important in estonia
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Important things that one should know about Estonia.TRANSCRIPT
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