
December 2, 2021
Season 37 Episode 12 | 15m 18sVideo has Closed Captions
A KET-produced current events program for upper-elementary and middle school students.
This episode of News Quiz features stories about NASA's asteroid redirection technology, how COVID-19 is affecting Christmas markets in Germany, food delivery tech helping food banks, oil drilling near Chaco Canyon, elusive forest elephants, a Mexican puppet festival, traditional Siberian crafts, crab migration on Christmas Island and more.
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December 2, 2021
Season 37 Episode 12 | 15m 18sVideo has Closed Captions
This episode of News Quiz features stories about NASA's asteroid redirection technology, how COVID-19 is affecting Christmas markets in Germany, food delivery tech helping food banks, oil drilling near Chaco Canyon, elusive forest elephants, a Mexican puppet festival, traditional Siberian crafts, crab migration on Christmas Island and more.
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Let's get right back literary Challenge Question.
What famous author wrote "A know this story.
It includes plus several ghosts.
It's been cartoons, but the original British author is also known "Great Expectations," and him?
What famous author wrote "A We'll have that answer for you our news this week, NASA has plans to redirect an asteroid - Asteroid Redirection Test Space Force base in California refrigerator-sized spacecraft then slam into a small in 2022.
DART, though, is only a test.
to our planet.
NASA scientists will knock the asteroid off its another direction.
IF DART be used against asteroids that the future.
Back here on Earth, even with the world, some traditional beginning to get back on track.
reopening Christmas popular for tourists and others in Western Europe that borders Berlin is the German capital.
80 different Christmas markets.
and most of those are working That means only people who have COVID-19 or those who have come into the market area.
Frankfurt, Germany.
There a fewer vendors spread out over a usually have a stage for music organizers decided against that They are requiring masks except We will try to entertain you with Quiz...
Questions 1 and 2 are on a Questions 3 and 4 are in the Back to the news.
You may be familiar Both are companies that will customers from local DoorDash and some other similar technology >> to local food banks in the help get food to people in phones, people who qualify for look through available food would like.
They can also delivered to them.
Many don't the food themselves, so the with millions of meals and delivered.
>> Indigenous groups in New that will preserve native areas National Historical Park.
New Mexico is a state located States.
It shares the Four U.S. with Colorado, Utah and capital.
Oil and gas companies have had around that historic park.
while others want to build The new plan pauses any while studies are done on the preserve the cultural landscape Secretary Deb Haaland is a Laguna Pueblo.
She helped protect this land for Native Around the globe in Africa, one largest number of forest Gabon is that country.
It sits is bordered by Cameroon and the home to wide areas of protected endangered mammals roam.
three years trekking through elephant waste.
They have determine how many individual It may not be precise, but counters now believe there are through Gabon.
Let's do some counting Quiz.
Question 5 is on the Question 6 includes protected And Question 7 is a growing A puppet festival in Mexico is pandemic chaos.
Renowned world returned to the stage in Dolls this year.
The festival 20 years.
But in 2020 the their work to the digital same as being in front of a grateful to be back this year, on stage again.
Well as the temperatures get new pair of boots.
A Siberian handmade felt boots can last But, Ivan Lapin can only make He is one of just nine Siberia.
Ivan is determined to alive, even with modern products.
He says you can't Ivan employs about 40 workers make the boots, felt slippers put into other footwear.
people are seeing red - red Australian territory in the this time, millions of red to the sea.
Employees of the Christmas of road barriers in place so built bridges without the Once they reach the ocean, thousands of eggs into the warm hatch the baby crabs or zoea make their way back to their Well let's crawl into the final take the stage for Question 8.
Question 9 can keep you warm.
And Question 10 is on a Break time - grab a snack because our hungry!
Here are more of your in the 4th Grade at Saint And you may want to steal this floats.
They have green sherbet Christmas."
Declan is a 4th Elementary here in Kentucky "My mom makes chocolate covered morning…with a lot of other Grade at Caverna Middle School summertime treat in mind.
strawberry short cake is SOOO it.
Sometimes it's for is in Grade 4 at the Canadian Singapore - which is a country favorite is a number of flavors "Sweets, savoury and spices what you're eating like from because my mom makes some of Boemker's 4th Grade class at Walton, Kentucky with a Dee's buckeyes are peanut butter inside.
We make are about to open our presents.
tray."
Gracie, can you send year?
We'll share!
You've got one more week to What is your favorite holiday favorite?
Send your letters to NewsQuiz@ket.org Or use the be sure to include your name, name in your response!
Alright, answers!
Let's jump back to the CHARLES DICKENS wrote "A other books.
Dickens’s former dedicated to his literary first time, they are displaying was given to the author by his 1838.
Curators at the museum pen was etched into the writing needle.
It says, "To Dear Here are the rest of today's Well, finally today, Mariachi music city as bands honored Saint music.
Mariachi music is best sounds and traditional costumes fancy trousers, a bolero jacket >> The Mexican bands usually trumpets and three guitars.
way out of here and see you all Bye!
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