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French Culture
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1. On What day did the Storming of the Bastille prison occur?
July 14 - 1789
a cookie
watch a play
an orange soft drink
2. What is le Jura
a mountain range
15 -771 feet/4805 meters
The/ (le) Concorde
Celtic
3. Who was the leading man in the 1990 film Cyrano de Bergerac?
G
pig
the hunchback in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
frog legs (les cuisses de grenouille) and snails (les escargots) Also goose liver p
4. What is a significant mineral of France
the cathedral
Louis XIV
iron ore
religious freedom
5. Which king built le ch
lunch
1890s
Richelieu
Fran
6. During Which period were les ch
Renaissance
1481
95
a cookie
7. What did Ren
sleeping car
Italian princess - Marie de M
stethoscope
Paris
8. What is further north - Lille or Bordeaux
Paris
fish
Mayotte
Lille
9. What is the difference between un ch
suits and neckties
a cookie
ch
North Africa
10. Which Republic is France under today?
5th Republic
Les Pyr
French Riviera
ARIANE
11. Who invented the process of pasteurization?
5 yrs
17th century playwright
Louis Pasteur
Fran
12. When did the first real school of French painting emerge?
during the Baroque Period 16th to 18th century
frog legs (les cuisses de grenouille) and snails (les escargots) Also goose liver p
Mont Blanc
slow dancing
13. How do you most often eat oysters in France?
raw - on the half shell with a splash of lemon
Impressionism
a stew
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
14. What is un mille-feuilles?
sauerkraut - meat and potatoes
French Republic
Mus
a flaky pastry
15. What did Louis Braille create in 1824?
almost 200 yrs
Braille script to help the blind read
white
Richelieu
16. What caused the French Revolution of 1789?
high taxes and starvation
prehistoric cave paintings
a railroad company
France
17. On What kind of bottle would you find the word brut?
Italian
Jean-Luc Godard
Brazil
une bouteille de champagne
18. What is une religieuse?
a pastry - also means a nun
wheat - corn - sugar beets and grapes
Jean-Marie Le Pen
mussels steamed open in wine and seasonings
19. What is la mairie?
Provence
the town hall
over 90 million
on the right
20. The French invented the coffee pot How many years ago?
200 years ago
Saturdays
overseas France
lavender
21. French children must attend school until What age?
cocorico
sixteen
parachute
A type of soft cheese
22. Who is Ast
cartoon character
Fran
on an envelope
the 13th century
23. What would you do at les Galeries Lafayette?
Air France
shop
modern and contemporary art of the Western World
a cookie
24. Who won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1903?
perfume
space - electronics and computer software
bridges - specifically the Bordeaux Bridge
Marie and Pierre Curie
25. When were the boundaries of modern France established?
blue - white and red
1500
Auguste Rodin
Val
26. Which musicians were prominent the early 19th century?
17th
Hector Berlioz and Fr
Louisiana
Jean de la Fontaine
27. What is tutoiement?
a paste of ground meat - fish and/or liver
lunch or dinner - almost never at breakfast
using the familiar tu when talking to somebody
Nicolas Sarkozy
28. By 1942 Who had taken control over the entire country of France?
Germans
the Alps
20 yrs
26 percent
29. Who wrote the absurdist plays Rhinoceros and La cantatrice chauve (the bald soprano)?
Eugene Ionesco
the hunchback in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1481
with a handshake or kiss on the cheek
30. What is un bateau-mouche?
Romanesque
General Charles de Gaulle
a tourist boat on the Seine in Paris
in the afternoon (un go
31. At dinner time - What do French families do at the table?
chunks of French bread that are dipped in hot - melted cheese
rich chocolate cake with vanilla or coffee icing in the shape of a log
gather together and share events from their day
boulangerie
32. What is the total population of France?
prehistoric cave paintings
Continental France
About 63 million people
a nursing home
33. Who brought order back to France?
Napoleon Bonaparte
boulangerie
a French naval station
seafood (fish - lobster) and cr
34. What is the principal use of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon today
January 6th (Epiphany)
ARIANE
the hunchback in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
a French naval station
35. What is the SNCF?
sauerkraut - meat and potatoes
Julius Caesar
art
a railroad company
36. What is found on the north side of the Seine River - called the right bank
scuba gear
the 12th century
Le centre Georges Pompidou (Beaubourg)
business section with offices - shopping and small factories
37. Who designed the glass pyramid built in 1989 in the courtyard of the Louvre museum in Paris?
Jean-Marie Le Pen
Chinese-American architect - l.M. Pei
perfume
Auguste Rodin
38. How does France's economy compare to the rest of the world?
less
Germans
Italian
it is the 5th largest economy
39. What is Chartres famous for
modern and contemporary art of the Western World
rub the bowl with garlic
goose liver
the cathedral
40. Where were the kings of France crowned for hundreds of years
the cathedral in Reims
lavender
a sugared almond
The/ (le) Concorde
41. Who sculpted Le Penseur?
bridges - specifically the Bordeaux Bridge
Auguste Rodin
high speed train (TGV)
Eiffel Tower
42. In France - do windows usually swing inwards or outwards?
inwards
a pastry - also means a nun
Paul Gauguin
Hector Berlioz and Fr
43. When do the Christmas holiday celebrations begin in France
Victor Hugo
December 6th (Saint Nicolas)
The/ (le) Concorde
Eugene Ionesco
44. When would one eat a go
jazz
in the afternoon (un go
democracy
a public lavatory for men
45. Which museum was originated by Louis XIV?
le Louvre
a veal tongue
the Alps
a restaurant in Paris
46. when was the first female prime minister - Edith Cresson - appointed?
le smurf
a bean or a small porcelain figurine
les arrondissements
1991
47. Name two delicacies of France?
frog legs (les cuisses de grenouille) and snails (les escargots) Also goose liver p
Impressionism
November 1st
Ice skate
48. What are crudit
Tintin
raw - fresh vegetables
North Africa
About 63 million people
49. What did Paul Verlaine write?
le baccalaur
French Riviera
Charlemagne
poetry
50. Which king of France was known as the Sun King?
an ambulance
African
Louis XIV
a mile
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