Question: In Soviet international publications what language's transliteration are Estonian words and names often back-transliterations from?
Answer: Russian

Question: What famous encyclopedia contains a Russian back-transliteration of Estonian?
Answer: Encyclopædia Britannica

Question: What is the Russian back-transliteration from Encyclopædia Britannica?
Answer: "ostrov Khiuma"

Question: What is the typological form of Estonian?
Answer: transitional

Question: What is Estonian typologically transitioning from?
Answer: an agglutinating language

Question: What sort of form is Estonian transitioning into?
Answer: a fusional language

Question: How are words ordered in Estonian canonically?
Answer: subject–verb–object

Question: What language lacks gendered nouns and pronouns?
Answer: Estonian

Question: In the nominative, genitive, partitive, illative, inessive, elative, allative, adessive, ablative, translative cases what always agrees with the noun in number and case?
Answer: adjectives

Question: What other language has a telicity contrast?
Answer: Finnish

Question: Aside from the accusative, where can the direct object of the verb be found?
Answer: partitive

Question: What is the accusative used for?
Answer: total objects

Question: From what system is a distinctive future tense lacking?
Answer: verbal system

Question: What is used in place of the future tense?
Answer: present tense

Question: What does Estonian use to show actions performed by an undecided subject?
Answer: special forms

Question: Close to 33 percent of Estonian's vocabulary belong to what group of languages?
Answer: Germanic languages

Question: What is the main Germanic language from which Estonia gets the Germanic portion of its vocabulary?
Answer: Low Saxon

Question: When did Low Saxon make its appearance as part of the Estonian language?
Answer: during the period of German rule

Question: From what other Germanic language does Estonian derive its vocabulary?
Answer: High German

Question: Standard German is part of what Germanic language?
Answer: High German

Question: What two letters can be replaced with each other a lot of the time in Estonian?
Answer: 'b' & 'p'

Question: What happens in many cases when a word starts with an 's'?
Answer: The initial letter 's' is often dropped

Question: In an example of replacing 'b' with 'p' how is 'baggage' pronounced?
Answer: pagas

Question: Who was the journalist who was also a language planner?
Answer: Ado Grenzstein

Question: In what years did Ado Grenzstein do journalism work in Estonia?
Answer: 1870s–90s

Question: What is another term for making up words from nothing?
Answer: formation ex nihilo

Question: Who in the course of their language planning attempted to use the formation ex nihilo technique?
Answer: Ado Grenzstein

Question: Of all of Estonian's language reformers who is the most well known?
Answer: Johannes Aavik

Question: What was the period of time in which Johannes Aavik was alive?
Answer: 1880–1973

Question: What is the technique Aavic used to create Estonian words out of nothing?
Answer: creations ex nihilo

Question: In what publication can examples of ex nihilo words be found?
Answer: Aavik’s dictionary

Question: How many words did Aavik put in his dictionary?
Answer: approximately 4000

Question: What languages did Aavik know?
Answer: Ancient Greek, Latin and French

Question: When was Aavik's dictionary published?
Answer: 1921

Question: What is another term for words created by Aavik?
Answer: Aavikisms

Question: Instead of being created from nothing Aavik's ex nihilo terms are thought to actually possibly have been influenced by what?
Answer: foreign lexical items

Question: What is a source for the particles in paper?
Answer: wood

Question: What is a common use for paper?
Answer: writing

Question: What is the last step in paper production?
Answer: drying

Question: When was the pulp papermaking process developed?
Answer: 2nd century AD

Question: What country was the process developed in?
Answer: China

Question: What country is leading in production of paper?
Answer: China

Question: What country is the second largest produced of paper?
Answer: United States

Question: Which court eunuch was associated with the papermaking process?
Answer: Cai Lun

Question: Who is credited with the papermaking process?
Answer: Cai Lun

Question: What material did paper replace upon its invention?
Answer: silk

Question: Which Age did the invention of the papermaking process contribute towards?
Answer: Golden Age

Question: What century is the first papermaking process attributed to?
Answer: 2nd

Question: In what century did the papermaking process spread from China to Europe?
Answer: 13th

Question: Which middle eastern city did the papermaking process to Europe from?
Answer: Baghdad

Question: What name did the process take on in Baghdad?
Answer: bagdatikos

Question: In which century did the process become much cheaper than before?
Answer: 19th

Question: Which Canadian inventor helped F.G. Keller to develop their own process?
Answer: Charles Fenerty

Question: What Latin word is paper derived from?
Answer: Papyrus

Question: What language is papyrus derived from?
Answer: Greek

Question: What process changes the properties of the fibres used in papermaking?
Answer: maceration

Question: What plant was used in Egypt to make papyrus?
Answer: Cyperus

Question: What part of the Cyperus plant was used in making papyrus?
Answer: the pith

Question: What is separated from the cellulose fibres?
Answer: lignin

Question: What type of paper is paper made from chemical pulps known as?
Answer: wood-free

Question: What percentage of fibres are wasted in the bleaching process?
Answer: 5%

Question: What percentage of cotton is cellulose?
Answer: 90%

Question: How many chemical pulping processes are there?
Answer: three

Question: What decade does the sulfite process date to?
Answer: 1840s

Question: What process is most commonly used?
Answer: The kraft process

Question: What is another process used to pulp straws with high silicate content?
Answer: Soda pulping

Question: Besides the thermomechanical process, what is a process used in pulping?
Answer: groundwood pulp

Question: What is the main ingredient in the groundwood process?
Answer: debarked logs

Question: What strength of paper is produced by mechanical pulps?
Answer: weak

Question: Recylced papers can be made with what new type of pulp?
Answer: virgin

Question: What type of clay improves the characteristics of the pulps used in papermaking?
Answer: china clay

Question: What is added for sizing purposes?
Answer: Additives

Question: What besides china clay is used as a filler?
Answer: chalk

Question: How is the water removed by force from a sheet of paper?
Answer: Pressing

Question: What is used to collect the water expelled from pressing?
Answer: felt

Question: What is used to collect water when hand-making paper?
Answer: blotter sheet

Question: Besides a blotter sheet, what can be used to collect water?
Answer: felt

Question: What is the main component of drying the paper?
Answer: air

Question: At what percentage moisture content is the papermaking process trying to achieve in the end?
Answer: 6

Question: Besides calcium, coated paper has a thin layer of what?
Answer: china clay

Question: What process is done to polish the surface of the paper?
Answer: calendering

Question: What is the shiniest type of coated paper?
Answer: Gloss

Question: What papers give the best optical density?
Answer: Gloss

Question: What contraption is used to carry the paper to the web printing presses?
Answer: reels

Question: In what manner are sheets normally cut?
Answer: long-grain

Question: If the paper is not to be used in the web printing process, what is done?
Answer: cut into sheets

Question: What type of paper is produced on a machine like the Fourdrinier?
Answer: wove paper