Serious stuff
Lake Pühajärve
Summer in Estonia
Climate change
Winter sports
100

This country's Prime Minister (PM) is the youngest PM currently in office, being only 34 years old

What is Finland

100

Which river starts from Lake Pühajärve?

What is Väike-Emajõgi


100

Summer is the bikini season. Did you know that Estonia has the highest number of supermodels per capita. Please name 2

Carmen Kass, Karmen Pedaru, Tiiu Kuik 

100

Name as many things as you can that you can do to prevent/slow down climate change?

What is:
Recycle
Eat less meat
Use a bike
Use green energy
Buy second hand clothes & things
Plant trees
Don't use plastic
Fly less
etc

100

Estonia even has a museum dedicated to winter sports. Where is this museum located?

What is Tehvandi, Otepää

200

On the 15th of April at 6:18 PM a fire broke out in the attic of this world famous building 

What is Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris

200

The first Pühajärve Beach Party took place in which year?

What is 1994

200

As you know you have to look for a fern blossom during Midsummer Night. What happens when you find one?

What is - one will get immediately rich, get special skills and get to know how to speak secret languages

200

How old is the climate activist Greta Thunberg?

What is 16

200

Who is this young Estonian athlete who got a gold medal in the Winter X Games when they were 13 y.o?

Who is Kelly Sildaru

300

The name of this region means in translation "fragrant harbour". It has 7.5 million inhabitants and is one of the most densely populated areas in the world. In 2019, the region was (and still is) in world news due to the tense political situation

What is Hong Kong

300

How deep is the deepest spot in Lake Pühajärve?

What is 8,5 m

300

What is the highest registered temperature in Estonia?

What is +35,6 °C (11.08.1992 in Võru city)

300

“If everyone ate no more than 90g of animal protein (meat, fish, eggs) per day, the global effort needed to stay on track for 2 °C  would drop by 50%”. Is this statement true or false?

Yes, it's true! According to the UN, switching to this diet (recommended by the Harvard Medical School), would halve the cost of stabilizing the carbon dioxide in our atmosphere at 450 parts per million. This is the threshold required to limit warming to 2 °C . This “healthy diet” limits animal protein to 90g a day, and is complemented by many plant products like vegetables, beans and nuts to provide the full nutrition needed.

300

Which tropical nation became famous during the 1988 Winter Olympic Games for putting out a four-man bobsled team?

What is Jamaica

400

On July 17 2020 Hollywood's action thriller "Tenet" will premiere. As you know some of the scenes are shot in Tallinn. Who is the director of this movie?

Who is Christopher Nolan

400

How big is the surface/area of the Lake Pühajärve?

What is 2,93 km2

400

Summer (and winter) are the sauna seasons for Estonians. The sauna in the traditional Estonian society was a mini health and hygiene centre where Estonians witnessed the beginning, the middle and end of their lives. Which Estonian town hosts the largest sauna marathon in Europe?

What is Otepää

400

The Paris Agreement focuses on keeping the global temperature rise at what rate? 

What is below 2 °C in this century (ideally to 1.5 °C  to avoid “severe, widespread and irreversible” climate change effects). If current trends continue, the world is likely to pass the 1.5 °C mark between 2030 and 2052.

400

At what year did skiing become an Olympic sport?

What is 1936 

500

This Estonian company was worth 3.5 billion dollars in May 2019?

What is TransferWise

500

According to legends, Lake Pühajärve has been created as a result of this natural phenomenon. 

What is heavy thunderstorms

500

Summer is the ice-cream season. How many tons of ice-cream was produced in Estonia in the year 2018?

What is 10 072 tons

500

The concentration of CO2 in 2019 in our atmosphere, is the highest it has been in 14 million years. How much is it?
a) 315 parts per million
b) 215 parts per million
c) 415 parts per million

What is 415 ppm as of May 2019

500

Why did the 1964 Winter Olympics in the city of Sochi, Russia require military intervention. What did the military have to do?

What is - the Austrian army scaled nearby snow-capped mountains and carted more than 50,000 cubic yards of snow to the ski courses and 20,000 blocks of ice to the luge and bobsled tracks. The soldiers packed down the snow and ice with their hands and feet.