Today's show features some excellent subjects for discussion! We have a non-partisan report on the controversial renaming of a gulf surrounded by the U.S., Cuba and Mexico. We're hearing different perspectives on the value of minting the penny. Just in time for Valentine's Day, we're discussing the "language of flowers." And we're covering a lantern festival in Taiwan and how a specialized drone helped locate a lost puppy in the snow!

Please note that The World from A to Z will be off the air Monday for the Presidents Day holiday. We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday the 18th!

This news quiz covers topics featured throughout the week on The World from A to Z:

1. In what U.S. city, where a terrorist attack was carried out on New Year’s Day, was security stepped up significantly for this year’s Super Bowl?

2. What Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which was ratified on February 10, 1967, establishes the line of succession to the presidency?

3. What type of fish – a dweller of the deep with a lure suspended from its head to attract prey –  was recently spotted near the ocean’s surface off the coast of the Canary Islands?

4. Name one of the two types of metal that, following an executive order by President Donald Trump, are now subject to an additional 25 percent tariff if they're imported into the U.S.

5. What nation, a closed-off Communist dictatorship in Asia, is planning to allow limited numbers of Western tourists into the city of Rason?

6. In what nation did scam victims lose the most money (on average) last year, according to a report by the Global Anti-Scam Alliance?

7. Name the space telescope that has been given the task of monitoring an asteroid that’s expected to pass close to Earth in the year 2032.

8. What U.S. economic rate rose 3.0 percent between January of 2024 and January of 2025, increasing concerns that price rises are staying higher than the government's comfort zone?

9. What is the two-word term for a narrow, fast-moving air current that blows west to east across the U.S. – and that carried  a “parade” of winter storms across the country this week?

10. For foreign users of Apple Maps and Google Maps, what two names now appear for the body of water surrounded by the U.S., Cuba and Mexico, following a change by the Trump Administration?