
September 4, 2025
Season 41 Episode 1 | 15mVideo has Closed Captions
Features include SpaceX’s Starship mission, electric vehicles, robot sporting events and more!
This episode of News Quiz features stories about SpaceX’s successful Starship mission, hurricane season, electric vehicles in Kentucky, solar farms, a traveling art show, a honey bee-sniffing dog, the upcoming Olympics, sporting events for robots, giant pandas, and more!
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September 4, 2025
Season 41 Episode 1 | 15mVideo has Closed Captions
This episode of News Quiz features stories about SpaceX’s successful Starship mission, hurricane season, electric vehicles in Kentucky, solar farms, a traveling art show, a honey bee-sniffing dog, the upcoming Olympics, sporting events for robots, giant pandas, and more!
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We hope your school If you're a News Quiz veteran, very first News Quiz, here's share current events stories world.
Throughout the show, about those stories and at the you the answers.
We'll also ask some of your answers on the few minutes.
Now, ready to get episode with a Challenge Grand Ole Opry is located in The Opry is a historic place featured.
Singing legends and stage where a live, weekly Opry's home state is a neighbor states.
This state's borders parallelogram, for all you Can you think of it?
The Grand state?
We'll have that answer Topping our news this week... powerful rocket has completed a with hopes to pave the way for and Mars.
SpaceX's mega rocket, launch site in Texas last week, into space.
Then, the Booster successfully splashed planned.
This was the cargo -- no crew members were Starships to land astronauts on and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's astronauts to Mars.
Back on Earth, weather experts swirling winds of hurricanes at the middle of hurricane season are working to make sure these storms make landfall.
August 29th marked the 20th storm named Hurricane Katrina.
worst flooding in U.S. history, Louisiana, where nearly 80 by flood waters.
Hurricanes are windstorms that form over warm landfall, they can cause major Meteorologists - or weather tropical cyclone to describe they reach hurricane strength - they are known by different the world.
Here in North But those that form in the called typhoons; and those in Pacific oceans are known as Time now for the first part of are go for launch.
Questions 3 and 4 bring us back Back to the news.
There's a big to clean up our environment and friendly products.
That Kentucky, Ford Motor Company is factory in Louisville to EV's.
EV's don't produce the cars and trucks.
Ford says it's for the Louisville Assembly gas-powered vehicles for the electric vehicle is expected to line in 2027.
It will be a truck.
Around the world in China, greenhouse gases to ease progress includes solar panels Officials have been installing quickly than anywhere else in will be the world's largest areas where numerous solar together.
China's dangerous lower compared to last year.
still need to work harder to 2060.
And a unique, traveling art endangered animals reached its Herds" is a collection of that traveled from the Congo - largest rainforest - to the more than 12 thousand, four through several European on August 7th in the Arctic brought to life by more than a story of different herds being search for food, water and together as they travel, that are forced to happen by Think about those stories as we today's Quiz.
Question 5 is Cleaner air is the aim of And Question 7 was reaching and Back to the news.
A helping protect honey bees.
English springer spaniel, whose out a bacterial disease that population.
And yes, she has to stay safe from stings.
Maple human-remains detection dog for she's the "queen bee" among University who are using Maple to protect these vital can wipe out full bee colonies.
We are just six months away in Italy.
The official Olympic November... traveling across ceremony of the 2026 games in Angeles, athletes are already Olympics.
Beach sprint rowing games.
Two at a time, athletes boat, and row a course... dash across the sand to hit a about three minutes.
The Summer Los Angeles in July of 2028.
And it isn't the Olympics... Olympics... for robots.
The Beijing featured more than 500 including the U.S., Germany and sports like soccer, boxing and even took a tumble on the help.
The games help improve the motor skills in And now here's the final part a super sniffer.
Question 9 is going for the And Question 10 is automated.
Are you ready for it?
"Your teacher are getting married" -- social media post that superstar Taylor Swift and NFL The two announced their yet on when the wedding will standing by for more details!
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Now it's time to look at our Let's jump back to the Grand Ole Opry.
Country music Tennessee.
That's where the since 1925.
You may notice that years old!
As part of their friends made their way from perform on this great stage.
their western wear and sang favorites, including the country legend who was born and And here are the rest of The answer to question 1 is... Starship is currently the The answer to question 2 is... C. The goal is to eventually moon and Mars.
The answer to question 3 is... Hurricanes form over oceans.
The answer to question 4 is... C. Hurricane Katrina hit New The answer to question 5 is... B.
Electric vehicles, or EV's, Louisville factory.
The answer to question 6 is... China is where the world's built.
The answer to question 7 is...
The Herds environmental art Circle.
The answer to question 8 is... C. Maple the dog is helping The answer to question 9 is... A.
Los Angeles is home to the And the answer to question 10 B.
The humanoid robots were And finally today...
The Berlin a set of giant panda twins >> Leni and Lotti were born at and growing strong.
The girls' ice cream made from beetroot birthday candles.
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