ANSWER SHEET
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Школа, класс | МБОУ СОШ с. Шереметьевка, 7 класс |
Населенный пункт | с. Шереметьевка Лысогорского района Саратовской области |
AUSTRALIA
1 We can see the Southern Cross on the right half on the flag. This constellation of five stars can be seen only from the southern hemisphere and is a reminder of Australia’s geography. | 2 It celebrates in 26, January. | 3 It is HMS Endeavour, or HM Bark Endeavour. |
4 They were the convicts. | 5 This nickname is “Down under”. | 6 The Australian summer officially starts on 1 December. |
7 This word means “meeting place”. | 8 It is the Sydney Harbour Bridge. | 9 This city is Darwin. It has been rebuilt twice, once due to Japanese air raids during World War II, and again after being devastated by Cyclone Tracy in 1974. |
10 It is didgeridoo (also known as a didjeridu). | 11 It is the Tasmanian devil. | 12 It is the Great Barrier Reef. |
CANADA
13 It is maple leaf. | 14 It is the Province of Ontario. | 15 Canada hosted Olympic Games three times: Summer Olympic Games in Montreal (1976), Winter Olympic Games in Calgary (1988) and Vancouver (2010). |
16 It is called Loonie, because it has a picture of a loon (bird) on it. | 17 He is Wayne Douglas Gretzky. | 18 The story about teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh. |
GREAT BRITAIN
19 The Queen celebrates two birthdays each year: her actual birthday on 21 April and her official birthday on the second Saturday in June. | 20 The text of the first Christmas speech was written by poet and writer Rudyard Kipling and began with the words: "I speak now from my home and from my heart to you all." | 21 During the World War I the British Royal House changed its German-sounding name Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to English name Windsor. |
22 King George III. | 23 He spoke French. | 24 England and America are two countries separated by a common language. |
25 He called the story “The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses”. | 26 This place is Dartmoor. | 27 This place is Trafalgar Square. |
28 It is Green Park. | 29 It is the English Channel. | 30 It is Greenwich Mean Time, referred to the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, which later became adopted as a global time standard. |
NEW ZEALAND
31 He was a Dutch explorer Abel Tasman. | 32 New Zealand’s original inhabitants belonged the Māori culture. | 33 This word is kiwi. |
34 These animals are sheep. | 35 Aorangi (Aoraki) Mount Cook was named after the British explorer Captain James Cook. Aoraki was named after the eldest son of Raki (Sky), who, according to Maori legend, was travelling with his brothers in a canoe, then it ran aground on a reef and fell to one side. Aoraki and his brothers climbed to the high side of the waka and sat on the wreckage. The freezing south wind then turned them into stone, creating the Southern Alps. Aoraki was sitting higher than all the others, and this mountain is indeed noticeable higher than other peaks. | 36 The city of Wellington was renamed “The Middle of Middle-earth”. |
THE USA
37 It is Great Britain. | 38 The document is the Emancipation Proclamation. | 39 It is Presidents’ Day, celebrated on the third Monday in February. |
40 He was Theodore Roosevelt. | 41 The document is the Declaration of Independence. | 42 This symbol is the Statue of Liberty Enlightening. |
43 Squanto. | 44 He was Benjamin Franklin. | 45 He was on the moon. |
46 The President of US lives and works in the White House at 1600, Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC. | 47 The name is The Mount Rushmore National Memorial. | 48 This state is Maine. |
YOUR QUESTION (4 POINTS)
49 Who is the author of the sing “Auld Lang Syne”, which is the symbol of New Year’s Eve? Robert Burns |
MAXIMUM: 100 POINTS
