Statistics for Turkey Multiple Choice

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Question	Answer	% Correct
What is the capital of Turkey?	Ankara	95%
Which one is the second largest ethnic group of Turkey?	Kurds	90%
Who is considered to be the national hero of modern Turkey?	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk	89%
What is an Nazar amulet believed to do?	Protect against the evil eye	87%
Which country did Turkey invade in 1974?	Cyprus	83%
Which one of these countries does Turkey NOT border?	Russia	80%
What strait straddles in the middle of Istanbul?	Bosphorus	77%
In which year did the Turkish alphabet based on the Latin script get accepted nationwide?	1928	71%
What is the Turkish name for the Turkish delight?	Lokum	70%
What did people in Turkey NOT have until the 1930s?	Surnames	66%
Into how many provinces is Turkey divided?	81	61%
Which one of these is NOT one of the former names of Istanbul?	New Athens	61%
In 2003 Turkey won the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time with the song called "Everyway That I Can". Who sang it?	Sertab Erener	52%
True or False? - Turkey was neutral during World War II.	False	47%
Which of these is the English name for the longest river entirely located in Turkey?	Red River	47%
Which one of these is mainland Asia's westernmost point?	Cape Baba	37%
At its peak, how many times bigger was the Ottoman Empire that the modern Turkey?	6.6 times bigger	30%