Q 01/05

After Tallinn, which city is Estonia's second-largest urban area and home to its oldest university?

A) Narva

B) Tartu

C) Pärnu

D) Kohtla-Järve

Answer · why

B) Tartu

The first nationwide song festival was held there in 1869, and the 1920 peace treaty with Soviet Russia was signed there.

Q 02/05

The Estonian language belongs to which family, alongside Finnish?

A) Slavic (Indo-European)

B) Baltic (Indo-European)

C) Finnic (Uralic)

D) North Germanic

Answer · why

C) Finnic (Uralic)

Unlike Latvian and Lithuanian, it is not Indo-European at all.

Q 03/05

Estonia restored full independence from the Soviet Union on 20 August of which year?

A) 1993

B) 1991

C) 1995

D) 1997

Answer · why

B) 1991

It followed the peaceful Singing Revolution of 1988-90; the country joined NATO and the EU in 2004.

Q 04/05

The peaceful 1988-90 movement toward Estonian independence is known as what?

A) The Velvet Revolution

B) The Singing Revolution

C) The Baltic Spring

D) The Amber Revolution

Answer · why

B) The Singing Revolution

Artist Heinz Valk coined the term after spontaneous mass singing at the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds in June 1988.

Q 05/05

What was the 1989 human chain of two million across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania called?

A) The Chain of Hope

B) The Freedom Line

C) The Amber Road

D) The Baltic Way

Answer · why

D) The Baltic Way

It stretched 675 km and marked the 50th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.