
December 11, 2025
Season 41 Episode 13 | 14m 52sVideo has Closed Captions
Features include shopping with AI, video game history, the Olympics, endangered species and more!
This episode of News Quiz features stories about Sri Lanka and flooding from Cyclone Ditwah, the Atacama Desert in Chile, holiday shopping with AI, an endangered species conference, mass weddings in Gaza and Indonesia, a rare flowering palm tree, Christmas in Washington, D.C., video game history, the Olympics and more!
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December 11, 2025
Season 41 Episode 13 | 14m 52sVideo has Closed Captions
This episode of News Quiz features stories about Sri Lanka and flooding from Cyclone Ditwah, the Atacama Desert in Chile, holiday shopping with AI, an endangered species conference, mass weddings in Gaza and Indonesia, a rare flowering palm tree, Christmas in Washington, D.C., video game history, the Olympics and more!
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This is our last Quiz Let's make it a good one and Question.
Where were the first Olympic over the next month or so about Olympic Games in Italy -- but Olympics originated.
The first European country that's part of numerous islands in the Aegean Athens - the city where the name it?
Where were the first you the answer, after the news.
Weather experts and scientists devastating weather events that past few years, including the which made landfall on November is one of those hardest hit by Officially called the of Sri Lanka, the country is a sits off the southern tip of Rescue teams and emergency aid recede before they could reach of Sri Lanka.
Hundreds were and landslides.
More than 1,200 strong storms that struck Sri the area.
Those studying the more and stronger storms world and believe one cause is change.
Dozens of astronomers from together to protect the dark The Atacama Desert is a desert coast of South America, in country that stretches along America.
Its capital is known as the best place on the of space, because of its lack altitude above the clouds, and of scientists and astronomers government to stop construction plant that they say would cause observatory.
Chile currently of the world's astronomical are hoping to exceed 60 percent Time now for the first part of take us to Southeast Asia.
Questions 3 and 4 are dark.
holiday shopping season is thousands of AI robots are major retail chains.
Amazon, the stores using artificial this holiday season.
Not only help fill orders in warehouses, improve the shopping can give personalized product and even automatically place an certain amount.
Hundreds of countries from Uzbekistan to talk about the pets.
These aren't your average tarantulas, iguanas, gorillas like cute pets, but it is sell some of these endangered International Trade in -- is working on new rules to over-collection.
Two different countries are ceremonies.
In Gaza, 54 couples war-ravaged area, symbolizing a years of military conflict.
Palestinian culture.
Meanwhile sponsored a mass wedding for 51 afford their own wedding.
for the ceremony but also start their new life together.
Think about those stories as we today's Quiz.
'Tis the season Question 6 is exotic.
And Question 7 is tying the knot.
Let's travel south of the Talipot palm trees in Rio de millions of small white brought these trees to Brazil talipot palms live 40 to 80 end of their life cycle.
typical fan-shaped palm leaves.
are hoping to collect trees to have talipot seedlings future.
Back in the U.S., 'tis the holiday decorations!
In Christmas Tree was lit with the Grady Armstrong, who won an tree is also from Nevada.
Melania Trump presented the this year's holiday theme, The Red Room features a tree dedicated to the foster care a nod to next year's 250th and national symbols highlight celebration.
And in Croatia, a games in the year that old!
More than 3,000 gaming gathered and are on display at Museum!
A computer programmer joined together to open this spans three floors with an original PlayStation and Commodore 64s and Atari.
Let's find the winning today's Quiz.
Question 8 is a see!
Question 9 is very decorative.
And get your game 10!
A shout-out to Bloom show!
After a visit to their own news program, modeled after guys!
Now let's look at more of your favorite holiday from Maxwell Elementary here in off with a tasty and fun celebration.
Mikail and Mehdi are both fifth of Casablanca -- around the watching and sending us your a sacred Muslim holiday.
Hudson is a fourth in Bullitt County Kentucky who Lila is in the fifth grade at Williston celebrates a Jewish observance.
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We'll read one more Opinion Question.
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Be sure to school, and teacher's name in response!
Was today's Challenge Or some other Olympic event?
Greece as your answer, you are Olympic Games began back in 1896.
A torch ceremony is held games.
For the 2026 Winter caused problems, but organizers and a backup -- on the sacred carry the torch from Greece at the stadium in Milan for the Ceremonies.
And here are the The answer to question 1 is... A. Sri Lanka was hit by the cyclone.
The answer to question is... C. Climate change may storms.
The answer to question is... B. Chile is home of the Desert.
The answer to question 4 is... C. Astronomy is the space.
The answer to question 5 is... C again.
More stores are to improve the holiday shopping experience.
The answer to is... B. Endangered species trading.
The answer to question is... C. Mass wedding Indonesia and Gaza.
The answer to question 8 is... A. Talipot Palms are the Brazil.
The answer to question is... True.
America250 White House decor.
And the answer to is... B. Croatia is where museum.
And finally today... That was the question at a bake Cake designers brought in brussels sprouts to a visitors wondering.
We hope you over the holiday break.
We'll more News Quiz -- see you then.

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