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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. What is une madeleine?
a stew
a cookie
in the Caribbean
film star
2. What is une langue de chat?
a cookie
watch a play
19
seafood
3. In France - What type of wedding is required by law - civil or religious?
civil
the Opera festival
Mayotte
Statue of Liberty
4. What is the French term for soccer?
in a bathroom or kitchen
Auguste Rodin
orange
le football or le foot
5. What is un potage?
Moli
a flaky pastry
high taxes and starvation
soup
6. To What age was France's legal retirement age lowered in 1982 by Socialist President Mitterrand?
60
Voltaire
boulangerie
81
7. Where is le Mus
in Paris
Germany - Switzerland and Italy
truffles
cuisine bourgeoise
8. Who is responsible for the invention of the cinema in the late 19th century?
5 yrs
the Lumi
cartoon character
the Loire at 626 miles
9. What mountain range separates France and Spain
a pinball machine
gourmet cooking
Les Pyr
an orange soft drink
10. In France - Where would you find a concierge?
in an apartment building
le r
une salade
Jean-Marie Le Pen
11. What founder member of the European Union (EU) has the third largest military in NATO - and the largest army in the EU?
Mayotte
of course
France
parachute
12. What is le Camembert?
A type of soft cheese
Pablo Picasso
the Alps and the Pyrenees
the hunchback in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
13. Is un m
more
after the inventors - the Montgolfier brothers
a mile
pig
14. What is le cochonnet in the game of boules?
1885
the little ball the player tries to get closest to
Toulouse
a fried pastry
15. Who composed Bol
Maurice Ravel
Bastille Day - July 14th
a music video
General Charles de Gaulle
16. ARIANE launchers are used mainly to send What into space?
in an apartment building
telecommunication satellites
French Republic
le baseball
17. Who was Louis Renault?
Roman Catholic
founder of Renault automobiles
ARIANE
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
18. What would you do at les Galeries Lafayette?
une
an orange soft drink
a tourist guide book
shop
19. What is the official name for the country of France?
telecommunication satellites
Impressionism
19
French Republic
20. Where is Nice
81
Bastille Day - July 14th
Arles - France
Southern France - on the C
21. What was the Roman (Latin) name for Paris?
Napoleon Bonaparte
Eugene Ionesco
Lutetia
art museum including decorative arts from 1848 to 1914
22. What is the highest point in France?
un kilo
an orange soft drink
about 300 -000
Mont Blanc
23. How many French speakers are there worldwide?
the 13th century
Marie Curie
over 90 million
about $7 -500
24. Which art movement do the painters Edgar Degas - Claude Monet - and Pierre-Auguste Renoir belong to?
christenings and weddings
Impressionism
actress
Britain
25. Where would you most likely find par avion written?
France
Mus
on an envelope
fertile soil
26. What helped rebuild France at the end of World War II?
a nursing home
The Marshall Plan (US)
Louis XIV
Id
27. When was Marie Antoinette executed by guillotine?
15 -771 feet/4805 meters
right wing - anti-immigration party
1500
1793
28. Which king built le ch
2002
Louis XV
Fran
1885
29. What is the French term for bakery?
more than a thousand
boulangerie
Southern France - on the C
farmland
30. Who are the two most famous Cubist Artists?
Braque and Picasso
Alexandre Dumas (p
June 6th - 1944
on the right
31. What is une cr
a place where they make and sell cr
watch a play
Napoleon Bonaparte
during WWI and WWII
32. What are marrons glac
more than 2 million
on the French and Spanish sides of the Western Pyrenees
candied chestnuts
meuh
33. What is le Figaro?
1889 World's Fair
July 14 - 1789
a newspaper
French Riviera
34. What did the brothers Louis and Auguste Lumi
100
movie camera and projector
over 90 million
modern and contemporary art of the Western World
35. What has 4 legs - 2 long ears and tastes delicious in a stew?
shop
an orange soft drink
France
un lapin (a rabbit)
36. What is longer - un kilom
1998
a mile
Italian princess - Marie de M
Germans
37. Who brought high cooking into France in 1600?
September
shop
a supersonic commercial airplane
Italian princess - Marie de M
38. What is the total population of France?
porcelain
le mar
About 63 million people
a kind of outdoor bowling game played with two large metal balls and one smaller one
39. Who brought order back to France?
Napoleon Bonaparte
the hunchback in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Marie Curie and Louis Pasteur
the art of preparing good food
40. What colors are on the flag of France
processed meats and sandwiches
Nicolas Sarkozy
Victor Hugo
blue - white and red
41. What is an international organization of over 50 member states or countries where there is a notable affiliation with French language or culture?
Francophonie
Herg
blue - white and red
inwards
42. What are des tripes
Mexico
Bastille Day - July 14th
Coco Chanel - Yves Saint-Laurent - Christian Dior
tripe cooked very slowly in sauce - up to 24 hours
43. Who did France join in declaring war on Germany - Which began WWII?
Britain
lavender
hiking
Paris
44. What time do the French usually eat dinner?
1481
between 7:00 and 9:30pm
American film star
the cathedral
45. What is the approximate geometrical shape of France
a hexagon
of course
William the Conqueror invading England in 1066
North Africa
46. What happened to Charles VII on July 17 - 1429?
he was crowned King of France
cocorico
Germany - Switzerland and Italy
Eugene Ionesco
47. What is boudin noir (black pudding) made with?
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183
48. What is un kilo the abbreviation of?
gourmet cooking
un kilogramme
Parc Ast
iron ore
49. What is the average life expectancy in France?
frog legs (les cuisses de grenouille) and snails (les escargots) Also goose liver p
a veal tongue
a tourist guide book
81
50. Whose mistress was the Marquise de Pompadour?
Alexandre Dumas (p
more
Louis XV
white