Providing prenatal and postnatal care are what Kenya's "Boda Girls" are all about. Raising awareness about road risks is a major goal of America's National Teen Driver Safety Week. Top photographers focus on close-up details on how it's a small world after all. Scientists document how a snake does "cartwheels" to move four times faster than slithering. And a horse-jumping event makes history among one of the Original Seven Wonders of the World. It's all on this Friday's (awesome) edition of The World from A to Z!
This news quiz covers topics featured throughout the week on The World from A to Z:
1. From Monday: Ecologists in Baja California, Mexico are trying to regenerate what kind of forests, which are threatened by El Niño and important to both marine life and fishermen?
2. British scientists have invented technology that detects the origin of what kind of crop, which is used in foods like tofu but which sometimes comes from illegally deforested areas?
3. From Tuesday’s show: What spice – one of the world’s most expensive – is being grown once again on the African island of São Tomé as farmers there work to earn additional income?
4. In what chamber of the U.S. Congress are exactly 35 seats being decided in this year’s Midterm Elections?
5. This week, an expedition to the South Pacific recently determined that the Taraia Object was likely made of several fallen trees and definitely not the missing plane of what famous aviator?
6. What country is sending fighter planes to Saudi Arabia to help defend the country from missiles and drones launched by Houthi rebels in Yemen?
7. Japan recently launched a nearly $580 million mission to retrieve samples from Phobos, a moon that orbits what planet?
8. What famous American, whose 1,093 patents included inventions like the phonograph and an incandescent bulb, had trouble hearing and used his teeth to better hear his piano?
9. Discovered in Slovenia and believed to date back to the year 3150 BC, what circular device holds the Guinness World Record for being the oldest example ever found?
10. In what ancient nation was a recent show jumping event held for the first time, showcasing horses against a backdrop that’s one of the Original Seven Wonders of the World?
