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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. We call it football - the French call it...?
le football am
a stew
Anne d'Autriche
don't do it
2. What is the French term for bakery?
a restaurant in Paris
Bourbons
French Riviera
boulangerie
3. How many people live in metropolitan Paris?
a cookie
they learn to read
telecommunication satellites
over 9 million
4. What is the main ingredient of bouillabaisse?
a parking zone
about 400
pig
fish
5. Which artist cut off his ear?
Vincent Van Gogh
it is the 5th largest economy
July 14 - 1789
beef - veal - poultry and cheese
6. What is le cochonnet in the game of boules?
the little ball the player tries to get closest to
in the afternoon (un go
a supersonic commercial airplane
Fran
7. Which river divides Paris into the right bank and left bank
Kourou (French Guyana)
a hexagon
Louis Pasteur
the Seine river
8. At What age do French children attend preschool
ages 2-6
Marseille
don't do it
2
9. What is the real name of the cartoonist Herg
a pinball machine
Val
Georges R
Roland Garros Tennis Tournament and the cycling Tour de France
10. Who is Guignol?
a nursing home
a famous French puppet
ask for a doggy bag
Auguste Rodin
11. What did France get back at the end of World War I?
an orange soft drink
1000 feet/300 meters
Alsace and Lorraine
Mayotte
12. Which French territory is off the coast of Canada
prehistoric cave paintings
Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon
Chinese-American architect - l.M. Pei
Nice
13. Who wrote the absurdist plays Rhinoceros and La cantatrice chauve (the bald soprano)?
Eugene Ionesco
overseas France
a supersonic commercial airplane
the Baroque period
14. What is the approximate geometrical shape of France
Alsace and Lorraine
a hexagon
traditional - local cooking
space - electronics and computer software
15. Is un litre more or less than a gallon?
fattened liver of duck or goose
William the Conqueror invading England in 1066
France
less
16. How much do sponsors pay to participate in the Tour de France?
Eugene Ionesco
about $7 -500
A type of soft cheese
mineral water
17. What did Paul Verlaine write?
pig's blood
Kourou (French Guyana)
the town hall
poetry
18. What is Brittany know for?
apple liquor
that is where he died
seafood (fish - lobster) and cr
perfume
19. What does une baguette mean besides a loaf of bread?
a stick
telecommunication satellites
gourmet cooking
nouvelle cuisine
20. What is the name of the French space program?
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
a dining car
1996
ARIANE
21. Who wrote Les Mis
Victor Hugo
perfume
the first modern legal code of France
a Paris university
22. Where is la promenade des Anglais
racetracks
Nice
G
French explorer
23. Where was Napoleon Bonaparte born?
Corsica (la Corse)
December 6th (Saint Nicolas)
fattened liver of duck or goose
le r
24. After a fancy dinner - What is the evening topped off with?
slow dancing
strong black coffee
a toasted ham and cheese sandwich
Napoleon Bonaparte
25. Who signed an armistice with Hitler that divided France into 2 parts?
France
Germans
2002
le mar
26. What do children learn in preschool
they learn to read
Louis Pasteur
the Lumi
cherries
27. Where is Biarritz
Maurice Ravel
2002
Vincent Van Gogh
on the southwest coast of France
28. What are the two most popular theme parks in France?
Parc Ast
during WWI and WWII
19
l'
29. What type of cooking is called haute cuisine?
Carmen
gourmet cooking
Lutetia
individual sports - such as tennis - cycling and sailing
30. How tall is Mont Blanc - the tallest mountain in Europe?
an ambulance
Versailles
North Africa
15 -771 feet/4805 meters
31. A new phenomenon called cohabitation appeared in French politics in the 1980's and 1990's. What does it mean?
1920
The President and Prime Minister belong to different political parties
a railroad company
beef - veal - poultry and cheese
32. Where is le Mus
croissants and baguettes
in Paris
Mexico
une salade
33. Which city in southwestern France is called la ville rose
Jacques Cartier
Toulouse
in an apartment building
1000 feet/300 meters
34. Olives grow in southern France during Which season of the year
summer
they learn to read
July
Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI
35. When was the first women's Tour de France held?
1984
a music video
Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon
the town hall
36. What do painters from the romantic period appeal to?
citrus
in Deauville
H
emotions and imaginations
37. Who led the underground resistance movement for those opposed to the Nazi takeover in France?
Roman Catholic
le football or le foot
libert
General Charles de Gaulle
38. What is le Code Napol
General Charles de Gaulle
Marie Curie's work
slow dancing
the first modern legal code of France
39. where in France is the Celtic influence still strong?
processed meats and sandwiches
Normandy and Brittany
Marseille
Arles - France
40. Who married Josephine Beauharnais?
November 1st
Napoleon Bonaparte
Moulin Rouge
Louisiana Purchase
41. Who wrote Candide?
a dining car
Normandy and Brittany
a co-ed high school
Voltaire
42. How many French soldiers died in World War I?
1995
2 million
sleeping car
film director
43. What is the French delicacy foie gras?
Jean-Marie Le Pen
fattened liver of duck or goose
17th century playwright
19
44. What was the original purpose of le Louvre?
strong black coffee
croissants and baguettes
palace of the kings of France
in Paris - on an islet in the middle of the Seine River - facing west toward the original statue
45. Who invaded and occupied the northern and western parts of France in 1940?
Germany
Mexico
A French first lady gave birth during her husband's presidency
le massif central
46. Which musicians were prominent the early 19th century?
Hector Berlioz and Fr
Jules Verne
a restaurant in Paris
a pinball machine
47. What would you find at Lascaux
over 90 million
left one
Romanticism
prehistoric cave paintings
48. On What would you put une vinaigrette?
Napoleon Bonaparte
more than 2 million
le smurf
une salade
49. Who painted Guernica?
Pablo Picasso
a platter with a selection of cheeses
painting with geometric shapes
1962
50. What is la Chartreuse?
Renaissance
liquor
General Charles de Gaulle
about 400