NewsDepth for Thursday, March 20, 2008

Season: 2007-2008 ~ Episode: 25 ~ This Week's News Quiz
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Show Topics:

• Americans Are Feeling A Financial Strain

• No Trip For Spring Break This Year!

• Rising Fuel Prices Are Pushing Up The Cost Of Grain Production

• Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain Visits Troops in Iraq

• Former Student Teaches Blind Children in Baghdad

• Two Echidnas Join Cleveland Zoo Family

• 15th Blooms & Butterflies Exhibit at Franklin Park Conservatory

• Baltimore Considers Ski Gondolas for Inner Harbor

• Texas Teen Fights Cancer; Father’s Co-Workers Shave Heads in Support

• NewsDepth Host Shaves Head at St. Baldrick’s Event

This Week's News Quiz

Question #1:
Much of the world’s rice is grown in flooded fields. What are these flooded fields called?

Answer: Paddies.

Question #2:
Braille is a special way for visually impaired people to read and write by touch. How does it work?

Answer: A system of one to six raised dots represent letters and numbers.

Question #3:
If the price of regular gas rises by thirty cents, from $3.05 to $3.35 per gallon, what percentage of the original price is that?

Answer: 10%.

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