Important in estonia

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Important things that one should know about Estonia.

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1. What is the all time win-lose balance of

Estonian national soccer team withLatvia, Ukraine, Russia, UK, Thailand, South-Korea

Estonia has won more (positive)

Estonia has lost more (negative)

Equal

Have not played

jalka

2. What Estonians can do with their ID-card?

Name as many things as possible.

Personal ID-card can be used for:Public transport ticket

Parlament elections

Log into internet bank and do payments

Establishing own business in 15 minutes

3. Which of the following is invented by

Estonians?

Foursquare (location based social media platform)

Skype (free internet phone)

eBay (online auction site)

Fortumo (easy mobile payment tool)

4. What kind of „activity“ (movement) is one

of Estonian main „export articles“?

More than 60 countries practice that unique

thing, first done by Estonians in 2008.

Teeme ära

5. What do Estonians do in sauna?

drink beer

jump into ice-cold water or snow

beat with a bunch of birch (whising)

cover bodies with honey

sing national songs

talk about politics

any other – name yourself!

6. What colour is our bread?

7. What is the main ingredient of one

traditional Estonian Christmas meal?

The name of the meal also includes the name

of the ingredient and foreigners are usually

scared to eat that after getting to know it.

verivorst

8. What is this place used for?

Päris laulupidu

9. What event took place simultaneously in

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

on August 23rd, 1989?

10. How is the period / revolution of Estonia

gaining re-independence also called?

11. How many islands do we have in Estonia?

2000 saart

12. But how many seasons?

In spring some people enjoy the 5th season

13. And what % of total territory of Estonia is

covered with forests?

14. Also, how many counties and towns do

we have officially? How many inhabitants are

there in the largest and in the smallest town?

15. Why June 23rd is important and favourite

day for Estonians?

16. What kind of weather phenomenon

threatened to cancel the main mass sports

event in Estonia in 2011?

Which event was that?

Tartu maraton

Walking ON water is no problem for us

17. In which sports are Estonians one of the

best ones in the world?

sumo wrestling

kiiking (swinging)

discuss throw (atheltics)

cross country skiing

women carrying

One of the most famous non-Japanese

sumo wrestler is Estonian

Our „national“ sports are strange

18. Why are these guys famous?

Eurovisioon 2001

19. Who or what is Lotte?

lotte

20. What do have Estonian national hero and

largest chocolate company in common?

Kalev ja kalevipoeg

22. Which title our capital Tallinn helds

during year of 2011?

kultuuripealinn

23. What do our flag colours mean?

Blue is for the sky

Black is for the earth

White is for purity

24. Estonian humour is mostly?

American-like

British-like

black

sarcastic

childish

not funny

Our humour is sarcastic –

please, don`t take it too seriously

25. Name as many famous Estonians

as you can!

Kuulsaid eestlasi