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1. Bülent Ecevit, the former prime minister of Turkey, who passed away in 2006 was best known and respected for which personal qualities?
a) his confidence and speech making ability
b) his economic knowledge and business abilities
c) his honesty and poiteness
2. Which writer was the first Turk to ever win a Nobel prize?
a) Yaşar kemal
b) Orhan Pamuk
c) Elif Şafak
3. Why is the Prime Minister’s wife, Emine Erdoğan, not allowed to accompany her husband into the Presidential palace in Çankaya?
a) Because it is a gentlemen only club
b) Because she has a criminal record and is therefore barred
c) Because she wears an İslamic head scarf
4. How much have economic privatisations netted the Turkish government since 2005?
a) $20.7 billion
b) $56.3 billion
c) $104.9 billion
5. The cooling of relations between Turkey and the EU this year has led to a recent push to learn what language at the Turkish Foreign Ministry?
a) Russian
b) Chinese
c) Arabic
6. What was used to get into the prime minister’s car after he fainted and was accidentally locked in with the key in the ignition?
a) a spare key
b) an axe
c) a crowbar
7. Which practice has been outlawed during the recent festival of sacrifice?
a) Slaughtering animals in the common grounds of apartment blocks
b) Slaughtering animals in one’s own back garden
c) Slaughtering of animals by civilians rather than professional butchers
8. Which country’s Parliament labelled the massacre of Armenians in the 1920’s a ‘genocide’?
a) Germany
b) Switzerland
c) France
9. What astronomical event was best viewed from Side in Turkey in spring of 2006?
a) a lunar eclipse
b) a solar eclipse
c) Halley’s comet
10. How many F1 Grand Prix races have been held in İstanbul to date?
a) One
b) Two
c) Three
11. The European Airline Association voted Turkish Airlines No.1 in which area in 2006?
a) baggage handling
b) punctuality
c) on board meals
12. What action by Pope Benedict on his recent trip to Turkey caused Milliyet newspaper to print the headline ‘Like a Muslim!’?
a) Speaking in Turkish to the crowd at Mary’s House in Selçuk
b) Praying in the Blue Mosque whilst facing Mecca
c) Refusing to eat pork when offered it an an official dinner at the İtalian embassy in İstanbul
13. İn a recent survey of the Turkish family by the prime minister’s Directorate General of Family and Social Studies what social activity was rated as the most important?
a) spending time with friends
b) weddings and engagement parties
c) visits to relatives and neighbours
14. İn the popular soap 1001 Nights what action by the heroine’s boss scandalised the nation?
a) that he would lend her the money needed to treat her son if she slept with him
b) he offered her cocaine to celebrate a closing a major contract
c) he attempted to feel her breasts when they were working late together in the office
15. What happened to Mehmet Ali Ağca, the man who attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul, in the period immediately after his release?
a) He was given his own talk show on an İslamic TV channel
b) He was assissanted by a radical Christian group in İstanbul
c) He was rearrested and sent back to prison as his sentence had been incorrectly calculated
16. Finansbank was sold to the National bank of which country?
a) England
b) Greece
c) İtaly
17. According to the Green Crescent (a Turkish temperance society) what has the average age of first cigarette use dropped to?
a) eight
b) ten
c) twelve
18. What happened on Mehmet Ali Erbil’s ATV show ‘This or That’ that resulted in the biggest ever scandal in Turkish television history, caused the programme to be dropped immediately and led ATV to part company with the popular presenter?
a) Audience member Hilmi Türe had his trousers pulled down accidentally exposing his penis
b) A backstage camera set up for a practical joke accidentally screened footage of singer Yeşim Salkım snorting a line of cocaine in her dressing room
c) Erbil came to blows with comedian Cem Yılmaz when he appeared drunk and insulted Erbil’s wife
Answers
1.c 2.b 3.c 4.a 5.c 6.b 7.a 8.c 9.b 10.b 11.a 12.b 13.c 14.a 15.c 16.b 17.b 18.a
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