Question: What did the rules of sec require?
Answer: between each adjective and noun in a string of words, such as a sentence, there must be a rhyme

Question: Who wrote Muhayyelât?
Answer: Giritli Ali Aziz Efendi

Question: When was Muhayyelât written?
Answer: 1796

Question: What was the biggest influence from the west on Ottoman literature?
Answer: French literature

Question: During what time period was Ottoman literate most influenced by the west?
Answer: the latter half of the 19th century

Question: During the Tanzimat what western influence could be seen?
Answer: the influence of Romanticism

Question: The poetic tradition had its biggest influence on what Ottoman literary movements?
Answer: the Symbolist and Parnassian movements

Question: Romanticism, and Realism were two movements from the west that influenced the Ottoman literary scene, what was the third?
Answer: Naturalist

Question: What 1876 Novel did Namik Kemal write?
Answer: İntibâh ("Awakening")

Question: What did İbrahim Şinasi write in 1860?
Answer: the one-act comedy "Şair Evlenmesi" ("The Poet's Marriage").

Question: Who wrote Hasan Mellâh yâhud Sırr İçinde Esrâr?
Answer: Ahmed Midhat Efendi

Question: What Realist novel did Ahmed Midhat Efendi write in 1881?
Answer: Henüz On Yedi Yaşında

Question: What did writers of the Tanzimat period hope to accomplish with their publications?
Answer: contribute to a revitalization of Ottoman social structures

Question: Ottoman artists mixed Chinese art with the art of what else?
Answer: traditional Byzantine art

Question: The ottoman empire built structures in Romania that included Mosques, and Bridges, what else was built?
Answer: fountains and schools

Question: Why did the art of the Ottoman empire develop the way it did?
Answer: the wide ethnic range of the Ottoman Empire

Question: Beside Edirne, Istanbul, and Egypt what other locations can one find the influence of the Ottoman classical period?
Answer: Eritrea, Tunisia, Algiers, the Balkans and Romania

Question: Were would one find the sheets where Ottoman's created illuminated decorations?
Answer: muraqqa

Question: What is another name for an Ottoman miniature?
Answer: taswir

Question: Ottoman calligraphy can also be referred to as what?
Answer: hat

Question: Who commissioned illustrated manuscripts in the Ottoman empire?
Answer: the Sultan or the administrators of the court

Question: What palace was the place of creation for illustrated manuscripts?
Answer: Topkapi Palace

Question: Which art was important in religious symbolism and as a decoration in the Ottoman empire?
Answer: carpet weaving

Question: What was the custom for those wearing shoes indoors in the Ottoman empire?
Answer: it was customary to remove one's shoes

Question: Where did carpet weaving in the Empire originate?
Answer: the nomadic cultures of central Asia

Question: Where did carpet weaving initially spread to inside of the Empire?
Answer: Anatolia

Question: Kilims were used by Turks to provide insulation where?
Answer: walls and doorways

Question: The elites of the Ottoman empire found what type of music important?
Answer: Ottoman classical music

Question: Many of the Sultans of the Ottoman empire were accomplished at being what?
Answer: musicians and composers

Question: The sultan known by what name has compositions which are still performed today?
Answer: Selim III

Question: What rhythmic units does Ottoman classical music use?
Answer: units called usul

Question: What are the melodic units used by Ottoman classical music?
Answer: makam

Question: What are the three most used Anatolian and central asian instruments in Ottoman Classical music?
Answer: the saz, the bağlama, the kemence

Question: Which Middle Eastern instruments can be heard in Ottoman classical music?
Answer: the ud, the tanbur, the kanun, the ney

Question: In late Ottoman classical music one can find Western instruments, what were they?
Answer: the violin and the piano

Question: There were two main style of music in the Ottoman empire, what were they?
Answer: classical music, and folk music

Question: What were the most distinctive style of music in the Ottoman provinces?
Answer: Janissary Music, Roma music, Belly dance, Turkish folk music

Question: The cuisine known as Ottoman cuisine is in reference to the food eaten where?
Answer: the capital, Istanbul, and the regional capital cities

Question: In what kitchen's was Ottoman cuisine perfected?
Answer: the Imperial Palace's kitchens

Question: What is one type of religious event that the general public may come to experience the creations of the Imperial Palace?
Answer: Ramadan

Question: Preparing food at the Yalıs of the Pashas was one way Ottoman Cuisine might spread to whom?
Answer: the population

Question: What did the chefs ingredients in the Imperial Palace's kitchens?
Answer: create and experiment

Question: Turkish cuisine originates from what source?
Answer: a shared Ottoman cuisine

Question: The cuisine of what territories are descended from Ottoman cuisine?
Answer: former Ottoman territories

Question: Turkish and Greek cuisine are descended from Ottoman Cuisine, along with the food of what other regions?
Answer: Balkan cuisine, Armenian cuisine, and Middle Eastern cuisine

Question: Turkish coffee is descended from what?
Answer: Ottoman cuisine

Question: Pita bread descends from what type of cuisine?
Answer: Ottoman cuisine

Question: In what century did the Ottoman's start to desire foreign manuscripts?
Answer: 15th Century

Question: Which sultan ordered a Greek scholar to do translations of work by Ptolemy?
Answer: Sultan Mehmet II

Question: Who did an Ottoman sultan order to translate work by Ptolemy?
Answer: Georgios Amiroutzes

Question: How many years did Ali Qushji spend in Istanbul?
Answer: two or three years

Question: Where was Ali Qushji from?
Answer: originally from Samarkand

Question: When did European sport clubs begin to form in the Ottoman empire?
Answer: 19th century

Question: Where did football matches become to be popular in the Ottoman empire?
Answer: Constantinople

Question: What was the leading sport club in 1905?
Answer: Galatasaray Sports Club

Question: In what year did the Altay Sports Club form?
Answer: 1914

Question: What was the football club known as Ülküspor formerly known as?
Answer: Turkish Fatherland Football Club

Question: Which philosophy branch is concerned with issues surrounding ontology?
Answer: Philosophy of space and time

Question: The philosophy of space and time was inspired by what kind of philosophy?
Answer: early analytic philosophy

Question: The  philosophy of space and time focuses on whether or not time and space exist independently of what?
Answer: the mind

Question: The  philosophy of space and time focuses what kind of flow within time? 
Answer: unidirectional

Question: Who expounded the earliest recorded Western philosophy of time?
Answer: Ptahhotep

Question: When do the Vedas date back to?
Answer: late 2nd millennium BC

Question: Which philosophies are the Vedas oriented with?
Answer: Indian philosophy and Hindu philosophy

Question: What do the Vedas describe?
Answer: ancient Hindu cosmology

Question: How long is the cycle of rebirth discussed in the Vedas?
Answer: 4,320,000 years

Question: Which christian philosopher ruminated on time?
Answer: St. Augustine

Question: What did St. Augustine comment on in Book 11, regarding thinking about time?
Answer: the difficulty

Question: Who presented the first philosophical argument for the reality of Creation? 
Answer: Augustine

Question: What did Augustine say that the knowledge of time depended on?
Answer: the knowledge of the movement of things

Question: Where did Augustine say time could not appear?
Answer: where there are no creatures to measure its passing

Question: Which 11th century Muslim physicist discussed space perception and its epistemological implications? 
Answer: al-Haytham