
November 12, 2026
Season 42 Episode 10 | 15mVideo has Closed Captions
Features include the recent U.S. elections, the climate summit, hats, a very long walk and more!
This episode of News Quiz features stories about the new majority in Congress and some election firsts, the international climate summit, data centers, reducing food waste in schools, reversing coral bleaching, the hat capital of the world, one man’s walk around the globe and more!
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November 12, 2026
Season 42 Episode 10 | 15mVideo has Closed Captions
This episode of News Quiz features stories about the new majority in Congress and some election firsts, the international climate summit, data centers, reducing food waste in schools, reversing coral bleaching, the hat capital of the world, one man’s walk around the globe and more!
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Think world geography.
On which continent will you This continent is known for hot world's largest hot desert, the nations than any other the Cradle of Humankind because human-like fossils were found On which continent will you We'll have that answer, after The makeup of Congress will elections in the United States.
more offices in Congress.
the MAJORITY in both the House elections also made for many Michigan, voters elected Abdul He will become the first Muslim Senate.
In Georgia, voters female governor, Democrat be both the state's first the first Black Georgian to also elected its first Black Donalds.
New Mexico elected will be the nation's first governor.
The newly elected January.
Meanwhile, in the country of summit is underway.
Turkey is a parts of two continents, Asia Ankara, sits in the Asian area.
Parties, or COP, is meeting for warming.
Back in 1992 United climate treaty to try to change.
This year, world meeting in Turkey to discuss the goals that were set.
close look at the use of power, hydropower and wind are making an effort to use but are still relying a lot on of greenhouse gases, like global temperatures.
Time now for the first part of are about the newly elected Questions 3 and 4 are about the Back to the news.
While many companies building massive data wants as many of them as officially, the Argentine second-largest country in South Aires.
The country's president place where artificial regulated... and where build their high energy He says Argentina's vast, open population centers.
Its chilly and powerful winds can generate companies have expressed studies are still underway.
Do you know what happens to you don't clean your plate?
trash.
And, that adds up!
food is wasted each year and schools are coming up with ways includes a refrigerator where fresh fruits so they can be them.
There are programs that donate them to farms or animal as feed.
And at this school in composting have led to a of pounds of saved food items.
And, there's some good news for affected by warming ocean discovered that dying coral can introduced to healthy cloned beautiful, underwater animals, live, bond together to create sea life.
But warming waters contact, have caused coral creatures.
But in a study using from other healthy samples, revived.
The healthy coral unhealthy pieces -- helping Think about those stories as we today's Quiz.
Question 5 is What will you eat for lunch 6!
And there's good news in Back to the news.
Fishermen and save the striped bass.
The as a "striper," is rapidly Factors like warming water, overfishing have slowed Bay -- where up to 90 percent Scientists worry that losing higher-level predator, could fishing industry and the tens depend on it.
A small town in France is legacy... as the world's hat once the global capital of making millions of hats a year Now the town is home to a hat collection... holding more and worn by famous people.
city's last working factory techniques to craft handmade artisans.
How long would it world?
For Englishman Karl Karl was looking for adventure his journey in 1998.
Since miles... across four countries.
He navigated Strait and swam across the Channel.
His only rule was to He survived perilous jungles, face-off with a polar bear.
childhood home in northern who got a big hug from his mom, been?"
His story will soon be documentary.
Let's walk right quiz.
Cast a wide net for Tip your hat for question 9.
And put on your walking shoes After taking all those steps, think food!
We're getting a lot Opinion Question.
What is your Here are a few of them.
Mateo Elementary in Illinois with a Nina is also in the fifth Elementary in Boone County, specialty is also sweet!
Allan is in the fourth grade at Jersey.
His choice is a family Alliyah attends fifth grade at County, Kentucky.
Her pick is a nutty.
If you haven't sent us hear from you.
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Be sure to school, and teacher's name in challenged by our Challenge and see if you had the correct The country of Senegal is Africa.
Senegal is in the continent.
It's on the Atlantic Mauritania.
The Youth Olympic Games opened the first time an Olympic event The continent is working to international sports stage.
the ages of 14 and 17 will The goal is to bring home the And here are the rest of The answer to question 1 is... True - Democrats will have the House and Senate in January.
The answer to question 2 is... A. Georgia elected its first history.
The answer to question 3 is... B. The United Nations drafted The answer to question 4 is... Climate change is the focus of The answer to question 5 is... C. Argentina is the country build there.
The answer to question 6 is... B. Compost is one of the ways out of landfills.
The answer to question 7 is... Bleached coral is benefiting The answer to question 8 is... The striped bass -- or striper The answer to question 9 is... France is home to the new hat And the answer to question 10 C. It took 28 years for Karl world.
And finally today... do we have in our audience?
>> 11-year-old Johanna Lamb is showing Longhorn cattle before has been in love with them from creatures can be scary, but you get to know them.
Way to today.
I'm gonna saddle up and next week for more News Quiz.
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