Question
A Fiat-sponsored service station built to resemble an airplane is one of many buildings that contribute to this city’s UNESCO listing as “A Modernist African City.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this city that was connected to the port of Massawa with the world’s longest aerial lift system in 1937.
ANSWER: Asmara [or Asmera]
[10e] Asmara’s Fiat Tagliero Building is a pioneering work of this modernist movement. Italian emphasis on speed, machinery, and war in East Africa was linked to this artistic philosophy developed by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.
ANSWER: Futurism [or Futurismo; prompt on Art Deco]
[10m] Cities in Italian Africa like Asmara, Mogadishu, and Tripoli held some of the largest events of this type in the 1930s. Marinetti describes an object in one of these events as more beautiful than the Winged Victory of Samothrace in the Manifesto of Futurism.
ANSWER: car races [accept gara automobilistica; accept racing car or automobile da corsa]
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