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French Culture
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culture
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What are the Auteuil - Longchamps - Chantilly and St. Cloud in Paris?
15 -771 feet/4805 meters
racetracks
a secondary school (junior high or middle school)
15-16
2. What practice dating back to the 18th century - known as la tauromachie - or corrida - was granted official protection by the French Minister for Culture in 2011?
le football or le foot
bullfighting
French Riviera
composer
3. What is la France m
about 150 yrs ago
more than a thousand
Continental France
a French naval station
4. When did France end nuclear testing?
1500
boeuf bourguignon
1996
Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI
5. What music festival is Aix-en-Provence famous for?
Jacques Cartier
a French naval station
the Opera festival
100
6. What is the plateau de fromages?
a Gallic tribe - Parisii
a platter with a selection of cheeses
rabies vaccine
after the inventors - the Montgolfier brothers
7. Who married Louis XIII?
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8. Where were the kings of France crowned for hundreds of years
100
chestnuts
the cathedral in Reims
Marseille
9. Which French city has been the center of perfume production for centuries?
Alexandre Dumas (p
soccer
composer
Grasse
10. At dinner time - What do French families do at the table?
Britain
gather together and share events from their day
Italian princess - Marie de M
a star
11. What flavor is the liquor Cointreau?
left
orange
fillet of duck breast
la bouillabaisse
12. Who won the Tour de France a record 7 times 1999-2005?
student riots
he disappeared on a mission during World War II
the American - Lance Armstrong
le P
13. What do painters from the romantic period appeal to?
emotions and imaginations
le smurf
high taxes and starvation
goose liver
14. Who is the current Prime Minister of France - serving along with President Nicolas Sarkozy?
traditional - local cooking
a cookie
Fran
The/ (le) Concorde
15. What is hidden in une galette des Rois?
mussels steamed open in wine and seasonings
a bean or a small porcelain figurine
Moulin Rouge
2 million
16. What famous conquest is depicted in the famous Bayeux tapestry?
1500
chunks of French bread that are dipped in hot - melted cheese
William the Conqueror invading England in 1066
Fran
17. Which American trend has made its way to France and the French are very disapproving of it?
late 1800s
Le centre Georges Pompidou (Beaubourg)
fast food chains
William the Conqueror invading England in 1066
18. What day of the week are elections always held in France
Romanticism - Realism - and Impressionism
Parc Ast
Sundays
seafood
19. Who led the Romans into France in 52BC?
Corsica (la Corse)
Napoleon Bonaparte
Hundred Years War
Julius Caesar
20. What type of cooking is called provincial?
Richelieu
H
candied chestnuts
traditional - local cooking
21. What is sold in une charcuterie?
actress
Louis Pasteur
the 13th century
processed meats and sandwiches
22. What is the French term for soccer?
an Egyptian Obelisk
Arles - France
le football or le foot
a bicycle race
23. At What age did Louis XIV begin running France?
Auguste Rodin
5 yrs old
in an apartment building
Napoleon Bonaparte
24. Who wrote Gargantua and Pantagruel?
Fran
Parc Ast
art
a famous French puppet
25. Who won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1903?
the Alps and the Pyrenees
a restaurant in Paris
Marie and Pierre Curie
Southern France - on the C
26. Where was Maximilian sent by Napoleon III?
Mexico
100
5th Republic
boeuf bourguignon
27. Where is Orly
near Paris
le massif central
Renaissance
Mexico
28. What is une b
Louis Pasteur
a Christmas cake shaped like a log
sauerkraut - meat and potatoes
shopping center
29. When do the Christmas holiday celebrations begin in France
December 6th (Saint Nicolas)
a dozen oysters
17th
20 yrs
30. What percentage of France's total area is covered by woods and forests
Bourbons
in Paris - on an islet in the middle of the Seine River - facing west toward the original statue
Huguenots
26 percent
31. What are the main crops in France
Coco Chanel - Yves Saint-Laurent - Christian Dior
wheat - corn - sugar beets and grapes
the Alps and the Pyrenees
a sugared almond
32. When did the Cannes Film Festival begin?
1946
almost 200 yrs
Napoleon Bonaparte
The/ (le) Concorde
33. On What side of the road do you drive in France?
late 1800s
on the right
for not understanding the people and frivolously spending money
Antoine de Saint-Exup
34. Where did Vincent Van Gogh settle in the late 19th century because he found inspiration for his paintings there?
prison
Arles - France
high speed train (TGV)
Toulouse
35. What is the French for high school?
24 hrs (les 24 heures du Mans)
racetracks
le lyc
Paul Gauguin
36. Near What country is Lille
Belgium
Vincent Van Gogh
1903
French explorer
37. What did l'
strong black coffee
religious freedom
Louisiana
they have to pass the baccalaureate exam (le bac) to get in
38. What is une religieuse?
a pastry - also means a nun
Fran
Saturdays
Kourou (French Guyana)
39. What kind of animal is Babar?
60
wheat - corn - sugar beets and grapes
elephant
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
40. What is Mona Lisa called in French?
right wing - anti-immigration party
le football or le foot
La Joconde
Louis Pasteur
41. What is boudin noir (black pudding) made with?
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42. What is la mairie?
the town hall
art
libert
more than a thousand
43. Who is Quasimodo?
the hunchback in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
a stew
a tourist boat on the Seine in Paris
Les Pyr
44. What are the two most popular French sporting events in summer?
a French car from the Citro
Napoleon Bonaparte
Roland Garros Tennis Tournament and the cycling Tour de France
traditional - local cooking
45. Who invaded and occupied the northern and western parts of France in 1940?
Germany
mussels steamed open in wine and seasonings
Louis XV
ARIANE
46. How long did the construction of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris take?
seafood (fish - lobster) and cr
Paris
a scallop (type of seafood)
almost 200 yrs
47. How many tourists visit the city of Paris each year?
about 400
Impressionism
more than 2 million
Alsace and Lorraine
48. What is un petit beurre?
a pastry - also means a nun
1984
a cookie
gather together and share events from their day
49. On What would you put une vinaigrette?
1946
Kourou (French Guyana)
une salade
on the French and Spanish sides of the Western Pyrenees
50. Where is le pays basque
on the French and Spanish sides of the Western Pyrenees
Corsica (la Corse)
Le Palais du Luxembourg
Richelieu