ANSWER SHEET

ФИО	Карпов Арсений Александрович
Школа, класс	МАОУ «Гимназия №87», 8 «А» класс
Населенный пункт	г. Саратов

AUSTRALIA

1. It is the Southern Cross. It is one of the brightest constellations of the Southern Hemisphere and it symbolizes Australia.	2. The Australia Day is Australia's national day, which is celebrated on 26 of January in all states and territories of the country. The 26 of January was chosen because it is the day of the arrival of the first English settlers to Port Jackson under command of Captain Arthur Phillip in 1788.	3. The captain James Cook sailed to the coast of Australia on the ship named «Endeavour».
4. The admiral Arthur Phillip led his First fleet of 11 ships with criminals to settle in Australia in January 1788. His first colony was named «Sidney».	5. Because of its location Australia got its name - a «Conversely country» or «the land down under». It is called «Oz» or «the Lucky Country».	6. It usually starts in December and ends in February.
7. One point of view is that Canberra is translated from the aboriginal language as "women's breasts". Other think that the word «Canberra» comes from the name of a local tribe gnabri dialect, the word «Kanbarra», can be translated as "meeting place."	8. It is the Sydney Harbor Bridge, locally is also known as "The Coathanger".	9. The town Darwin was suffered in the World War II from bombing of Japan air force and later in 1974 was practically destroyed by a hurricane «Tracy».
10. Perhaps it is didgeridoo - musical wind instrument of the Australian Aborigines. One of the oldest wind instrument in the world. It also symbolizes the rainbow snake.	11. It is Tasmanian Devil. Now it is found in the wild only on the Australian island state of Tasmania. The size of a small dog, it became the largest carnivorous marsupial in the world. The creature is capable of surprising speed and endurance, and can climb trees and swim across rivers.	12. The Great Barrier Reef. The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometers over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometers. The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia.

CANADA

13. This is a red maple leaf. This symbol was adopted as the national flag of Canada in 1965 in Ottawa. The maple leaf is the official emblem of Canada.	14. If I want to see the capital of Canada, the biggest city and the famous waterfall I will be able to see it in Ontario, which is located in the eastern-central part of Canada.	15. Canada hosted the Olympic Games three times. In 1976 – Summer Olympic Games, in 1988 – Winter Olympic Games, Winter Olympics of 2010 were held in Vancouver.
16. It is called the Lonnie, because it has a picture of a loon (bird) on it.	17. Wayne Douglas Gretzky born in 1961 is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and former head coach. Nicknamed "The Great One", he has been called "the greatest hockey player ever" by many sportswriters and numerous fans in the world.	18. "Winnie the Pooh" by A. Milne. It is a book written to the son of the writer.

GREAT BRITAIN

19. It is true. Queen Elizabeth II was born on 21 of April. It is your real birthday but Britain celebrates the official birthday of the monarch in June when traditionally a military parade is held. It is an old English tradition for royals.	20. It was Joseph Rudyard Kipling.	21. This name is Windsor. The House of Windsor is the royal house of the United Kingdom. It was founded by King George V on 17 July 1917. He refused from the German name after the events in Europe.
22. George III was the king of England at the time of the American Revolution. The relationship between the American colonies and the British Crown was complex and turbulent. In each colony, the Royal Governor had historically been at odds with the Assembly of elected leading colonials, usually over taxation. The main element that kept the colonies and the British Crown in uneasy alliance was the threat from France with its powerful base along the St Lawrence seaway in Canada and along the western borders of New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia.	23. William «the Conqueror» spoke Middle Old French or Norman French.	24. George Bernard Shaw said: «England and America are two countries separated by the same language».
25. R. Stevenson called his story «Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses» (1883). The novel, which is set in the time of the 15th-century Wars of the Roses in medieval England, serve as backdrop for this swashbuckling historical novel.	26. Events in the book of Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Hound of the Baskervilles" were connected with Holy Trinity Church.	27. The New Year is celebrated in the city center in London, in Trafalgar Square. The celebration takes place in Piccadilly Circus too.
28. On my opinion, it is Green Park, a park in the City of Westminster, central London. One of the Royal Parks of London, it covers 19 hectares (47 acres) between Hyde Park and St. James's Park. Green Park has no lakes, no buildings and few monuments. The park consists almost entirely of mature trees rising out of turf; the only flowers are naturalized narcissus.	29. It is English Channel, Straight of Dover, the strait at the narrowest part of the English Channel, marking the boundary between the Channel and North Sea, separating Great Britain from continental Europe. The French People Call the English Channel «La Manche».	30. It is Greenwich Mean Time. Greenwich Mean Time is the international time, the basis of the world time clock.

NEW ZEALAND

31. It was a Dutch seafarer, explorer and merchant, best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 Abel Tasman. On November 24, 1642, he was the first known European explorer to reach the islands of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) and New Zealand, and to sight the Fiji islands.	32. They are Maori, the indigenous people, the general population of New Zealand before the arrival of Europeans. The number of Maori in New Zealand is more than 526 thousand people.	33. KIWI is "A person from New Zealand" or "A small brown bird from New Zealand" or "Kiwifruit".
34. The animals are sheep. Breeding sheep is the main occupation of New Zealand farmers. Sheep farming is a significant industry in New Zealand. For 130 years, sheep farming was the country's most important agricultural industry. There are 39 million sheep in the country.	35. The highest peak of the Southern Alps in New Zealand is Mount Cook, 3,754 meters high. It was named after James Cook.	36. The capital of New Zealand Wellington was renamed "The Middle of Middle Earth" city, when it hosted the world premiere of «The Hobbit» movie trilogy. For nearly a month, a festival dedicated to the works of Tolkien was held there in the capital of the country.

THE USA

37. The first colonies in North America were founded on the eastern coast. The English founded the first permanent settlement in America in 1750, there were 13 American colonies in North America. They were divided into three groups: • The New England Colonies : Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire • The Middle Colonies : Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey • The Southern Colonies: Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia. The royal Britain and France ruled them all. This led to a war between England and France in the middle of the 18th century.	38. The Emancipation Proclamation, a document was issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. It led to the end of slavery in the United States as it declared the slaves in the rebelling states to be "forever free".	39. «Presidents Day» takes place the third Monday in February. The holiday stems from the original custom of celebrating the birthday of sixteenth president Abraham Lincoln on February 12, and that of first president George Washington on February 22. Since these two birthdays are less than two weeks apart, a formal national “Presidents Day” holiday now celebrates both at once, although some states still celebrate them individually. Washington is revered in the United States because of his role in the foundation of the republic, Lincoln because of his stewardship of the republic during its greatest crisis, the Civil War of . The Monday of Presidents Day creates a “three-day weekend.”
40. The Teddy Bear was invented in 1902, and was named after Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt, the famous President of the USA who liked hunting.	41. The Declaration of Independence is the usual name of a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as 13 newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.	42. The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in the middle of New York Harbor, in Manhattan, New York City. The statue designed by Frederick Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886, was a gift to the United States from the people of France.
43. Squanto was the Native American who assisted the Pilgrims after their first winter in the New World and was tolerant to their survival. He was a member of the Patuxent tribe, a tributary of the Wampanoag Confederacy. During his lifetime, he crossed the Atlantic Ocean six times.	44. It was Benjamin Franklin, who flew a kite to prove that lightning is electricity. Benjamin Franklin in North America in 1749, 4, invented the lightning rod. The first systematic, scientific study of lightning was conducted by Benjamin Franklin during the second half of the 18th century.	45. Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon. Stepping on the moon, Armstrong said the historical phrase: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
46. The President of the United States Barack H. Obama lives there. The White House is the tallest building at the address 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC.	47. It is Mount Rushmore. The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore (Six Grandfathers) near Keystone, South Dakota, in the United States. Sculpted by Danish-American Gutzon Borglum and his son, Lincoln Borglum, Mount Rushmore features 60-foot (18 m) sculptures of the heads of four United States presidents: George Washington (1732–1799), Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), and Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865). The entire memorial covers 1,278.45 acres (5.17 km) and is 5,725 feet (1,745 m) above sea level.	48. The residents of New Harbor in the state Maine can see a sunrise before other U. S. residents.

YOUR QUESTION (4 POINTS)

49. What relationship do Scotland and Wales have with Great Britain? Are Scotland, Wales and Ireland also under the same monarchy? How do you think British people would describe their country? What rarest bird have been recently found outside one of supermarkets in Devizes? (a stone curlew)

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