Actually, the city has changed its name four times in the last sixty years! In 1961, it was named Akmolinsk. Then the name was changed to Tselinograd (hence the IATA airport code TSE, valid until 2020), then to Akmola, to Astana, and finally to Nur-Sultan. I bet we're going to see another change in our lifetime.
Great selection of questions! If you would have told me I could answer 15 questions about Kazakhstan correctly I would be laughing haha, I would think I would get 2, its capital and how it is spelled.
(I would have gotten 16, cause I new what was meant in the last question, I just could not come up with the (english) word space, sky and star was the closest thing my mind could make of it haha)
Missed the export, holiday, and the 2 remaining city questions
If you know those two, you would most certainly try Astana as well? Sometimes we have to distinguish between all the things that could have been correct, and what we know the question is asking for.
I don't follow the name of Nur Sultan as well. Most people still call it Astana and some people do follow it, which is OK. But also, people don't, like said.
Borat Margaret Sagdiyev is most famous journalist and cultural ambassador for the glorious nation of Kazakhstan! Mr. Borat has done Cultural Learnings of America for make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, and more recently, Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan!
A fictional character in the movie "Borat" starring Sacha Baron Cohen that many people found funny but I found ridiculous and hurtful to the many decent people I met in Kazakhstan soon after the collapse of the USSR who were doing the best they could in an incredibly difficult time.
(I would have gotten 16, cause I new what was meant in the last question, I just could not come up with the (english) word space, sky and star was the closest thing my mind could make of it haha)
Missed the export, holiday, and the 2 remaining city questions