Baltics
This country has the largest territory
Lithuania.
Lithuania is 65,300 sq. km (about twice the size of Belgium). Second is Latvia - 64,589 sq. km. Estonia is the smallest: 45,227 sq. km, a bit larger than the Netherlands.
This famous dessert was originally made in pharmacies
Marzipan.
Nobody remembers the absolute truth about the origin of marzipan, but this does not diminish the value of it for those having a sweet tooth. Marzipan, which was first meant to serve as a medicine, is made exactly the same way nowadays as hundreds of years ago.
This movie starts with the text „A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away …“
Star Wars.
The original film, retroactively subtitled Episode IV: A New Hope, was followed by the sequels Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983), forming the original Star Wars trilogy.
The largest music instrument
Organ.
The largest pipe organ ever built, based on number of pipes, is the Boardwalk Hall Auditorium Organ in Atlantic City, New Jersey, built by the Midmer-Losh Organ Company between 1929 and 1932. The organ contains seven manuals, 449 ranks, 337 registers, and 33,114 pipes. It weighs approximately 150 tons.
Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are banned in this country
China.
Those aren’t the only ones either – over 8,000 domain names are blocked. Other major banned social network sites include Pinterest and Tumblr
This country has the greatest number of Russian-speaking people
Latvia.
Latvians are almost a minority in their country because of the massive russification. Now 40 percent of Latvian citizens are Russian-speaking. Estonia - 32 percent Russian-speaking and Lithuania - just 9 percent Russian speaking.
This pizza is named after an Italian queen
Margherita.
When King Umberto I and Queen Margherita visited Naples, they wanted a change from their fancy food and asked for pizza, which was food for the poor back then. The queen loved the mozzarella pizza so much that it ended up being named after her.
The main character of this film is Scarlett O`Hara
Gone With the Wind.
Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film adapted from the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell.
Guess the song
Queen „Under pressure“
This part (%) of the ocean has been explored so far
5%.
Alongside this only 1% of the seabed has been discovered and explored. Sea exploration and mapping didn’t truly start until the 1960s due to the lack of technology beforehand.
This capital was founded by Bishop Albert
Riga.
Riga was founded in 1201, when Bishop Albert builds a castle on the site.
This country produces, consumes, and exports the most chili peppers in the world.
India.
Chili peppers weren’t introduced to India until the 15th century, but they were a hit. These days, they not only eat and grow more than anyone else, but this is where you’ll find some of the spiciest peppers such as the bhut jolokia.
Single film which has won the most Oscars (3)
Ben-Hur (1959), Titanic(1997) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003).
All of them 11 Oscars.
Guess the song
Michael Jackson „Black or White“
This famous building has 1 710 steps?
Eiffel Tower.
Standing 108 stories tall, there are 1,710 steps to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower. However, guests are only allowed to climb the stairs until the first platform. From there, they must take a lift to the top
This Baltic nation has the last pagans in Europe?
Lithuania.
Lithuania was the last country in Europe to be Christianized (in 1387). Until then they worshipped gods like Perkunas, god of thunder, Zemyna, the mother Earth, Gabija, goddess of hearth fire, Pikuolis, god of underworld, and many others. There are still pockets of pagan beliefs and practices in everyday Lithuanian life.
This country consumes the most tea per person
Turkey.
Although Turkish coffee is popular, tea is the bigger of the staples. Per capita, Turks drink almost 7 pounds of tea every year. Even England doesn’t drink that much!
The main characters of this film are Marty McFly and Dr. Emmet Brown.
Back to the Future.
Fox was filming Family Ties when Zemeckis tapped the 24-year-old television star to play unwitting time traveler Marty McFly. (He was replacing Eric Stoltz, who had shot a few scenes but proved the wrong fit.) Fox worked nights and weekends, which explains why he looks so exasperated in most of the film.
Not a single member of this world famous band could read or write music
Beatles.
There had been some speculation for decades, but Paul McCartney finally admitted during a 2018 60 Minutes interview that neither he nor any of his Beatles bandmates were able to read or write music, and they never understood music theory. McCartney said that the music just came to him and his bandmates John Lennon, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison, and it was never written down.
7% of people of this country believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows
USA.
I know 7% doesn’t sound like a lot, but that actually works out at 16.4 million American adults.
This nation has as the last pagans in Europe
Lithuania.
Lithuania was the last country in Europe to be Christianized (in 1387). Until then they worshiped gods like Perkunas, god of thunder, Zemyna, the mother Earth, Gabija, goddess of hearth fire, Pikuolis, god of underworld, and many others. There are still pockets of pagan beliefs and practices in everyday Lithuanian life.
Fortune cookies come from this country.
USA.
Although we think of these as a Chinese food staple, fortune cookies are from an entirely different continent! They were invented in the early 1900’s in San Francisco.
The best movie of all times according to IMDB
The Shawshank Redemption.
Grade is 9,3 out of 10. Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency. Stars: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman.
That many different pieces of wood make a violin
70.
Those 70 pieces of wood together make up the 9 basic parts of a violin. And those are the only ones you need to know about to clean and maintain your violin.
The people in this country don`t have armpit odor
Korea.
Only 0.006% of the Korean population have the ABCC11 gene, which is the cause of armpit odor. As a result deodorants are rarely sold in Korea.