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Test Your Research Skills

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Use a research library or the internet to find the answers to this quick quiz:

1 The capital city of Luxembourg is

2 The six English counties that start with the letter ‘S’ are:

3 Tea bags were invented in 1908 by

4 A male horse is known as a

5 The United Nations was founded in

6 The acronym UNICEF stands for

7 The Greek god represented the sun

8 The patron saint of lovers is

9 won the Pulitzer Prize in the US for her novel

‘The Shipping News’ in 1994

10 Mikhail Gorbachev won the Nobel Peace Prize in

11 Sorbitol is used in many foods as a

12 The capital of the Australian state of Queensland is _

13 The first Australian Prime Minister was

14 In England, the Battle of Field took place in

1485

15 ‘Lento’ is a musical term meaning to play

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Test Your Research Skills

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Answers:

1 The capital city of Luxembourg is Luxembourg.

2 The six English counties that start with the letter ‘S’ are: Shropshire,

Somerset, South Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk and Surrey.

3 Tea bags were invented in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan.

4 A male horse is known as a stallion.

5 The United Nations was founded in 1945.

6 The acronym UNICEF stands for UN International Children’s

Emergency Fund.

7 The Greek god Apollo represented the sun.

8 The patron saint of lovers is St Valentine.

9 E Annie Proulx won the Pulitzer Prize in the US for her novel ‘The

Shipping News’ in 1994

10 Mikhail Gorbachev won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990.

11 Sorbitol is used in many foods as a sweetener.

12 The capital of the Australian state of Queensland is Brisbane.

13 The first Australian Prime Minister was Edmund Barton.

14 The Battle of Bosworth Field took place in 1485.

15 ‘Lento’ is a musical term meaning to play slowly.