NewsDepth for Thursday, December 18, 2008

Season: 2008-2009 ~ Episode: 13 ~ This Week's News Quiz
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Show Topics:

• President Bush Pays Last Visit to Afghanistan

• President-elect Barack Obama Announces Steven Chu as Pick for Energy Secretary

• Floods Threaten Rome, Italy

• Parts of U.S. Blasted with Snow, Wind and Ice

• Ohio Electors Cast Votes for Obama and Biden

• Skills of Student Lego Engineers Tested in Robot Tournament

• Last-Second Shot Wins Basketball Game for CSU Vikings

• Space Shuttle Endeavour Returns to Kennedy Space Center Aboard Jumbo Jet

• People Watch Fort Lauderdale’s WinterFest Illuminated Boat Parade

• Dancing Walrus and Singing Dolphins Headline Show at Turkey’s New Dolphinarium
  Lesson plan included

• Indianapolis Second Grader Takes an NFL Player to School

• Giant Rare Plant Blooms in Thailand Park

This Week's News Quiz

Question #1:
Italy is a republic located in southern Europe, nearly surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea. What four countries border Italy to the north?

Answer: France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia.

Question #2:
Italy is a peninsula that appears to be in the shape of a boot. What is a peninsula? Which U.S. state is almost completely a peninsula?

Answer: A strip of land surrounded by water, but still connected to the mainland. Florida.

Question #3:
The Space Shuttle Endeavour finally made it back home to Kennedy Space Center in Florida, after detouring to California. Where in California did it land?

Answer: Edwards Air Force Base.

Last Week's Answers

Question #1:
After Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated as President in 1933, he began a program to put people back to work. What was this program called?

Answer: The New Deal.

Question #2:
Congress has proposed loaning a large amount of money to the Big Three automakers. How much money do they plan to lend them?

Answer: $15 billion was the original amount proposed, but the bill did not pass the U.S. Senate.

Question #3:
The monkeys that serve as waiters are Japanese macaques, the northernmost species of a large family of macaques that are found all over Asia. What is another name for the macaque that lives in Japan?

Answer: Snow monkey.

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