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French Culture

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1. What day of the week do French children attend school while American children do not






2. What is la mairie?






3. What was Grace Kelly's profession before she married Prince Rainier de Monaco?






4. What is une coquille Saint-Jacques?






5. The Palace of Versailles is a monument to art of Which period?






6. Who brought high cooking into France in 1600?






7. When did Joan of Arc become Saint Joan?






8. For Which occasion was the Eiffel Tower built?

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9. What is the largest city in France?






10. What is a famous French beef stew?






11. Of What school of philosophy was Jean-Paul Sartre a major representative?

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12. What is la Chartreuse?






13. Who wrote Le Petit Prince?






14. What does service compris mean?






15. At What meal are eggs eaten?






16. What French actor - popular in the US - has starred in such movies as Green Card (1990) and Christopher Columbus (1992)?






17. Which came first - the Renaissance or the Classical period?






18. What is heavier - un kilo or 2 pounds?






19. What is le cochonnet in the game of boules?






20. Which art movement do the painters Edgar Degas - Claude Monet - and Pierre-Auguste Renoir belong to?






21. Who wrote Les Mis






22. Who wrote Gargantua and Pantagruel?






23. What coalition group won the elections in 1936?






24. How many tourists visit the city of Paris each year?






25. What are marrons glac






26. What do the French cows say?






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






28. What kind of animal is Babar?






29. Who won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1903?






30. What does d

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31. Who was Jacques Cartier?






32. Protestantism came to France during the 1500s. Those Who converted were called...?






33. What was Louis Pasteur's most important vaccine?






34. The French invented the coffee pot How many years ago?






35. Where was a papal palace built in France






36. What is in caf






37. What happened to Charles VII on July 17 - 1429?






38. Where is Biarritz






39. What do painters from the romantic period appeal to?






40. Why was Joan of Arc burned at the stake on May 30 - 1431?






41. At Which celebrations do you give drag






42. Where is le Mus






43. Which city in southwestern France is called la ville rose






44. What is found on the north side of the Seine River - called the right bank






45. What is the French term for the meal that is celebrated on Christmas Eve - Dec 24th?






46. What is une Citro






47. ARIANE launchers are used mainly to send What into space?






48. What time period is the comic strip Ast

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49. Who sculpted Le Penseur?






50. What is Brittany know for?







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