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French Culture
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1. What fragrant purple flower is grown for the perfume industry in the south of France?
Paul Gauguin
les arrondissements
a cookie
lavender
2. What are marrons glac
Le festival d'Avignon
pig
mineral water
candied chestnuts
3. What do French roosters say at the crack of dawn?
une salade
cocorico
painter
Hector Berlioz and Fr
4. Which French territory is off the coast of Canada
Jean-Baptiste Lully
elephant
a famous French puppet
Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon
5. What French sculptor dominated the 19th century?
liquor
Auguste Rodin
2
Le centre Georges Pompidou (Beaubourg)
6. What type of painting is Cubism?
former colonies in Africa
shopping center
painting with geometric shapes
mussels steamed open in wine and seasonings
7. What type of land transportation links France and England
Moli
Napoleon Bonaparte
Air France
a railway known as the Channel Tunnel or Chunnel
8. What did Gustave Eiffel build before he built the Eiffel Tower?
Roland Garros Tennis Tournament and the cycling Tour de France
a tourist boat on the Seine in Paris
fish
bridges - specifically the Bordeaux Bridge
9. What new d
cartoon character
La Sorbonne university of Paris
Mayotte
Nice
10. What did Robert de Sorbon found?
La Sorbonne university of Paris
about 400
Napoleon Bonaparte
2
11. The visual arts flourished in the mid-19th century. What were the three schools?
during the Baroque Period 16th to 18th century
Romanticism - Realism - and Impressionism
shop
American film star
12. What is une madeleine?
a cookie
Braille script to help the blind read
The/ (le) Concorde
he was crowned King of France
13. Who was the first national hero of France?
racetracks
Vercing
Mexico
Romanticism - Realism - and Impressionism
14. What practice dating back to the 18th century - known as la tauromachie - or corrida - was granted official protection by the French Minister for Culture in 2011?
l'
in the afternoon (un go
bullfighting
prehistoric cave paintings
15. When did the first real school of French painting emerge?
Le centre Georges Pompidou (Beaubourg)
le mar
stethoscope
during the Baroque Period 16th to 18th century
16. Who stayed at the Palace of Fontainebleau?
Napoleon
impressionist
d
on an envelope
17. What happened in Paris in May 1968?
jazz
student riots
The Marshall Plan (US)
less
18. What kind of animal is Babar?
Victor Hugo
1889 World's Fair
on the southwest coast of France
elephant
19. Is the wine le Muscadet red or white?
80%
white
Air France
the Seine river
20. What type of equipment did Emile Gagnon and Jacques Cousteau invent in 1942?
cocorico
scuba gear
January 6th (Epiphany)
1889 World's Fair
21. Where is France's spacecraft launched?
storming of the Bastille
Marie Curie
Impressionism
Kourou (French Guyana)
22. Where is Nice
left one
La Sorbonne university of Paris
Southern France - on the C
during WWI and WWII
23. What did l'
monk
religious freedom
5 yrs
they learn to read
24. What is the Tour de France?
1000 feet/300 meters
art
a bicycle race
Jean de la Fontaine
25. What are des oeufs sur le plat?
General Charles de Gaulle
fried eggs
a music video
1903
26. What is the largest city in France?
Paris
d
Mexico
a French car from the Citro
27. Who married Louis XIII?
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28. Who was Jacques Cartier?
French explorer
a mountain range
William the Conqueror invading England in 1066
Marie Curie and Louis Pasteur
29. Who is Guignol?
boeuf bourguignon
scuba gear
chestnuts
a famous French puppet
30. What is un wagon-lit?
Sundays
sleeping car
A Moveable Feast
Alsace and Lorraine
31. How many paintings does the Louvre hold?
Gothic art
racetracks
the cathedral
about 300 -000
32. What happened for the first time in the history of the French Republic on October 19 - 2011?
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33. What is un croque-monsieur?
Le centre Georges Pompidou (Beaubourg)
using the familiar tu when talking to somebody
liquor
a toasted ham and cheese sandwich
34. Which state was a French territory until sold to the US in 1803?
Louisiana
storming of the Bastille
Jean-Marie Le Pen
white
35. What day of the week are elections always held in France
Nantes
April Fool's Day
The Marshall Plan (US)
Sundays
36. What cartoonist name sounds like the artist - Georges R
Les Pyr
Louis Pasteur
Herg
Celtic
37. The Man in the Iron Mask was the supposed twin brother of Which French king?
Hundred Years War
Louis XIV
don't do it
a cookie
38. Which river divides Paris into the right bank and left bank
Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon
Marie Curie and Louis Pasteur
the Seine river
Eugene Ionesco
39. What are the two most popular theme parks in France?
in a bathroom
Jean de la Fontaine
1998
Parc Ast
40. What is un bateau-mouche?
Georges Pompidou
Fran
a tourist boat on the Seine in Paris
a cookie
41. Who wrote Les Mis
stethoscope
Victor Hugo
l'
a mountain range
42. What is the main ingredient in p
high-heeled shoes
Fran
goose liver
Braque and Picasso
43. What comes first - l'
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44. What is la mairie?
shop
5th Republic
the art of preparing good food
the town hall
45. What is p
a paste of ground meat - fish and/or liver
Lille
lunch
Nice
46. What was the object of a controversial retirement bill passed through the Assembl
A French first lady gave birth during her husband's presidency
to raise the retirement age
on the right
Ice skate
47. Where is la Polyn
in the south Pacific
Chinese-American architect - l.M. Pei
Impressionism
Louis XIV
48. When did Algeria gain its independence from France?
1962
Important social and labor reforms
Julius Caesar
a cookie
49. What was the profession of Jean Renoir?
Louis XIV
le r
Gothic art
film director
50. Which French territory is in South America
Alsace and Lorraine
French Guyana - la Guyane fran
Nice
soccer
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