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1. Which Beatles track from the album, "Rubber Soul" (1965), contains the lyrics, "Sont les mots qui vont tres bien ensemble, Tres bien ensemble"?
2. Three years before this hurricane made landfall in southern Belize, the Goo Goo Dolls had a UK top three hit with the same name. What was the song called?
3. Originally recorded in 1933 by Huddie 'Lead Belly' Ledbetter, who have artists such as Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and Ry Cooder also said "Goodnight" to?
4. In September 2010, which storm, found in the lyrics of "Monster Mash" (1962) by Bobby "Boris" Pickett, battered Newfoundland, Canada, washing out large sections of roads, including the Trans Canada Highway and isolating almost 150 communities?
5. John Travolta, as Danny Zuko, reached number two in UK charts with this 1978 track, which was about his girlfriend, not about the strongest hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season. If you know the name, then "You're the One That I Want".
6. According to the lyrics of the song from "West Side Story" (1957), this is "The most beautiful sound I ever heard", but perhaps not to residents of Puerto Rico, where, in 2017, this was the deadliest hurricane since 1899. Do you know the name?
7. In 2016, hurricane Matthew became the worst disaster to affect Haiti since the earthquake of 2010. Thankfully it wasn't followed by a mini Matthew, but which singer-songwriter had a UK chart number two hit in 1967 with "Matthew and Son"?
8. Which African-American spiritual was first heard by abolitionists on St. Helena Island in South Carolina? It shares its name with the hurricane, that in 2018 became the first Category 5 hurricane to strike the contiguous United States since 1992.
9. Although it was a weak category one hurricane, this 2005 storm which shares its name with an Eminem track featuring Dido, still left behind over 1,600 fatalities. Do you remember its name?
10. Although this was the name of a lovely meter maid in a Beatles song, there was nothing lovely about the hurricane of the same name as it made landfall in Johnson's Bayou, Louisiana in 2005, just three weeks after hurricane Katrina had devastated the area. What was the name of this unwanted visitor?
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