
November 6, 2025
Season 41 Episode 9 | 15m 2sVideo has Closed Captions
Features include Hurricane Melissa, bat-inspired drones, Martha Layne Collins, and more!
This episode of News Quiz features stories about Hurricane Melissa, drones inspired by bats, Kentucky’s former governor Martha Layne Collins, an underground seed vault, a new Egyptian museum, a scent exhibit in Germany, an extreme skier, smashing pumpkins and more!
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November 6, 2025
Season 41 Episode 9 | 15m 2sVideo has Closed Captions
This episode of News Quiz features stories about Hurricane Melissa, drones inspired by bats, Kentucky’s former governor Martha Layne Collins, an underground seed vault, a new Egyptian museum, a scent exhibit in Germany, an extreme skier, smashing pumpkins and more!
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Welcome to November!
time change.
Were you happy to extra sleep to knock our park!
What is the name for championship?
Baseball's playing this set of games.
out of seven takes home the What is the name for Major We'll have that answer for you, news today, the island nation after Hurricane Melissa.
season moved through the on numerous islands including and Cuba last week.
The rain caused catastrophic damage power and communications And officials said flooding and aftermath.
Before Hurricane Caribbean nations were Rescue and recovery teams went had passed.
Food and medical Emergency crews are now looking storm-ravaged locations to will begin.
Scientists are developing new search and rescue missions of natural disaster.
Take a They use echolocation to making them ideal to use in Echolocation means they use them.
They send out a pulse of echoes to detect obstacles.
>> Current flying robots are and many rely on vision from >> These smaller and more agile in bad weather, using sounds humans can't hear.
the drones navigate, but new sense to work with.
these bat drones in disaster hazardous environment Time now for the first part of are about the devastating Listen up for Questions 3 and Back to the news.
Kentucky's died on November 1st.
Martha Governor Collins is well known bringing the Toyota automotive state.
This was the first United States, and is still Kentucky.
Martha Layne Collins She held a degree in home of Kentucky and was a home ec junior high school before she volunteer on a former rise to Kentucky's top Kentucky's governor from 1983 Because of the federal U.S., food banks are seeing country.
Federal employees who are trying to provide for their coming in.
Many are looking for Some federal employees like are still on the job - but also considered essentialL workers moving.
>> To assist airport employees, partnered with local food banks essential workers and their encouraging others to donate to those who need the assistance.
The future of fresh fruits and is the focus of a project Kew's Millennium Seed Bank years ago.
Two and a half carefully frozen and preserved a global conservation and study our world's plants.
and the vault is reinforced to disasters and climate change.
plants from going extinct so seeds for future use.
Think about those stories as we today's Quiz.
Question 5 is Question 6 relates to the And Question 7 is planted deep Back to the news.
The Grand Egypt.
Egypt is a country that the Middle East.
It's bordered several countries including largest city and capital is near the Giza pyramids, is opened after decades of world's largest museum civilization.
The houses more than 50,000 pharaohs and relics of life in considered one of the "cradles Seeing exhibits in a museum is smelling them?
That's the "The Secret Power of Scents" Here, you can smell the odor of Paris or the sacred fragrance their way through 81 re-create different smells and atomizers.
Research shows strongly than any other of the For the first time in history, Mount Everest.
And it was all Jim Morrison skied 9,000 feet on planet Earth.
First, he had Face - which only five people and then he braved the going down.
It was all recorded from National Geographic And now here's the final part a long time coming.
Locate Egypt -- home of the map.
Come to your senses for And don't try Question 10 at Alright, pencils down.
It's your inventions from our Dalylah is a fifth grader at Union, Kentucky.
This idea addition.
Fourth Grader in Missouri, has an assistant in mind!
Araceli is in the fifth grade Elementary in Floyd County, be a teacher, at home.
And Nolan is in the sixth grade at Iowa and wants a friendly Have you shared your invention Opinion Question... What's your would you create it?
You can email at: NewsQuiz@ket.org... KET.org/newsquiz.
Be sure to school, and teacher's name in a base hit out of today's particular series of baseball played by one team from the from the American League.
Angeles Dodgers up against the It took all seven games before trophy!
The THIRD game in this the record books.
It went on than six hours before the back-to-back World Series their ninth World Series win.
when the team was the Brooklyn And here are the rest of The answer to question 1 is... Hurricane Melissa swept through The answer to question 2 is... B. Jamaica took a direct hit The answer to question 3 is... Bats inspired the new drone The answer to question 4 is... The drones use sound to The answer to question 5 is... C. Toyota is the auto plant to Kentucky.
The answer to question 6 is... Many essential employees are during federal shutdowns.
The answer to question 7 is... B. Plant seeds are housed in answer to question 8 is... B again.
Egypt is located at B The answer to question 9 is... A. Smell is the focus of the And the answer to question 10 C. Mount Everest is where the And finally today... What do pumpkin?
Do you make it a the baby elephant at the Oregon elephants were smashing giant Tula-Tu kicked one around a That's it for us today.
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