Tunisian Culture, Economy and Society

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  1. Complete the sentence about Berber languages with the correct year: In ______, the first census after Moroccan independence was held.
  2. Complete the sentence about Judeo-Tunisian Arabic with the correct year: The first Judeo-Arabic printing house opened in Tunis in ______.
  3. Complete the sentence about Judeo-Tunisian Arabic with the correct year: In ______, Judeo-Tunisian became one of the main spoken Arabic dialects of Tunisia, with thousands of speakers.
  4. Complete the sentence about Tunisian cuisine with the correct year: By ______ one of the most common homemade foods with potatoes was French fries.
  5. Complete the sentence about Tunisian cuisine with the correct year: Paula Wolfert makes the plausible claim that tabil is one of the spice mixes brought to Tunisia by Muslims coming from Andalusia in…
  6. Complete the sentence about Couscous with the correct year: In ______, couscous was added to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list.
  7. Complete the sentence about Tunisian wine with the correct year: Subsequent to the French conquest of Tunisia in ______, large-scale wine production was introduced into the country, similar to the oth…
  8. Complete the sentence about Tunisian wine with the correct year: After Tunisia's independence in ______, wine production continued but lack of expertise became a problem, and vineyard area slowly decr…
  9. Complete the sentence about Lotfi Bouchnak with the correct year: In ______, at the age of 25, Bouchnak recorded his first song composed by Ahmed Siddiqui.
  10. Complete the sentence about Lotfi Bouchnak with the correct year: Bouchnak has been one of few artists to have regular shows in the Cairo Opera House since ______.
  11. Complete the sentence about Latifa Arfaoui with the correct year: In ______, shortly after her father died, Latifa and her family took a trip to Egypt to rest and mourn.
  12. Complete the sentence about Latifa Arfaoui with the correct year: In ______ Latifa starred in Youssef Chahine's Silence, We're Rolling.
  13. Complete the sentence about Tunisian literature with the correct year: Arabic literature is more important than francophone literature — which followed the introduction of the French protectorate in _…
  14. Complete the sentence about Tunisian literature with the correct year: In ______, the state budget dedicated 3 million Tunisian dinars to the support of literature.
  15. Complete the sentence about Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi with the correct year: Echebbi was born in Tozeur, Tunisia, on 24 February ______, the son of a judge.
  16. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, he obtained a law diploma from the University of Ez-Zitouna.
  17. Complete the sentence about Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi with the correct year: The poem Ela Toghat Al Alaam became a popular slogan in ______ during the Tunisian revolution and later the Egyptian revolutio…
  18. Complete the sentence about Albert Memmi with the correct year: The family returned to Tunis in ______, where Memmi taught high school.
  19. Complete the sentence about Albert Memmi with the correct year: Memmi became a professor at the Sorbonne and earned his doctorate there in ______.
  20. Complete the sentence about Albert Memmi with the correct year: In ______, he was appointed as a director of the School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences.
  21. Complete the sentence about Albert Memmi with the correct year: Despite his support for Tunisian independence, once Tunisia achieved independence in ______, Memmi moved to France.
  22. Complete the sentence about Albert Memmi with the correct year: In October ______, Memmi's follow-up to this work, entitled Decolonization and the Decolonized, was published.
  23. Complete the sentence about Mahmoud Messadi with the correct year: Messadi participated in the negotiations with France for Tunisia's independence in ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Carthage Film Festival with the correct year: Since the ______ session, the Carthage Film Festival has moved between different Tunisian cities.
  25. Complete the sentence about Carthage Film Festival with the correct year: In ______ ten cities hosted the festival: Jendouba, Sfax, Mahdia, Tataouine, Nabeul, Béja, Kef, Kairouan, Gafsa and Monastir.
  26. Complete the sentence about Férid Boughedir with the correct year: In ______, his film Un été à La Goulette was entered into the 46th Berlin International Film Festival.
  27. Complete the sentence about Nouri Bouzid with the correct year: Three years later, his film Golden Horseshoes was screened in the same section at the ______ festival.
  28. Complete the sentence about Nouri Bouzid with the correct year: Bouzid was featured in a ______ documentary film about the experience of cinema in different cultures called Cinema Is Everywhere.
  29. Complete the sentence about Moufida Tlatli with the correct year: Moufida Tlatli was born in Sidi Bou Said, a suburb of the capital Tunis, on 4 August ______.
  30. Complete the sentence about Abdellatif Kechiche with the correct year: André Téchiné hired him in ______ in The Innocents where he played a gigolo alongside Sandrine Bonnaire and Jean-Claude Brialy.
  31. Complete the sentence about Abdellatif Kechiche with the correct year: The film was an honorable success for an author's film without known actors; it was hailed by critics as one of the biggest Frenc…
  32. Complete the sentence about Abdellatif Kechiche with the correct year: The film won four awards at the 30th César Awards in ______: Best Film, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation…
  33. Complete the sentence about The Silences of the Palace with the correct year: Paul Sedra's ______ article describes the continued relevance of Silences of the Palace in Arabic studies.
  34. Complete the sentence about Jebba with the correct year: Okedare Lanloke died at around ______ and was succeeded by his half-brother Dada, as the Ajebaba of Jebba.
  35. Complete the sentence about Jebba with the correct year: DaySpring got wreckage in Jebba during the reign of young Bakare as the Ajebaba of Jebba in ______ Part of the wreckage is still at the Railway…
  36. Complete the sentence about Mawlid with the correct year: The Ottomans declared it an official holiday in ______, known as Mevlid Kandil.
  37. Complete the sentence about Yennayer with the correct year: The Berber calendar was created in ______ by Ammar Negadi, an Algerian scholar.
  38. Complete the sentence about Yennayer with the correct year: In ______, Ammar Negadi proposed the creation of a Berber calendar.
  39. Complete the sentence about Christianity in Tunisia with the correct year: In ______, it was estimated that approximately 99% of Tunisia's inhabitants identified as Muslims.
  40. Complete the sentence about Christianity in Tunisia with the correct year: The International Religious Freedom Report for ______ estimated thousands of Tunisian Muslims have converted to Christianity.
  41. Complete the sentence about Catholic Church in Tunisia with the correct year: The building was completed in ______, while Tunisia was a French protectorate.
  42. Complete the sentence about University of Sousse with the correct year: In ______ new universities were created in Monastir, Kairouan and Gafsa.
  43. Complete the sentence about Zitouna University with the correct year: Much of the library's original collection was dispersed or destroyed when the Spanish occupied Tunis and broke into the Zaytuna Mo…
  44. Complete the sentence about National Library of Tunisia with the correct year: The Tunisian government assigned a budget of 28 million Dinars for a new building for the library, and in ______ the libr…
  45. Complete the sentence about Carthage National Museum with the correct year: In ______, excavations exposed a Late Roman house with fragments of Roman mosaics and further off the property was a large c…
  46. Complete the sentence about Carthage National Museum with the correct year: The content of the "chapel Cintas' discovery topheth by Pierre Cintas in ______, is the subject of its own window.
  47. Complete the sentence about Tunisia national football team with the correct year: Since ______, Tunisia's home stadium is the Hammadi Agrebi Stadium in Radès, Tunis.
  48. Complete the sentence about Esperance Sportive de Tunis with the correct year: Globally, Esperance won the Afro-Asian Club Championship in ______.
  49. Complete the sentence about Club Africain with the correct year: Founded on 4 October ______, the club competes in the Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1, the top tier of Tunisian football.
  50. Complete the sentence about Club Africain with the correct year: Club Africain was founded on 4 October ______ in the Bab jdid neighborhood of Tunis.
  51. Complete the sentence about Club Africain with the correct year: In ______, Club Africain became the first Tunisian side to claim an international trophy by winning the Maghreb Cup Winners Cup.
  52. Complete the sentence about CS Sfaxien with the correct year: The club was founded in ______ as Club Tunisien, playing in green and red stripes.
  53. Complete the sentence about CS Sfaxien with the correct year: The team was promoted to the Tunisian First Division in ______.
  54. Complete the sentence about CS Sfaxien with the correct year: CSS celebrated their half-centenary in ______ by winning the Tunisian League title.
  55. Complete the sentence about CS Sfaxien with the correct year: In November ______, CSS captured the CAF Cup for the first time, beating Senegal's ASC Jeanne d'Arc in the final.
  56. Complete the sentence about Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 with the correct year: In ______, the Tunisian Football Association League was founded.
  57. Complete the sentence about Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 with the correct year: On 29 March ______, the Tunisian Football Federation was founded, the official governing body for football champions…
  58. Complete the sentence about Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 with the correct year: The Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 ranked first in the Arab world and Africa, and fifteenth globally, according to…
  59. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The defending champions were Cameroon from the ______ edition.
  60. Complete the sentence about 2004 African Cup of Nations with the correct year: As champions, Tunisia qualified for the ______ FIFA Confederations Cup in Germany, as a representative of African contine…
  61. Complete the sentence about Youssef Msakni with the correct year: Having spent his youth career at Stade Tunisien, Msakni moved to Espérance de Tunis in July ______.
  62. Complete the sentence about Youssef Msakni with the correct year: On 12 November ______, he won the CAF Champions League, finishing second in the competition with five goals, just behind Wydad AC stri…
  63. Complete the sentence about Hatem Ben Arfa with the correct year: In ______, he was selected to attend the Clairefontaine academy.
  64. Complete the sentence about Malek Jaziri with the correct year: Jaziri qualified for the ______ US Open, defeating Brian Dabul, Michael Ryderstedt, and Guillaume Rufin in the qualifying draw.
  65. Complete the sentence with the correct year: At the ______ Olympics in Sydney, Australia he finished 43rd in the 400 IM.
  66. Complete the sentence about Oussama Mellouli with the correct year: Mellouli won 1 silver medal in the 400m IM at the ______ Mediterranean Games, in Tunis, Tunisia.
  67. Complete the sentence about Mohamed Gammoudi with the correct year: Gammoudi successfully defended his 5000 m and 10 000 m titles at the Mediterranean Games in Tunis in ______, and was one of the favo…
  68. Complete the sentence about Habiba Ghribi with the correct year: Ghribi competed at the ______ African Championships in Athletics in Radès, Tunisia and ended up in 11th place in the 5000 metres final.
  69. Complete the sentence about Tunisia at the Olympics with the correct year: The National Olympic Committee for Tunisia was created in ______.
  70. Complete the sentence about Tunisia at the Olympics with the correct year: Tunisia first took part in the ______ Summer Olympics in Rome.
  71. Complete the sentence about Tunisia at the Olympics with the correct year: At ______ Summer Olympics in Mexico City Gammoudi was able to triple his medal haul.
  72. Complete the sentence about Tunisair with the correct year: The carrier was formed by the government of Tunisia as Société Tunisienne de l'Air in late ______.
  73. Complete the sentence about Tunisair with the correct year: In ______, Casablanca, Ghudamis and Tripoli were incorporated as destinations.
  74. Complete the sentence about Tunisair with the correct year: The Ghudamis route was terminated in ______, and the Casablanca run was taken over by Air France the same year.
  75. Complete the sentence about Tunisair with the correct year: In ______, a Douglas DC-4 was leased from Air France and used on the route to Paris.
  76. Complete the sentence about Tunisair with the correct year: At March ______, the fleet comprised three Douglas DC-3s, one Douglas DC-4 and a SNCASE Languedoc.
  77. Complete the sentence about Tunisair Express with the correct year: Initially limited to domestic routes, Tuninter obtained permission to begin international operations in ______.
  78. Complete the sentence about Tunisair Express with the correct year: In December ______, it was announced that Tunisair Express would be merged into Tunisair in the foreseeable future to achieve a bett…
  79. Complete the sentence about Tunisair Express with the correct year: In June ______, Hatem Motemri was appointed CEO of Tunisair Express.
  80. Complete the sentence about Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Tunisiens with the correct year: In ______, the Italian company Mancardi was granted a concession for a railway between Tunis and the S…
  81. Complete the sentence about Ooredoo Tunisia with the correct year: Set up with capital of 330 million Tunisian dinars, it was founded on 11 May ______.
  82. Complete the sentence with the correct year: As of June 30, ______, it had more than 2.5 million subscribers and has now more than 5 million subscribers.
  83. Complete the sentence about Ooredoo Tunisia with the correct year: On 24 May ______ the company secured licenses to deliver 3G and fixed services.
  84. Complete the sentence about Banque de Tunisie with the correct year: In ______, the bank absorbed the Tunis branch of the Banque italo-française de crédit.
  85. Complete the sentence about Banque de Tunisie with the correct year: Three years later, in ______, it led the liquidation of the Tunis-based Banca italiana di credito; both institutions had mainly ser…
  86. Complete the sentence about Banque de Tunisie with the correct year: Around the time of Tunisian independence in ______, CIC agreed to transfer most of its 70% stake in Banque de Tunisie to the Tunisi…
  87. Complete the sentence about Banque de Tunisie with the correct year: In ______, Banque de Tunisie took over the Société Générale branches in Tunis and Sfax, while Société Générale received a 17.5% sha…
  88. Complete the sentence about Punic language with the correct year: The idea that Punic was the origin of Maltese was first raised in ______.
  89. Complete the sentence about Punic with the correct year: The ancient descriptions were seemingly confirmed by the discovering of the so-called Tophet of Salammbô in Carthage in ______, which contained…
  90. Complete the sentence about Phoenicians with the correct year: Modern scholarship generally views the distinction between Canaanites and Phoenicians after c. ______ BC as artificial.
  91. Complete the sentence about Tanit with the correct year: Several apparent tophets have been identified, chiefly a large one in Carthage, dubbed the Tophet of Salammbó, after the neighbourhood where it…
  92. Complete the sentence about Tophet with the correct year: The word may be derived from the Aramaic word taphyā meaning "hearth", "fireplace", or "roaster", a proposal first made by William Robertson S…
  93. Complete the sentence about Salammbô with the correct year: In ______, Flaubert decided to conduct research in Carthage, writing in March to Félicien de Saulcy, a French archeologist, about his plans.
  94. Complete the sentence about Salammbô with the correct year: In a letter to Madame de Chantepie dated 23 January ______, he described his anticipation: "I absolutely have to go to Africa.
  95. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Toward the end of ______, he traveled in the Pyrenees and Corsica.
  96. Complete the sentence about Gustave Flaubert with the correct year: In ______, after an attack of epilepsy, he left Paris and abandoned the study of law.
  97. Complete the sentence about Gustave Flaubert with the correct year: In September ______, Flaubert completed the first version of a novel, The Temptation of Saint Anthony.
  98. Complete the sentence about Gustave Flaubert with the correct year: In ______, after returning from Egypt, Flaubert began work on Madame Bovary.
  99. Complete the sentence about Gustave Flaubert with the correct year: The novel, which took five years to write, was serialized in the Revue de Paris in ______.
  100. Complete the sentence about Gustave Flaubert with the correct year: In ______, Flaubert travelled to Carthage to gather material for his next novel, Salammbô.

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