It has been a long and awful day, but I did do well on a -surprise, surprise BBC news quiz about Turkey. It is my father's country and I speak Turkish, so this should hardly be a shocker. I got 10 out of 12, right. I thought it would be interesting to mention the two I missed.
1. Turkey first tried to enter the EU in which decade:
a. the 50s
b. the 70s
c. the 90s
As it turns out, and I think after I missed it I realized I had heard this somewhere before, Turkey first tried to enter in 1959. I chose the '70s.
Which word is used to mean "mountain' in Turkish
a. Alp
b. Balkan
C. Caucuss
Well, I've always heard the word Dag used for mountain so this one threw me. I chose Alp, but the answer is Balkan.
The trickiest question was one I got right though. Which city was once a part of the Ottoman Empire?
A. Venice
B. Budapest
C. Kiev
I chose Budapest, which is correct. I hope the locals can forgive us! Iw ent to Budapest as a child in the 70s, and it was awesome and I hear that it's even better now...!
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