March 19, 2026 | News Quiz

This episode of News Quiz features stories about oil and the Strait of Hormuz, wild weather in the United States, natural disaster anniversaries in New Zealand and Japan, a robotic rattlesnake, fugu Wednesdays in Ghana, how plastics harm penguins, how elephants use their whiskers, a cute pony, brown bears, and more! News Quiz is KET’s weekly 15-minute current events program for students. The program consists of news segments, a current events quiz, and opinion letters from students around the world.