On the eve of early elections newspaper Diena tested at the erudition of representatives of leading political forces in Latvia. None of them answered all 30 questions, but the best results showed the leader of the Reform Party Zatlers and former President Valdis Zatlers, and the worst – candidate for prime minister of “All – Latvia!” -TB/DNNL, Ex-Minister of Justice Gaidis Berzins.

Diena interviewed six politicians. In addition Zatlers (answered 21 questions, and partially – to the three questions, getting 22.5 points) and Berzins (7 answered accurately, partly on 6 questions, earning 10 points), the executions have been chairman “Unity” bloc, the Speaker of the Seimas Solvita Aboltina (With 20 points she won second place by responding to 19, and partially – to 2 questions), the leader of the Union of Greens and Farmers, the Minister of Environment and Regional Development, Raymond Vejonis (third place for sure – 17, in part – 3).

As a result of Tasty, chairman of the association “Center of the agreement,” the mayor of Riga Nil Ushakov (just responded to 14, and partially – to 6 questions, earning 17 points) was middling. His coalition partner, the Riga City Council, former vice-mayor of Riga, the leader of the Reform Party Shlesersa-BOB / “Latvia’s Way” Ainars Slesers (11 points: just answered 10 questions in part – by 2) divided the desk “Losers” along with the leader of the Latvian neo-fascists.

Questions for the test were taken from publicly available Internet resources, as well as from the section with the most basic questions in the book “Want to Be a Millionaire?”. The greatest difficulties have raised questions on culture and geography. For example, only one of six leaders able to correctly list all the continents.

BakuToday Some questions and answers:

1. What is the area in Latvia?

Valdis Zatlers will not say exactly

Solvita Aboltina: 64 592 sq km

Raymond Vejonis: about 65 000 square meters. km

Nil Ushakov: 61 000

Ainars Slesers: 64 000

Gaidis Berzins: try to count … If the maritime boundary around 505 km … I would say around 3000 square meters. km

Reply: 64 589 sq. km. km

2. How many teeth a person?

Valdis Zatlers: number of teeth, by the way, is different. That’s my specialty. Usually 32 teeth.

Solvita Aboltina: 32

Raymond Vejonis: 32

Nil Ushakov: 32

Ainars Slesers: 32 if not mistaken. If you pull out wisdom teeth, then 28.

Gaidis Berzins: about 26

Answer: 32

3. What is a river in the territory of Latvia has the greatest extent?

Valdis Zatlers: Gauja

Solvita Aboltina: Daugava

Raymond Vejonis: Gauja

Nil Ushakov be Daugava

Ainars Slesers: Gauja

Gaidis Berzins: Daugava

Answer: Gauja (452 ​​km)

4. What is the height Gaizinkalns (the highest hill in Latvia – IA Regnum)?

Valdis Zatlers: 304 or 310 meters

Solvita Aboltina: 365 meters

Raymond Vejonis: 312.6

Nil Ushakov: 300 kopecks

Ainars Slesers: 311 meters

Gaidis Berzins: a few hundred meters above sea level

Answer: 311.5 m

5. Who is Alexander Chakaraynis?

Valdis Zatlers: Chuck Alexander

Solvita Aboltina: probably some writer

Raymond Vejonis Chuck

Nil Ushakov: The next question

Ainars Slesers: Chuck

Gaidis Berzins: no answer

Answer: Chuck Alexander (pride of Latvian literature – IA Regnum)

6. In what started the club Arthur Irbe the NHL?

Valdis Zatlers, if I remember correctly, was zhto Sharks

Solvita Aboltina: probably in the Sharks in San Jose, but I’m not sure

Raymond Vejonis: in Ottawa Senatore

Nil Ushakov in Boston or Detroit (Bruins or Red Wings – IA Regnum)

Ainars Slesers: do not give a clear answer

Gaidis Berzins: Caroline Hurricanes

Answer: Sharks in San Jose

10. Carlson’s favorite expression?

Valdis Zatlers: “Patience, not panic!”

Solvita Aboltina I do not know

Raymond Vejonis: “All right”

Nil Ushakov man in his prime

Ainars Slesers: I do not remember.

Gaidis Berzins: different expressions were. One of them – “Why are eight candles and a cake, not a candle, and eight cakes?”

Answer: “Patience, not panic!”

11. Who was the owner of Winnie the Pooh?

Valdis Zatlers: Christopher

Solvita Aboltina I do not know

Raymond Vejonis: Piglet

Nil Ushakov: Robin

Ainars Slesers do not know. Write down what the other was “Petachok”

Gaidis Berzins, I know that the other was Piglet.

Answer: Christopher Robin

14. What the artist – the author’s masterpiece “Mona Lisa”?

Valdis Zatlers, Leonardo da Vinci. It is in the Louvre

Solvita Aboltina: ashamed, but I do not know

Raymond Vejonis: Raphael

Nil Ushakov: I am ashamed

Ainars Slesers: Leonardo da Vinci

Gaidis Berzins: I do not remember

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci

15. Who are the seascape?

Valdis Zatlers: Those who paint the sea and related topics

Solvita Aboltina: artists who write marine paintings

Raymond Vejonis: those who draw views of the sea

Nil Ushakov: artists who write Seascapes

Ainars Slesers I do not know

Gaidis Berzins: I will not mention

A: The artists who depict the sea

16. Who is the author of hymn Latvia:

Valdis Zatlers: Baumann Karlis

Solvita Aboltina: Baumann Karlis

Raymond Vejonis: Baumann Karlis

Nil Ushakov Baumanis

Ainars Slesers: I will not tell.

Gaidis Berzins: Baumann Karlis

A: Baumann, Karlis

17. What a Latvian writer repeatedly nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature?

Valdis Zatlers Vizma Belshevitsa

Solvita Aboltina: Zenta Maurina

Raymond Vejonis: Saxe is not it? Or Aspasia?

Nil Ushakov, I will not say

Ainars Slesers do not know. I know that none of them won the Nobel Prize

Gaidis Berzins: Mirdza Kempe

Answer: Vizma Belshevitsa

19. Where is Mount Etna?

Valdis Zatlers: Sicily

Solvita Aboltina in Italy

Raymond Vejonis: Sicily

Nil Ushakov: Sicily

Ainars Slesers: the famous volcano, but I can not answer

Gaidis Berzins: just say no

Answer: Sicily

25. Who is the author’s story “The Old Man and the Sea”?

Valdis Zatlers: Hemingway

Solvita Aboltina: Hemingway

Raymond Vejonis: Ibsen

Nil Ushakov: Hemingway

Ainars Slesers: I will not tell.

Gaidis Berzins: I will not say too

A: Hemingway

26. The square root of 256?

Valdis Zatlers will not be able to answer out of my head.

Solvita Aboltina: 16

Raymond Vejonis: 16

Nil Ushakov: 16

Ainars Slesers: I will not say

Gaidis Berzins: in their right mind would believe

Answer: 16

27. Which politician has long been the Speaker of the Saeima (from 1925 to 1934)?

Valdis Zatlers: if I’m not mistaken, Paul Kalnins

Solvita Aboltina: Paul Kalnins

Raymond Vejonis: maybe Meierovics?

Nil Ushakov: I do not remember

Ainars Slesers: I will not say

Gaidis Berzins: Zamuels

Answer: Paul Kalnins

29. The tallest structure in Riga?

Valdis Zatlers: good question. Not much here, we have built. The tower of the Church of Peter.

Solvita Aboltina: St Peter

Raymond Vejonis: TV tower – 368 meters

Nil Ushakov: The TV Tower

Ainars Slesers: TV Tower

Gaidis Berzins: can, “Sun Stone”? (Objection to the answer “tower”, because it would be more accurate to call it engineering structure).

A: The TV Tower.

30. Riddle: no arms, no legs – and bridge building.

Valdis Zatlers, or rainbow, or heart

Solvita Aboltina: frost

Raymond Vejonis: frost

Nil Ushakov: Riga City Council (just kidding on the construction of the Southern Bridge in Riga, the most expensive bridge in the world at the rate of 1 sq m – IA Regnum)

Ainars Slesers I do not know

Gaidis Berzins: beaver

A: The frost