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French Culture

Subject : culture
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What do painters from the romantic period appeal to?






2. What do the French buy almost daily at the bakery?






3. What type of transportation was invented in France by a French doctor 200 yrs ago?






4. Who brought order back to France?






5. Where would you find un bidet?






6. What is une langue de chat?






7. What is une religieuse?






8. When did the first real school of French painting emerge?






9. Who stayed at the Palace of Fontainebleau?






10. What do French ducks say?






11. What is the nickname of the French flag?






12. Where does a smaller Statue of Liberty stand in France






13. Who wrote Gargantua and Pantagruel?






14. Who was Louis Lumi






15. What is le slow?






16. What would you do at a patinoire?






17. What kind of art is found at the Jeu de Paume?






18. Which holiday celebrated in the US began in France 450 yrs ago?

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19. By 1942 Who had taken control over the entire country of France?






20. We call it baseball - the French call it...?






21. How much do sponsors pay to participate in the Tour de France?






22. How many centim






23. How did Saint-Exup






24. A new phenomenon called cohabitation appeared in French politics in the 1980's and 1990's. What does it mean?






25. What happened in Paris in May 1968?






26. What cartoonist name sounds like the artist - Georges R






27. What famous conquest is depicted in the famous Bayeux tapestry?






28. What kind of school is called le coll






29. What very famous writer was born in Nantes?






30. When do the French celebrate la Toussaint?






31. Who led the underground resistance movement for those opposed to the Nazi takeover in France?






32. Which river divides Paris into the right bank and left bank






33. What wine is used in boeuf bourguignon. Red or white?






34. When was Marie Antoinette executed by guillotine?






35. What is further north - Lille or Bordeaux






36. What French president was elected in 2007 - and is up for re-election in May 2012?






37. What is un wagon-restaurant?






38. What is now found at La place de la Concorde






39. How old was Joan of Arc when she was killed in May 1431?






40. Who was the first national hero of France?






41. What is a lyc






42. What is une r






43. What types of business attire did the French create?






44. What are the main crops in France






45. What world famous theatre festival was founded in Provence in 1947?

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46. What is Calvados?






47. Which state was a French territory until sold to the US in 1803?






48. What is the name of the French space program?






49. What helped rebuild France at the end of World War II?






50. At What age did Louis XIV begin running France?