
February 21, 2024
Season 39 Episode 21 | 15m 17sVideo has Closed Captions
Features include shark discoveries at Mammoth Cave, a sacred Hawaiian site and more!
This episode of News Quiz features stories about the U.S. Senate’s $95.3 billion aid bill, migratory species, the 2024 Carnival season and dengue fever, a sacred Hawaiian site, shark discoveries at Mammoth Cave, sea otter helpers, pond hockey, the Louisville Lightning basketball team and more!
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February 21, 2024
Season 39 Episode 21 | 15m 17sVideo has Closed Captions
This episode of News Quiz features stories about the U.S. Senate’s $95.3 billion aid bill, migratory species, the 2024 Carnival season and dengue fever, a sacred Hawaiian site, shark discoveries at Mammoth Cave, sea otter helpers, pond hockey, the Louisville Lightning basketball team and more!
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>> Hi and welcome to KET's News Starks.
Hope you're keeping Let's get started with today's about American geography ... What is the name of ONE of the these lakes to choose from.
people learn these lake names and Canada.
These massive lakes border between Minnesota and surrounding the state of of them?
You only have to name the Great Lakes?
We'll have that answer for you Topping our news this week -- BILLION dollar aid package for but that money likely won't Senators debated over the before coming to an agreement.
be approved by the House of forward.
Speaker of the House doesn't plan to put the measure because it doesn't include For a bill to be approved, it Senate and then it can be president.
The president also sign.
In other news climate change toll on the world's migrating called Conservation of has been studying numerous presented their findings to the show that the populations of migratory animal species - like geese and some other birds - animals move from one area to to survive.
The numbers of dropped.
Researchers say food sources and habitats.
are also contributing factors.
animals are making a slow need to make widespread temperatures to give them a Time now for the first part of two are about the foreign aid Questions 3 and 4 are about Back to the news... Brazil is fever just as their Carnival Brazil is the largest country the Atlantic Ocean and is including Venezuela and Peru.
capital.
Dengue fever is spread by fever plus aches and pains.
difficult.
And Carnival time in just before Lent, which marks a Easter.
The celebrations in days and draw in millions of In Hawaii, a new conversation and Native Hawaiians who want Island's volcanos.
Scientists of Mauna Kea to get a better space.
Several telescopes have Mauna Kea volcano is a sacred Hawaiians.
A year-long protest stopped other scientific the top ridge of the volcano.
with hopes to switch out some adding new ones.
New species of ancient sharks inside Mammoth Cave.
Mammoth southwestern Kentucky.
It is system in the world and an ocean.
More than 70 species discovered inside the cave protected from sun, wind and unusually well preserved.
uncovered fossils from two new before.
They are believed to be formed more than 350 MILLION Think about those stories as we today's Quiz.
Question 5 is Question 6 is the center of And Question 7 is a new You may not believe it, but HELPING some of California's hurt by striped shore crabs, The crabs dig burrows into the the marsh grass, which holds The sea otters love to munch on circle of life, the otters are from the aquatic predators.
Pond hockey could soon be a More than 2-thousand hockey play a 3-day tournament in New first time ever - the smaller lake because the ice Vermont, a similar tournament reason.
Scientists are worried also have implications for Last year was the warmest ever A wheelchair won't keep these The Louisville Lightning is the team in Jefferson County Public any student with a physical mobility.
The Louisville wheelchair basketball teams all And now here's the final part Question 8 is a source of Question 9 is about the warming And Question 10 is on wheels Did you use a superpower to Let's take one last look at today's Opinion letters.
Ella is a 3rd Grader at Campbell County, Kentucky who "I would want to have the when they are sad, they will Marieliz who attends 7th Grade School in Utica, New York has would choose is hypnosis believe that I'm a very famous to convince different countries each other so there won't be is in the 3rd Grade at McNeill Kentucky and is aiming to get because I could get anybody to from school because some days I And Avalon is a 4th Grader at and would like a traveling "I would choose to fly because fly south, and I would be able dinners on time!
I wouldn't now to think about a NEW are coming up on March, which Week, from March 2nd through If you could meet a character You can choose a fictional non-fiction book that you've have to be a person Maybe you or Stuart Little, the mouse!
character from a book, who letters to us via email at: form at KET.org/newsquiz.
Be grade, school, and teacher's Did you reach greatness with Here's your list of possible are: Lake Huron Lake Ontario Lake Superior.
If you listed correct.
Lake Superior is the That's where shipwreck hunters merchant ship that went down in wheat in May 1940 when it set Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
Everyone on board except the And here are the rest of The answer to question 1 is ... FALSE.
A bill has to be HOUSE and then signed by the The answer to question 2 is ... C. Both Ukraine AND Israel, included in the aid package.
The answer to question 3 is A. MIGRATORY SPECIES move from The answer to question 4 is ... B.
CLIMATE CHANGE and habitat species decline.
The answer to question 5 is ... A. DENGUE FEVER is putting a celebrations.
The answer to question 6 is ... B. MAUNA KEA is a sacred The answer to question 7 is ... C. Mammoth CAVE is where the The answer to question 8 is ... A. MARSH CRABS are a favorite The answer to question 9 is ... B. POND HOCKEY is being temperatures.
And the answer to question 10 Also B.
BASKETBALL is the sport >> And finally today A coffee theme of animal cafes.
But they these little piggies don't like cuddle up in customers' laps attention.
Hm, we may have a That's it for us today!
We'll more News Quiz!
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