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1. For India and Belize the answer is 30°C, and for
Australia the answer is 6 °C.
What is the question?
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2. The Commonwealth countries with the lowest
percentage of their population under the age of 15
are Malta and Canada at 17 %. The highest
percentage across the Commonwealth is 49%.
Which country is this for?
a) United Kingdom
b) Singapore
c) Uganda
d) Malaysia
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3. Papua New Guinea is the Commonwealth country
with the highest number of these (820), and St. Vincent and
The Grenadines, the Maldives, St. Kitts and Nevis and
Antigua and Barbuda have the fewest (just 1).
What is it?
a) Doctors per 1000 population
b) Languages in use
c) High speed rail lines
d) Religions practised
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5. Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa were
some of the first countries to do this in 1931. One of
the most recent countries to do this was Rwanda in
2009.
What did they do?
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4. Pakistan has the highest point in the Commonwealth
at 8,611m. Tuvalu has the lowest high point of any
Commonwealth country.
How many metres above sea level is that?
a) 0
b) 20
c) 5
d) -3
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1) Did you reach consensus in your group?
2) Why/why not?
3) What are the advantages and disadvantages of making
decisions like this?
4) To what extent do you think the diversity of the
Commonwealth might make reaching consensus easier or
more difficult?
5) What are the necessary qualities a person needs in order to
work well with others? Which ones do you have? Which do
you need to improve on?
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