From Istanbul's bazaars to the hot-air balloons of Cappadocia and the Greek islands across the water, this quiz covers the sights, food and customs of the eastern Mediterranean. It starts with the basics every visitor learns on day one and finishes with questions for those who have seen it twice.
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In which city can you visit the Hagia Sophia?
Answer: C · Istanbul
Finished in 537, it stayed the world's largest church for over 500 years, until Cluny Abbey in France was completed.
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The blue glass eye charms you see all over Turkey are meant to do what?
Answer: D · Ward off the evil eye
Turks call it a nazar boncuğu. Legend says if yours cracks, it just absorbed a powerful curse meant for you.
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What do Turks call Turkish delight?
Answer: B · Lokum
It's the treat the White Witch uses to win over Edmund in C. S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
Two carved Medusa heads hold up columns in which Istanbul sight?
Answer: A · Basilica Cistern
Both Medusa heads are reused blocks from an older building, and nobody knows where they came from.
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Istanbul's Galata Tower was built in 1348 by a colony from which Italian city?
Answer: B · Genoa
Legend says that in 1638 Hezarfen Ahmed Çelebi strapped on wings and glided from its roof across the Bosphorus to Asia.
Which ancient spa city sits right beside Pamukkale's white terraces?
Answer: C · Hierapolis
One old hotel's hot-spring pool was kept when the hotels were removed, so you can still swim among ancient stone ruins.
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