Geo Quiz
Chinese City Wants Fewer Cars and Cleaner Air
New York Times Hong Kong bureau chief Keith Bradsher says strict new guidelines were introduced this summer to limit the number of new cars on Guangzhou’s crowded streets.
Young Boy Finds Whale Poop, ‘Floating Gold’ on English Beach
We’re looking for the name of a large English coastal resort town near Hengistbury Head. An 8-year-old boy named Charlie Naysmith was walking along a sandy beach where he found what experts are calling “floating gold”.
Redhead Day in the Netherlands
The first weekend in September brings thousands of flame-headed folk to a city in the southern Netherlands for the annual “Redhead Festival.”
Scientists Map An Extinct Denisovan Girl’s Genome
Scientists have used a finger bone fragment found in a cave in southern Siberia to map out the complete genetic code of an ancient human group called the Denisovans.
What College Students Really Do During Their Summers
Profiles of three US college students who spent their summer months abroad. Erika O’Conor learns how to sing Peking opera, Nishant Saharan visits remote Indian Kashmir, and Natalie Wiegand discovers her family’s Irish roots in County Kerry.
US Sanctions Block Iranian Access to World of Warcraft
We’re looking for a mythical place, a continent located in the south of Azeroth, a fictional world that figures in the World of Warcraft.
Nicaragua: Uncovering a Ghost Town and the Dreams it Buried
We are looking for signs of the former inhabitants of an abandoned town on Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast who had hoped to build the hemisphere’s first trans-oceanic canal.
The Battle Over Tjukkmjølk
For today’s geography quiz, we take you to a small Norwegian town where a big battle is brewing over some local agricultural products.
Radio Tags to Help Wood Ant Research
Researchers in Britain want to better understand the habits of the Northern hairy wood ant, one of the country’s more interesting ant species. And they’re going to use tiny radio tags to do it.
How Plantain Trees Could Become an Energy Source
For the world’s rural poor, electric lighting is often an unaffordable luxury. Scientists in Sri Lanka have devised a possible solution – a way to, in essence, grow an electric battery in the garden.
Restoring a Tidal Island in France
For the Geo Quiz, we are heading to the second most popular tourist destination in France. It’s an island, so it takes a bit of effort to get here, but that doesn’t stop the estimated 3 million people from trekking there each year.
Russian Fuel in NASA’s Mars ‘Curiosity’ Mission
Curiosity is powered by plutonium-238, a man-made nuclear fuel and only two places in the world have made a lot of it.
The Terra Nova and Her Polar Adventures
The Terra Nova is your first clue. We’re looking for a city along the North Sea Coast of Scotland. It’s about a third of the way up the east coast of Scotland.
Court Orders Suspension of Work on Huge Brazil Dam
The Belo Monte dam would be the third biggest in the world, flooding 200 square miles of the Amazon, but a Brazilian court says it was approved illegally.
Batter Up! The International Little League World Series
A Little League baseball team from eight countries and the US are in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania to play in the 2012 International Little League World Series.
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