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Exploring Estonia: A Quiz on History, Culture, and Geography

Test your knowledge about Estonia's history, culture, and geography with this engaging quiz!

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1 The Chronicle of Henry of Livonia mentions Tharapita as the superior god of Oeselians (inhabitants of ________ island), also well known to Vironian tribes in northern Estonia.

2 What is the native name for Estonia?

3 What type of government does Estonia have?

4 The Estonian National Defence Policy aim is to guarantee the preservation of the independence and sovereignty of the state, the ________ of its land, territorial waters, airspace and its constitutional order.

5 Which of the following is an officially recognised ethnic group in Estonia?

6 Reval (known as Tallinn since 1918) gained Lübeck Rights in 1248 and joined an alliance of trading guilds called the ________ at the end of the thirteenth century.

7 What time offset in UTC is Estonia in during daylight savings?

8 The United States, United Kingdom, ________ and the majority of other Western democracies considered illegal the annexation of Estonia by the USSR.

9 What is directly west of Estonia?

10 A more troubled and war-ridden middle ________ followed with external dangers coming both from the Baltic tribes, who attacked across the southern land border, and from overseas.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the corporate chambers in interwar Estonia were inspired by the example of Fascist Italy.
  • the Independent Royalist Party of Estonia's election campaign costs for the 1992 elections of Riigikogu, the first post-Soviet occupation parliamentary elections in Estonia, were 25 Estonian cents per pair of seats.
  • the popular music artist Maarja-Liis Ilus has entered the Estonian Eurovision Song Contest pre-selection event Eurolaul a record three times, in 1996, 1997 and 2004.
  • the ancient people known as the Oeselians, who lived on the Estonian island of Saaremaa, carried out raids against the Scandinavian Vikings.
  • in Estonia, a digital signature is considered legally equivalent to a manual signature through the successful Estonian ID card project.
  • nearly half the area of Estonia's 342 km2 (132 sq mi) Alam-Pedja Nature Reserve was once a Soviet Air Force bombing range and its surrounding buffer zone.
  • the Indrikis chronicles are the oldest written history of Latvia and Estonia.
  • the Phosphorite War is regarded in Estonia as a catalyst that led to the dissolution of the Soviet regime.
  • the only operating cable ferry in Estonia crosses the Emajõgi river (pictured) in Kavastu.
  • the year 2008 is the 90th Anniversary of the Republic of Estonia.
  • the most powerful recorded earthquake in Estonia, measuring 4.7 magnitudes in Richter scale, occurred in 1976 near the Baltic Sea island of Osmussaar (pictured).
  • the flag on the top of the Tall Hermann tower on Toompea Hill is one of the best-known symbols in Estonia of the government in power.
  • the film based on the novel Names in Marble is the most successful Estonian film in terms of box office profits.
  • the final results of the 1940 elections to the People's Parliaments in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were published in London before the voting booths closed.
  • every autumn more than 23,000 Common Cranes stop at Matsalu National Park in Estonia, making it the biggest autumn stopping ground of Common Cranes in Europe.
  • during the Soviet deportations from Estonia in 1940-1941 and 1944-1951 the Soviet Union forcibly transferred tens of thousands of Estonian citizens to Siberia.
  • Estonian nationalist Aili Jõgi, aged 14, blew up the wooden memorial that preceded the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn in 1946.
  • Estonian-Jewish chemist Moses Wolf Goldberg earned the Habilitation degree in 1935 despite increasing xenophobia at ETH Zurich.
  • Estonian chemist Paul Kogerman, known for his study of oil-bearing shales, was deported by Soviet authorities with his family in 1941 to a prisoner camp in Sverdlovsk Oblast.
  • Estonia created project EstWin to connect all citizens to the internet with 100 Mbit/s speed by 2015.
  • Estonia joined World War II in 1940, after the Soviet Union blockaded the country, a Finnish airliner was shot down and three diplomatic couriers were killed.
  • Estonia attempted to re-establish independence before the Soviets reoccupied the Baltic states in 1944.
  • forest brother Alfred Käärmann hid for 7 years from Soviet officials, spent 15 years in Siberian prison camps, had his passport stamped "annulled" and was banished from Estonia until 1981.
  • Grandmaster Valentina Golubenko, the first and only World Youth Chess Champion born and raised in Estonia, is a Russian citizen playing under the Croatian flag.
  • Raeapteek in Tallinn, Estonia is one of the oldest continuously running pharmacies in Europe.
  • a Rotarian and an active sponsor of sports Joakim Puhk was one of the richest men in pre-WWII Estonia.
  • Põhja-Kõrvemaa Nature Reserve, now a protected area in Estonia, used to be proving grounds used by the Red Army for military training during the Soviet Era.
  • Joseph Cornelius O’Rourke, an Irish Count born in Estonia, became a Russian Lieutenant General, and was honoured with a statue in Belgrade for his victory over the Ottoman Empire in 1810.
  • Hugo Raudsepp, one of Estonia's greatest comedic playwrights, became a "non-person".
  • Jüri Vilms, a member of the Estonian Salvation Committee, issued the Estonian Declaration of Independence in February 1918, and was executed by German troops less than two months later.
  • "Stop Lasnamäe!" was one of the slogans of the Estonian Singing Revolution.
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