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   Erland Sommarskog to Mark Brader   
   Re: QFTCI23 Game 9, Rounds 2-3 answers:    
   19 Jan 24 21:20:02   
   
   From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   >> 5. For the remaining questions you will be given a letter and   
   >>    asked to name the country.  Photos I-L are Islamic churches,   
   >>    which is to say mosques.  Mosque J was previously a Christian   
   >>    church.  In what country is it?   
   >   
   > Turkey (or, okay, Türkiye).  (Hagia Sophia, Istanbul.)  4 for   
   > Dan Tilque, Joshua, Dan Blum, Erland, and Pete.   
   >   
      
   I was a little confused here, since when I visited Hagia Sophia quite   
   a few years ago now, it was neither a church nor a mosque, but just a   
   museum. But I see in Wikipedia that it was re-established as a mosque   
   in 2020.   
      
   Then again, there are not a whole lot of countries where you can find   
   churches-turned-mosques, so Turkey was still the obvious guess.   
      
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