Geography
Latvia is home to the widest waterfall in Europe: Ventas Rumba, at 110 m (360 ft) wide, though only 2 m high.
True or False?
Answer: true
Who was the first Latvian president?
Asnwer: Jānis Čakste
What do Latvians celebrate on 18th of November?
Proclamation Day of Latvia
What is the national flower of Latvia?
Daisy (pīpene)
Basketball is Latvia’s de facto national summer sport (it’s ice hockey in winter). Uļjana Semjonova, a former basketball player, was the first non-American woman to be inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame.
How tall is she?
A) 2,15 m
B) 2,09 m
C) 1,98 m
A) 2,15 m
Which is the largest lake in Latvia?
Answer: the lake Lubāns
A Latvian-Jewish tailor named Jākobs Jufess invented the jeans (Levi Strauss backed him financially).
TRUE OR FALSE?
Answer: true
In which year did Latvia join the EU?
In 2004
Which is the biggest and mightiest animal in Latvia?
The moose (alnis)
True
How many cities are there in Latvia?
Answer: 81
At the moment, there are 81 towns in Latvia. 10 of them – Rīga, Daugavpils, Jelgava, Jūrmala, Jēkabpils, Liepāja, Ogre, Rēzekne, Valmiera and Ventspils - have higher status and are the centers.
Which Latvian composer is the author of "Melanholiskais valsis"?
Emīls Dārziņš
When was euro introduced in Latvia?
In 2014, January 1st
What is the national bird of Latvia?
Latvia has the world’s tallest women and men are holding the fourth place.
TRUE or FALSE?
TRUE (according to the largest ever study of height around the world led by led by scientists from Imperial College London)
The population of Latvia is
- around 1.9 million people
- around 1.8 million people
- more than 1.7 million people
Answer: around 1.9 million people
Which of the following artists was born in Latvia, Daugavpils:
- Mark Rothko
- Pablo Picasso
- Salvador Dali
Mark Rothko
In 1989, to express their common goal of regaining the independence of the Baltic States, about two million people from Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia joined hands to form the Baltic Way, commemorating the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact between the USSR and Germany.
On the 23rd of August (it was the 30th anniversary of The Baltic Way this year)
Latvia presents itself as a
- Land that loves
- Land that sings
- Land that moves
Land that sings
Read an idiom in English. Say an equivalent idiom in Latvian.
This in not my pig and not my field (it is none of my business)
Ne mana cūka, ne mana druva
64 589 km2
Who was the third Latvian president?
What do Latvians celebrate on 11th of November?
On November 11 every year, Latvia lights up numerous candles to commemorate the Latvian army's victory over the West Russian Volunteer Army led by general Pavel Bermont-Avalov on November 11, 1919. On this day Latvia honours Latvian Freedom Fighters.
Brīvības piemineklis - the ‘Freedom Monument - is the most important landmark, the symbol of Latvian independence and statehood. What is written on it?
The inscription „Tēvzemei un brīvībai” means ‘For Fatherland and Freedom”.
WHICH OF THESE FACTS ARE TRUE?
Latvia has 12,000 rivers and 3,000 small lakes.
Around 54 per cent of Latvia is forest, while 10 per cent is bog.
Latvia has the world’s fourth fastest internet connections with over 800 free connection points in Riga
Answer: all statements are true