
January 27, 2022
Season 37 Episode 18 | 14m 41sVideo 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 Tonga eruption and tsunami, COVID-19 safety, 5G and airport concerns, teenage pilot Zara Rutherford, wildfire season and koalas, tortoises, the Year of the Tiger, new coins celebrating historic women, tulips in the Netherlands and more.
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January 27, 2022
Season 37 Episode 18 | 14m 41sVideo has Closed Captions
This episode of News Quiz features stories about the Tonga eruption and tsunami, COVID-19 safety, 5G and airport concerns, teenage pilot Zara Rutherford, wildfire season and koalas, tortoises, the Year of the Tiger, new coins celebrating historic women, tulips in the Netherlands and more.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[MUSIC] [MUSIC] >> Hi and welcome to KET's News Starks.
Hope you’re staying weather!
Let's get started with here goes!
What does the U.S. about food for this answer.
federal Department of the for creating something that is trade and commerce.
Can you Mint manufacture?
That answer, news today, communities on the been devastated by a volcanic is an archipelago in the South neighbors besides other small Zealand.
On January 15th an triggered a tsunami.
A tsunami tidal wave.
This wave struck buildings, and knocked out nation.
It took five days for islands.
Volcanic ash also be cleared from Tonga's airport land.
International officials the damage is catastrophic.
Tonga wasn't the only area Tidal waves were reported as waves caused an oil spill from in South America.
Back in the United States national leaders are trying to students as we continue to deal Mexico, National Guard troops asked to volunteer as classrooms.
Without the be forced to close again as New Mexico's governor, who has schools often need up to 800 to find the additional support state workers and four thousand aren't alone either.
Numerous to help schools and students.
announced plans to give testing kits and high-quality Time now for the first part of are about the natural disaster Question 2 - True or False ...
Questions 3 and 4 are about the Back to the news.
Do you run or spotty cell phone service?
supposed to help those issues.
standard could interfere with flight disruptions.
Because of canceled numerous flights to Two of the biggest phone Verizon have agreed to delay near airports temporarily.
Administration, or F-A-A, plus and airline companies are all settlement.
The telecom safely in use in dozens of On a good flight note, teenage the youngest woman to fly 19-year-old Zara landed safely 20th.
She left from Belgium on flight in 155 days.
Her small, so only she could fit into it In her trek the young pilot visited 41 nations.
We about UNESCO.
This is the Scientific and Cultural promote world peace through education, arts, sciences, and protect INTANGIBLE things that heritage.
They recently named embroidery as one of these skill learned by many Israelis, children.
It’s often seen in can even signify wealth or names buildings, historic protected cultural property.
That takes us into the second 5 is about the new technology.
Take flight with Question 6.
And Question 7 is beautifully Back to the news... As WE Southern Hemisphere is enduring conservationists are bracing trying to keep koalas safe.
forested areas and eucalyptus for construction and roadways habitat, as have bushfires.
Australian fire and forest wide areas for the That includes replanting areas and creating koala safe way to escape future more than three dozen giant into the wild.
The Galapagos the coast of Ecuador in the known for wildlife viewing.
tortoises were hatched and the islands for the past eight the tortoises were ready, they natural habitat.
And with Chinese New Year a wildlife park in one of welcoming baby tigers.
zodiac, 2022 is the Year of the considered an endangered litter at the wildlife park the big cat.
The mother and program at the park.
Some have been successfully returned Let's hope the final part of Question 8 takes us into the Think giant... for Question 9.
And Question 10 brings in a new >> Now for a little break from favorite book characters!
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Bryson from the 4th Kenton County, Kentucky says, fly across town with spider he flies."
And Exauce from in Jefferson County, Kentucky give me the type of spider that and I would be Spiderboy."
6th Grader Gigi from PBL Jr. prefers another talented probably choose Kristy from The I am a little older I could Janice is in the 4th Grade at Jeffersonville, Indiana and has "I would like to ask Harry at Hogwarts for seven years and year..." And Robbie is a 3rd Grader at Hancock County, Kentucky who important lesson.
"I would like to tell The Old everything... to stop eating good for you.
I would tell her We'll share more of your so you still have time to send meet your favorite book why?
Send those letters to us Or use the form at include your name, grade, your response!
Time to get a look at today's Challenge Question.
>> COINS are what the U.S. Mint U.S. Treasury, the mint while paper money is produced Printing.
Starting this year designed quarters that honor 20 helped shape our nation's coins features an image of poet rights activist.
Others in the America's first female May Wong who was the first Hollywood.
And here are the rest of And... just in time for National Tulip of Amsterdam's waterways in the tulip bouquets.
They are the Normally organizers mark the in front of the royal palace.
they opted for the floating Day to all of our Dutch today.
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