Törkenquiz

Yes, the "ö" is deliberate. This is the category for everyone who grew up between two countries and got the accent jokes from both directions — so the questions are written from the inside, about things shared rather than things observed.

A large part of it is plate numbers. Every Turkish province has one, 01 to 81, and knowing them is a genuine skill that nobody ever sat down to learn: you pick them up from the cars parked outside on a summer street. 34 is Istanbul, 06 is Ankara, 61 is Trabzon. 46 is the city whose ice cream sticks to the knife. Whether you can go the other way — city to number — is where it gets competitive.

Then there is Almanya in figures: the 1961 recruitment agreement, the 867,000 who came before recruitment stopped in 1973, the roughly three million people here today with a family history that runs through Turkey. Where the döner in flatbread was actually invented, and by whom. These are the numbers behind a story most families here can tell in their own version.

And there is a grammar round, because of a clip. Two men argue about German, and one insists it cannot possibly be "sprich" — "sprich değil işte!". He is wrong, and wrong in the most instructive way there is: strong verbs swap their e for an i in the imperative, which is also why it is nimm and not nehme, lies and not lese. Losing that argument teaches you more German than winning it would have.