2. What is the name of the storm, with wind gusts of almost 200km/hr, that wreaked havoc across Europe last week?

3. What causes such high winds?

4. Thousands of German-made Porsche and Volkswagen cars bound for the US market have been abandoned on a cargo ship after it caught fire on which ocean?

5. Which Japanese firm, the world’s best-selling carmaker, saw its profits fall by 21% in the last 3 months of 2021 due to the global computer chip shortage?

6. Authorities are battling a flood of deadly black water in which lake system on the Darling River near Broken Hill in far west New South Wales?

7. Leaf litter that has collected on the floodplain during drought is being washed into the Darling River by floodwaters turning it the colour of black tea and resulting in what condition of the water?

8. What effect does black water have on fish?

9. Owners of Australia’s largest coal-fired power station, at Eraring in which valley north of Sydney, have said that it will close in 7 years?

10.A rail company recruiting 30 female train drivers in which Middle East country has received 28,000 applications to drive high speed trains between the holy cities of Mecca and Medina?

11.A controversial dam in Ethiopia has begun generating electricity but governments of Sudan and Egypt claim it will reduce their share of the waters of which river?

12.A massive black bear named “Hank the Tank” is wanted by police in which west coast state of the USA for breaking into dozens of homes in a Lake Tahoe neighbourhood since last summer?

13.Russia has launched a full scale invasion of which eastern European country?

14. Seven people perished in the collapse of an illegal mine in which country on the Horn of Africa?

15.A tiny frog travelled 8,000 kilometres to a UK primary school to be found in a bunch of bananas imported from Côte d'Ivoire on which continent?