
March 20, 2025
Season 40 Episode 23 | 15m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Features include severe weather, a total lunar eclipse, a new NASA satellite, the Iditarod and more!
This episode of News Quiz features stories about severe weather in the United States, the stock market, Canada’s new prime minister, the total lunar eclipse, a new NASA satellite, monarch butterfly migration, a pest-sniffing dog, Hawaiian wayfinding traditions, the Iditarod and more!
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News Quiz is a local public television program presented by KET
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March 20, 2025
Season 40 Episode 23 | 15m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
This episode of News Quiz features stories about severe weather in the United States, the stock market, Canada’s new prime minister, the total lunar eclipse, a new NASA satellite, monarch butterfly migration, a pest-sniffing dog, Hawaiian wayfinding traditions, the Iditarod and more!
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>> Hi and welcome to KET's News Starks.
Have you caught spring chill in the air and snow in leads us to today's Challenge The Iditarod is raced in which sleds and dogs and nearly a terrain.
It takes place in a contiguous United States but northernmost parts of our Can you think of it?
The state?
We'll have that answer Topping our news today, several another round of severe storms This comes in the middle of weeks that are happening 15th and 16th, strong storms the South, spurring tornadoes Arkansas, Missouri and west, in Oklahoma, wildfires then fanned by those winds.
south-central region and Missouri, among other states.
capital.
Oklahoma's governor as the wildfires spread.
destroyed by the fast-moving Neighboring states have sent and to provide emergency You may be hearing a lot about this week.
So, what is that?
is a system to help U.S. the public.
Anyone can INVEST or buy stock, which is a share company get extra money to grow company grows, so does your or share - is worth can go the success of the company.
points and percentages that There are different types of the trades of these shares world is the New York Stock Manhattan - you'll hear it which is the street where it is numbers caused concern about considered a long-term usually grow over a number of Time now for the first part of are about the severe weather.
Questions 3 and 4 take us to or False?
Back to the news.
As our North trade and tariffs, Canada also help make decisions for their Minister Justin Trudeau January.
The new prime minister banking leader in their holds the majority in their elected Prime Minister Carney of his business sense, and their country's values and minister's job is similar to decision-maker for the nation.
In other news, you probably stargazers watched the lunar hours of March 14th.
A lunar moves between the moon and the that can partially or totally 14th event was a total lunar of sunlight filtered through moon... the moon appeared to be moon because of the red, And before that blood moon... telescope into orbit.
The map the entire sky in infrared information about galaxy our universe.
Infrared light If you've ever seen or used a equipment, those gadgets often or waves.
Now the SPHEREx will around Earth, and collect data clouds, and cosmic structures.
at those clouds in our Milky and organic molecules.
able to build a complete, Think about those stories as we today's Quiz.
There's a new Question 6 had viewers seeing And Question 7 is looking at a Back to the news.
Good news for population.
New numbers show butterflies wintering in Mexico they covered last year.
Eastern and Western monarch decline due to climate change.
migrates thousands of miles United States to Mexico and On the other side of the world, to help save an endangered Scout the border terrier has sniff out possums.
Possums are royal albatross, one of the Their only colony is in New to this area and eat the laid one at a time, every two more helpful than artificial drones in tracking down the In Hawaii, they are celebrating The Hokulea launched from the years ago, with the sailors stars, waves and weather.
>> It is the real-life journey Since its original launch in share Hawaiian culture and sailing canoe has traveled world, including New Zealand, York.
It inspired other Pacific >> newly appreciate their own And now here's the final part going south for the winter.
Sniff out an answer for And no one knows how far you'll Big shout-out to my friends at Arts School in Louisville!
so many of you during arts day!
questions.
Your school is one So - what are YOUR favorite know some good ones in our What is your favorite travel from Second Street School in Lara is in the 5th Grade at Kinetic love for our 50th state.
another 3rd Grader from South Kentucky and just loves to be a 4th Grader who is nature on the mind.
Are there any travel plans in your What is your favorite travel favorite?
Send those locations NewsQuiz@ket.org Or use the sure to include your name, name in your response!
If your mode yet, you may still be Challenge Question.
Think Alaska!
That's the state where place every year.
>> Mushers, the sled drivers, Alaska from Fairbanks to Nome, thousand miles.
It takes about race with several check-in way, this year's winner is TV star, who finished in 10 41 seconds.
>> And here are the rest of The answer to question 1 is... Wildfires are the reason for The answer to question 2 is... Oklahoma is located at C on the The answer to question 3 is...
Anyone can invest money in a The answer to question 4 is... Stocks are what you purchase The answer to question 5 is... A.
Mark Carney is Canada's new The answer to question 6 is... C. A lunar eclipse caused the The answer to question 7 is... B. SPHEREx will use infrared The answer to question 8 is... Monarch butterflies spend The answer to question 9 is... B.
New Zealand is home to the And the answer to question 10 Hawaii's culture includes the today... Meet >> Konstantina, a Mediterranean thriving thanks to the work of her.
Monk seals like critically endangered, but now Greek islands.
That's it for us next week for more News Quiz.
News Quiz is a local public television program presented by KET
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