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French Culture
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1. What is la mairie?
the town hall
a Gallic tribe - Parisii
1998
Marie Curie's work
2. For Which occasion was the Eiffel Tower built?
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3. At Which celebrations do you give drag
Louisiana
composer
christenings and weddings
the hunchback in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
4. What is the difference between un ch
Mayotte
ch
lavender
Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI
5. Why was Joan of Arc burned at the stake on May 30 - 1431?
le tricolore
Waterloo
she was accused of being a witch
the Lumi
6. Who composed Bol
Maurice Ravel
Napoleon Bonaparte
French explorer
the 13th century
7. What fabric dye originated in France - but is very much part of American culture?
un kilo
Jules Verne
denim (de N
wheat
8. From where does most of France's olive oil come from
a railway known as the Channel Tunnel or Chunnel
Provence
une
a mile
9. On What day did the Storming of the Bastille prison occur?
Carmen
July 14 - 1789
Continental France
Corsica - la Corse
10. Who is the current Prime Minister of France - serving along with President Nicolas Sarkozy?
Giulia
dom Perignon
wheat - corn - sugar beets and grapes
Fran
11. France's North American Colony - Louisiana - was sold to the US. What was the sale called?
Louisiana Purchase
the town hall
a dozen oysters
sauerkraut - meat and potatoes
12. Who was the great king of the 16th century?
a scallop (type of seafood)
a Paris university
Fran
September
13. What are the Auteuil - Longchamps - Chantilly and St. Cloud in Paris?
18 yrs old
racetracks
brothers Jacques-Eug
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
14. What was Louis Pasteur's most important vaccine?
Fran
Lille
April Fool's Day
rabies vaccine
15. Which meal of the day is considered the main meal?
le baseball
Napoleon
high-heeled shoes
lunch
16. How many m
a cookie
1000
citrus
on an envelope
17. What does d
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18. What is the name of the long beach in Southern France?
French Riviera
shop
a newspaper
boulangerie
19. Which river divides Paris into the right bank and left bank
painting with geometric shapes
a pinball machine
a dozen oysters
the Seine river
20. Where is Carcassonne
soccer
painting with geometric shapes
Air France
Southern France
21. What did Monet - Manet - and Auguste Renoir have in common?
the Alps and the Pyrenees
5th Republic
June 6th - 1944
they were all Impressionist painters
22. What is the largest country of Western Europe?
le Louvre
a pastry - also means a nun
a cookie
France
23. What is a popular outdoor activity among the French?
Paris
hiking
le tricolore
that is where he died
24. Who was Louis Renault?
a cookie
the Lumi
after the inventors - the Montgolfier brothers
founder of Renault automobiles
25. Who composed the national anthem of France?
apple liquor
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
Eiffel Tower
left one
26. Where is Napoleon's body today?
Nice
in an apartment building
H
watch a play
27. What cheese is known as the oldest in France?
Fran
more than 2 million
January 6th (Epiphany)
Livarot
28. What is un kilo the abbreviation of?
Marseille
April Fool's Day
15 -771 feet/4805 meters
un kilogramme
29. Which came first - the Renaissance or the Classical period?
mineral water
dom Perignon
Renaissance
Alsace and Lorraine
30. When did the first real school of French painting emerge?
during the Baroque Period 16th to 18th century
Fran
ARIANE
Anne d'Autriche
31. What fruit is used in Kirsch?
cherries
a scallop (type of seafood)
for not understanding the people and frivolously spending money
business section with offices - shopping and small factories
32. The university of Paris in the Latin Quarter on the left bank of the Seine is called...?
brothers Jacques-Eug
Eiffel Tower
la Sorbonne
Braque and Picasso
33. What coalition group won the elections in 1936?
December 6th (Saint Nicolas)
inwards
le Front Populaire
Normandy and Brittany
34. How are students chosen to attend a university
Romanticism - Realism - and Impressionism
Mont Blanc
Southern France
they have to pass the baccalaureate exam (le bac) to get in
35. Who invaded and occupied the northern and western parts of France in 1940?
Coco Chanel - Yves Saint-Laurent - Christian Dior
with a handshake or kiss on the cheek
Germany
Jacques Cartier
36. A new phenomenon called cohabitation appeared in French politics in the 1980's and 1990's. What does it mean?
a dozen oysters
The President and Prime Minister belong to different political parties
La Sorbonne university of Paris
Louis XIV
37. What do the French buy almost daily at the bakery?
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
student riots
5 yrs old
croissants and baguettes
38. What is un homard?
truffles
Celtic
they have to pass the baccalaureate exam (le bac) to get in
a lobster
39. What did Paul Verlaine write?
poetry
a secondary school (junior high or middle school)
bridges - specifically the Bordeaux Bridge
20th century
40. What is un petit beurre?
a cookie
July
le baccalaur
Avignon
41. What did France lose in the Franco-German war of 1870-1871?
24 hrs (les 24 heures du Mans)
Giulia
Braille script to help the blind read
Alsace and Lorraine
42. Whose work on radioactivity was the first step toward radiation treatment for cancer?
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43. During Which century did Louis XIV reign?
A French first lady gave birth during her husband's presidency
17th
a cookie
May -1954
44. When do you eat une galette des rois?
January 6th (Epiphany)
Auguste Rodin
christenings and weddings
left
45. What is une douzaine d'hu
a dozen oysters
French Riviera
80%
perfume
46. What is vouvoiement?
in Deauville
overseas France
using the formal vous when talking to somebody
shopping center
47. What do French ducks say?
1000
truffles
coin coin
the cathedral
48. On June 12 - 1940 - Paris surrendered to What country to save itself from destruction?
Germany
bullfighting
a music video
A type of soft cheese
49. What country does more exporting of food than France?
US
Saturdays
Livarot
Nicolas Sarkozy
50. When were the boundaries of modern France established?
Le centre Georges Pompidou (Beaubourg)
truffles
beef - veal - poultry and cheese
1500
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