Q 01/05

Latvian's closest living relative is the language of which country?

A) Lithuania

B) Finland

C) Poland

D) Belarus

Answer · why

A) Lithuania

Lithuania. Latvian and Lithuanian are the only two Baltic languages still in official use; the rest, Old Prussian among them, died out as their speake...

Q 02/05

Which country borders Latvia to the north?

A) Estonia

B) Finland

C) Denmark

D) Belarus

Answer · why

A) Estonia

Estonia. The border even splits a town: Valga in Estonia and Valka in Latvia were a single settlement until 1920 and now promote themselves together a...

Q 03/05

Medieval Riga joined which league of cities?

A) Lombard League

B) Hanseatic League

C) Swabian League

D) Rhenish League

Answer · why

B) Hanseatic League

Hanseatic League. Riga, founded by a German bishop in 1201, stood on a river trade route to the east, and Cēsis, Limbaži, Koknese and Valmiera later f...

Q 04/05

Which river flows through Latvia's capital on its way to the sea?

A) Daugava

B) Lielupe

C) Salaca

D) Venta

Answer · why

A) Daugava

Daugava. Known upstream as the Western Dvina, it rises in Russia's Valdai Hills and crosses Belarus before reaching Latvia, where hydroelectric dams h...

Q 05/05

Europe's widest waterfall, the Venta Rapid, lies in which Latvian town?

A) Sigulda

B) Kuldīga

C) Cēsis

D) Valmiera

Answer · why

B) Kuldīga

Kuldīga. The ledge is only about two metres high, and in spring fish leap up it, which is why the town was once known as the place where salmon are ca...