
October 17, 2024
Season 40 Episode 6 | 14m 26sVideo has Closed Captions
Features include flooding in the Sahara, dolphin communication, an ancient arthropod and more!
This episode of News Quiz features stories about Hurricane Milton, the 2024 Nobel Prize winners, counting votes, flooding in the Sahara, the crash into the Dimorphos asteroid, a video game featuring Tecumseh, dolphin communication, an ancient arthropod and more!
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October 17, 2024
Season 40 Episode 6 | 14m 26sVideo has Closed Captions
This episode of News Quiz features stories about Hurricane Milton, the 2024 Nobel Prize winners, counting votes, flooding in the Sahara, the crash into the Dimorphos asteroid, a video game featuring Tecumseh, dolphin communication, an ancient arthropod and more!
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How are you enjoying brains from cooling off too Challenge Question today!
What is the highest mountain on between China and Nepal in climbed to the top of this training to reach this highest think of it?
What is the highest mountain on growing mount, after the news.
working to recover from Milton, which slammed into the is a peninsula on the States.
It is bordered by north... the Atlantic Ocean to Mexico to the west.
Tallahassee Milton made landfall near Category 3 storm last power to millions of people and even tearing the roof off Tampa Bay Rays baseball team.
remain flooded.
Meanwhile, Southeast are still dealing Helene.
Electric crews and states -- including Kentucky -- cleanup.
In other news, the 2024 Nobel announced.
The Nobel Prizes are world for academic, scientific Five of the six awards were a Swedish scientist also known 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was an organization of atomic bomb is to get rid of nuclear Physics went to two pioneers in intelligence.
The technology our phones and robots today got Hinton and John Hopfield.
Kang, is the Nobel Prize in first.
The Chemistry prize was their research with proteins, advances in drug development.
winners discovered how our manual in our bodies.
And a economics, was awarded to three studying what makes nations Time now for the first part of are about the hurricanes.
Questions 3 and 4 are about the Back to the news.
The U.S. weeks away, and you are voting process in school.
preschoolers are learning how characters.
Would you vote for real election, most voters mark paper... and that ballot is fed machine scans the ballot and electronically.
Almost all paper record that can be used machine's count.
Many security protect the voting systems, before election day.
It isn't often you see a happened in the Sahara Desert country in North Africa, and the Mediterranean Sea.
rains fell in southern Morocco floodwaters to rush between the known for its frequent It has been at least 30 years in such a short time there.
A European spacecraft is on its a deliberate cosmic crash.
Hera spacecraft launched last named Dimorphos.
Two years ago, crashed into the asteroid It was a test to see how we in case a dangerous asteroid worked.
Now researchers want to reshaped the asteroid and Think about those stories as we today's Quiz.
Cast your ballot Question 6 is a map question.
And Question 7 is out of orbit.
In the gaming world, a warrior will become a character Civilization series.
Shawnee united Indian tribes in the War Civilization 7.
Game developers leaders to incorporate the version.
It's a new game pleased to be part of.
Players from Cleopatra to Gandhi, and civilization from first cities.
Now here's an easy theory to discovered that bottlenose gesture to communicate while mammals are known for their communication skills.
And a found that the open mouth, signal of playfulness between Like humans!
We often smile you ready for this?
Just in now know more about what one of looked like.
After studying they believe the bug was an no backbone, but has an was similar to a millipede or They say this one grew to be to 64 legs... yikes!
I'd hate foot!
And now let's crawl into Question 8 has a new leader.
Question 9 may make you grin.
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Britta, a 4th Grader at Alaska, has these thoughts.
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Morgan, a 4th Grader at Adair says, And finally Vivian, a 4th grader at thinks a good president should You still have time to send us What qualities do YOU think those qualities important to via email at: NewsQuiz@ket.org KET.org/newsquiz.
Be sure to school, and teacher's name in expedition in our Challenge Mount Everest, you are correct!
border between the countries of not, geologists think Mount 150 feet and it's still is causing erosion near the river continues to carve a deep Everest, it's adding to the And here are the rest of The answer to question 1 is... Florida is a peninsula.
>> The answer to question 2 states are helping with The answer to question 3 is... Nobel Prizes.
The answer to question 4 is... went to the AI researchers.
The answer to question 5 is... A voting machine is used to The answer to question 6 is... the map.
The answer to question 7 is... C. An asteroid was struck on The answer to question 8 is... B. Tecumseh is the Shawnee Civilizations game.
The answer to question 9 is... communicate.
And the answer to question 10 arthropod was nearly 9 feet >> And finally today...
The Mexico were filled with a The International Hot Air the aircraft up into crisp blue designs there were also several cartoon and movie float out of here!
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