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History of Turkey - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 16,536 times
- The average score is 14 of 20
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Former name of Istanbul | Constantinople | 93%
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| Island country which Turkey invaded in 1974 | Cyprus | 89%
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| Military alliance which Turkey joined in 1952 | NATO | 85%
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| The father of the modern Republic of Turkey | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | 82%
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| Greek leader who conquered most of Turkey in the 300s BC | Alexander the Great | 81%
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| War which caused the downfall of the Ottoman Empire | World War I | 81%
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| Title of the leader of the Ottoman Empire | Sultan | 79%
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| Group of people who were the victims of a genocide from 1915–1917 | Armenians / Assyrians / Greeks | 76%
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| Offshoot of the Roman empire which survived in Turkey until the 1400s | {Byzantine} Empire | 75%
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| Tassled red hat which was part of the official Ottoman army uniform in the 1800s | Fez | 74%
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| Country which invited Turkish workers to immigrate in 1960 due to a labor shortage | West Germany | 72%
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| Train route which connected Paris and Istanbul | {Orient} Express | 71%
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| Language, spoken by 12% of the population, which was banned from 1980–1991 | Kurdish | 70%
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| Controversial President who has been accused of eroding democracy since his election in 2014 | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | 70%
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| Ancient city which was the site of Homer's "Iliad" | Troy | 69%
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| Empire which controlled Turkey before the above conquest | Achaemenid Empire (Persia) | 64%
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| City, formerly known as Smyrna, which is currently the third most populous in Turkey | Izmir | 59%
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| Group of people who wanted to modernize and democratize the Ottoman Empire in the early 1900s | {Young} Turks | 42%
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| Title of that leader's chief advisor | Grand {Vizier} | 41%
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| Roman city which had a population of around 500,000 at the time of Jesus | Antioch | 15%
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