There is much to wonder and laugh at in the database of questions (https://exetaseis-ithageneia.ypes.gr/#topics) compiled by the Interior Ministry for the exams foreign nationals need to pass in order to qualify for Greek citizenship. Some are so ridiculous, you can only ask whether the people who thought of them should be stripped of their Greek citizenship on the grounds of ignorance. For example, what were those Interior Ministry masterminds thinking when they came up with question 47 in the Culture section: “Identify the ‘television couples’ from Greek cinema,” followed by two lists of actors’ names, male and female. Mysterious are the ways of Minister Makis Voridis. And who can possibly remember whether just six governments survived their full terms between the restoration of democracy and the present, as question 38 in the Politics section claims? Read the full article here.