
October 29, 2026
Season 42 Episode 8 | 15mVideo has Closed Captions
Features include early voting in midterms, Mars' moons, glacial artifacts, a new museum and more!
This episode of News Quiz features stories about the early voting in the midterm elections, a new mission to the moons of Mars, cloud seeding in Honduras, beaver dams in the West, artifacts from glacier melting, a museum at the American Printing House for the Blind, a Beatles exhibit in Liverpool, the Day of the Dead in Mexico, an enormous whale caught on video and more!
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October 29, 2026
Season 42 Episode 8 | 15mVideo has Closed Captions
This episode of News Quiz features stories about the early voting in the midterm elections, a new mission to the moons of Mars, cloud seeding in Honduras, beaver dams in the West, artifacts from glacier melting, a museum at the American Printing House for the Blind, a Beatles exhibit in Liverpool, the Day of the Dead in Mexico, an enormous whale caught on video and more!
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>> Hi and welcome to KET's News Starks.
We are at the end of that means it's time to change leads us into today's Challenge Standard Time is what?
We springing forward by an hour in hour in the fall.
In autumn, we which is the official local "spring forward," we move into daylight hours.
So can you Standard Time is what?
We'll news.
Topping our news this from the midterm elections in is Tuesday, November 3rd - and school.
But some voters have early voting states.
There were and Alaska.
In a midterm members of the House of one-third of the U.S.
Senate.
including the Kentucky Senate for the past 41 years.
The change which political party states are also electing new happens every four years... four-year term.
You can learn other elections in our special at ket.org/NewsQuiz.
A Japanese the two moons of Mars, named spacecraft known as Martian was launched by the Japan October 20th.
The mission is and will bring back soil Phobos, when it returns to is very big.
Phobos is less smaller than most of our towns.
size.
The Martian Moon about 100 days exploring will set out to fly around starting its journey home.
once have been asteroids in the Mars and Jupiter.
But the orbiting the Red Planet for Let's head back here to Earth Quiz.
Think elections for Questions 3 and 4 are a space Back to the news.
Farmers in alternative ways to keep their drought conditions.
The mountainous country in Central Guatemala, El Salvador, Sea.
The capital is stretches from Guatemala down America's Dry Corridor.
To help feed their families, some areas to try to make it rain.
To do compound into the clouds in the clouds to rain more than they and neighboring countries are Food Program to supplement Back in the U.S.
some are using help conserve water in our engineers, beavers, are being beaver dams can be beneficial.
waterways and then beavers are build their own.
If the dams could help form small and aquatic life in some of And in Switzerland, melting treasury of artifacts that warming.
The sharp Swiss peaks picturesque... but those peaks explorers have discovered remnants to create an exhibit a statuette that dates back to ago.
Researchers have no clue there, but it was found on the trinkets of human trash left few cases, human remains were climbers and explorers who went what you find in the second 5 is searching for helpful Question 6 is a natural engineer.
And Question 7 is a chilling Back to the news.
A opening this weekend in Experience is a fully immersive American Printing House for the experience designed not only but people of all abilities.
20,000 square feet of tactile contributions of blind people American Printing House for the educational materials for low vision.
The museum opens A new attraction in Liverpool, of the Beatles.
Liverpool is a band that transformed expanded version of the Beatles story of the Fab Four through artifacts and reconstructed famous shows.
The museum will the heels of a set of four new member of the Beatles.
Strange the streets of Mexico City.
fantastical creatures in vibrant colors and elaborate many creatures, usually made traditional parade shows off music and dancing.
It's part of a unique celebration of life, craftsmanship.
Let's parade Quiz.
Question 8 is an Revolution nine - no, it's And celebrate!
It's Question Have you gotten some good opinion question?
We asked you with us -- and we've had some one: Hey >> everyone!
It's Jeff Kinney, Kid series.
Thank you so much I'm really glad that my books wanted to tell you about a book It's coming out next year by "The Mostly True Diary of a Reynolds.
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You gotta hilarious.
Happy reading.
>> Thanks, Jeff, for helping us Now, fifth grader Ema from Breathitt County, Kentucky has diaries.
Lucas is also fifth grade, but School in Missouri.
Lucas And Kelyn is in the fourth North Carolina.
This is also an Some of you may know this pseudonym.
That's a pen name, author uses instead of their Jack Chabert is actually... Earth" author!
Moving out of our next Opinion Question.
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This may be a the holidays.
Or it could be makes for your birthday... some thought, and maybe look up about them.
What is your Send your letters to us via Or use the form at include your name, grade, your response!
Now if you're fall back to our Challenge Standard Time is Daylight Saving Time.
That's by one hour in the forward.
Daylight Saving Time - like farmers - to make the By moving our clocks forward an more closely follows sunrise daytime for work and play!
And here are the rest of The answer to question 1 is... C. Midterm elections are held of a president's term.
The answer to question 2 is... In a midterm, all members of about a third of the Senate is The answer to question 3 is... B. Phobos is the larger of The answer to question 4 is... C. Japan launched the MMX The answer to question 5 is... B. Honduras is located at B on The answer to question 6 is... Beavers are being introduced to The answer to question 7 is... C. Switzerland is where melting exhibit.
The answer to question 8 is... The Dot Experience is the new The answer to question 9 is... C. Liverpool is the hometown of new attraction.
And the answer to question 10 Mexico was home to the Day of today... an amateur from the amazing whale video he Wales.
A fin whale was spotted coast of the United Kingdom.
>> He used his drone to record swam.
Fin whales can grow to as long as two school buses Time for us to swim on out of for more News Quiz!
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