The flags below are listed by the number of stars, then within each category, alphabetically. Read carefully and see if you can answer the questions in the quiz at the end.
MULTIPLE STARS
USA
The flag of the USA, nicknamed the stars and strips, has multiple stars. Fifty stars for Fifty states.
Quiz
1 How many stars on the US flag?
2 How many stars on the flag of Morocco. How many points?
3 How many stars and points on the Esperanto language flag?
4 How many stars and how many points on the flag of China?
5 Singapore - How many stars? How many points?
6 Israel. How many stars? How many points? What is the six point star called?
7 Australia - How many stars. What do the stars represent?
8 New Zealand. How many stars. How many points? Representing what?
9 How many stars on the flag of Vietnam? How many points?
10 On which flags do you see the Star of David and the Southern Cross?
Answers
1 USA 50 stars for 50 States.
2 The flag of Morocco has one star and give points.
3 Esperanto. The flag has one star. Five points.
4 China - five five-point stars.
5 Singapore - five five-point stars plus a moon.
6 Israel - One star. Six points. Star of David. (Also known to Muslims as the Seal of Solomon.)
7 Australia - on the left the Australian states, the commonwealth; on the right, the Southern cross.
8 New Zealand Four stars. Five points. The stars on the New Zealand flag represent The Southern Cross, in the sky.
9 The flag of Vietnam has one star. Five points.
10 On which flags do you see The Star of David and The Southern Cross? Israel. New Zealand/Australia.
Websites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flags_by_design#Star
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Australia
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Esperanto.svg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Venezuela_(state).svg
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FIVE POINT STARS
ESPERANTO - ONE FIVE-POINT STAR
The flag of the made up international language Esperanto, has one five-point star in green on a white square top left of a green flag.
MOROCCO - 5 POINT STAR
The flag of Morocco has one central five point star.
VIETNAM - ONE FIVE-POINT STAR
CHINA - FIVE FIVE-POINT STARS
The flag of China has one large five-point star and four smaller ones. Total, five five-point stars.
SINGAPORE - FIVE FIVE-POINT STARS
The flag of Singapore has a large white crescent moon and five five-point stars. A large Chinese population and the same colour and number of points on the stars ast the Chinese flag. (I am not saying they copied the Chinese flag. I am saying that's a way of remembering it.)
NEW ZEALAND - FOUR FIVE POINT STARS
The five point stars are in the shape of the Southern Cross seen in the sky.
Flag of Brazil - 27 five-point stars
Again, stars reflecting what is seen in the sky over the capital of the country.
FLAG OF VENEZUELA
EIGHT FIVE-POINT STARS
You might see other variation of this flag, seven stars, or the flag without the motif on the yellow area.
SIX POINT STARS
ISRAEL - ONE SIX-POINT STAR
The Star of David is also known to Muslims nowadays as the seal of Solomon. In earlier times is was also a Christian symbol. The same six point star in red is used by ambulences in Israel, their equivalent of the Red Cross.
AUSTRALIA - SEVEN-POINT STARS - Five seven-point stars
The flag of Australia has one large seven point star, four smaller seven point stars and one five point star. The large seven point star represents the Commonwealth, the mainland divisions of Australia, with territories outside Australia added later.
MULTIPLE STARS
USA
The flag of the USA, nicknamed the stars and strips, has multiple stars. Fifty stars for Fifty states.
Quiz
1 How many stars on the US flag?
2 How many stars on the flag of Morocco. How many points?
3 How many stars and points on the Esperanto language flag?
4 How many stars and how many points on the flag of China?
5 Singapore - How many stars? How many points?
6 Israel. How many stars? How many points? What is the six point star called?
7 Australia - How many stars. What do the stars represent?
8 New Zealand. How many stars. How many points? Representing what?
9 How many stars on the flag of Vietnam? How many points?
10 On which flags do you see the Star of David and the Southern Cross?
Answers
1 USA 50 stars for 50 States.
2 The flag of Morocco has one star and give points.
3 Esperanto. The flag has one star. Five points.
4 China - five five-point stars.
5 Singapore - five five-point stars plus a moon.
6 Israel - One star. Six points. Star of David. (Also known to Muslims as the Seal of Solomon.)
7 Australia - on the left the Australian states, the commonwealth; on the right, the Southern cross.
8 New Zealand Four stars. Five points. The stars on the New Zealand flag represent The Southern Cross, in the sky.
9 The flag of Vietnam has one star. Five points.
10 On which flags do you see The Star of David and The Southern Cross? Israel. New Zealand/Australia.
Websites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flags_by_design#Star
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Australia
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Esperanto.svg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Venezuela_(state).svg
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I and my family have lived in the UK, Spain, the USA and Singapore. I am a travel writer and photographer and teacher of English A level and English as a foreign language.Please come to a Toastmasters International Club where the English clubs have a language evaluator or grammarian. We also have French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Tamil and other language clubs based in Singapore and many more online around the world which because of Covid-19 are now meeting online.I am Immediate Past President and current PR of Braddell Heights Advanced, meeting the first Wednesday of the month, Usually on Zoom, sometimes on Learncool. But the other Wednesdays have workshops on app learncool.sg
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