2012 Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:26:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg 2012 Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 Top Stories From 2012 – Take Our Fun Quiz! https://teachingkidsnews.com/2013/01/06/1-how-much-do-you-remember-about-the-news-in-2012/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2013/01/06/1-how-much-do-you-remember-about-the-news-in-2012/#comments Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:07:21 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=8609 Now that it's 2013, it's a good time to look back on some of the biggest news stories of the year.

Take our quiz and see how much you remember about these stories from the past year. The link beside each question will take you to the TKN article that will give you the answer.

1) A famous scientist turned 70 on Jan. 8, 2012. Name him. (Article.)

2) Something happened to the Costa Concordia in January. What? (Article.)

3) Where did two teens send a "Legonaut"? (Article.)

4) Why did some Canadian Little Leaguers travel to Africa for a baseball game? Who did they play? (Article.)

5) Who won the 2012 Super Bowl? (Article.)

6) Name the northern Ontario city that declared a "state of emergency" in February. Bonus points if you can spell it correctly. (Article.)

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Highlights From The 2012 Summer Olympics https://teachingkidsnews.com/2012/09/03/1-highlights-from-the-2012-summer-olympics/ Tue, 04 Sep 2012 02:34:31 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=7133 Here's a look at some of the highlights from the spectacular 2012 Summer Olympics.

• U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps now holds the most Olympic medals of any athlete in history. He has 22 Olympic medals, four more than the next highest Olympic medal holder (gymnast Larisa Latynina, from the Soviet Union, who has 18).

Not only that, but he has 18 gold medals—twice as many as any other Olympian.

Phelps won six medals in the 2012 Olympics.

• Four of the world’s top badminton women’s doubles teams were kicked out of the Olympics for throwing their matches.

The women deliberately tried to lose by serving wildly and hitting shots into the net or out of the court. Why?

If they had won their first matches, they would have had to play more difficult opponents. By losing their first matches, they would have been able to play easier, more beatable teams.

However, you’re not allowed to “throw” a match by losing on purpose so they were eliminated from the Olympics.

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