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French Culture
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Subject
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culture
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1903?
Richelieu
Marie and Pierre Curie
a bicycle race
1962
2. What are the two most popular French sporting events in summer?
Roland Garros Tennis Tournament and the cycling Tour de France
15 -771 feet/4805 meters
Louis XIV
less
3. Who was made emperor in 800 AD?
she was accused of being a witch
Charlemagne
Fran
during WWI and WWII
4. What are des oeufs sur le plat?
Braille script to help the blind read
Bastille Day - July 14th
elephant
fried eggs
5. Where was Napoleon Bonaparte born?
Corsica (la Corse)
on the French and Spanish sides of the Western Pyrenees
1998
former colonies in Africa
6. What kind of animal is Babar?
a public lavatory for men
1903
elephant
Mexico
7. What did l'
a supersonic commercial airplane
Romanticism - Realism - and Impressionism
less
religious freedom
8. Which river divides Paris into the right bank and left bank
more
seafood (fish - lobster) and cr
the Seine river
a lobster
9. Which of Ernest Hemingway's books portray life in Paris between the two world wars?
Sundays
sixteen
Paris
A Moveable Feast
10. Where would you most likely find par avion written?
suits and neckties
the cathedral in Reims
un kilogramme
on an envelope
11. Who was the head of the Vichy government?
le Mar
parachute
May 1st
a Gallic tribe - Parisii
12. What kind of animal is used to snuffle out wild mushrooms and truffles?
May 1st
The/ (le) Concorde
the Alps and the Pyrenees
pig
13. French children must attend school until What age?
Maurice Ravel
sixteen
iron ore
la Manche 'the sleeve'
14. Where is le Quartier latin - right or left bank
using the formal vous when talking to somebody
The Marshall Plan (US)
citrus
left
15. What other countries still use French as their official language
former colonies in Africa
a railway known as the Channel Tunnel or Chunnel
Spain
Charlemagne
16. What helped rebuild France at the end of World War II?
5 yrs old
The Marshall Plan (US)
tip is included
on the French and Spanish sides of the Western Pyrenees
17. Who sculpted Le Penseur?
France
in the south Pacific
Lille
Auguste Rodin
18. Who has been the leader of le Front National since 1972?
Louis XV
Jean-Marie Le Pen
Georges R
the Mediterranean Sea and Spain
19. Whose work on radioactivity was the first step toward radiation treatment for cancer?
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20. Prior to the Roman invasion - What was the language of the French?
1920
Celtic
student riots
Continental France
21. Where was the final defeat of Napoleon?
Waterloo
religious freedom
the Seine river
more
22. Is the wine le Muscadet red or white?
2
white
an Egyptian Obelisk
Pablo Picasso
23. How many different types of cheese does France produce?
a restaurant in Paris
Livarot
Euro Disney
about 400
24. What was the stage name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin?
between 7:00 and 9:30pm
Fran
Moli
Nicolas Sarkozy
25. What comes first: l'
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26. What is the Pompidou Center?
le Mar
December 6th (Saint Nicolas)
modern and contemporary art of the Western World
Louis XIV
27. What Museum in Paris is housed in an old train station?
Mus
Paris
Tintin
about $7 -500
28. Who was the leading man in the 1990 film Cyrano de Bergerac?
Voltaire
a platter with a selection of cheeses
G
1996
29. On Which French city did the world focus when Diana - Princess of Wales died in 1997?
Moulin Rouge
H
Paris
lavender
30. What is un kilo the abbreviation of?
suits and neckties
un kilogramme
Austrian
2
31. Where was the first biscuit factory?
Nantes
le lyc
film star
lunch
32. Olives grow in southern France during Which season of the year
summer
le mar
don't do it
a dozen oysters
33. How old was Joan of Arc when she was killed in May 1431?
in an apartment building
19
Auguste Rodin
Renaissance
34. When did France play host to the World Cup for soccer?
1998
Spain
a summer home or cottage
Mexico
35. What are MC Solaar - Assassins and NTM?
French rap groups
Gothic art
Mont Blanc
storming of the Bastille
36. In France - Where would you find a concierge?
Alsace and Lorraine
Nice
almost 200 yrs
in an apartment building
37. What are marrons glac
fried eggs
candied chestnuts
Marseille
boulangerie
38. What did Ren
stethoscope
d
ch
20th century
39. Where is Orly
2 lbs per person - a total of 60 -000 tons
near Paris
Eiffel Tower
une
40. In Which regions is beer really popular?
a kind of outdoor bowling game played with two large metal balls and one smaller one
Alsace and Lorraine
French Riviera
Romanticism - Realism - and Impressionism
41. What is une langue de veau?
le baseball
Mayotte
Alsace and Lorraine
a veal tongue
42. During World War II - What percentage of France's factories - machinery and transportation systems were lost?
Marie Curie and Louis Pasteur
Coco Chanel - Yves Saint-Laurent - Christian Dior
5 yrs
80%
43. What day of the week do French children attend school while American children do not
French Guyana - la Guyane fran
1890s
1000
Saturdays
44. Couscous is a popular dish in France. Where did it come from?
Normandy and Brittany
North Africa
impressionist
November 1st
45. What French actor - popular in the US - has starred in such movies as Green Card (1990) and Christopher Columbus (1992)?
that is where he died
G
Val
religious freedom
46. Who was the first French explorer of North America?
Jacques Cartier
Bourbons
high-heeled shoes
Louis Pasteur
47. Which musicians were prominent the early 19th century?
the Loire - 634 miles/1020 kilometers
an Egyptian Obelisk
Hector Berlioz and Fr
Louis XIV
48. What is the principal use of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon today
April Fool's Day
French Republic
November 1st
a French naval station
49. What is le slow?
Belgium
the name of the man Who invented moving pictures
slow dancing
about $7 -500
50. What was Louis Pasteur's most important vaccine?
rabies vaccine
les arrondissements
le lyc
Mayotte