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French Culture
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culture
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What regions are famous for their butter
the cathedral in Reims
using the familiar tu when talking to somebody
Normandy and Brittany
fried eggs
2. What are MC Solaar - Assassins and NTM?
individual sports - such as tennis - cycling and sailing
Brazil
cuisine bourgeoise
French rap groups
3. What is un rago
1962
Mayotte
a stew
Alsace and Lorraine
4. Who developed the champagne making method?
the cathedral in Reims
prison
dom Perignon
une
5. At What age did Louis XIV begin running France?
individual sports - such as tennis - cycling and sailing
May -1954
Toulouse
5 yrs old
6. When was Marie Antoinette executed by guillotine?
lavender
Vienna - to celebrate the end of the siege of the city by the Turks
1793
the first modern legal code of France
7. What is the underground subway system called in Paris?
1481
Louisiana
le m
during WWI and WWII
8. What was the profession of Debussy?
composer
the 12th century
2 lbs per person - a total of 60 -000 tons
watch a play
9. Who sculpted Le Penseur?
a Christmas cake shaped like a log
Jacques Cartier
Auguste Rodin
bridges - specifically the Bordeaux Bridge
10. What founder member of the European Union (EU) has the third largest military in NATO - and the largest army in the EU?
the nuclear power industry
Marseille
Hector Berlioz and Fr
France
11. What are marrons glac
le football or le foot
the Seine river
candied chestnuts
Paris
12. What is une madeleine?
a cookie
left one
Mayotte
une
13. How many French soldiers died in World War I?
Romanesque
2 million
Versailles
la Manche 'the sleeve'
14. What kind of animal is used to snuffle out wild mushrooms and truffles?
Eiffel Tower
a railroad company
pig
inwards
15. How do you most often eat oysters in France?
le smurf
General Charles de Gaulle
raw - on the half shell with a splash of lemon
Austrian
16. How many tourists visit the city of Paris each year?
lavender
Italian
more than 2 million
late 1800s
17. What is the Pompidou Center?
a cookie
a flaky pastry
modern and contemporary art of the Western World
Nice
18. Name two delicacies of France?
5th Republic
Marie Antoinette
May 1st
frog legs (les cuisses de grenouille) and snails (les escargots) Also goose liver p
19. What is the French for high school?
a supersonic commercial airplane
le lyc
2001
Fran
20. What is le Code Napol
Provence
Le Palais du Luxembourg
denim (de N
the first modern legal code of France
21. What was the original purpose of le Louvre?
high-heeled shoes
to raise the retirement age
palace of the kings of France
Arles - France
22. What types of business attire did the French create?
Napoleon Bonaparte
80%
Moulin Rouge
suits and neckties
23. Which three French clothing designers first influenced the fashion trends?
processed meats and sandwiches
using the familiar tu when talking to somebody
Coco Chanel - Yves Saint-Laurent - Christian Dior
ARIANE
24. What are the two most popular French sporting events in summer?
Nice
with a handshake or kiss on the cheek
Bastille Day - July 14th
Roland Garros Tennis Tournament and the cycling Tour de France
25. What is the Tour de France?
Pablo Picasso
le Mar
a bicycle race
the salamander
26. What is une cr
the Opera festival
Tintin
a place where they make and sell cr
September
27. What was Grace Kelly's profession before she married Prince Rainier de Monaco?
le smurf
fish
American film star
a railway known as the Channel Tunnel or Chunnel
28. How many different types of cheese does France produce?
about 400
a Gallic tribe - Parisii
shopping center
an Egyptian Obelisk
29. How long did it take Baron Georges Haussmann to transform the city of Paris?
elephant
le tricolore
20 yrs
2
30. When was the Statue of Liberty shipped from France to NY?
impressionist
Important social and labor reforms
1885
a lobster
31. Which French city has been the center of perfume production for centuries?
a tourist boat on the Seine in Paris
Grasse
1000
Romanesque
32. Which ingredient is essential in Proven
garlic
Paris
over 9 million
actress
33. Who painted Guernica?
on an envelope
North Africa
a stick
Pablo Picasso
34. From where does most of France's olive oil come from
a mile
Provence
ages 2-6
near Paris
35. What was la Bastille?
Gaul
prison
for not understanding the people and frivolously spending money
Fran
36. What is une cervelle de veau?
Gothic art
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
The/ (le) Concorde
yes - some French people eat it : a veal brain
37. What French president was elected in 2007 - and is up for re-election in May 2012?
Victor Hugo
Nicolas Sarkozy
a flaky pastry
1946
38. In which hand do the French usually hold the fork while eating?
Nice
left one
shopping center
art
39. The visual arts flourished in the mid-19th century. What were the three schools?
2001
Romanticism - Realism - and Impressionism
l'
Moulin Rouge
40. Where did la Goulue dance?
un kilogramme
Moulin Rouge
a famous French puppet
a paste of ground meat - fish and/or liver
41. What type of sports do many of the French prefer?
Belgium
a pastry - also means a nun
Anne d'Autriche
individual sports - such as tennis - cycling and sailing
42. What is the difference between un ch
ch
2
rabies vaccine
une bouteille de champagne
43. Who are the two most famous Cubist Artists?
G
Braque and Picasso
Germany - Switzerland and Italy
Fran
44. What fragrant purple flower is grown for the perfume industry in the south of France?
lavender
Grasse
Italian
Paris
45. What is further north - Lille or Bordeaux
fattened liver of duck or goose
Lille
Napoleon Bonaparte
frog legs (les cuisses de grenouille) and snails (les escargots) Also goose liver p
46. What are des oeufs sur le plat?
Le Palais du Luxembourg
boeuf bourguignon
November 1st
fried eggs
47. What was the country of France named before Roman times?
Joan of Arc
Gaul
April Fool's Day
with a handshake or kiss on the cheek
48. Who is Ast
a Gallic tribe - Parisii
Britain
cartoon character
Mus
49. Where did Paris get its name from?
l'existentialisme
a Gallic tribe - Parisii
Louis XIV
business section with offices - shopping and small factories
50. Who entered WWI in 1917 to help France defeat Germany?
Napoleon
December 6th (Saint Nicolas)
Bastille Day - July 14th
US