Multiple Choice City Quiz – Algiers

1. What writer was captured by pirates in 1575 and held captive in Algiers for five years?

2. The settlement is thought to date back to 1200 BC, when it was inhabited by what people?

3. Who ruled the city from 435–534?

4. What famous French writer studied philosophy at university in Algiers?

5. In what year did the Battle of Algiers begin, pitting natives against their French occupiers?

6. What nation was the city part of until 1830?

7. The city's name, al-Jazāʾir (الجزائر) in Arabic, means what?

8. By the 17th century, up to 40% of the city's 100,000 inhabitants were:

9. The original settlement, Icosium, was part of what nation at the time of Emperor Claudius (41 AD)?

10. In what year was the coup d'état by the army against the victorious political party, a coup aimed at preventing the formation of an Islamist state, and which sparked the civil war?