Беспалько Александр

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ФИО	Беспалько Александр
Школа, класс	МОУ школа №22, 8 кл.
Населенный пункт	г. Волгодонск Ростовской обл.

AUSTRALIA

1 The flag of Australia is a defaced Blue Ensign: a blue field with the Union Jack in the canton, and a large white seven-pointed star known as the Commonwealth Star in the lower hoist quarter. The fly contains a representation of the Southern Cross constellation, made up of five white stars – one small five-pointed star and four, larger, seven-pointed stars.	2 It is celebrated on 3 September 1901	3 The first voyage of James Cook was a combined Royal Navy and Royal Society expedition to the south Pacific ocean aboard HMS Endeavour, from 1768 to 1771
4 The First Fleet to Australia was commanded by Captain Arthur Phillip.	5 The land down under.	6 Summer in Australia begins on 1 December every year.
7 The word Canberra has traditionally been believed to be a derivation of an Aboriginal word that means "the meeting place". However, more recent evidence suggests it may actually be a corruption of the indigenous word "ngambri". There have been suggestions that this possibly means "a woman's cleavage".?	8 A clothes hanger, coat hanger, or coathanger, is a device in the shape of: Human shoulders designed to facilitate the hanging of a coat, jacket, sweater, shirt, blouse or dress in a manner that prevents wrinkles, with a lower bar for the hanging of trousers or skirts. Clamp for the hanging of trousers, skirts, or kilts. Both types can be combined in a single hanger.	9 It was the city of Darwin
10 The didgerido (also known as a didjeridu) is a wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians of northern Australia around 1,500 years ago and still in widespread use today both in Australia and around the world. It is sometimes described as a natural wooden trumpet or "drone pipe". Musicologists classify it as a brass aerophone.	11 Tasmanian devil.	12 The Great Barrier Reef.

CANADA

13 red maple leaf	14 Golden Horseshoe region of Southern Ontario, with a population of 82,997 at the 2011 census.	15 Three times.  Winter Olympics: 1 time in Calgary, 1 time in Vancouver  Summer Olympics: 1 time in Montreal
16 It is called the Loonie, because it has a picture of a loon (bird) on it.	17 Wayne Douglas Gretzky, born January 26, 1961 is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and former head coach.	18 On his first birthday, he received an Alpha Farnell teddy bear he called Edward. This bear, along with a real bear named "Winnie" that Milne saw at the London Zoo, eventually became the inspiration for the Winnie-the-Pooh character.

GREAT BRITAIN

19 The Queen celebrates two birthdays each year: her actual birthday on 21 April and her official birthday on a Saturday in June.	20 Rudyard Kipling	21 Due to anti-German sentiment in the United Kingdom during World War I, George V of the United Kingdom changed the name of his branch from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor in 1917.
22 George III	23 William the conqueror spoke French	24 England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
25 The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses	26 Dartmoor	27 London Eye
28 Grass-free lawn	29 The English Channel	30 Greenwich Meridian Time. GMT stands for Greenwich Mean Time. The standard by which all World Time is set was agreed at the 1884 International Convention at Washington DC, USA placed Greenwich (England) on the Prime Meridian (Zero Longitude)

NEW ZEALAND

31 New Zealand was discovered by a Dutch explorer, Abel Tasman, in 1642.	32 Maori.	33 kiwi
34 Sheep	35 Aoraki/Mount Cook	36 Wellington, New Zealand To Rename Itself The Middle Of Middle-Earth For The Hobbit Premiere

THE USA

37 England	38 President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War	39 The birthdays of Washington, Abraham Lincoln
40 Theodore Roosevelt.	41 The Declaration Of Independence	42 The Statue of Liberty was dedicated on October 28, 1886 and designated as a National Monument in 1924.
43 His name is Squanto.	44 Benjamin Franklin flew a kite in a thunderstorm to prove lightning was electricity.	45 He was on the moon
46 Barack H. Obama	47 Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore near Keystone, South Dakota, in the United States.	48 In the U. S., Maine is the first state to get the sunrise most of the year, but in December, the southeastern corner of Maine and the southern tip of Florida get the sunrise at about the same time.

YOUR QUESTION (4 POINTS)

49 Who was the dog that had been sitting on a grave for fourteen years in GREAT BRITAIN?

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