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French Culture
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1. During Which century did Louis XIV reign?
Impressionism
right wing - anti-immigration party
20th century
17th
2. What are the main ingredients of une choucroute garnie?
the Loire - 634 miles/1020 kilometers
sauerkraut - meat and potatoes
Jean de la Fontaine
Roman Catholic
3. What French cartoon detective is the subject of a new Steven Spielberg movie??
20th century
Tintin
Marie and Pierre Curie
Giulia
4. Who wrote the absurdist plays Rhinoceros and La cantatrice chauve (the bald soprano)?
over 90 million
Eugene Ionesco
Charles de Gaulle
Air France
5. How many French soldiers died in World War I?
2 million
le tricolore
high-heeled shoes
le r
6. What would you find at Lascaux
prehistoric cave paintings
2001
French Guyana - la Guyane fran
April Fool's Day
7. Where is le grand Trianon
une salade
Jean de la Fontaine
Versailles
l'existentialisme
8. What event is considered the start of the French Revolution?
porcelain
storming of the Bastille
a stew
a parking zone
9. when was the first female prime minister - Edith Cresson - appointed?
1991
A French first lady gave birth during her husband's presidency
Charles de Gaulle
Bourbons
10. What time is the main meal served in France?
American film star
noon
actress
traditional - local cooking
11. Who was the great king of the 16th century?
Fran
Charles de Gaulle
Austrian
the Loire at 626 miles
12. What is the principal use of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon today
Livarot
a veal tongue
a French naval station
Renaissance
13. What is the largest country of Western Europe?
Auguste Rodin
Louis XIV
Louis XIV
France
14. On What kind of bottle would you find the word brut?
Alsace and Lorraine
processed meats and sandwiches
16th century
une bouteille de champagne
15. How do you most often eat oysters in France?
in Deauville
5th Republic
raw - on the half shell with a splash of lemon
red
16. What are des tripes
tripe cooked very slowly in sauce - up to 24 hours
gourmet cooking
cartoon character
business section with offices - shopping and small factories
17. When was the French defeat at Dienbienphu?
May -1954
la Sorbonne
brothers Jacques-Eug
boeuf bourguignon
18. Who sculpted Le Penseur?
Auguste Rodin
space - electronics and computer software
1962
watch a play
19. Who succeeded Charles de Gaulle as President?
1890s
ch
Georges Pompidou
Provence
20. What palace in Paris serves as a meeting place for the 348-member French S
Le Palais du Luxembourg
November 1st
poetry
Austrian
21. In Which department would you find truffles
Germany
Mayotte
a bean or a small porcelain figurine
le P
22. When was the Sorbonne founded?
60
the 13th century
le lyc
May 1st
23. Where does a smaller Statue of Liberty stand in France
in Paris - on an islet in the middle of the Seine River - facing west toward the original statue
modern and contemporary art of the Western World
in Paris
a mile
24. What is le Front National?
actress
Fran
right wing - anti-immigration party
Romanticism
25. What is une langue de chat?
about $7 -500
Alexandre Dumas (p
a cookie
lunch or dinner - almost never at breakfast
26. What is the Pompidou Center?
rub the bowl with garlic
17th
modern and contemporary art of the Western World
Continental France
27. What kind of school is called le coll
Le centre Georges Pompidou (Beaubourg)
Joan of Arc
a bean or a small porcelain figurine
a secondary school (junior high or middle school)
28. Who signed an armistice with Hitler that divided France into 2 parts?
an ambulance
mussels steamed open in wine and seasonings
tip is included
le mar
29. What is le Jura
Roman Catholic
a stick
a mountain range
it is the 5th largest economy
30. What is a significant mineral of France
iron ore
sauerkraut - meat and potatoes
1903
Voltaire
31. On What would you put une vinaigrette?
Braille script to help the blind read
une salade
Coco Chanel - Yves Saint-Laurent - Christian Dior
nouvelle cuisine
32. What is the name of the comprehensive exam students take at the end of high school?
la Sorbonne
Marie Curie's work
left one
le baccalaur
33. Marie Antoinette was not French. What nationality was she?
Austrian
a dining car
Mayotte
Air France
34. How are students chosen to attend a university
a newspaper
Jean-Baptiste Lully
raw - fresh vegetables
they have to pass the baccalaureate exam (le bac) to get in
35. Can a p
Lille
Toulouse
left one
of course
36. Where was Maximilian sent by Napoleon III?
Mexico
Lille
Fran
18 yrs old
37. Where is France's spacecraft launched?
French Guyana - la Guyane fran
1996
Kourou (French Guyana)
Marie Curie's work
38. For Which occasion was the Eiffel Tower built?
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39. Where is the hall of mirrors
Avignon
Versailles
June 6th - 1944
Brazil
40. Who did France join in declaring war on Germany - Which began WWII?
lavender
Britain
Jean de la Fontaine
the Alps and the Pyrenees
41. What is un rago
a French naval station
a stew
US
painter
42. Where is Biarritz
Jacques Cartier
Paris
on the southwest coast of France
over 9 million
43. What is la mairie?
a railroad company
Val
Id
the town hall
44. Who was the leading man in the 1990 film Cyrano de Bergerac?
Marie Curie
Paul Gauguin
G
Normandy and Brittany
45. What type of painting is Cubism?
Romanticism
painting with geometric shapes
meuh
Saturdays
46. French children must attend school until What age?
he was crowned King of France
Marie Curie and Louis Pasteur
sixteen
Paris
47. Who invented the process of pasteurization?
Joan of Arc
almond or coconut
American film star
Louis Pasteur
48. What is in caf
Fran
Sundays
hot milk and coffee
Normandy and Brittany
49. We call it football - the French call it...?
Livarot
movie camera and projector
le football am
ch
50. Who is responsible for the invention of the cinema in the late 19th century?
the Lumi
coin coin
Parc Ast
Germany - Switzerland and Italy