"The Great Estonian Scavenger Hunt 2011" starts now!

[Mdisch]

So.. WHO WON?!?!

[kevs]

Ah yes sorry, just got home from work.

So I got 4 replies in total and overall you know a lot about Estonia, I was pretty amazed

But the winner is .......... wait for it ...................... Mr. Snuffleupagus ! Congrats and please PM me your delivery information!

Here are all the right answers:

1. Rakvere castle, first destroyed by Polish

2. Suur-Munamägi, 318m high

3. Martin Müürsepp, first Estonian that has played in NBA, has played in lot of different clubs for example Rakvere Tarvas, Tallinna Kalev/Cramo, Tartu Rock, Dallas Mavericks, Miami Heat Melbourne Tigers etc

4. Tapa

5. It's Toompea castle and that tower is called Pikk-Hermann. It's the place where Estonian parliament is situated.

6. It's Kaarsild in Tartu. The ritual for college students is to walk over that arch after night of drinking. I personally haven't heard that anybody has fallen off there, but there was couple having sex on top of that arch few years back

7. Narva-Jõesuu beach, situated in eastern Estonia

8.He is Jaan Tallinn Co developer of Skype and Kazaa

9. Paide town

10. Lighthouse is in Hiiumaa island, named Kõpu tuletorn and built in 1531

[Bigblue1]

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy! BTW did he get them all?

[kevs]

He got only one bonus question wrong but the all others were totally right with bonus questions, I'm starting to think that he's secretly an Estonian

[Roo]

Congrats Snuffy! You're the man!

[Mr. Snuffleupagus]

Woohoooo!!!!

Thanks for the congrats guys! Thanks for the contest Kevin! It was fun learning about those people and places in Estonia. Looks like a beautiful place!

No I'm not secretly Estonian LOL. Just did a crap load of googleing around. Gotta love the internet! It would have taken me a month in a library and I probably would have missed half of them.

Very generous of you Kevin, thanks again! Sending info now.

[Mdisch]

Congratulations!

[kevs]

Woohoooo!!!!

Thanks for the congrats guys! Thanks for the contest Kevin! It was fun learning about those people and places in Estonia. Looks like a beautiful place!

No I'm not secretly Estonian LOL. Just did a crap load of googleing around. Gotta love the internet! It would have taken me a month in a library and I probably would have missed half of them.

Very generous of you Kevin, thanks again! Sending info now.

Prize is packed and ready to start it's journey over the mighty Atlantic first thing tomorrow morning, I have no idea though how long it's gonna take, I've seen packages from US to Estonia that have arrived here in 7 days , so I guess a week or maybe few days more. Let me know when you get it!

[Snusdog]

Great Contest Bro!!!

and congrats to Snuffy!!

I have been too slammed with work to attempt it or I would have loved to play

However I did love looking at the pictures and hearing the answers.

Well done all the way around.

[kevs]

Package is on tha way, added few cool extras, if Mr Snuffleupagus receives it, maybe he'll show you guys too

[EricHill78]

Kevin awesome contest vato.. I didn't try because I am so pathetic I couldn't point Estonia out on a map lol.

And Congrats Mr Snuff! U deserve it bro

[kevs]

Kevin awesome contest vato.. I didn't try because I am so pathetic I couldn't point Estonia out on a map lol.

And Congrats Mr Snuff! U deserve it bro

Hahah thanks, it's no problem that you can't point it, it's not the most significant country in the world, but it's actually kinda cool to live in a place where almost everybody know everybody, and if they don't their friends sure do lol

[shikitohno]

It's real easy to find Estonia, Eric. Starting in Germany, drive east until all the street signs have completely unpronounceable seeming words. Now that you're in Poland, continue east until all the signs are in Cyrillic, and you'll be in Belarus. Turn north from Belarus, and continue north until you start seeing µ's pop up in words, and you'll be in Lithuania. Continue north until you hit Latvia. You'll know you're there when you start seeing accent marks on letters that aren't supposed to have accent marks. Keep on going north. If you're too far east, you'll see Cyllic again, which means you're in Russia and need to turn west. If you start to see an impossible number of vowels in a row, you're either in Estonia or somehow you've teleported to Finland without going through Estonia. Simple enough, right?

I'm kind of content with myself for that one, actually. Only needed to look at a map to see which was further to the south, Latvia or Lithuania.

[kevs]

It's real easy to find Estonia, Eric. Starting in Germany, drive east until all the street signs have completely unpronounceable seeming words. Now that you're in Poland, continue east until all the signs are in Cyrillic, and you'll be in Belarus. Turn north from Belarus, and continue north until you start seeing µ's pop up in words, and you'll be in Lithuania. Continue north until you hit Latvia. You'll know you're there when you start seeing accent marks on letters that aren't supposed to have accent marks. Keep on going north. If you're too far east, you'll see Cyllic again, which means you're in Russia and need to turn west. If you start to see an impossible number of vowels in a row, you're either in Estonia or somehow you've teleported to Finland without going through Estonia. Simple enough, right?

I'm kind of content with myself for that one, actually. Only needed to look at a map to see which was further to the south, Latvia or Lithuania.

Yup that's a fairly accurate description, just like TomTom or any other gps device would guide you. TROLOLOLOLOLOLOL

[shikitohno]

Of course, Polish is actually super-easy to pronounce once you learn the way all the consonants come together, and how to pronounce the accented letters, and I imagine it's the same for Estonian.