NewsDepth for December 11, 2008

Posted Thursday, December 11, 2008
Season: 2008-2009, Episode: 12

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Show Topics

• President-Elect Barack Obama Hopes to Create Jobs with Public Projects
• Democrats and White House Agree to Loan Big Three $15 Billion
• New Jersey Students Write Letters to President-Elect Obama
• Food Pantries Across the Country Feel the Pinch from the Economy
• Springfield Troops Return from Kuwait to Cheers of Family and Friends
• Outdoor Ice Skating Brought Back to University Circle
• Grateful Dog Rescued After Days in Drainpipe
• Monkey Waiters Keep Business Jumping at Japanese Restaurant> Lesson Plan Included
• Nine-Year-Old Boy Writes Book Called “How to Talk to Girls”> Lesson Plan Included
• Minnesota Woman Has 37 Christmas Trees in Her House
• Missouri Eight-Year-Old Turns Birthday Party into Charity Toy Drive

This Week's News Quiz

This Week's Questions

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.

Last Week's Answers

Question #1:
President-elect Obama has appointed a former political rival to his cabinet. Who will be his Secretary of State?

Answer: Hillary Clinton.

Question #2:
Pakistan is located in south Asia, bordered by Iran, Afghanistan, China and India. What major river runs through the center of Pakistan to the Arabian Sea?

Answer: The Indus River.

Question #3:
Rockets carry their own solid or liquid fuel which they burn in order to propel themselves into space. How does this actually make a rocket move?

Answer: The force of the hot burning gases blasting out of the rocket in one direction make the rocket move in the opposite direction. (This is physics – Newton’s Third Law of Motion, which says “for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.")

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