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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. The French helped create the world's fastest passenger airplane called?
The/ (le) Concorde
1000
a pastry - also means a nun
a restaurant in Paris
2. Where were the kings of France crowned for hundreds of years
Auguste Rodin
lunch
the cathedral in Reims
Normandy and Brittany
3. What is un wagon-restaurant?
a bean or a small porcelain figurine
a dining car
Napoleon
a lobster
4. What nut is sold hot on the streets of Paris in winter?
Hundred Years War
chestnuts
democracy
boulangerie
5. What is un bateau-mouche?
a tourist boat on the Seine in Paris
Alsace and Lorraine
about 150 yrs ago
a parking zone
6. What was the country of France named before Roman times?
poetry
a railroad company
lavender
Gaul
7. How many m
1000
animal parks (zoos)
Louisiana Purchase
100
8. A movement in the 1970s featuring simpler foods - smaller portions and natural flavors called...
coin coin
nouvelle cuisine
yes - some French people eat it : a veal brain
Maurice Ravel
9. What was the profession of Debussy?
composer
Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon
pig
Germany
10. What happened in Paris in May 1968?
shopping center
la Marseillaise
student riots
gourmet cooking
11. What country does more exporting of food than France?
about 300 -000
a newspaper
porcelain
US
12. How long did the construction of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris take?
about 150 yrs ago
Toulouse
porcelain
almost 200 yrs
13. What percentage of France's total area is covered by woods and forests
26 percent
a toasted ham and cheese sandwich
in an apartment building
in Paris - on an islet in the middle of the Seine River - facing west toward the original statue
14. Where did le croissant originate?
libert
un kilo
the Seine - the Garonne - the Rh
Vienna - to celebrate the end of the siege of the city by the Turks
15. What kind of fruits are grown in Corsica?
citrus
l'
le m
Normandy and Brittany
16. Who invaded and occupied the northern and western parts of France in 1940?
Provence
traditional - local cooking
a French naval station
Germany
17. In France - What type of wedding is required by law - civil or religious?
bullfighting
24 hrs (les 24 heures du Mans)
movie camera and projector
civil
18. Who entered WWI in 1917 to help France defeat Germany?
they were all Impressionist painters
the first modern legal code of France
US
a tourist boat on the Seine in Paris
19. Where is la Guadeloupe located
in the Caribbean
la Manche 'the sleeve'
wheat - corn - sugar beets and grapes
suits and neckties
20. Marie Antoinette was not French. What nationality was she?
Renaissance
in the Caribbean
Austrian
the hunchback in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
21. Do the French have more or less leisure time than Americans?
fish
Germans
of course
more
22. Whose mistress was the Marquise de Pompadour?
the Alps
Louis XV
in the Caribbean
Marseille
23. What is the Pompidou Center?
on the southwest coast of France
modern and contemporary art of the Western World
in a bathroom or kitchen
religious freedom
24. As the US is divided into states - France is divided into...
yes - some French people eat it : a veal brain
Austrian
French explorer
d
25. What is the largest airline in France?
Air France
95
Bourbons
Waterloo
26. What is un homard?
a dining car
a lobster
nouvelle cuisine
it is the 5th largest economy
27. What type of equipment did Emile Gagnon and Jacques Cousteau invent in 1942?
sauerkraut - meat and potatoes
Lille
scuba gear
a flaky pastry
28. What is considered rude to do in a restaurant in France at the end of a meal
stethoscope
ask for a doggy bag
for not understanding the people and frivolously spending money
Waterloo
29. What type of land is more prevalent in France than in any other country in Western Europe
blue - white and red
farmland
the Lumi
95
30. When was Jacques Chirac elected president?
denim (de N
Jean de la Fontaine
Georges Pompidou
1995
31. Which artist painted scenes from the Moulin Rouge?
an orange soft drink
a place where they make and sell cr
left
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
32. When was the first men's Tour de France held?
chestnuts
fast food chains
1903
a summer home or cottage
33. Why is Sainte H
sixteen
cuisine bourgeoise
Giulia
that is where he died
34. What type of shoes was invented in France 400 yrs ago?
Louis Pasteur
the Opera festival
high-heeled shoes
fertile soil
35. What day of the week are elections always held in France
2002
Sundays
Giulia
Romanticism
36. Who was the great king of the 16th century?
about 150 yrs ago
17th century playwright
Celtic
Fran
37. Who ruled France when the metric system was established?
racetracks
Napoleon Bonaparte
ch
the 13th century
38. What was the profession of Toulouse-Lautrec?
inwards
painter
a railway known as the Channel Tunnel or Chunnel
Jacques Cartier
39. What are les parcs zoologiques
animal parks (zoos)
goose liver
1889 World's Fair
Paris
40. What is the Tour de France?
Le festival d'Avignon
in a bathroom or kitchen
Paris
a bicycle race
41. What time is the main meal served in France?
French Republic
dom Perignon
la Manche 'the sleeve'
noon
42. What do French ducks say?
Napoleon Bonaparte
Paris
Mayotte
coin coin
43. Who is Quasimodo?
France
the hunchback in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
ARIANE
Josephine Baker
44. Who is the current Prime Minister of France - serving along with President Nicolas Sarkozy?
goose liver
former colonies in Africa
ch
Fran
45. What is the French national anthem?
that is where he died
la Marseillaise
1889 World's Fair
the little ball the player tries to get closest to
46. What does une baguette mean besides a loaf of bread?
Moulin Rouge
gourmet cooking
June 6th - 1944
a stick
47. Who was the musician Who collaborated with Moli
Jean-Baptiste Lully
lunch or dinner - almost never at breakfast
Provence
G
48. What is one of the largest crops in France
15-16
pig's blood
impressionist
wheat
49. What is the French delicacy foie gras?
gourmet cooking
une salade
fattened liver of duck or goose
the nuclear power industry
50. The university of Paris in the Latin Quarter on the left bank of the Seine is called...?
lavender
iron ore
la Sorbonne
ages 2-6