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Quiz: Discovering Istanbul - Film and Geography

Test your knowledge about Istanbul through questions covering both its representation in film and its geographical significance.

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1 What role did Ingrid De Vos play in the movie Istanbul?

2 What is the area code of Istanbul?

3 Who played James Brennan in the movie Istanbul?

4 What type of subdivision is Istanbul?

5 What is the total population of Istanbul?

6 What type of thing is Istanbul?

7 Istanbul’s true and dominant ________ is the humid temperate broadleaf and mixed forest and constitute the Balkan mixed forests which belongs to the European-Siberian ecoregion of the Palearctic ecozone.

8 Who played Joseph in the movie Istanbul?

9 Where is Istanbul?

10 What role did John Bentley play in the movie Istanbul?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Mosque of the Rose in Istanbul is so named because on the day of the Fall of Constantinople the building was adorned with garlands of roses.
  • the mosque of Hirami Ahmet Pasha (pictured) in Istanbul is the smallest Byzantine church of Constantinople still extant.
  • the Fenari Isa Mosque (pictured) in Istanbul represents one of the first examples of edifices with a quincuncial plan in Byzantine architecture.
  • the Esma Sultana Mansion (pictured), a multipurpose event venue in Istanbul, Turkey, looks ruined because only its interior was reconstructed after a 1975 fire.
  • the Sultan Bayezid II Mosque is the oldest surviving Ottoman imperial mosque complex in Istanbul, Turkey.
  • the Mosque of Bodrum (pictured) in Istanbul represents the first example of a private burial church of a Byzantine Emperor.
  • the Mosque of Kefeli in Istanbul was used jointly as a church by Roman Catholic and Armenian believers before becoming a mosque.
  • the Khedive Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, once a mansion for Ottoman governors, now serves as an upscale restaurant.
  • the award-winning Turkish restaurant Changa in Istanbul is being supervised by the Kiwi chef Peter Gordon.
  • the land of Haydarpaşa Cemetery, a burial ground in Istanbul, Turkey for British Commonwealth soldiers from three wars, belonged to Suleiman the Magnificent.
  • the Valens Aqueduct was the major water-providing system of medieval Constantinople and Ottoman Istanbul.
  • the Obelisk of Theodosius (pictured), installed in Istanbul since 390, was originally erected in Egypt by Pharaoh Thutmose III in the 15th century BC.
  • the Koca Mustafa Pasha Mosque in Istanbul features a cypress tree with a chain that was swung between two people who gave contradictory statements to determine which one was telling the truth.
  • the Monument of Liberty in Istanbul, the gathering place for the second rally of the Republic Protests, is a memorial for the 31 March Incident that took place in 1909.
  • the Russian painter Grigory Gagarin was also a military leader and a diplomat in Paris, Rome, and Istanbul.
  • the relics housed within the chapel near the Church of St. Mary of Blachernae in Istanbul were credited by the Byzantines for victories against the Avars, Arabs, and Rus.
  • Sultanahmet Jail in Istanbul, Turkey, which served mostly as a prison reserved for intellectual dissidents, is today a five-star hotel.
  • Yakov Bulgakov, Catherine II's emissary in Istanbul, managed to obtain a plan of the Turkish naval offensive while being imprisoned in Yedikule during the Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792.
  • SantralIstanbul, a modern art museum in Istanbul, Turkey, is located in what was the first power station of the Ottoman Empire.
  • Süreyya Opera House in Istanbul, built in 1927 as a musical theater but used all the time as a cinema, gained its intended status only in 2007 after redevelopment.
  • Baghdad Street in Istanbul was named by Murad IV to commemorate his conquest of Mesopotamia.
  • Mike Davis envisioned making recreational boats available on the Hudson River in New York City after seeing how boats could be rented in Istanbul and rowed on the Bosporus.
  • after World War I, Istanbul was occupied by the Triple Entente in the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire.
  • despite being a key building of middle byzantine Architecture, the mosque of Eski Imaret (pictured) is still one among the least studied monuments of Istanbul.
  • the Italian scholar Girolamo Maggi wrote and illustrated two detailed treatises, from memory, while chained in a dungeon in Istanbul.
  • the mosque of Kalenderhane (pictured) in Istanbul contained the most ancient cycle of frescoes portraying Saint Francis of Assisi still extant.
  • the Istanbul landmark Mihrimah Mosque was constructed in the 16th century for Suleiman the Magnificent's daughter.
  • restaurant Beyti in Istanbul, famous for its Beyti kebab, once catered U.S. president Richard Nixon's Air Force One.
  • in 1983, Yıldırım Aktuna, a neuropsychiatrist and later a politician, founded Turkey’s first alcohol and drug rehabilitation center at the country's largest psychiatric hospital in Istanbul.
  • modern nursing was founded by Florence Nightingale at the Selimiye Barracks in Istanbul, Turkey during the Crimean War (1854-1856).
  • Istanbul's Vefa Kilise Mosque (pictured) is an example of a Byzantine church since converted into an Ottoman mosque.
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