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When you want to drive in a nail, you need.. 

a hammer

100

the biggest city

London

100

the capital

Washington DC

100

How many US citizens have their roots in other countries?

99%

100

the majority of the UK population are still of these four nationalities

English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh

200

There are many types of this: slotted, robertson, hexagon, and torx to name a few

screwdriver

200

the second largest city in the UK

Birmingham

200

City of hippies, hills and a famous prison

San Francisco

200

the biggest minority group 

Latinos/Hispanics

200

the number of kids that go to those expensive "public schools" (that are really private)

7 %

300

also called snips. Scissors for metal work

metal shears

300

Not many people know that the football team "the Tranmere Rovers" play in this city. There are two more famous teams in this city on the river Mersey

Liverpool

300

the largest city in Pennsylvania. It's also a cheese

Philadelphia

300

Stanford, MIT and Yale are all ...

universities

300

the NHS is short for

the National Health Service

400

a measuring tool that measures thickness, depth and the internal or external diameter of a round object- e.g. a pipe

caliper

400

the writer CS Lewis died in this city, famous for its university and its many towers

Oxford

400

Famous for its jazz quarter, the French influence and hurricane Katrina

New Orleans

400

the two major political parties

Democrats and Republicans

400

What are the schools that are free called? (Since public schools= private schools)

state schools

500

a large, floor-mounted machine used to cut, shape, bore and manipulate the metal's form in many ways. 

milling machine

500

between the rivers Dee and Don - way up north, is this third largest city in Scotland. 

Aberdeen

500

Forest Gump sat on a bench eating chocolate in this beautiful southern town, in Georgia. (It sounds as if it is in Africa - with hordes of elephants ..)

Savannah

500

the number of families that are single parents with children (according to the text in Skills)

27% 

500

How many young adults (20-34) lstill live with their parents  - according to your book?

25% (one in four)

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