Statistics for Helsinki City Trivia

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Clue	Answer	% Correct
Sporting event the city hosted in 1952	Summer Olympics	95%
Capital city located under 100 kilometers away	Tallinn	95%
Helsinki replaced this city as Finland's capital in 1812	Turku	91%
Finland's second and fourth largest cities, part of Helsinki urban area	Espoo	89%
Song contest held in Helsinki in 2007	Eurovision	89%
Most spoken language after Finnish and Swedish	Russian	88%
Country that bombed the city during WWII	Soviet Union	88%
Finland's second and fourth largest cities, part of Helsinki urban area	Vantaa	86%
Type of transit system in Helsinki, northernmost in the world	Metro	84%
Swedish name of the city	Helsing{fors}	82%
Helsinki lies next to this gulf	Gulf of Finland	79%
Future Soviet leader who briefly lived in Helsinki in 1917	Vladimir Lenin	77%
Official residence of the President	Presidential {Palace}	74%
Most successful football club in Finland	HJK Helsinki	72%
Russian Czar who is responsible for moving the capital	Alexander I	70%
Helsinki consists of over 300 of these (hint: the city's coastal location)	Islands	70%
Name one of the objects depicted in the city's coat of arms	Boat \| Crown	60%
Oscar-nominated movie about a man losing his memory, set in Helsinki	The Man Without a {Past}	39%