Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
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A | Father of the modern Turkey | Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | 93%
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B | Dominant empire in the area before the Ottoman Empire | Byzantine Empire | 84%
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K | This ethnic group has been suppressed by the Turkish government for several years and were forbidden from using their language until 1991 | Kurds | 83%
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F | Tassled red hat that takes its name from a Moroccan city | Fez | 82%
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H | Museum that was turned into mosque in 2019 | Hagia Sophia | 81%
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N | Prize won by Orhan Pamuk in 2006 | Nobel Prize in Literature | 79%
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E | Controversial president who has been accused of eroding democracy since his election in 2014 | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | 79%
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Q | Book that A wanted to be read in the Turkish language - but was refused | Quran | 71%
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C | War fought against Russia between 1853–56 | {Crimean} War | 70%
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O | Train line that connected the Istanbul and Paris | {Orient} Express | 70%
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G | Failed ANZAC invasion site during WWI | Gallipoli | 67%
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R | Country that declared its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1878 | Romania | 64%
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S | "Magnificent" sultan who ruled the Ottoman Empire at its Golden Age | Suleiman I | 62%
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L | British adventurer who helped command the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans | T.E. Lawrence | 62%
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T | Ancient city that was home to Homer's "Iliad" | Troy | 62%
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U | Only Islamic empire that controlled larger territories than the Ottomans | {Umayyad} Caliphate | 55%
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X | Persian ruler who completely conquered the modern-day Turkey in 547 BC | Xerxes | 55%
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Y | Group of people that wanted to modernize and democratize the Ottoman Empire in the early 1900s | {Young} Turks | 52%
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W | Huge number of Turkish workers immigrated to this country in the 1960s | West Germany | 46%
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J | Elite group of soldiers who where initially composed of kidnapped Christian boys who were converted to Islam | Janissaries | 39%
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D | Name for the followers of the Mevlevi Order | Whirling {Dervish} | 38%
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V | Battle where "the Ottoman Turks ceased to be a menace to the Christian world" | Vienna | 37%
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I | Ancient Greek region in western coast of Anatolia | Ionia | 33%
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M | This was ordered to protect the Turkish democracy by A - which it did via several coups in 1960, 1971, 1980, 1993 and 1997 | Military | 31%
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P | Word that is similar to a British peerage or knight | Pasha | 26%
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