Questions in this quiz: The Ottoman Empire

Six centuries of Ottoman rule from Osman I to Atatürk's republic. The fall of Constantinople, Suleiman the Magnificent, the siege of Vienna, the Tanzimat reforms, and the empire's WWI dissolution.

1. The Ottoman dynasty traces its name to Osman I, whose father Ertuğrul led which Turkic tribe into Anatolia in the 13th century? — Options: Seljuk, Kayı, Akkoyunlu, Karakhanid
2. What was the name of the massive bronze cannon, cast by the Hungarian engineer Orban, that battered the walls of Constantinople in 1453? — Options: The Basilica, The Tsar Bombard, Mons Meg, The Dardanelles Gun
3. Suleiman the Magnificent's chief architect, responsible for the Süleymaniye and Selimiye mosques, was: — Options: Sinan, Davud Ağa, Sedefkâr Mehmed Ağa, Acem Ali
4. The 1683 siege of Vienna was lifted after a decisive cavalry charge led by which king? — Options: Leopold I of Austria, John III Sobieski of Poland, Charles V of Lorraine, Augustus II of Saxony
5. The Tanzimat era of reforms was inaugurated in 1839 by an imperial edict issued at which palace gate or pavilion? — Options: Gülhane, Bab-ı Hümayun, Bab-ı Ali, Bab-üs Saadet
6. Which 16th-century naval commander, known in Europe as Barbarossa, served as the Ottoman Empire's Kapudan Pasha and conquered Tunis and much of the Maghreb? — Options: Piri Reis, Turgut Reis, Hayreddin, Uluç Ali
7. Place these Ottoman battles in chronological order: Lepanto, the second siege of Vienna, Mohács (1526), and the fall of Plevna. — Options: Mohács, Lepanto, Vienna, Plevna, Lepanto, Mohács, Plevna, Vienna, Mohács, Vienna, Lepanto, Plevna, Lepanto, Vienna, Mohács, Plevna