
April 17, 2025
Season 40 Episode 26 | 14m 59sVideo has Closed Captions
Features include flooding in Kentucky, tariffs, the Nintendo Switch 2, a solar oven and more!
This episode of News Quiz features stories about flooding in Kentucky and surrounding areas, tariffs, the earthquake in Myanmar, dire wolves, a solar oven in Kenya, new baseball bats, the Nintendo Switch 2, an insect discovery, giant Easter candy, tortoises, and more!
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April 17, 2025
Season 40 Episode 26 | 14m 59sVideo has Closed Captions
This episode of News Quiz features stories about flooding in Kentucky and surrounding areas, tariffs, the earthquake in Myanmar, dire wolves, a solar oven in Kenya, new baseball bats, the Nintendo Switch 2, an insect discovery, giant Easter candy, tortoises, and more!
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We are back from Spring good one.
Let's start with a Connecticut Huskies women's University of Florida Gators basketball tournaments.
This and the third for the Gators.
with today's Challenge Easter egg hunts were first tradition of hiding eggs -- or them, did not start in the country we're looking for is producers; it's the home of the it's also where the Christmas think of it?
Easter egg hunts country?
Viel gluck - or good luck!
today's news.
If your break Midwest United States, or in probably endured a LOT of rain, Areas in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi and Indiana saw damaging tornadoes, winds and our state, which borders Indiana, Tennessee and Missouri flooding in Louisville, state capital, Frankfort, among banks, broke through earthen and businesses.
Some towns high levels of the Kentucky and forced to close because of offices in Frankfort were because of flooded buildings learn more about severe edition episode of News Quiz at news, you may have heard This isn't a military conflict.
conflict... a war about money.
announced new tariffs -- or on goods imported from other countries responded by -- or tax -- on goods they some items like clothing, or parts for cars or to get from countries like has paused tariffs for the next negotiate new trade deals with some Chinese goods will remain of the product.
Time now for the first part of deal with the severe weather.
Questions 3 and 4 are about the Back to the news.
While an home, in California, this week, by a much stronger one while we country in Southeastern Asia, and Thailand among other Naypyidaw.
A strong earthquake shook much and was even felt in parts of caused buildings to collapse, Other countries rushed to offer sent medical teams and other and recovery needs.
Clean supplies are needed in much of In other news, scientific work produced some living wolves dire wolves.
The company works and discovering ways to alter some extinct animal species.
-- which has been extinct more taken blood samples from gray create a furry white creature ancient dire wolf.
Dire wolves wolves are, though - and the key in fossils, yet, to alter Now, from genetic technology to oven is giving people in Kenya food.
This device is set up the box and when the lid is up and cook the food.
Cooking electrical power or firewood, do its thing!
Even street solar oven idea.
Saving money boost -- plus they're providing Let's heat up the answers in Question 5 is about the earthquake.
Could it be an extinct animal And Question 7 is about cooking Move over Louisville Slugger, town!
Baseball fans are lining torpedo bat.
The newly designed thinner end and is shaped sort or a torpedo.
The design shifts lower and closer to where the approved by Major League Yankees players used it in a home runs.
Gamers are getting a first look console.
The Switch 2 was York before its official Nintendo console will introduce share functions and a larger to use the joy-con controllers Switch will cost considerably price tag is $500... which tariffs.
And if you're a fan of love this story.
This is the -- the largest species of bug that was considered extinct it was discovered on a remote the coast of Australia.
The other institutions to create they can continue to grow the insects to their original And now here's the final part a home run.
Question 9 is ready to play.
And Question 10 is multiplying.
Did you take any cool trips out more about some of the Opinion letters!
Cruz is in the Elementary in Utah and likes to states.
Douglas is a 3rd Grader at loves to go to a U.S. Bernardo attends Trinity Massachusetts and enjoys a And Abram is a 5th Grader at County, Kentucky who shares Thanks for all your amazing Question is not really a be creative during National it: Share an original poem that topic that inspires you or an then write a poem about it.
to rhyme, but if that's what write!
Send your poems to us NewsQuiz@ket.org... Or use the sure to include your name, name in your response!
Now it's time to find out if our Challenge Question.
Germany was the country that back in the 16th century.
Easter Hare - that's another eggs for them to find.
When you inside?
You probably won't find those eggs or in your Easter Cadbury company showed off the Egg.
This one is nearly 3 feet -- good luck eating all of And here are the rest of The answer to question 1 is... Kentucky is located at C on the The answer to question 2 is... B. Frankfort is Kentucky's The answer to question 3 is... Also B.
Tariffs are taxes on The answer to question 4 is... C. Money is at the center of >> The answer to question 5 B. Myanmar is located at B on The answer to question 6 is... A.
Gray wolves are being like white dire wolves.
The answer to question 7 is... C. A solar oven is saving The answer to question 8 is... Also C. The Toledo is the new The answer to question 9 is... B.
The Switch 2 is the newest And the answer to question 10 Australia is the native habitat >> And finally today...
There Philadelphia -- and mom and dad The two critically endangered four hatchlings recently.
they are keeping a close watch >> on the new babies.
Good for us today.
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