
February 13, 2025
Season 40 Episode 19 | 15m 14sVideo has Closed Captions
Features include the Tuskegee Airmen, reading ancient scrolls, the 2026 Winter Olympics and more!
This episode of News Quiz features stories about tariffs the new U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods, the president’s Department of Government Efficiency, January weather patterns, the Tuskegee Airmen, reading ancient scrolls, endangered red wolves, tracking young turtles, the 2026 Winter Olympics and more!
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February 13, 2025
Season 40 Episode 19 | 15m 14sVideo has Closed Captions
This episode of News Quiz features stories about tariffs the new U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods, the president’s Department of Government Efficiency, January weather patterns, the Tuskegee Airmen, reading ancient scrolls, endangered red wolves, tracking young turtles, the 2026 Winter Olympics and more!
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>> Hi and welcome to KET's News Starks.
Hey, did you catch any weekend?
Shout out to the win in Super Bowl LIX!
They to 22.
Now, let's get on with Challenge Question.
What southern European country country is a peninsula that continent and is surrounded by are also part of this country, famous for its canals and the Can you think of it?
What shaped like a boot?
We'll have Topping our news, policy White House could affect prices bought from other countries.
which are taxes placed on those those tariffs... and the money President Donald Trump ordered to aid the U.S. in trade more companies to create That means American companies brought from China -- like electronics.
Sometimes that U.S. consumers when the price Meanwhile, another executive administration has created the Efficiency -- also known as billionaire Elon Musk to lead include SpaceX, Tesla and X, formerly known as Twitter.
is to eliminate government federal workers have already eliminated or cut.
Staffers at were told not to return to work possibly eliminating that humanitarian aid and security Some people are protesting the have been filed against actions administration.
Time now for the first part of are about the taxed imports.
Questions 3 and 4 are about the Back to the news.
You sometimes Niño when we talk about patterns over the Pacific Ocean temperatures around the world.
temperatures in the Pacific Niño, on the other hand, brings Over the past year, El Niño is global temperatures to record noted in January, but it was Januarys in history.
The closely by meteorologists, weather, to track this factor In other news... One of the Harry Stewart Jr. of Michigan, 100.
The Tuskegee Airmen were pilots, who fought for our The pilots are honored each Month.
From 1941 to 1946, more were trained in Tuskegee, high demand during the war, them safe over Europe.
The Tuskegee Airmen National with memorials throughout the in Kentucky is dedicated as the And around the world, that survived a volcanic years ago.
Italy's Mount 79, destroying the villages of Archaeologists discovered Herculaneum but couldn't unroll preserved the scrolls as imaging methods and artificial getting a look inside the unrolling the scrolls virtually help decipher the contents.
Think about those stories as we today's Quiz.
Question 5 is History will remain in Question 6.
And new technology meets Back to the news...
The wild species unique to the United dwindling.
But it's not because cars.
One stretch of U.S. Carolina is particularly species of wolf.
Now plans are underground tunnels for wolves through to avoid the dangerous are proposed in the Alligator Refuge... one of only two red wolf still roams free.
>> Both places are in North >> Scientists are learning more turtles after they hatch and between when turtles hatch on often referred to as "the lost of scientists attached tags to the shells of young track the turtles' movements.
move very intentionally between actively avoid the shore, with the ocean current, as once And scientists in Australia in New South Wales.
New South Australia.
Its capital is Australia -- and it's the only found in the wild.
Their these drones have identified a colonies are thriving.
dam that provides a consistent They are studying the area to with hopes to expand the koala And now here's the final part moving underground.
Question 9 is finding the "lost years."
And we'll go "down under" for Now let's see what some of you our Opinion Question about schools.
Elizabeth is a 4th Seton School in New York and quiet times.
Aubree is in the 7th Grade and Aubree says.
Gauge attends 4th Grade at has a calming suggestion.
Mason is a 5th Grader at Rosa Kentucky and wants a little Great answers from all of you!
to be president in the future!
comes right from the written And, answering this could help would you recommend, and why?
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Be grade, school, and teacher's test your knowledge of Europe If you pulled on your boots and correct!
Italy is the extends from Europe's southern Winter Olympics will be held those games has begun.
Italy's for the sledding events, while being prepped for skiing, ice from at least 62 countries will medals, with 350 thousand fans games.
And here are the rest of The answer to question 1 is... Tariffs are the taxes put on The answer to question 2 is... President Trump imposed tariffs The answer to question 3 is... also C. DOGE is the Department The answer to question 4 is... Elon Musk is the head of the The answer to question 5 is...
Waters in the Pacific Ocean are Niño.
The answer to question 6 is... B.
The Tuskegee Airmen were The answer to question 7 is... A. Papyrus scrolls were found The answer to question 8 is... again.
The endangered red wolf The answer to question 9 is... B. GPS tags are tracking the And the answer to question 10 C. New South Wales is home to And finally today...
The Oregon elephant.
The 200-pound little workers are letting mom and before giving the baby a little while before the public wraps it up for us today.
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