Who Put the "F" in Finland? Trivia Quiz

Answer: markka

Markka was the currency of Finland up until 2002. Schilling was Austria's that ended circulation on that very same year. Leu is the current currency in both Moldova and Romania. Krona is the name of the Swedish currency.

Answer: Angry Birds

Angry Birds was developed by Rovio Entertainment. Fun fact: Finnish F1 driver Heikki Kovalainen sported an Angry Birds themed helmet while driving for Caterham during the 2012 season.

Answer: MTV3

MTV in this case stands for Mainostelevisio (TV advertising). NTV, among others, is the name of a Russian television channel. SVT is the Swedish national public television broadcaster, while RTP is the state owned TV channel of Portugal.

Answer: Saku Koivu

The video in question is Simple Plan's "Save You", which showed various cancer survivors. Kimi Räikkönen is a well known F1 driver. Tapio Rautavaara, among other crafts, was also known for being a javelin thrower. Jari Litmanen is (still) the best known football player to come out of the Nordic nation.

Answer: Nokia

Nokia was founded in 1865 in Tampere. The current headquarters are located in Espoo. The company is among the 300 largest in the whole world.

Answer: Lutheranism

According to a 2013 study, 75.2% of the Finnish population is a member of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Finland. Both Orthodoxy and Islam are ranked with a share of 1% (with a slight edge of 0.1% to Orthodoxy). The Catholic population in Finland has the least expression with only 0.2%.

Answer: Carl Gustaf Mannerheim

Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was the 6th President of Finland and also a military leader. Interesting fact: The most well-known boulevard in the country is named after him (Mannerheimintie in Helsinki). Among the other options only the name of Tarja Halonen is that of a Finnish president.

She was the 11th in the country's history and the first woman. Among other things she is also well-known for being a gay rights advocate, having been the chairwoman of Seta, the main LGBT rights organisation in Finland. Tarja Turunen was best known for being the frontwoman of Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, having then gone solo ever since her public firing in 2005. Tanja Mihhailova is a Russian-Estonian pop singer who has represented Estonia in the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest.

Answer: Impaled Nazarene

Impaled Nazarene was founded in 1990 in Oulu and has been active ever since. While still being a non-typical black metal band, they have distanced themselves from the genre through the years, displaying more elements of grindcore and punk rock in their art. PMMP was probably the best known pop band act in Finland, having been active for ten years (2003-2013). Notkea Rotta is a rather obscure rap Finnish act. Ruoska is an industrial metal band from Juva that started out in 2002.

The band has been on a studio releases hiatus ever since 2008.

Answer: The Man Without a Past

"The Man Without a Past" (Mies vailla menneisyyttä) is a 2002 comedy-drama movie directed by Aki Kaurismäki. It went on to win a few accolades, among them the Grand Prix at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival and received also an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in the same year. Kati Outinen, who plays Irma in the movie, went on to win the Best Actress award at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. The actor who has played "M", the movie's main character, was named Markku Peltola and has passed away in 31 December 2007.

All of the other "movie titles" are made up tomfoolery by myself.

Answer: False

It would be the Baltic Sea, actually. Besides Finland, the Baltic Sea bathes the coasts of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Russian conclave of Kaliningrad, northern Poland and Germany and Sweden. The Black Sea is located in Eastern Europe and bathes the coasts of northern Turkey, eastern Bulgaria, southeastern Romania, southern Ukraine (including the now Russian province of Crimea), southwestern Russia and western Georgia.

Answer: Lapland

Santa Claus in Finnish is "Joulupukki". Lapland (Lappi) is the northernmost region of Finland. Åland (Ahvenanmaa) Islands is an autonomous archipelago located just off the southwestern coast of Finland. Northern Ostrobothnia (Pohjois-Pohjanmaa) is the second northernmost region of Finland, having Oulu for it's capital. South Karelia (Etelä-Karjala) is the southeasternmost region of Finland and the capital of this region is Lappeenranta.

Answer: True

Sara Maria Forsberg is a 20-year-old Finnish girl from Pietarsaari that achieved national and international celebrity status after posting her "What Languages Sound Like to Foreigners" video on YouTube on 3 March 2014. The video was shared in-between Hollywood stars themselves. She then went on to feature in numerous Finnish and Swedish prominent TV talk shows, as also the American ones mentioned in the question. Forsberg is a very talented young prospect, with pundits saying that she'll go on to make a career either in cinema or music in the United States. Her talents include impersonating and playing numerous instruments (she comes from a musically talented family background). She is also a singer and an actress. Her debut album will be released in 2015 and she'll have her first role in cinema in the upcoming movie "Skiptrace", which will also feature Jackie Chan, among others.

Sara is also known for her internet alias, Smoukahontas.

Answer: Helsinki

Helsinki is the capital of Finland. There you can visit the prominent Helsinki Cathedral (Helsingin tuomiokirkko), perhaps one of the tourist spots in bigger demand. Curious fact regarding the city: Did you know that the largest group of foreign residents in Helsinki comes from Russia? Estonians rank in second place.

Answer: 1939-1940

Known as "talvisota" in Finnish, the Winter War which lasted a little over three months (30 November 1939 - 13 March 1940) ended when the Moscow Peace Treaty was signed. This short-lived conflicted is however something the Finnish people (particularly men) take pride on, since the country with an allegedly lesser number of troops was able to inflict more casualties on the bigger one.

There were 323,000 casualties on the Soviet side while in the Finnish side the count only went up to 70,000.

Answer: Sauna

Sauna is an integral part of the Finnish culture. When arranging for housing in Finland, it's hard to miss a place that has a sauna. Even if it's just a small rented apartment, you will most likely have a public sauna available in the building. The frequency with which the Finnish people visit the saunas is high enough for this activity being considered as a hobby, having numerous enthusiasts and also even worldwide contests in sauna resistance having been created.

In families it is pretty normal that the whole household goes in the sauna together, without taboos. I personally have experienced it once and although I can't say I liked it enough for it to become a hobby of mine, it sure was a chilly experience in a heated way.