This week on News Time you’ll hear about Aussies doing big things at home and around the world!

You’ll meet a team fighting diseases with the help of mosquitoes, and we’ll cheer on a motorbike rider who has landed a world-first trick after 15 years of trying. Then, we’ll jump on a tram to compete in some wacky challenges in our Wow of the Week.

Quiz Questions

1. What is the name given to Australians who work in Antarctica?

2. Which country has been sent 130 million mosquito eggs?

3. What did the students create to tell Matt's life story?

4. Which "impossible" trick did Clinton do?

5. Which country won the Tram Driver World Championship?

Bonus Tricky Question

How tall was the wave that Matt surfed off the Portugal coast?

Answers

1. Expeditioners

2. Laos

3. Dance

4. 720

5. Austria

Bonus Tricky Answer

15 metres

On this week’s News Time menu, we’ll hear about a park designed to keep koalas safe, then we’ll swim upstream to meet a bloodsucking fish. And we’ll finish with a rather large helping of dessert in our Wow of the Week.

Quiz Questions

1. How much waste can the robot shark collect each day?

2. What is the name of the planned National Park in NSW?

3. What sport does Jamieson play?

4. How did the pouched lampreys get from Antarctica to Western Australia?

5. Which country set a new strudel line world record?

Bonus Tricky Question

What were the two main ingredients used to make the strudels?

Answers

1. 500 kilograms

2. The Great Koala National Park

3. Boccia

4. By sucking on the backs of whales

5. Croatia

Bonus Tricky Answer

Flour and apple

This week on News Time, we’ll meet a tourist living large on a beachside holiday, and we’ll float along with an outlawed fish, before we take to the skies with a teenager and her puppy in our Wow of the Week.

Quiz Questions

1. Which was the last World Marathon that Charlie needed to run to complete all seven?

2. What did locals spot Sammy the elephant seal eating?

3. Who is the new women's surfing world champion?

4. Which Australian state or territory has banned fish-shaped soy sauce containers?

5. What is the name of Jennifer's co-pilot pup?

Bonus Tricky Question

What word is used to describe Jennifer's journey, or lap of Australia?

Answers

1. Sydney Marathon

2. A baby shark

3. Molly Picklum

4. South Australia

5. Bella

Bonus Tricky Answer

Circumnavigate

This week on News Time, we’ll head to the nation’s capital, where some hungry birds are getting in a flap. Then we'll board a bus filled with barking best friends, before we pull up to a whale pit stop in our Wow of the Week.

Quiz Questions

1. What job does Greta do during AFL games?

2. Which city is being swarmed by seagulls?

3. What is the name of the comic book Molly created?

4. How many dogs board the bus each week?

5. What type of whale is scientist Aashi studying?

Bonus Tricky Question

What have the whale calves have been eating?

Answers

1. Boundary umpire

2. Canberra

3. Dreamwalker

4. 63

5. Southern right whale

Bonus Tricky Answer

Krill and crab larvae

We’re kicking goals on News Time this week! You’ll hear from a young soccer player gearing up for the Deaflympics. We’ll also dig up a pearler of a fossil in the outback before we head to a sporting event for robots in our Wow of the Week.

Quiz Questions

1. What is the record-breaking amount of money that AFL player Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera will earn each season?

2. How old is the fossil pearl?

3. Where will this year's Deaflympics be held?

4. Why did the church have to be moved?

5. What sort of robots recently competed in Beijing?

Bonus Tricky Question

What items did workers have to remove along the road so the church could get to its new destination?

Answers

1. $2 million

2. 100 million years old

3. Japan

4. Fissures in the ground due to nearby mining

5. Humanoid robots

Bonus Tricky Answer

Lamp posts, traffic lights, and a bridge!

Shalailah Medhora is filling in for Ruby in this week’s edition of News Time. We'll get the buzz on beekeeping, and hear how it’s helping people stay focussed and relaxed. We’ll also head overseas to a country offering grandmas for hire. Then we’ll grab a board and hang ten in our Wow of the Week!

Quiz Questions

1. How many years has Children's Book Week been around?

2. How many beehives does Miranda's family have?

3. What prize is on offer for the trackers who find the most skink burrows?

4. How much does it cost to hire a grandma?

5. Who is Kelia's surfing hero?

Bonus Tricky Question

What is the great desert skink said to be coloured like?

Answers

1. 80 years

2. 450

3. A trophy

4. $60

5. Molly Picklum (from Australia)

Bonus Tricky Answer

A sunset

In this edition of News Time, get out your lab coats because it’s National Science Week! It's a celebration of science and technology that happens every August.

We'll investigate some scientific discoveries and technical triumphs! Find out about some clever climbing contraptions saving cats, hear about a thrill-seeking teen swapping his wheelchair for a race car, and we'll put our microscopes up to some boogieing birds who love to body-roll in our Wow of the Week!

Quiz Questions

1. What is the name of the organisation sharing First Nations science?

2. What was the sport Ally did before taking up racing?

3. How long can the giant cuttlefish grow?

4. Which city has built tiny staircases on the sides of its canals?

5. Why did the researchers think the cockatoos were dancing?

Bonus Tricky Question

What are some of the dance moves that the cockatoos displayed?

Answers

1. Deadly Science

2. Snow skiing

3. The length of a cricket bat (1 metre)

4. Amsterdam

5. They were feeling good

Bonus Tricky Answer

Headbang, body-roll, sidestep

This week on News Time we’ll track down a backpack-wearing bird, we’ll crash down to earth in a rocket, and then we’ll think like a fish in our Wow of the Week!

Quiz Questions

1. What name has been given to the women's shed in Cairns?

2. What have researchers placed in each of the birds' backpacks?

3. Which soccer team is Hannah Hampton part of?

4. How long was the rocket in the air?

5. What has grown on the tiles?

Bonus Tricky Question

What is the name of the bird that's back on Phillip Island?

Answers

1. She Shed

2. GPS trackers

3. England Lionesses

4. 14 seconds

5. Algae and barnacles

Bonus Tricky Answer

Bush stone-curlew