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Turkey A-Z

For each letter A-Z, guess the answer that pertains to the country of Turkey.
Quiz by Aaron197
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Last updated: February 3, 2020
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First submittedJune 12, 2019
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Hint
Answer
A
Peninsula on which most
of Turkey sits
Anatolia
B
Strait on the entrance to
the Black Sea
Bosphorus
C
Country where Turkish is an
official language
Cyprus
D
Meat roasted on a vertical spit
Doner Kebab
E
Current President
Erdoğan
F
Tassled red hat
Fez
G
Professional football club
Galatasaray
H
Former church and mosque
Hagia Sophia
I
Most populous city
Istanbul
J
Most famous Byzantine emperor
Justinian
K
Second-largest ethnic group
Kurds
L
Currency
Lira
M
Sea between the Mediterranean
the Black Sea
Marmara
 
Hint
Answer
N
Military alliance Turkey
joined in 1952
NATO
O
Turkish empire dissolved after WWI
Ottoman
P
Eastern Orthodox leader
Patriarch
Q
Direction Muslims pray towards
Qibla
R
Empire that conquered Turkey
starting in 133 BC
Rome
S
Title of the leader of O
Sultan
T
Site of a legendary Homeric war
Troy
U
Caliphate that nearly conquered
Constantinople in 717
Umayyad
V
Largest lake
Van
W
National animal: Gray ____
Wolf
X
Persian ruler who invaded
in 547 BC
Xerxes
Y
Most popular male name
Yusuf
Z
Most popular female name
Zeynep
22 Comments
+2
Level 74
Jun 15, 2019
Can Zainab and Zaynab be accepted for Z? I only now those variants.
+1
Level ∞
Jun 15, 2019
Okay
+1
Level 71
Jun 15, 2019
I kept guessing Xerox for X :(
+14
Level 70
Jun 16, 2019
Copy cat
+2
Level 66
Jun 16, 2019
not sure if yusuf is really the most common name
+1
Level 38
Sep 9, 2019
I was confused too, I looked it up and apparently it was the most common male baby name of 2016
+4
Level 69
Jun 17, 2019
It wasn't Xerxes, but Cyrus the Great. Xerxes became a king of Persia in 486 BC, when the whole territory of modern Turkey had been conquered by Persians
+3
Level 93
Jun 18, 2019
B could have been: City next to Turkey's largest oil field - Batman
+3
Level 73
Jun 18, 2019
I've never heard of Qibla before. I knew that Muslims prey towards Mecca, but I didn't know that there's a special name for the direction.
+5
Level 76
Jul 23, 2019
Seriously? I thought everyone knew their directions. Turn right at Cairo, then travel 1685 km due Qibla.
+4
Level 69
Aug 3, 2019
Me neither, I tried Qaaba but alas.
+1
Level 84
Jul 23, 2019
Likewise Qibla. Never heard of such.
+3
Level 81
Jul 24, 2019
Basic Islam vocabulary, though doesn't have anything to do with Turkey specifically. But Q answers are hard to come up with.
+3
Level 68
Jul 23, 2019
I think you should add some other well-known football clubs as possible answers. The first club that I tried was Gençlerbirliği.
+6
Level 75
Oct 24, 2019
Anyone that knows Gençlerbirliği will know Galatasaray
+2
Level 27
Jul 23, 2019
I figured out the umayyad one but not the second-largest ethnicity
+5
Level 85
Feb 13, 2020
After taking this quiz, suddenly I'm really sleepy...
+1
Level 65
May 30, 2022
Xerxes was born in 519 BC ??!!
+2
Level 68
Jun 28, 2022
"Empire that conquered Turkey starting in 133 BC”

Turkey did not exist by that time. Turkey is not the name of the area, but of the country that sits on Anatolia and was formed long after.

Please correct that, it is very wrong

+1
Level 79
Dec 3, 2023
In the same way, nothing ever happened in what is now the USA until Delaware ratified the constitution. Yeah, right.
+2
Level 76
Feb 6, 2023
Half of these questions have nothing to do with the state/country of Turkey, they just happened to take place in the same geographic area it occupies.
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Level 43
Mar 9, 2024
Half of the test has nothing to do with Turkey.

You should change the name of the test to ''Anatolia A-Z''