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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. What has 4 legs - 2 long ears and tastes delicious in a stew?
un lapin (a rabbit)
Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon
a cookie
the Alps and the Pyrenees
2. What is le Front National?
the Seine river
near Paris
right wing - anti-immigration party
Important social and labor reforms
3. Who composed Bol
Nice
Maurice Ravel
overseas France
religious freedom
4. What country does the World Health Organization frequently name as the world's best overall health care provider?
5 yrs old
France
high speed train (TGV)
December 6th (Saint Nicolas)
5. What was the object of a controversial retirement bill passed through the Assembl
to raise the retirement age
Alsace and Lorraine
they have to pass the baccalaureate exam (le bac) to get in
slow dancing
6. During Which century did Louis XIV reign?
Fran
modern and contemporary art of the Western World
17th
Austrian
7. When did France end nuclear testing?
1996
before lunch or dinner
traditional - local cooking
less
8. What is la C
une bouteille de champagne
French Riviera
d
perfume
9. What is le Figaro?
January 6th (Epiphany)
a newspaper
citrus
l'existentialisme
10. What comes first - l'
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11. At Which celebrations do you give drag
a hexagon
christenings and weddings
pig
the American - Lance Armstrong
12. At What meal are eggs eaten?
1000
lunch or dinner - almost never at breakfast
christenings and weddings
Alexandre Dumas (p
13. What island in the Indian Ocean became the newest overseas territory (d
Mayotte
boulangerie
Lille
the first modern legal code of France
14. What countries border France to the East?
a newspaper
less
l'
Germany - Switzerland and Italy
15. Who had Versailles built to its present day splendor?
Romanesque
the cathedral in Reims
Louis XIV
Herg
16. What is la mairie?
the town hall
Vercing
a pinball machine
Germany - Switzerland and Italy
17. What mountain range separates France and Spain
Les Pyr
poetry
rabies vaccine
libert
18. What shape do the 20 major highways leading in and out of Paris form?
using the familiar tu when talking to somebody
suits and neckties
to raise the retirement age
a star
19. What is vouvoiement?
Grasse
19
using the formal vous when talking to somebody
Statue of Liberty
20. What is a lyc
poetry
a co-ed high school
to raise the retirement age
on the southwest coast of France
21. What structure was built in Paris in 1889 by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel?
d
Fran
Eiffel Tower
1885
22. What did the brothers Louis and Auguste Lumi
shopping center
A type of soft cheese
movie camera and projector
the time of Gaul's invasion by the Romans
23. What are the four major rivers in France?
a mountain range
the little ball the player tries to get closest to
hot milk and coffee
the Seine - the Garonne - the Rh
24. Which transportation system in France is among the most modern and efficient in the world?
high speed train (TGV)
she was accused of being a witch
la Marseillaise
France
25. When do you eat une galette des rois?
January 6th (Epiphany)
a lobster
in the afternoon (un go
Germany
26. What are MC Solaar - Assassins and NTM?
1984
Paul Gauguin
French rap groups
Francophonie
27. When do the Christmas holiday celebrations begin in France
a dozen oysters
80%
Paris
December 6th (Saint Nicolas)
28. What is un wagon-lit?
Francophonie
Napoleon Bonaparte
sleeping car
July 14 - 1789
29. What did Monet - Manet - and Auguste Renoir have in common?
Provence
they were all Impressionist painters
the Alps
November 1st
30. What is une langue de veau?
lavender
a veal tongue
Bourbons
H
31. What is the French name for home cooking?
shop
processed meats and sandwiches
les arrondissements
cuisine bourgeoise
32. What fruit is used in Kirsch?
cheese - butter and apple brandy (Calvados)
civil
60
cherries
33. Where did la Goulue dance?
Moulin Rouge
iron ore
over 90 million
Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon
34. Why was Joan of Arc burned at the stake on May 30 - 1431?
Charlemagne
inwards
African
she was accused of being a witch
35. What type of mushrooms are grown underground and are the size of golf balls?
porcelain
Nantes
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
truffles
36. What would you do at la Com
watch a play
June 6th - 1944
the salamander
after the inventors - the Montgolfier brothers
37. In which hand do the French usually hold the fork while eating?
left one
right wing - anti-immigration party
an ambulance
Normandy and Brittany
38. Where is France's spacecraft launched?
garlic
the Alps and the Pyrenees
Kourou (French Guyana)
a Christmas cake shaped like a log
39. What French island is located in the Mediterranean
Corsica - la Corse
Belgium
an ambulance
a pinball machine
40. What was the profession of the man Who invented Champagne?
Alsace and Lorraine
orange
monk
a Gallic tribe - Parisii
41. On Which French city did the world focus when Diana - Princess of Wales died in 1997?
Paris
Belgium
raw - fresh vegetables
cherries
42. During World War II - What percentage of France's factories - machinery and transportation systems were lost?
storming of the Bastille
le mar
Paris
80%
43. Can a p
it is the 5th largest economy
porcelain
of course
Gothic art
44. Who signed an armistice with Hitler that divided France into 2 parts?
Julius Caesar
Belgium
le mar
Jacques Cartier
45. How long did it take Baron Georges Haussmann to transform the city of Paris?
Napoleon Bonaparte
Vienna - to celebrate the end of the siege of the city by the Turks
fast food chains
20 yrs
46. What do the French call the English Channel
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47. What did France get back at the end of World War I?
1998
Alsace and Lorraine
La Sorbonne university of Paris
composer
48. What opera did Georges Bizet write that is considered his masterpiece?
France
Carmen
cuisine bourgeoise
yes - some French people eat it : a veal brain
49. What is un wagon-restaurant?
le football am
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
a dining car
religious freedom
50. What is une langue de chat?
Val
Versailles
a cookie
2 million