
April 24, 2025
Season 40 Episode 27 | 15m 19sVideo has Closed Captions
Features include stories about Pope Francis, the Kentucky Derby Museum, slow-TV and more!
This episode of News Quiz features stories about Pope Francis, new Antarctic discoveries, Blue Origin’s latest mission, a planet with two suns, elephant earthquake behavior, the Kentucky Derby Museum, moose migration, slow-TV, a colossal squid and more!
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April 24, 2025
Season 40 Episode 27 | 15m 19sVideo has Closed Captions
This episode of News Quiz features stories about Pope Francis, new Antarctic discoveries, Blue Origin’s latest mission, a planet with two suns, elephant earthquake behavior, the Kentucky Derby Museum, moose migration, slow-TV, a colossal squid and more!
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>> Hi and welcome to KET's News Starks.
We enjoyed time at Championship this week.
That will be available soon for you with today's Challenge What physicist is known for the German-born scientist is hair.
He was a brilliant man universe, especially his Theory that famous equation about understand how things like work.
Can you name him?
What formula E = mc2?
That answer Topping our news this week, Roman Catholic Church, has died was known as the people's pope concern for the poor and less Latin American pontiff in for 12 years.
The pope lives in independent country that sits or institution associated with The pope is in charge of on various issues.
Pope Francis like opting to live in a small palace normally reserved for suffered from chronic lung hospitalized for pneumonia.
returned a month ago to the Easter blessing on Sunday outside.
It was his last public Monday morning.
The selection conclave and involves a secret of Cardinals, other leaders of In other news, a team of *accidentally* got a rare look the world's southernmost bottom of our globe.
It's also population of zero.
No one because of its extreme cold -- is covered in ice.
Antarctica scientific research and for longer periods of time at permanently live there.
of scientists, who thought they collect sediment and other that recently broke away from aquatic life below that had were surprised to see the array urchins, and other creatures the ice shelf, despite so nutrients.
The biologists are the species they've catalogued be new species of sea life Time now for the first part of are about the world leader.
Questions 3 and 4 take us to Back to the news.
The Blue recently launched another wave all-female crew to the edge of they experienced at least a few The passengers included singer engineer Aisha Bowe, who now They traveled aboard the New West Texas, and flew 65 miles was the 11th time Blue Origin eventful flight.
The first was founder Jeff Bezos strapped in as the founder of Amazon.com.
In other space news, a new from Earth appears to have the "Star Wars" movie.
Luke Tatooine, orbited two suns.
discovered planet takes an dwarf STARS, even turning at a dwarfs were spotted a few years the stars moved in an odd suggests the planet orbits in both stars.
Back on earth, a allowed animal lovers to between elephants.
While the Zoo, a herd of elephants went natural instincts to protect African elephants encircled two protect them from any possible video as the elders keep watch between them.
Once the quake their normal routine -- but an brought them back into their Think about those stories as we today's Quiz.
Go to the edge of Science found interesting And Question 7 is about Back to the news.
We are just Kentucky Derby.
The Derby is an the first Saturday of May at Kentucky.
Just next door to the Kentucky Derby Museum, which of the Derby.
This year, the with a major upgrade to its one-of-a-kind 360-degree movie feel like you are in the middle 30-thousand students visit the every year.
While the Derby is often called sports," there's a much slower popularity... and it's watching tuned into a Swedish slow TV Migration."
It's a 20-day, guessed it, a moose migration.
follow dozens of moose as they in Sweden.
Nine million people they expect more views this trend of livestream cameras hours... similar to that "fish about here a few weeks ago.
And this might make for good captured the world's first squid alive in the wild.
teenage squid, almost a foot the remote South Sandwich Ocean.
Researchers say they spot the squid, but they were of the South Atlantic.
A The undersea robot has species alive for the first show!
And now here's the final 8 is off to the races!
Question 9 is moving much slooower.
And Question 10 is a squid Time for a little break to We asked you to write a poem in Question.
5th Grader Kilynn Franklin County, Kentucky and bird launches to the sky, over with the clouds as one, won.
Chirping like his own that needs to find, His way one last flight, alighting the is another 5th Grader from Lexington, Kentucky.
Mary Lou natural poem.
"The sky was gray and gloomy the cold drops on your face As the droplets come together To Watch the droplets fall Down, light The animals run and hide run inside" Nice work!
What a we will read more of your what interests you in the share an original poem that you to us via email at: form at KET.org/newsquiz.
Be grade, school, and teacher's feel challenged by our little energy and get back to Albert Einstein is the formula E=mc2 -- where E stands the speed of light.
Did you Einstein's death?
But his today.
Some scientists say discoveries are some of the human mind.
And here are the rest of The answer to question 1 is... A. Pope Francis led the Roman The answer to question 2 is... A papal conclave will choose a The answer to question 3 is...
True.
No one permanently lives The answer to question 4 is... C. New aquatic life was seen The answer to question 5 is... Blue Origin transported the The answer to question 6 is... B.
Two brown dwarf stars are The answer to question 7 is... C. An earthquake caused the San around the youngsters.
The answer to question 8 is... B.
The Derby Museum recently The answer to question 9 is... C. Moose star in the latest And the answer to question 10 The South Atlantic Ocean is And finally today... You've get to spend time with feline >> here's a new twist from a hanging out with capybaras in rodents are friendly -- they laps and munch on corn on the That's it from us today.
week for more News Quiz.
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