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Exploring Algeria: A Quiz on History, Geography, and Culture

Test your knowledge about Algeria's history, geography, and culture with this engaging quiz.

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1 In 2007, the Algerian Air Force signed a deal with Russia to purchase 49 ________SMT and 6 MiG-29UBT at an estimated $1.9 billion.

2 The population density of Algeria: How many people are there per square mile?

3 By the end of the war, newly elected President ________, understanding that the age of empires was ending, held a plebiscite, offering Algerians three options.

4 What is the currency of Algeria?

5 Some Barbary corsairs, such as ________ and Jack Ward, were renegade Christians who had converted to Islam.

6 Tens of thousands of settlers from France, Spain, ________, and Malta moved in to farm the Algerian coastal plain and occupied significant parts of Algeria's cities.

7 Education was extended nationwide, raising the ________ rate from less than 10% to over 60%.

8 What is the national anthem of Algeria?

9 What is the population of Algeria?

10 Which of the following titles did Algeria have?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Algerian communist trade union centre UGSA disbanded itself in 1957, after the rival nationalist UGTA had participated in the Leipzig congress of the World Federation of Trade Unions.
  • the turnout in the 2002 Algerian legislative election was Algeria's lowest yet since independence in 1962.
  • the 2003 earthquake that killed more than 2,200 was the strongest to hit Algeria since 1980.
  • the National Union of Algerian Farmers, one of the six main mass organizations of the FLN period, enjoyed less political autonomy than the other mass organizations in Algeria at the time.
  • in the capture of Algiers (1529), Barbarossa (pictured) delivered the city of Algiers (modern Algeria) from Spanish control and installed it under Ottoman rule for three centuries.
  • Bombardment of Algiers, an oil-on-canvas by Thomas Luny, depicts the titular battle in which over 1000 Christians were liberated from slavery in Algeria.
  • French Army soldiers killed between 15,000 and 45,000 Algerian civilians in the Setif massacre of May 8, 1945, the same day as V-E day in Europe.
  • Donald Trounson distributed chocolate to soldiers returning from Dunkirk, escorted captive Italians to prison camps in Algeria, and founded the National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife.
  • John Kempthorne defeated an attack by seven Algerine corsairs on his single ship, HMS Mary Rose.
  • Arnon Grunberg's award-winning 2003 novel The Asylum Seeker features a ménage à trois involving a former john, a terminally ill former prostitute, and an Algerian asylum seeker.
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