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Multiple Choice City Quiz – Istanbul
Can you answer these multiple choice questions about the city of Istanbul and its environs?
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Last updated: March 2, 2025
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1. What was the name of Istanbul from roughly 330 AD until 1930?
Before that, it was named Byzantium
Antayla
Carthage
Constantinople
Izmir
2. What empire established Istanbul as its capital after conquering it in 1453?
Holy Roman Empire
Mongol Empire
Ottoman Empire
Persian Empire
3. What market is visited by up to 400,000 people every day?
Sultanahmet
The Grand Bazaar
The Kaaba
The Suq
4. In tourist locations, you might encounter vendors selling blue amulets called "Nazar". What is the purpose of these amulets?
To aid fertility
To bring wealth
To protect against the evil eye
To ward off snakes
5. What is a more common name for the Sultan Ahmed Mosque, located in central Istanbul?
The Blue Mosque
The Green Mosque
The Red Mosque
The Yellow Mosque
6. In what region does the European part of Istanbul lie?
Anatolia
Gallipoli
Macedonia
Thrace
7. Who built the Hagia Sophia, the largest cathedral in the world for nearly 1000 years?
Constantine
Justinian
Solomon
Trajan
8. Who captured and sacked the city in 1204 AD?
Crusaders on the Fourth Crusade
The Fatimid Caliphate
The Mongols
The Vikings
9. What strait separates the European and Asian parts of the city?
The Bosphorus
The Dardanelles
The Golden Horn
The Strait of Gibraltar
10. As of 2023, Istanbul had more of these than any other city in the world, according to Euromonitor.
International visitors
Metro stations
Public libraries
Skyscrapers
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Not sure how the general public of native English speakers would interpret "as of", curious to find out.
Did a search, and everything I have found so far comes up with the same (as what I thought), basically from the specified time onward. For example wordreference.com gives "beginning on" "on and after" "from"
Wikipedia gives it as its first meaning, though indeed there is a second option that seems to mean "at the time" though.
So I would say it is ambiguous at best. (maybe another regional difference?)
Edit; "as at" would seem to be the way to indicate that something was the case at the time (without giving information about the current situation) though that feels a bit.. well why not say in 2023, feels much more natural.