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This week on News Time, we’ll meet a tourist living large on a beachside holiday, and we’ll float along with an outlawed fish, before we take to the skies with a teenager and her puppy in our Wow of the Week.
Quiz Questions
1. Which was the last World Marathon that Charlie needed to run to complete all seven?
2. What did locals spot Sammy the elephant seal eating?
3. Who is the new women's surfing world champion?
4. Which Australian state or territory has banned fish-shaped soy sauce containers?
5. What is the name of Jennifer's co-pilot pup?
Bonus Tricky Question
What word is used to describe Jennifer's journey, or lap of Australia?
Answers
1. Sydney Marathon
2. A baby shark
3. Molly Picklum
4. South Australia
5. Bella
Bonus Tricky Answer
Circumnavigate
This week on News Time, we’ll head to the nation’s capital, where some hungry birds are getting in a flap. Then we'll board a bus filled with barking best friends, before we pull up to a whale pit stop in our Wow of the Week.
Quiz Questions
1. What job does Greta do during AFL games?
2. Which city is being swarmed by seagulls?
3. What is the name of the comic book Molly created?
4. How many dogs board the bus each week?
5. What type of whale is scientist Aashi studying?
Bonus Tricky Question
What have the whale calves have been eating?
Answers
1. Boundary umpire
2. Canberra
3. Dreamwalker
4. 63
5. Southern right whale
Bonus Tricky Answer
Krill and crab larvae
We’re kicking goals on News Time this week! You’ll hear from a young soccer player gearing up for the Deaflympics. We’ll also dig up a pearler of a fossil in the outback before we head to a sporting event for robots in our Wow of the Week.
Quiz Questions
1. What is the record-breaking amount of money that AFL player Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera will earn each season?
2. How old is the fossil pearl?
3. Where will this year's Deaflympics be held?
4. Why did the church have to be moved?
5. What sort of robots recently competed in Beijing?
Bonus Tricky Question
What items did workers have to remove along the road so the church could get to its new destination?
Answers
1. $2 million
2. 100 million years old
3. Japan
4. Fissures in the ground due to nearby mining
5. Humanoid robots
Bonus Tricky Answer
Lamp posts, traffic lights, and a bridge!
Shalailah Medhora is filling in for Ruby in this week’s edition of News Time. We'll get the buzz on beekeeping, and hear how it’s helping people stay focussed and relaxed. We’ll also head overseas to a country offering grandmas for hire. Then we’ll grab a board and hang ten in our Wow of the Week!
Quiz Questions
1. How many years has Children's Book Week been around?
2. How many beehives does Miranda's family have?
3. What prize is on offer for the trackers who find the most skink burrows?
4. How much does it cost to hire a grandma?
5. Who is Kelia's surfing hero?
Bonus Tricky Question
What is the great desert skink said to be coloured like?
Answers
1. 80 years
2. 450
3. A trophy
4. $60
5. Molly Picklum (from Australia)
Bonus Tricky Answer
A sunset
In this edition of News Time, get out your lab coats because it’s National Science Week! It's a celebration of science and technology that happens every August.
We'll investigate some scientific discoveries and technical triumphs! Find out about some clever climbing contraptions saving cats, hear about a thrill-seeking teen swapping his wheelchair for a race car, and we'll put our microscopes up to some boogieing birds who love to body-roll in our Wow of the Week!
Quiz Questions
1. What is the name of the organisation sharing First Nations science?
2. What was the sport Ally did before taking up racing?
3. How long can the giant cuttlefish grow?
4. Which city has built tiny staircases on the sides of its canals?
5. Why did the researchers think the cockatoos were dancing?
Bonus Tricky Question
What are some of the dance moves that the cockatoos displayed?
Answers
1. Deadly Science
2. Snow skiing
3. The length of a cricket bat (1 metre)
4. Amsterdam
5. They were feeling good
Bonus Tricky Answer
Headbang, body-roll, sidestep
This week on News Time we’ll track down a backpack-wearing bird, we’ll crash down to earth in a rocket, and then we’ll think like a fish in our Wow of the Week!
Quiz Questions
1. What name has been given to the women's shed in Cairns?
2. What have researchers placed in each of the birds' backpacks?
3. Which soccer team is Hannah Hampton part of?
4. How long was the rocket in the air?
5. What has grown on the tiles?
Bonus Tricky Question
What is the name of the bird that's back on Phillip Island?
Answers
1. She Shed
2. GPS trackers
3. England Lionesses
4. 14 seconds
5. Algae and barnacles
Bonus Tricky Answer
Bush stone-curlew
This week on News Time, we’ll meet a teenage turtle protector, we’ll hear about an artist selling out inspired masterpieces, and then we’ll go searching for undiscovered bugs in our Wow of the Week!
Quiz Questions
1. What job does Eva the border collie have?
2. What is the traditional name for the white-throated snapping turtle?
3. Which sport is facing concerns about extreme heat?
4. What did Cole do recently for the very first time?
5. What sort of insect did the students of Gin Gin discover?
Bonus Tricky Question
What is the name for a group of turtle eggs?
Answers
1. Working cattle dog
2. Milbi
3. Cricket
4. Held an exhibition of his artworks
5. Parasitic wasp
Bonus Tricky Answer
Clutch
On this episode of News Time you’ll meet a teenager who can lift more than her own body weight, we’ll do our best to track down a green drink that’s taken the world by storm, and then we’ll inspect some royal subjects in our Wow of the Week.
Quiz Questions
1. How long did it used to take the residents of Burringurrah to do their weekly groceries?
2. How much weight could Carly lift at the recent national championships?
3. Which continent are fire ants native to?
4. What colour is matcha tea?
5. What is the title of the people whose job is to count and check the swans?
Bonus Tricky Question
What is matcha made from?
Answers
1. Ten hours
2. 52 kilograms
3. South America
4. Green
5. Swan Uppers
Bonus Tricky Answer
Tencha leaves
Ruby hands this special episode of News Time over to junior reporter Miranda whose home town in northern New South Wales is being invaded by cane toads.
Miranda also interviews experts about other invasive species in Australia like fire ants, cats and horses. We find out how they got here and what's being done to prevent them spreading further.
Quiz Questions
Bonus Tricky Question
What year were cane toads brought to Australia?
Answers
Bonus Tricky Answer
1935
This week on News Time you’ll hear about a puzzling new dinosaur discovery, we’ll hit the road in a vehicle powered by veggies, and then meet some cheeky animals in a sticky situation for our Wow of the Week.
Quiz Questions
1. What does Ian use to power his ute?
2. Where have the migrating whales swum from?
3. What is the name of the newly discovered dinosaur?
4. Which country won the recent Deaf Rugby Pacific Rim Championship?
5. Where did the bears find honey?
Bonus Tricky Question
What does enigmacursor mean?
Answers
1. Vegetable oil
2. Antarctica
3. Enigmacursor
4. Fiji (in both men's and women's)
5. A storage room
Bonus Tricky Answer
Puzzling runner
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