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French Culture
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culture
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who did France beat in the 1998 World Cup to win it for the first time in the history of the competition?
coin coin
Georges Pompidou
Brazil
26 percent
2. What was Grace Kelly's profession before she married Prince Rainier de Monaco?
storming of the Bastille
American film star
the cathedral in Reims
Paris
3. What is la gastronomie?
the art of preparing good food
a stew
la Marseillaise
Continental France
4. Where is Biarritz
Paris
Important social and labor reforms
in a bathroom or kitchen
on the southwest coast of France
5. Which of Ernest Hemingway's books portray life in Paris between the two world wars?
processed meats and sandwiches
A Moveable Feast
orange
Fran
6. Where is France's spacecraft launched?
Kourou (French Guyana)
stuffed tomatoes
North Africa
lunch
7. Whose mistress was the Marquise de Pompadour?
Normandy and Brittany
after the inventors - the Montgolfier brothers
Louis XV
in an apartment building
8. Who was made emperor in 800 AD?
Charlemagne
le football am
fast food chains
the Loire - 634 miles/1020 kilometers
9. Where did Vincent Van Gogh settle in the late 19th century because he found inspiration for his paintings there?
2002
Arles - France
le Mar
fish
10. Who wrote Le Petit Prince?
Impressionism
for not understanding the people and frivolously spending money
Antoine de Saint-Exup
Charles de Gaulle
11. What is la Chartreuse?
liquor
Braque and Picasso
noon
the Opera festival
12. What is la C
Germany - Switzerland and Italy
French Riviera
Italian
a lobster
13. Where was Napoleon Bonaparte born?
Antoine de Saint-Exup
Alsace and Lorraine
Corsica (la Corse)
1984
14. During Which century did Albert Camus write?
it is the 5th largest economy
20th century
an orange soft drink
Italian princess - Marie de M
15. Who crowned himself emperor in 1804?
Italian princess - Marie de M
Napoleon Bonaparte
right wing - anti-immigration party
to raise the retirement age
16. What is le slow?
Fran
slow dancing
a railway known as the Channel Tunnel or Chunnel
American film star
17. When was the French defeat at Dienbienphu?
over 9 million
May -1954
le baseball
US
18. What would you find at Lascaux
civil
prehistoric cave paintings
more than 2 million
North Africa
19. Which French writer wrote the Three Musketeers- Les Trois mousquetaires?
The Marshall Plan (US)
Belgium
Alexandre Dumas (p
a lobster
20. What palace in Paris serves as a meeting place for the 348-member French S
of course
dom Perignon
over 9 million
Le Palais du Luxembourg
21. On What would you put une vinaigrette?
France
une salade
fattened liver of duck or goose
in Deauville
22. On average - How many children do married couples have in France?
2
perfume
libert
la Marseillaise
23. What did the Popular Front governments enact?
Moli
prison
Important social and labor reforms
a star
24. What is Mona Lisa called in French?
a bean or a small porcelain figurine
Sundays
French explorer
La Joconde
25. Who was Louis Renault?
frog legs (les cuisses de grenouille) and snails (les escargots) Also goose liver p
founder of Renault automobiles
a place where they make and sell cr
using the formal vous when talking to somebody
26. What type of game is boules?
poetry
a kind of outdoor bowling game played with two large metal balls and one smaller one
of course
fried eggs
27. Which French President was responsible for the construction of the Louvre Pyramid - the Great Arch at La D
un kilo
business section with offices - shopping and small factories
chunks of French bread that are dipped in hot - melted cheese
Fran
28. When did the first real school of French painting emerge?
Britain
during the Baroque Period 16th to 18th century
le lyc
le r
29. What types of business attire did the French create?
beef - veal - poultry and cheese
space - electronics and computer software
Louis XIV
suits and neckties
30. What is la viande chevaline?
film director
orange
November 1st
horsemeat
31. What did Robert de Sorbon found?
Sundays
with a handshake or kiss on the cheek
iron ore
La Sorbonne university of Paris
32. When was the Sorbonne founded?
Nice
summer
the 13th century
a French car from the Citro
33. What is un kilo the abbreviation of?
un kilogramme
left one
Roman Catholic
a lobster
34. where did the first ever - public film screening take place in 1895?
Gothic art
60
Paris
1889 World's Fair
35. Who composed the national anthem of France?
of course
North Africa
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
stuffed tomatoes
36. What does tomates farcies mean?
a mile
1000 feet/300 meters
Fran
stuffed tomatoes
37. What is le Concorde?
a supersonic commercial airplane
fried eggs
a nursing home
Important social and labor reforms
38. Who was the musician Who collaborated with Moli
the cathedral in Reims
le Louvre
l'
Jean-Baptiste Lully
39. Who entered WWI in 1917 to help France defeat Germany?
a Paris university
US
G
more than a thousand
40. How much mustard does each person in France use per year?
Romanticism - Realism - and Impressionism
2 lbs per person - a total of 60 -000 tons
North Africa
strong black coffee
41. What religion do most people in France belong to?
Roman Catholic
farmland
a pastry - also means a nun
left one
42. Who was the first national hero of France?
more
late 1800s
Vercing
the Alps and the Pyrenees
43. Prior to the Roman invasion - What was the language of the French?
about $7 -500
la Marseillaise
Celtic
Nice
44. How many French soldiers died in World War I?
wheat - corn - sugar beets and grapes
Kourou (French Guyana)
2 million
Fran
45. Which type of American music has had the most influence on the French?
the Loire - 634 miles/1020 kilometers
jazz
Gothic art
less
46. Marie Antoinette was not French. What nationality was she?
1000 feet/300 meters
iron ore
Austrian
Renaissance
47. Where is le grand Trianon
Versailles
Paris
the cathedral in Reims
a flaky pastry
48. What country does more exporting of food than France?
in an apartment building
A French first lady gave birth during her husband's presidency
The/ (le) Concorde
US
49. At What age do French children attend preschool
brothers Jacques-Eug
Napoleon Bonaparte
ages 2-6
inwards
50. What colors are on the flag of France
blue - white and red
Francophonie
Napoleon Bonaparte
cuisine bourgeoise