Turkey bridges Europe and Asia: its largest city, Istanbul, stands on two continents at once.
This quiz asks 20 questions about Turkish food, symbols, places, history and famous people.
One run asks 20 questions from a bank of 40, so two runs do not ask the same set.
How to play
- Each round shows one question and four answers. Tap the answer you think is right.
- You have three lives. Each wrong answer costs one life.
- After each answer, the game shows a short explanation of the right answer.
- The quiz saves your best score and best time.
What counts in this quiz
- The bank holds 40 questions about Turkey: food, drink, symbols, geography, history, people, science, money, business, sport, culture, language.
- Every question has exactly one right answer among the four options.
What's not included, and why
- Facts that change with the news are not in the bank. The quiz asks no questions about sitting politicians or the rankings of today.
- Questions that need a map, such as naming every region of Turkey, live in the map quizzes.
Good to know
- Göbekli Tepe in southeast Turkey holds the oldest known temples, built about 11,000 years ago.
- The ancient kingdom of Lydia, in western Anatolia, minted the world's first coins.
- Tulips came to Europe from the Ottoman court, not from the Netherlands.
- The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul opened in 1461 and holds thousands of shops under one roof.