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100
What famous turkish hat did Attaruk ban when he came to power?
Fez
100
What present day country was Socrates born in?
Greece
100
Who was shot in sarajevo in june 1914?
Franz Ferdinand (the Arch duke of Austria)
100
Name the flag
Australia
100
What are the 5 largest cities in Turkey?
Istanbul, Ankara, Bursa, Izmir, Gaziantep.
100
Whose mostache is this?
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's
(any old turkish guy is also an acceptable answer)
100
What is the name of the Leader of the European Union?
Ursula Von der Leyen
100
Which famous Turkish novel had a real museum built in Istanbul after its creation?
Orhan Parmuk's museum of innonce
100
If a British person says "crisps" what does the word translate to in American English?
Chips
200
What international organization did Turkey join in 1952?
NATO
200
The Indus valley was situated across which three modern countries?
Pakistan, India, Afghanistan
200
Which massive 18th century European revolution is said to have led to creation of nationalism and therefore the idea of nation states?
The French Revolution
200
What county does this flag belong to?
St Lucia
200
How many capital cities does South Africa have?
3
Cape Town, Pretoria, Bloemfontein.
200
Which Turkish prime minister, who was executed in the 1960 coup d'etat, has an airport named after him in Izmir?
Adnan Menderes
200
What year did the brexit referendum take place?
2016
200
Consisting of 361 chapters, jumping between the writer's philosophy and the fictional tale of Russian during the Napoleonic war, what is the name of this very famous book?
War and Peace
200
Which language is said to be the only known "revived dead language"?
Hebrew
300
Name the 3 official Ottoman capitals throughout history?
1.Bursa
2. Erdine (Adrianople)
3. Istanbul (Constantinople)
300
What was the capital of the Roman Empire for the majority of its history?
Constantinople
Rome as capital: 27 BC → 330 AD
≈ 357 yearsConstantinople as capital: 330 AD → 1453 AD
≈ 1,123 years
300
Which famous Moroccan traveled the world for 30 years (1325-1354).
Iban Battuta
300
Which country does not have a square or rectangular flag?
Nepal
300
What's the tallest mountain in Africa?
Mount Kilimanjaro
300
How many deputies are in The Grand National Assembly of Turkey?
600
300
Which organisation was responsible for the 1973 oil embargo that led to a global energy crisis?
OPEC
300
What is the title of Tolkien's novel that explains the background and creation of the world of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit?
The Silmarillion
300
Gagauz, Khalaj, Bulgar and Tuvan are part of which language family?
Turkic
400
Can you name the first and last Ottoman sultans?
First: Osman Gazi (Osman I)
Last: Mehmed VI
400
Which turkish city is estimated to be more than 4000 years old by some and was originally know as Dorylaeum (Δορύλαιον) in Greek?
Eskişehir
400
Which country lost two thirds of its land after WWI?
Hungary
400
How many countries have a union jack on their flag?
5
Australia, New Zealand, UK, Tuvalu, Fiji
400
What is the world's largest lake?
The Caspian Sea
400
What year was Erdoğan elected as the mayor of Istanbul?
1994
400
Which countries orchestrated a coup against the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran after he nationalized the oil industry?
The UK and USA
400
What name does Odysseus give the Cyclops to trick him in the book The Odyssey?
Nobody
400
Which is the oldest language still spoken in Europe today with no other known related languages?
Example: Sartaldeko oihanetan gatibaturik
Erromara ekarri zinduten, esklabua,
Basque
500
5 states fought in the first Balkan war. 6 fought in the second Balkan War. Who joined the party the second time?
Romania
500
Which was the first known civilization to invent the calender?
Sumerians
500
Which modern day countries did Simon Bolivar help liberate from the Spanish empire?
Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.
500
This is the flag of which short lived city-state now part of modern day Türkiye (2 September 1938 to 29 June 1939)?
Hatay State
500
How many countries does Russia border?
(not including maritime borders)
14
500
Which party was founded immediately after the 1980 coup with explicit approval of the military junta and won the first post-coup election?
Anavatan Partisi (ANAP)
500
Which country had the first openly homosexual leader in 2009?
Iceland
500
What is the name of Don Quixote’s loyal squire?
Sancho Panza
500
What is the only semitic language written in latin script?
Good morning:L-għodwa t-tajba
Thank you very much:Grazzi ħafna.
Maltese