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

Estonian belongs to which language family?

A) Slavic (Indo-European)

B) Baltic (Indo-European)

C) Finnic (Uralic)

D) North Germanic

Answer · why

C) Finnic (Uralic)

Estonian is a Finnic language of the Uralic family; unlike Latvian and Lithuanian it is not Indo-European at all, and it has 14 noun cases.

Q 03/05

Estonia restored its independence in August 1991 during which Moscow crisis?

A) A currency collapse

B) A coup attempt

C) A miners' strike

D) Yeltsin's resignation

Answer · why

B) A coup attempt

A coup attempt. Hardliners had moved against Gorbachev, and Soviet armoured columns were already moving on Tallinn when parliament voted; within three...

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

The Singing Revolution. Under Soviet rule choirs had kept national feeling alive, singing 'My Fatherland Is My Love' in place of the banned anthem, an...

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

The Baltic Way. On 23 August 1989 about two million people joined hands in a line from Tallinn through Riga to Vilnius, and Moscow answered within day...