Statistics for History of Turkey

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Questio	Answer	% Correct
Former name of Istanbul	Constantinople	93%
Island country which Turkey invaded in 1974	Cyprus	89%
Military alliance which Turkey joined in 1952	NATO	85%
Greek leader who conquered most of Turkey in the 300s BC	Alexander the Great	81%
The father of the modern Republic of Turkey	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk	81%
War which caused the downfall of the Ottoman Empire	World War I	81%
Title of the leader of the Ottoman Empire	Sultan	78%
Group of people who were the victims of a genocide from 1915–1917	Armenians / Assyrians / Greeks	75%
Offshoot of the Roman empire which survived in Turkey until the 1400s	{Byzantine} Empire	74%
Tassled red hat which was part of the official Ottoman army uniform in the 1800s	Fez	74%
Country which invited Turkish workers to immigrate in 1960 due to a labor shortage	West Germany	72%
Train route which connected Paris and Istanbul	{Orient} Express	71%
Language, spoken by 12% of the population, which was banned from 1980–1991?	Kurdish	70%
Controversial President who has been accused of eroding democracy since his election in 2014	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	69%
Ancient city which was the site of Homer's "Iliad"	Troy	69%
Empire which controlled Turkey before the above conquest	Achaemenid Empire (Persia)	64%
City, formerly known as Smyrna, which is currently the third most populous in Turkey	Izmir	57%
Group of people who wanted to modernize and democratize the Ottoman Empire in the early 1900s?	{Young} Turks	42%
Title of that leader's chief advisor	Grand {Vizier}	41%
Roman city which had a population of around 500,000 at the time of Jesus	Antioch	16%