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Question 1: Prior to becoming Istanbul, the city was known as ___?
(A) Smyrna
(B) Nicomedia
(C) Constantinople
(D) None of Above
Question 2: Istanbul covers both sides of a famous waterway What is the waterway called?
(A) The Bosphorous Straits
(B) The Euphrates
(C) The Jaghjagh
(D) None of Above
Question 3: What is the narrow inlet of the Bosphorous called which makes Istanbul a seaport?
(A) The Haydarpasa
(B) The Ambarlı
(C) The Mersin
(D) The Golden Horn
Question 4: What is the oldest of many old sections of the city called?
(A) Stambul
(B) Ptambul
(C) Tambul
(D) Qtambul
Question 5: Stambul is built on the site of an even older city. It’s the name?
(A) Nicomedia
(B) Smyrna
(C) Byzantium
(D) None of Above
Question 6: What is the name of the largest mosque in Istanbul, built between 1550 and 1557?
(A) Suleimaniye Mosque
(B) Arap Mosque
(C) Fenari Isa Mosque
(D) Hagia Sophia Mosque
Question 7: What is the name of the 6th century Christian church, converted into a mosque in 15th century, now a museum?
(A) Santa Maria Draperis Catholic Church
(B) Hagia Sophia
(C) Crimean Church
(D) St. Antoine
Question 8: Which Roman Emperor changed the city’s name from Byzantium to Constantinople in 324 AD?
(A) Anne
(B) Victoria
(C) George
(D) Constantine the Great
Question 9: Constantinople has been one of the most besieged cities in history. Who laid siege to it in 673-678, and 717-718?
(A) The Victoria
(B) The Arabs
(C) The Chinese
(D) None of Above
Question 10: who besieged Constantinople in 813 and again in 913?
(A) The Arabs
(B) The Victoria
(C) The Bulgarians
(D) The Chinese
Question 11: who occupied Constantinople in 1203 and 1204?
(A) The Crusaders
(B) The Arabs
(C) The Bulgarians
(D) None of Above
Question 12: who finally took Constantinople in 1453 and kept it?
(A) The Bulgarians
(B) The Arabs
(C) The Crusaders
(D) The Turks
Question 13: However important Istanbul is, it is no longer the capital of Turkey, In 1923 that honor was transferred to ___?
(A) Turks
(B) Ankara
(C) Arabs
(D) Bulgarians
Question 14: What is the name of the main residence of the Ottoman Sultans from 1465 to 1853; since 1924 a museum?
(A) Topkapi Palace
(B) Dolmabahçe Palace
(C) Beylerbeyi Palace
(D) Yıldız Palace
Question 15: What is the name of the famous American stage and film director, born in Istanbul in 1909?
(A) Joseph Pevney
(B) Jeff Chandler
(C) Elia Kazan
(D) Mitzi Green
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