Statistics for Turkey Country Quiz

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
What is Turkey's most populous city?	Istanbul	99%
What is the capital of Turkey?	Ankara	97%
What Turkish empire was dissolved in 1923?	Ottoman Empire	91%
Four seas that border Turkey	Black Sea	90%
What was the former name of that city?	Constantinople / Byzantium	87%
Four seas that border Turkey	Mediterranean Sea	85%
What is the name for meat cooked on a vertical spit?	Doner {Kebab}	76%
What is the second-largest ethnic group in Turkey?	Kurds	73%
What is the currency of Turkey?	Turkish Lira	71%
Who is considered the father of modern-day Turkey?	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk	69%
Four seas that border Turkey	Aegean Sea	67%
What was the title of the person who ruled that empire?	Sultan	67%
What cube-shaped candy is made from chopped dates, nuts, and gel?	Turkish {Delight}	64%
What seaside locale, formerly known as Smyrna, is the third largest city in Turkey?	İzmir	54%
What is the Sultan Ahmed Mosque commonly known as?	The {Blue} Mosque	54%
What is the name of the peninsula on which most of Turkey is situated?	Anatolia	53%
What is the highest mountain in Turkey?	Mount Ararat	49%
Four seas that border Turkey	Sea of Marmara	41%
What is the title of the leader of the Eastern Orthodox church - based in that city?	Ecumenical Patriarch	32%
What does wearing a nazar amulet supposedly protect you from?	The Evil Eye	26%