Finland Quiz

Tällänen juttu meiltä vaihtareilta tilattiin, ja Suomi-visanhan ne saavat. Tätä väänsin eilen 5,5tuntia, ja pari kysymystä jäi vielä puuttumaan. Ehdotuksia otetaan vastaan, 20 kysymystä pitäisi saada rutistettua. Haluavat lisätä Suomi-tietoutta opiskelijoiden keskuudessa. Hieno homma! Toivottavasti ei ole mennyt ihan asian vierestä koko juttu. Vastaukset kysymyksiin on myös aika kattavia, että tulee sitten ihan tyhjentäviä vastauksia, ja perusteista on lähdettävä liikkeelle, esim neljä vuoden aikaa ja eläimistö (luulevat tosiaan että Suomessa on pigviineitä ja jääkarhuja) voi tuota epätietoisuuden määrää... Ja korjata saa jos tuntuu että syötän taas ihmisille pajunköyttä :)

Finland Quiz

1. Finland is a republic. Who is the president of Finland?
a) Mrs. Tarja Halonen
b) Mr. Matti Vanhanen
c) Mr. Kaarle Kustaa

2. Finland is the 6th biggest country in Europe. The surfase area is 338 150 km2. How many lakes there are in Finland?
a) 100
b) 1 800
c) 18 000

3. Singapore is a small country but still there lives over 4 million people. How many people lives in Finland?
a) over 5 million
b) over 15 million
c) 0ver 30 million

4. Finland has two official languages. What are they?
a) English and German
b) Swedish and Finnish
c) Russian and English

5. Finland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Denmark are the Nordic Countries. But do you know what are Finlands neighboring countries?
a) Germany, France and Denmark
b) Iceland and Norway
c) Russia, Sweden and Norway

6. Do you recognize Finnish flag? (kuvat ei ilmeisesti näy tässä päiväkirjassa...)

a) b) c)

7. What pair of animals both live in Finland?
a) penguins and albatrosses
b) reindeers and seals
c) whales and polarbears

8. How many seasons there are in Finland (and Nordic countries)
a) There is always winter (below zero)
b) There is summer and winter
c) Winter, spring, summer and fall

9. Which of these arguments is FALSE?
a) You can see northern lights in Finland
b) Sun doesn´t go down at all in summer times
c) There are lot of mountains in Finland
d) Finland is known for it´s famous mobile phone company Nokia

10. Which of these Finnish people eat a lot (kysymys pitää vielä muotoilla uudelleen)
a) rice
b) pasta
c) potato

11. Who of these known composers was Finnish?
a) Sibelius
b) Mozart
c) Bach

12. Winters in Finland can be really cold, specially in Lapland. What is the lowest temperature (celcius) that has been measured in Finland since 1961?
a) –15,2
b) – 28,9
c) – 51,5

13. What is one of the most famous Finnish delicacy?
a) lynx
b) reindeer
c) bear

14. In Finland people like to watch sports. Ice hockey, ski jumping, olympics and formula one are the sports that makes Finnish people to stay at home or go to pub to watch tv. Do you know who is one of the most famous Finnish formula one driver at the moment?
a) Michael Schumacher
b) Kimi Räikkönen
c) Jarno Trulli

15. Which one of these is The Finnish thing?
a) Sauna and Santa Claus
b) Abba and Ikea
c) Vikings and old traditional weddings


16. Do you know, which one of these succesful bands is from Finland?
a) The Corrs
b) The Rasmus

c) The Doors

Ja vastaukset perään...

Answers

1. Ms. Tarja Halonen is the president of Finland. She is the first female president in Finland and second in Nordic Countries. First female president in the world was Vigdís Finnbogadóttir in Iceland. She was chosen through democratic election and ruled the country for 16 years.

2. 180 000. Finland is known of thousands of lakes. Nearly 10% of countrys surface area is lakes.

3. Over 5 million. Even though Finland is quite big there is only 5 million people living there. 54% of Finlands population lives in southern part of Finland. Finland is known for it´s peaceful nature and silence.

4. Swedish and Finnish. Because of Finnish history, Sweadish has become the other official language. Most of the people speaks Finnish (92%), but in the western parts of Finland that is closest to Sweden, there are people that still speaks Swedish (5,5%) as their first language. All the other Finnish people learn Swedish in school where it´s considered compulsory.

5. Russia, Sweden and Norway

6. The colours of the flag represents snow (white) and lakes (blue) . (B- flag is Sweden and c- flag Norway.)

7. Reindeers and seals. Reindeer is very common in northern part of Finland. You can see them walking around when your driving in Lapland. Reindeer is also very famous Finnish delicacy. Seals lives in the famous lake in Saimaa. Seals living in that lake are also called the seal of Saimaa and it´s a different species than the seal that lives in the sea. Seal is considered as endangered species.


8. Winter, spring, summer and fall. Finland is known for its four seasons. Winter time is from december –february. That time Finland is covered with snow and temperature can be from +5 – minus 30 degrees. In Lapland (northern Finland) winter is much colder than in southern Finland.
Spring months are from march till may. Days are getting longer and sun is shining longer than in winter. Snow is melting away and at the end of the spring flowers and trees starts to bloom. Summer is from june till august. School is off all summer and people are having their holidays. People travel all around the country and go to their summer cottages to relax. In the north sun dosn´t go down at all and days are long. 24.6. Finnish people are celebrating the midnight festival and bondfires are made and people gather together with families and friends. Summer time temperatures varies from +10 to +29 degrees. Finnish summer is full of barbeque, sauna, swimming in lakes and moskitos.
After warm summer comes fall. Leaves fall of from the trees and it gets colder and darker. Fall is from September to November. It´s the darkest time of the year. Lot of people likes to go to Lapland to see foliage (in Finnish ruska). Ruska is the time when the leaves in the trees are loosing their green colour and turns to red, brown, yellow and orange before falling of.

9. False: C. Finland is very flat country with no mountains what so ever.

10. Potato. Of course we eat rice and pasta as well, but potato is the main thing.

11. Sibelius. He has composed for example Filandia hymn

12. 51,5. The lowest temperature since 1961 measured in Finland was 28.1.1999. It was minus 51,5 degrees in Kittilä (northern Finland). The highest temperature since 1961 has been +33,6 degrees in Outokumpu.

13. Reindeer. With reindeer you usually get mashed potatoes and lingonberry jam. Very good! The whole thing is called reindeer roast.

14. Kimi Räikkönen. Also Mika Häkkinen and Mika Salo have been seen driving formula one cars.

15. Sauna and Santa Claus. Santa Claus lives in the north pole with mrs. Claus and elfs. You can visist them in their own Santa village and see Rudolph the Reindeer as well.
Sauna is something that Finnish people just love. Almost every home has its own sauna and it´s warm several times a week. Sauna is part of Finnish traditional parties like midsummer festivals and christmas. That times it´s common to get a birch-switch that you use in sauna. People slap themselves with the birch-switch. The meaning in that is to improve blood circulation. It also brings a nice fresh smell in to the sauna.

16. The Rasmus. Other famous bads from Finland are HIM, Bomfunk Mc´s and Nightwish.