Are there any tips/tricks for easily differentiating between Compendium, Encyclopaedia, and Almanac?
To give you an idea—the question goes like this: Which reference would you use to find the following information?
Some examples:
When Queen Elizabeth II was born.
(My Guess: Almanac, as in calendar)How long the US Civil War lasted.
(My Guess: Encyclopaedia)How long a kangaroo lives.
(My Guess: Encyclopaedia)Who won the Football World Cup last time.
(My Guess: Compendium, as in collection of statistics)Who invented the zero.
(My Guess: Encyclopaedia)Who discovered Radium.
(My Guess: Encyclopaedia)
It's very confusing as to which reference each piece of information (above) falls into.