on models so program them to function.
programs teaching practical modelling, programming and Time to design the final part fossil for Question 8.
Go under the sea for Question And you can learn a lot about >> Let's take a break from the Here are some of your answers about meeting your favorite Harper are both 4th Graders at Lexington, Kentucky.
They would "Because of Winn-Dixie".
Milan says, "Opal... is very Harper adds, "She is super dog from being taken to the Grader Cameron from Northview County, Kentucky wants to learn character.
"My favorite book character Survived the Sinking of the learning about the story of the what happened on that day."
That's a great point Cameron!
And Morgan, who is in the 4th Henderson County, Kentucky chose Tsunami from the "Wings lot like me..." Have YOU yet?
If you could meet your tell us who would it be?
via email at: NewsQuiz@ket.org >> Or use the form at include your name, grade, your response!
>> Time to get a look at batter-up back to that BASEBALL, you've hit a home often called America's pastime.
managers, but one woman is leagues.
Rachel Balkovec is the affiliated with the New York to lead a team that's connected Way to go!
And here are the rest of [MUSIC] [MUSIC] >> Wrapping things up today, a birth of >> a baby manatee!
The West >> was born at the Royal Netherlands.
Including the calf creatures in all of Europe.
cows.
They feed on vegetables spinach, broccoli and kale.
see you here next week for more [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC]

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