Historian
You know Estonian history down to the dates and the exceptions.
This page describes one possible result of the quiz Estonian history quiz: 12 questions
What this means
Ten or more out of twelve puts you well ahead of most people who sat the same school exam. The questions come at random from the whole bank, from prehistory to restored independence, so your score does not depend on a favourite period.
The well-known traps did not catch you: the year of the Treaty of Tartu (1920), the city of the first Song Festival (Tartu, 1869), the two different years serfdom ended (1816 in Estonia, 1819 in Livonia) or the first President of the Republic, who was Konstantin Päts in 1938. You also keep the 20th-century dates apart: the June deportation of 1941 and the much larger March deportation of 1949, the Baltic Way on 23 August 1989 and the restoration of independence on 20 August 1991.
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About the quiz: Estonian history quiz: 12 questions
Twelve questions on Estonian history, from the Pulli settlement and the ancient fight for freedom to the Singing Revolution and restored independence. They are drawn at random from more than 320, so every game is different. You have 10 seconds per question.
Most are school level. A few are trick questions for people who know the story but not the exact year or place. You see right away whether you were correct, and a summary at the end.
How this quiz works
The questions were written by the KahurQuiz editors, and every date and name was checked against the Estonian Encyclopaedia, the Estonian Institute's Estonica and official sources such as the Government, the Riigikogu and the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory. Questions on which historians disagree are not in the bank. Where sources use different calendars, the quiz follows the date taught in Estonian schools and used in the national calendar, for example 24 February 1918 for the declaration of independence and 25 March 1949 for the start of the March deportation.
Each game draws 12 questions at random and each correct answer scores one point: 0–4 Pupil, 5–9 Citizen and 10–12 Historian. The quiz tests knowledge of dates, places and names, not how well you understand why events happened.