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French Culture
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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. What is le Concorde?
a supersonic commercial airplane
G
Livarot
The Marshall Plan (US)
2. What are des oeufs sur le plat?
Mus
fried eggs
Louis XV
Jean de la Fontaine
3. Who married Louis XIII?
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4. What is le Front National?
processed meats and sandwiches
1998
in the afternoon (un go
right wing - anti-immigration party
5. What is un homard?
a lobster
d
French Guyana - la Guyane fran
coin coin
6. Who did France join in declaring war on Germany - Which began WWII?
a dining car
La Sorbonne university of Paris
France
Britain
7. What are des tripes
tripe cooked very slowly in sauce - up to 24 hours
stuffed tomatoes
a mountain range
Louis XIV
8. What is sold in une charcuterie?
1903
summer
processed meats and sandwiches
a hexagon
9. Who was the cardinal Who served as regent for Louis XIII?
la bouillabaisse
cherries
Richelieu
citrus
10. Who sculpted Le Penseur?
a flaky pastry
ask for a doggy bag
le m
Auguste Rodin
11. 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?
Arles - France
bullfighting
soccer
red
12. What is le Figaro?
a newspaper
une salade
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
a railroad company
13. What is Brittany know for?
a public lavatory for men
cartoon character
film director
seafood (fish - lobster) and cr
14. What caused the French Revolution of 1789?
high taxes and starvation
about 150 yrs ago
lavender
fattened liver of duck or goose
15. What event is considered the start of the French Revolution?
storming of the Bastille
Hector Berlioz and Fr
after the inventors - the Montgolfier brothers
christenings and weddings
16. What is break-dancing called in France?
l'
le smurf
le Louvre
Antoine de Saint-Exup
17. What regions are famous for their butter
The Marshall Plan (US)
ask for a doggy bag
Giulia
Normandy and Brittany
18. What did Ren
stethoscope
after the inventors - the Montgolfier brothers
in the afternoon (un go
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
19. Which came first - the Renaissance or the Classical period?
24 hrs (les 24 heures du Mans)
Renaissance
raw - fresh vegetables
November 1st
20. What is the plateau de fromages?
Impressionism
la Marseillaise
Roland Garros Tennis Tournament and the cycling Tour de France
a platter with a selection of cheeses
21. What time period is the comic strip Ast
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22. In which hand do the French usually hold the fork while eating?
fish
left one
perfume
1984
23. What is un flipper?
1889 World's Fair
a pinball machine
liquor
high-heeled shoes
24. When was the Sorbonne founded?
the Loire - 634 miles/1020 kilometers
the 13th century
he was crowned King of France
19
25. What is the average life expectancy in France?
Gothic art
le lyc
Louisiana Purchase
81
26. Who brought high cooking into France in 1600?
a toasted ham and cheese sandwich
a French car from the Citro
Italian princess - Marie de M
more than a thousand
27. What is the most popular sport in France?
Kourou (French Guyana)
the Lumi
soccer
Alsace and Lorraine
28. What is the largest airline in France?
raw - fresh vegetables
Air France
a co-ed high school
la Manche 'the sleeve'
29. What type of equipment did Emile Gagnon and Jacques Cousteau invent in 1942?
Hector Berlioz and Fr
over 9 million
gather together and share events from their day
scuba gear
30. What mountain range separates France and Spain
le baseball
Les Pyr
left
d
31. Who married Josephine Beauharnais?
d
the cathedral
Napoleon Bonaparte
le football or le foot
32. Cooking in France is considered a form of...
art
Alexandre Dumas (p
Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon
they have to pass the baccalaureate exam (le bac) to get in
33. What is une r
a summer home or cottage
founder of Renault automobiles
during WWI and WWII
A type of soft cheese
34. What is un rago
Mus
a Christmas cake shaped like a log
more than 2 million
a stew
35. What does une baguette mean besides a loaf of bread?
slow dancing
a stick
Fran
Richelieu
36. What type of game is boules?
a kind of outdoor bowling game played with two large metal balls and one smaller one
General Charles de Gaulle
croissants and baguettes
Jean-Marie Le Pen
37. What is the largest city in France?
G
Paris
a tourist boat on the Seine in Paris
Paul Gauguin
38. What was the country of France named before Roman times?
July 14 - 1789
1962
Gaul
le Louvre
39. What is a popular fish stew that is served as a soup in the south of France?
la bouillabaisse
over 9 million
the 13th century
more than a thousand
40. What is vouvoiement?
he was crowned King of France
1890s
a mountain range
using the formal vous when talking to somebody
41. What kind of art is found at the Jeu de Paume?
Impressionism
he disappeared on a mission during World War II
le P
Maurice Ravel
42. At What meal are eggs eaten?
fattened liver of duck or goose
the Seine - the Garonne - the Rh
Germany
lunch or dinner - almost never at breakfast
43. What is la France d'outre-mer
overseas France
they have to pass the baccalaureate exam (le bac) to get in
Kourou (French Guyana)
stuffed tomatoes
44. What is un bateau-mouche?
Auguste Rodin
French rap groups
ask for a doggy bag
a tourist boat on the Seine in Paris
45. At Which celebrations do you give drag
processed meats and sandwiches
christenings and weddings
cherries
a secondary school (junior high or middle school)
46. What shape do the 20 major highways leading in and out of Paris form?
le football or le foot
a star
Britain
the cathedral
47. When did the country - Gaul get renamed France?
Mexico
Roland Garros Tennis Tournament and the cycling Tour de France
the American - Lance Armstrong
1481
48. How many different types of cheese does France produce?
Auguste Rodin
H
about 400
Italian
49. Which American trend has made its way to France and the French are very disapproving of it?
more
Italian princess - Marie de M
fast food chains
81
50. In western Europe - What is France the largest producer of?
a flaky pastry
1000
the Baroque period
beef - veal - poultry and cheese