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Climate
Animals
Flags
100
What percentage of the Earth's freshwater is trapped in ice caps and glaciers?
70% (68% to be even more precise!)
100
The Paris Agreement places what temperature limit/target for countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?
1.5 degrees Celsius
(Limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius would reduce the number of people frequently exposed to extreme heatwaves by about 420 million).
100
Chinese New Year is celebrated from January 22nd through to February 9th with 2023 represented by which animal according to the Chinese zodiac?
Rabbit
100
New South Wales
200
The longest day in the southern hemisphere occurred on 21st December during which event?
Summer solstice
200
Greta Thunberg was detained by police in Germany for what reason? Bonus points if you know which German town!
Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg was protesting with activists seeking to stop the abandoned village of Lützerath from being demolished for the expansion of a coal mine.
200
Populations of which feral animal have increased tenfold in areas of Australia’s east coast?
Deer
200
This country has faced significant political and economic unrest since 2015, with many fleeing the country.
Venezuela
300
Authorities airlifted vulnerable tourists, stranded by political unrest in Peru, from which Inca mountain-top citadel to the city of Cusco?
Machu Picchu
300
The name of Australian Labor Party's Climate Change and Energy Minister.
Chris Bowen
300
Two people were stung by which deadly sea creature common to Australia’s tropical waters at a beach in far north Queensland?
Irukandji jellyfish
300
Which two countries were represented by a white flag at the Australian Open this year?
Russia and Belarus
400
Name Miss Yule's favourite geographical landform, and name the landform it is a part of at a larger scale (for 3,500km).
The Illawarra Escarpment, which sits within the Great Dividing Range.
400
In a controversial decision the head of one of the world's biggest oil companies has been named to lead the COP28 global climate talks in which Middle East country later this year?
United Arab Emirates
400
An aquarium burst in the Radisson Blu Hotel in which German city spilling one million litres of saltwater, flooding the hotel and nearby streets?
Berlin
400
Which Himalayan Kingdom is known as the "Land of the Thunder Dragon"?
Bhutan
500
Which Dutch oil company has agreed to pay four Nigerian farmers and their communities US$16 million to compensate for damage caused by pollution coming from leaks in its oil pipelines?
Shell
500
Major flooding occurred at this Australian township near the Menindee Lakes, a series of nine shallow lakes on the Darling River. The flooding is the result of downstream flow through the Darling River catchment from heavy rains in previous months. M _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
Menindee
500
List 3 animals commonly found at Bushrangers Bay, a common snorkelling destination just south of Shellharbour.
Grey Nurse Shark (aka Sand Tiger Shark), the Eastern Blue Groper, Port Jackson shark, wrasses, leatherjackets, etc.
https://www.inaturalist.org/places/bushrangers-bay
500
The EU (European Union)