
September 19, 2024
Season 40 Episode 3 | 14m 24sVideo has Closed Captions
Features include wildfires, vote counts, SpaceX’s spacewalk, mud football and more!
This episode of News Quiz features stories about the wildifres in California, Hurricane Francine and Typhoon Yagi, government shutdowns, possible vote count delays, SpaceX’s spacewalking billionaire, the Year of the Camelid, mud football, the Grand Canyon, and more!
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September 19, 2024
Season 40 Episode 3 | 14m 24sVideo has Closed Captions
This episode of News Quiz features stories about the wildifres in California, Hurricane Francine and Typhoon Yagi, government shutdowns, possible vote count delays, SpaceX’s spacewalking billionaire, the Year of the Camelid, mud football, the Grand Canyon, and more!
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our Challenge Question.
In which state can you visit This natural wonder in the deepest canyons in the world.
Colorado River in the western visitors each year.
Phoenix is the Grand Canyon is located.
can you visit Grand Canyon We'll have that answer for you news today, it's wildfire of the most damaging fires are California.
California is on Oregon, Nevada and Arizona PLUS Wildfires are burning Fire and the Bridge Fire in the worst in the state's thousands of acres, causing homes and businesses.
You may started by lightning, but some human carelessness, and by intense heat wave and dry spread quickly.
Firefighters to California to help fight the southeast U.S. are recovering which made landfall in is a southern state on the Gulf Mississippi, Arkansas and Baton Rouge.
Hurricane Francine a Category 2 storm, causing other damage.
On the other side caused much more destruction in in southeast Asia along the border with China, Laos and were killed in flash floods and the strongest to hit the is the same as a hurricane.
cyclones.
The only difference storm happens in the North oceans, it's called a the Northwest Pacific Ocean, typhoon.
In the western South these storms are simply called Time now for the first part of are about the California fires.
Questions 3 and 4 are about the Back to the news.
You may have government shutdown this week.
Every year, Congress approves agencies like the Defense parks.
This money is divided up When members of Congress can't each agency gets, some of those agreement is reached.
The a deal on the current budget is National Voter Registration Day everyone who is eligible to Voter registration processes All states - except one - before they cast their ballot.
that doesn't require voter night, you'll notice some than others.
That's because Wisconsin don't allow mail-in Election Day, while other ballots to be counted earlier.
how an election works, check episode at KET.org/NewsQuiz.
that is, if you have enough businessman kicked off the citizens last week.
paid an undisclosed amount of could travel about 450 miles new spacesuits on the SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis went perform a space walk.
Before journeys were reserved for Think about those stories as we today's Quiz.
Question 5 is Question 6 is True or False.
And Question 7 is going to cost Do you know what a camelid is - human society?
Well... camelids include camels, alpacas, llamas Recently, the United Nations assisting humans for hundreds camelids are like horses, transportation.
In fact, the of the camelids.
Because they they may hold answers to how we In British Columbia a humpback operation.
The whale was debris and was trapped in a Canada.
A fishing crew spent days cutting They didn't see any physical free once it was untangled.
And from New Hampshire... college national championship, for amateur football players!
down and dirty for the sloppy joke.
The players say the mud is hard to handle!
Over the more than a million dollars for And now here's the final part a tribute to centuries of work.
Swim free with Question 9.
And Question 10 needs some cleanup!
We hope you learned more about in today's quiz.
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Dylan School in Canada and says, We Grader at Caverna Middle School wants some tasty news.
Now Mr. DeGregorio's 4th Grade School in Oregon wants animal 5th Grader Channing from in Louisville, Kentucky is a >> Next, we want to give a Teacher of the Year.
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Now it's time for your quiz Question.
ARIZONA is the state Park is located.
Did you know that brings clean water through many Arizona hotels and the Trans-canyon Waterline shut down until the issue was in the 1960s so it's ready for canyon is a major challenge for they hope to have a better And here are the rest of The answer to question 1 is...
The wildfires have many causes, The answer to question 2 is... on the map.
The answer to question 3 is... LOUISIANA is where Hurricane The answer to question 4 is... difference between a hurricane The answer to question 5 is... money that funds federal The answer to question 6 is... FALSE.
North Dakota is the one voter registration.
The answer to question 7 is... A. SPACEX conducted the first The answer to question 8 is... C. The Year of the CAMELID is The answer to question 9 is... A HUMPBACK whale was rescued.
And the answer to question 10 B.
The MUD BOWL is the annual >> And finally today... it's mazes, but I bet you've never make out whose face is inside star Caitlin Clark!
The image showed up in a cornfield in lost in there!
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