I went a bit over the top on Claudia Cardinale, but I feel like I’d want to watch the films I’ve noted should the opportunity presents itself.
Questions
Starring Omar Sharif in the title role of a young man who walks around with a donkey, which 1958 Jacques Baratier film saw the debut of Claudia Cardinale and was nominated for the Palme d’Or?
GOHA
Switching sides during the Second Punic War leading to him being on the winning side at the Battle of Zama, which King of Numidia reigned from 202 to 148 BC and is seen as an important figure in the history of the Berber people?
MASINISSA
Screened at the Cannes Film Festival, in which 1961 film does Claudia Cardinale star as Aida, a naive showgirl who carries some baggage around after being poorly treated?
GIRL WITH A SUITCASE
Switching two letters in the name of which stone age culture that existed in the Maghreb up to around 2,700 BC will give you the name of a much more famous body of water many miles away?
CAPSIAN
The Gaetuli were a Berber people that lived in the Maghreb and were lumped together with the Libyans as ‘rude and uncivilised’ in which Roman historian’s “The Jugurthine War”? This writer’s other extant works include “Bellum Catilinae”.
SALLUST
Starring alongside Franco Nero, in which 1968 film did Claudia Cardinale win a David di Donatello award? Based on a work by Leonardo Sciascia, her character witnesses a murder in Sicily, with the added complications that the Mafia add on that island.
THE DAY OF THE OWL / IL GIORNO DELLA CIVETTA
Retained by the French after Tunisian independence in 1956, which northernmost city in Africa was the subject of a crisis in 1961 when its port was blockaded by Tunisian forces seeking to gain control? Over 500 deaths occurred over a few days, mainly on the Tunisian side, and it is seen as a stepping stone to the French handing over the city and naval base a couple of years later.
BIZERTE
Son to Hamilcar Barca, the Carthaginian Mago was defeated convincingly by Scipio Africanus at the Battle of Ilipa. Which port associated with something edible has had its name attributed to this Barcid?
MAHÓN
Starring as a prostitute alongside the prolific Alberto Sordi, for which 1971 comedy did Claudia Cardinale win a David di Donatello award?
A GIRL IN AUSTRALIA
The Gustave Flaubert novel “Salaambo” has a title character who is a priestess to which Carthaginian goddess? The name of the top prize at the Carthage Film Festival contains this deity’s name.
TANIT
Seen as the equivalent of the Roman god Saturn, who was the consort of the Carthaginian goddess Tanit? Locals supposedly appeased his wrath through the practice of sacrificing children.
BA’AL HAMON
Considered to be an important figure in the development of modern Tunisian literature, which writer is particularly remembered for his short story collection “Sleepless Nights”?
ALI DOUAGI / ALI EL-DU’AJI
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