Create BI Pub report using multiple Answers queries as sources

No answer to this on the BI Publisher forum. Posting here...
Is it possible to pull information from two or more separate Answers requests into the same BI Publisher report?
I'm using Word with the BI Publisher add-in. I can connect to, and retrieve data from, one of my stored Answers requests. So now I have a table of Answers-sourced results in my Word doc.
Now I'd like to get some different results, from another stored Answers query, and put those results into a second location in my Word doc.
How is this accomplished?
Thanks!

I figured it out. Although I can't DIRECTLY add more than one answers query to a Word doc strictly from within Word, if I establish the different Answers queries as different DataSets over in my BI Publisher report, then specify that the default DataSet is the Concatenated SQL Data Source, both queries appear in the "Insert" options in Word, and both can be used in the same Word doc layout template.

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