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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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1. What is in caf
hot milk and coffee
Versailles
Euro Disney
the Opera festival
2. What shape do the 20 major highways leading in and out of Paris form?
Normandy and Brittany
sixteen
civil
a star
3. At Which celebrations do you give drag
le r
the salamander
christenings and weddings
film director
4. What is une douzaine d'hu
jazz
a mountain range
a dozen oysters
French Guyana - la Guyane fran
5. What Museum in Paris is housed in an old train station?
frog legs (les cuisses de grenouille) and snails (les escargots) Also goose liver p
May -1954
Mus
le football am
6. What country is la Martinique part of
l'
almost 200 yrs
France
cuisine bourgeoise
7. A movement in the 1970s featuring simpler foods - smaller portions and natural flavors called...
Romanticism
cuisine bourgeoise
in the afternoon (un go
nouvelle cuisine
8. What famous conquest is depicted in the famous Bayeux tapestry?
less
Georges Pompidou
inwards
William the Conqueror invading England in 1066
9. How old must you be to vote in France
Impressionism
Charlemagne
18 yrs old
Ice skate
10. Which king of France was known as the Sun King?
fillet of duck breast
Louis XIV
ask for a doggy bag
1962
11. What was the profession of Debussy?
Napoleon Bonaparte
using the formal vous when talking to somebody
composer
G
12. Where did le croissant originate?
Vienna - to celebrate the end of the siege of the city by the Turks
fillet of duck breast
cartoon character
Louis XV
13. What French president was elected in 2007 - and is up for re-election in May 2012?
Carmen
traditional - local cooking
Nicolas Sarkozy
the cathedral
14. What was the country of France named before Roman times?
boeuf bourguignon
1962
horsemeat
Gaul
15. When did the allies land in Normandy?
June 6th - 1944
rich chocolate cake with vanilla or coffee icing in the shape of a log
A Moveable Feast
Waterloo
16. Who stayed at the Palace of Fontainebleau?
Napoleon
slow dancing
mussels steamed open in wine and seasonings
1000 feet/300 meters
17. What was la Bastille?
Ice skate
G
prison
Normandy and Brittany
18. What founder member of the European Union (EU) has the third largest military in NATO - and the largest army in the EU?
le smurf
17th century playwright
French rap groups
France
19. What countries border France to the East?
left
Germany - Switzerland and Italy
A French first lady gave birth during her husband's presidency
Germans
20. Who was the head of the Vichy government?
Provence
la Sorbonne
le Mar
Charlemagne
21. What kind of animal is used to snuffle out wild mushrooms and truffles?
Italian princess - Marie de M
pig
Le festival d'Avignon
le massif central
22. What is le slow?
1995
slow dancing
frog legs (les cuisses de grenouille) and snails (les escargots) Also goose liver p
American film star
23. Whose mistress was the Marquise de Pompadour?
fertile soil
Louis XV
in Paris - on an islet in the middle of the Seine River - facing west toward the original statue
inwards
24. Who is France's most famous ecologist?
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
the Loire - 634 miles/1020 kilometers
nouvelle cuisine
Germany
25. What do the French buy almost daily at the bakery?
The President and Prime Minister belong to different political parties
Versailles
bullfighting
croissants and baguettes
26. Where would you find un chauffe-eau?
in a bathroom or kitchen
horsemeat
film director
la bouillabaisse
27. On June 12 - 1940 - Paris surrendered to What country to save itself from destruction?
Germany
Lille
to raise the retirement age
he disappeared on a mission during World War II
28. Which artist cut off his ear?
Vincent Van Gogh
traditional - local cooking
Marseille
Napoleon
29. Which city in southwestern France is called la ville rose
le massif central
porcelain
1500
Toulouse
30. Where is le pays basque
Arles - France
on the French and Spanish sides of the Western Pyrenees
democracy
Normandy and Brittany
31. What did the brothers Louis and Auguste Lumi
beef - veal - poultry and cheese
movie camera and projector
Francophonie
1481
32. What is the French for high school?
gather together and share events from their day
le lyc
a cookie
pig's blood
33. What does une baguette mean besides a loaf of bread?
a stick
Renaissance
that is where he died
80%
34. What did Paul Verlaine write?
chestnuts
gourmet cooking
a music video
poetry
35. During Which century did the Renaissance take place?
blue - white and red
Brazil
16th century
space - electronics and computer software
36. What famous French-Swiss filmmaker - Who headed the Nouvelle Vague movement - was awarded an Oscar by the American Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2011?
Normandy and Brittany
Jean-Luc Godard
Moli
60
37. Who was Louis Renault?
North Africa
founder of Renault automobiles
1890s
1889 World's Fair
38. What is the Mus
tip is included
art museum including decorative arts from 1848 to 1914
Normandy and Brittany
right wing - anti-immigration party
39. What is une b
liquor
a Christmas cake shaped like a log
Air France
Roland Garros Tennis Tournament and the cycling Tour de France
40. What do you call a stage of the Tour de France in French?
une
processed meats and sandwiches
Waterloo
ask for a doggy bag
41. Where does a smaller Statue of Liberty stand in France
Versailles
mineral water
Paris
in Paris - on an islet in the middle of the Seine River - facing west toward the original statue
42. Which American trend has made its way to France and the French are very disapproving of it?
fast food chains
le Louvre
France
1793
43. What opera did Georges Bizet write that is considered his masterpiece?
Carmen
ARIANE
a toasted ham and cheese sandwich
Roland Garros Tennis Tournament and the cycling Tour de France
44. Where is la promenade des Anglais
1984
2
a music video
Nice
45. What is the flavor of un macaron?
in the afternoon (un go
Normandy and Brittany
the Alps
almond or coconut
46. What is the approximate geometrical shape of France
meuh
a hexagon
a mountain range
Louis XIV
47. What fragrant purple flower is grown for the perfume industry in the south of France?
le massif central
December 6th (Saint Nicolas)
lavender
95
48. Which art movement do the painters Edgar Degas - Claude Monet - and Pierre-Auguste Renoir belong to?
denim (de N
Impressionism
painting with geometric shapes
the first modern legal code of France
49. where in France is the Celtic influence still strong?
lunch
boeuf bourguignon
l'existentialisme
Normandy and Brittany
50. What kind of art is found at the Jeu de Paume?
less
Impressionism
high-heeled shoes
a famous French puppet