
December 5, 2024
Season 40 Episode 12 | 14m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Features include electric vehicles, moon missions, a Buddhist lama, our national bird and more!
This episode of News Quiz features stories about climate help for developing countries, a push for electric vehicles, the Artemis moon missions, President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet, a young Buddhist lama, new engineering for football helmets, saving whales in New Zealand, the world’s largest coral, the tallest and shortest women, America’s national bird, and more!
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December 5, 2024
Season 40 Episode 12 | 14m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
This episode of News Quiz features stories about climate help for developing countries, a push for electric vehicles, the Artemis moon missions, President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet, a young Buddhist lama, new engineering for football helmets, saving whales in New Zealand, the world’s largest coral, the tallest and shortest women, America’s national bird, and more!
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I hope you're all and cold temperatures across with a U.S.A. themed Challenge What is the national bird of a majestic-looking bird of sharp talons and a hook-tipped white feathers covering its look.
Can you name it?
What is States?
We'll have that answer Topping our news this week -- coming up with solutions to told you in our last episode, working on a plan to help energy practices.
Now the U.N. billion dollars a year to help away from coal, oil and gas to Pakistan, the air quality there serious health issues.
Pakistan and it is the fifth most Earlier this month, the health emergency and imposed a vehicles and other pollutants.
wants 30 percent of all new hybrid by 2030, with a goal of This story takes us to the moon be taking astronauts back to at the Orion space capsule that around the moon in 2022 as part mission for NASA.
Instead of - with special sensors traveled Space Launch System.
Artemis I engineers a good look at their humans to the moon.
They hope mission no earlier than astronomers bid farewell to an Earth's mini moon.
They think little chunk of our actual moon gravitational pull, horseshoe-shaped path around Time now for the first part of are about helping the Questions 3 and 4 are about our Back to the news.
As to take office again in choices about leaders who will Cabinet is a group of people advise him about their various includes the vice president and departments, including the Defense, Education, Energy, and president-elect names the positions, it isn't a done confirmed by the U.S. Senate In Minnesota, an 18-year-old to become a Buddhist lama - a Jalue Dorje was recognized by spiritual leader of Tibetan had one foot in a normal training to become a lama.
graduate from high school and India, on the border of Tibet.
studying and contemplating his he'd like to return to Buddhist community.
Here's a look at a mix of you've watched or attended a you know just how loud the stadium.
You can imagine how hear the quarterback calling the sideline.
An engineering University has designed ear helmets to try to muffle some some of the Michigan State helmets.
The professor and a manufacture the inserts.
Think about those stories as we today's Quiz.
Advice is needed Question 6 is on a leadership And Question 7 is a win-win!
Back to the news.
More than 30 safely back in the ocean with stranded themselves on a beach an island country in the The beaches of New Zealand are Researchers aren't sure why it because of protruding, shallow confuse whale navigation.
pilot whales were refloated residents lifted them on water.
Far beneath the Pacific Ocean, what's believed to be the It measures more than 100 feet It was discovered by scientists vessel in the Solomon Islands, Unlike a coral reef, this is a organism is made up of a tiny individual creatures.
the previous record-breaker.
Speaking of Records Day celebrated 20 meeting.
The world's tallest shortest woman... met >> for the first time.
They had Gelgi is the tallest woman - a And Jyoti Amge is the world's inches tall.
The two women Guinness World Records, and had a lot in common.
>> And now here's the final 8 is about a rescue.
Question 9 is under the sea.
And question 10 is a record.
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Be sure to school, and teacher's name in Did you spread your wings for There are a lot of birds to is our national bird.
The bald back in 1782, when it was national seal.
There are the country, including this one from a nest where two of the home.
Minnesota's Department of the camera that you can see on And here are the rest of >> The answer to question 1 helping countries move to clean The answer to question 2 is... C. Pakistan is making a push The answer to question 3 is... Orion is the name of the space The answer to question 4 is... B.
An asteroid was Earth's The answer to question 5 is... president.
The answer to question 6 is...
The U.S. teen will be a lama, a The answer to question 7 is... B.
A football helmet insert may The answer to question 8 is... Also B.
New Zealand is where The answer to question 9 is... C. Scientists found what's largest coral.
And the answer to question 10 The women held records for >> And finally today...
Some their own Thanksgiving treats >> Dwarf pygmy goats at the lettuce, celery, sweet while the lions and tigers got containers.
Do you think they That's it for us today.
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