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French Culture

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1. What is sold in une charcuterie?
Statue of Liberty
on the French and Spanish sides of the Western Pyrenees
processed meats and sandwiches
French Riviera

2. What island in the Indian Ocean became the newest overseas territory (d
Italian princess - Marie de M
Mayotte
painting with geometric shapes
Eiffel Tower

3. What is une r
a summer home or cottage
Georges Pompidou
Continental France
a supersonic commercial airplane

4. When did the first real school of French painting emerge?
Air France
during the Baroque Period 16th to 18th century
a cookie
an orange soft drink

5. French children must attend school until What age?
liquor
January 6th (Epiphany)
sixteen
the Loire - 634 miles/1020 kilometers

6. What is un clip?
A type of soft cheese
he disappeared on a mission during World War II
cherries
a music video

7. Who was the leading man in the 1990 film Cyrano de Bergerac?
le football or le foot
Napoleon Bonaparte
G
Julius Caesar

8. What did Paul Verlaine write?
in the Caribbean
poetry
Fran
North Africa

9. What is Orangina?
a summer home or cottage
cuisine bourgeoise
Auguste Rodin
an orange soft drink

10. Who is considered the greatest writer of fables in France?
the town hall
Eugene Ionesco
French explorer
Jean de la Fontaine

11. When did the Cannes Film Festival begin?
for not understanding the people and frivolously spending money
l'
1946
in an apartment building

12. Who launched the first hot air balloon in 1783?
Paris
brothers Jacques-Eug
Alsace and Lorraine
a famous French puppet

13. What was the profession of Debussy?
in a bathroom
17th century playwright
composer
high speed train (TGV)

14. What type of transportation was invented in France by a French doctor 200 yrs ago?
an ambulance
Napoleon
denim (de N
18 yrs old

15. What is the largest port of France
Jean de la Fontaine
14
Marseille
porcelain

16. What kind of animal is Babar?
H
elephant
they learn to read
nouvelle cuisine

17. What are the two most popular theme parks in France?
the Mediterranean Sea and Spain
processed meats and sandwiches
G
Parc Ast

18. Why was Marie Antoinette disliked by the French?
Louis XIV
Chinese-American architect - l.M. Pei
60
for not understanding the people and frivolously spending money

19. Who was imprisoned at the Conciergerie?
Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI
5th Republic
Marseille
a stick

20. What is break-dancing called in France?
le smurf
Mus
sleeping car
with a handshake or kiss on the cheek

21. What is the largest airline in France?
monk
Nicolas Sarkozy
a cookie
Air France

22. What time do the French usually eat dinner?
between 7:00 and 9:30pm
high speed train (TGV)
Paris
Germans

23. What is the plateau de fromages?
in the Caribbean
Le centre Georges Pompidou (Beaubourg)
a platter with a selection of cheeses
a famous French puppet

24. Which of Ernest Hemingway's books portray life in Paris between the two world wars?
le baseball
Charlemagne
parachute
A Moveable Feast

25. On What kind of bottle would you find the word brut?
une bouteille de champagne
an ambulance
the Loire - 634 miles/1020 kilometers
La Joconde

26. What is un homard?
a lobster
a secondary school (junior high or middle school)
the first modern legal code of France
Germany

27. Who invented the process of pasteurization?
l'
they were all Impressionist painters
the nuclear power industry
Louis Pasteur

28. During Which century did the Renaissance take place?
Fran
a hexagon
16th century
orange

29. At What meal are eggs eaten?
une
hiking
lunch or dinner - almost never at breakfast
a mountain range

30. In Which department would you find truffles
chunks of French bread that are dipped in hot - melted cheese
15 -771 feet/4805 meters
that is where he died
le P

31. We call it baseball - the French call it...?
they learn to read
Saturdays
le baseball
July 14 - 1789

32. What very famous writer was born in Nantes?
Jules Verne
they have to pass the baccalaureate exam (le bac) to get in
pig
5th Republic

33. Who was Louis Lumi
the hunchback in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
80%
French Riviera
the name of the man Who invented moving pictures

34. Can a p
of course
1481
September
December 6th (Saint Nicolas)

35. Who was the head of the Vichy government?
81
le Mar
the time of Gaul's invasion by the Romans
a sugared almond

36. How many French soldiers died in World War I?
G
Jean-Marie Le Pen
May -1954
2 million

37. What cheese is known as the oldest in France?
over 9 million
Livarot
le Front Populaire
Austrian

38. The French helped create the world's fastest passenger airplane called?
The/ (le) Concorde
Jules Verne
overseas France
a Paris university

39. What is the SNCF?
a dining car
Roman Catholic
a railroad company
Jules Verne

40. What great American landmark did Gustave Eiffel help design and build?
Statue of Liberty
1962
Mayotte
soccer player of Algerian origin Who brought the World Cup to the French in 1998

41. What is a popular outdoor activity among the French?
a dozen oysters
la bouillabaisse
hiking
France

42. What is the principal use of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon today
a French naval station
he disappeared on a mission during World War II
2002
yes - some French people eat it : a veal brain

43. What is the approximate geometrical shape of France
5 yrs old
a hexagon
the little ball the player tries to get closest to
Anne d'Autriche

44. Which transportation system in France is among the most modern and efficient in the world?
high speed train (TGV)
Germany - Switzerland and Italy
15-16
l'

45. What type of land transportation links France and England
Provence
in an apartment building
a railway known as the Channel Tunnel or Chunnel
1998

46. What type of land is more prevalent in France than in any other country in Western Europe
actress
1991
farmland
frog legs (les cuisses de grenouille) and snails (les escargots) Also goose liver p

47. How many different types of cheese does France produce?
high speed train (TGV)
about 400
Nice
l'

48. What is the longest river in France
palace of the kings of France
Nice
the Loire - 634 miles/1020 kilometers
the Lumi

49. What is la France m
denim (de N
15 -771 feet/4805 meters
Romanticism
Continental France

50. As the US is divided into states - France is divided into...
film director
a paste of ground meat - fish and/or liver
d
Fran

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