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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 type of sports do many of the French prefer?
individual sports - such as tennis - cycling and sailing
a cookie
gourmet cooking
Normandy and Brittany
2. What is le Camembert?
A type of soft cheese
on an envelope
Normandy and Brittany
rub the bowl with garlic
3. What is une religieuse?
1889 World's Fair
Normandy and Brittany
on an envelope
a pastry - also means a nun
4. At dinner time - What do French families do at the table?
gather together and share events from their day
mussels steamed open in wine and seasonings
Versailles
watch a play
5. Name two delicacies of France?
The/ (le) Concorde
religious freedom
frog legs (les cuisses de grenouille) and snails (les escargots) Also goose liver p
modern and contemporary art of the Western World
6. What are crudit
raw - fresh vegetables
Louis XIV
ask for a doggy bag
orange-flavored - sweet - thin pancakes
7. What is more ornate Gothic or Romanesque architecture?
Waterloo
Gothic art
farmland
poetry
8. What does tomates farcies mean?
The President and Prime Minister belong to different political parties
stuffed tomatoes
pig's blood
a place where they make and sell cr
9. Who entered WWI in 1917 to help France defeat Germany?
processed meats and sandwiches
US
Braille script to help the blind read
le baseball
10. What war leader was chief of the French army at age 26?
more than a thousand
Lille
Napoleon Bonaparte
he was crowned King of France
11. Where is the hall of mirrors
Arles - France
1500
20th century
Versailles
12. Where does a smaller Statue of Liberty stand in France
more
Jean de la Fontaine
in Paris - on an islet in the middle of the Seine River - facing west toward the original statue
Germany
13. When was Marie Antoinette executed by guillotine?
cartoon character
1793
Renaissance
of course
14. Who was made emperor in 800 AD?
15-16
Charlemagne
le smurf
Paris
15. What comes first: l'
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16. 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?
in Deauville
Napoleon Bonaparte
bullfighting
14
17. What is found on the north side of the Seine River - called the right bank
Sundays
business section with offices - shopping and small factories
5 yrs old
before lunch or dinner
18. What did Gustave Eiffel build before he built the Eiffel Tower?
un lapin (a rabbit)
bridges - specifically the Bordeaux Bridge
tip is included
soccer player of Algerian origin Who brought the World Cup to the French in 1998
19. How much mustard does each person in France use per year?
2 lbs per person - a total of 60 -000 tons
near Paris
democracy
le football am
20. Who led the armies of the French King Charles VII to victories against the English?
Germany
Voltaire
Joan of Arc
The/ (le) Concorde
21. The visual arts flourished in the mid-19th century. What were the three schools?
French rap groups
seafood
Romanticism - Realism - and Impressionism
Moli
22. What type of land transportation links France and England
a railway known as the Channel Tunnel or Chunnel
a railroad company
summer
G
23. What is the real name of the cartoonist Herg
farmland
Louis XV
France
Georges R
24. On What side of the road do you drive in France?
the Seine - the Garonne - the Rh
on the right
about $7 -500
gather together and share events from their day
25. Which family had the fleur de lis as a symbol?
the hunchback in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Bourbons
Alexandre Dumas (p
a hexagon
26. What is la mairie?
the town hall
with a handshake or kiss on the cheek
poetry
September
27. What is Orangina?
a cookie
France
an orange soft drink
5th Republic
28. What do some people do before putting the lettuce in a salad bowl?
le lyc
rub the bowl with garlic
Le Palais du Luxembourg
the Loire - 634 miles/1020 kilometers
29. Which state was a French territory until sold to the US in 1803?
Coco Chanel - Yves Saint-Laurent - Christian Dior
Napoleon
Louisiana
a parking zone
30. What type of cooking is called provincial?
former colonies in Africa
traditional - local cooking
left one
the 12th century
31. What did France get back at the end of World War I?
emotions and imaginations
cocorico
Alsace and Lorraine
the time of Gaul's invasion by the Romans
32. Which artist painted scenes from the Moulin Rouge?
seafood
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
orange
Brazil
33. Who ruled France when the metric system was established?
watch a play
le Louvre
Napoleon Bonaparte
le P
34. During World War II - What percentage of France's factories - machinery and transportation systems were lost?
80%
H
prehistoric cave paintings
Britain
35. What country does the World Health Organization frequently name as the world's best overall health care provider?
composer
La Joconde
France
emotions and imaginations
36. What would you do at les Galeries Lafayette?
shop
Le centre Georges Pompidou (Beaubourg)
on an envelope
during WWI and WWII
37. When did France play host to the World Cup for soccer?
1998
left
1793
palace of the kings of France
38. How long is the presidential term in France?
5 yrs
Marie and Pierre Curie
Romanticism
1995
39. Who designed the glass pyramid built in 1989 in the courtyard of the Louvre museum in Paris?
Huguenots
Chinese-American architect - l.M. Pei
croissants and baguettes
the cathedral
40. when was Impressionism at its height as a style?
Victor Hugo
a co-ed high school
late 1800s
croissants and baguettes
41. What types of food is Normandy famous for?
sleeping car
a toasted ham and cheese sandwich
cheese - butter and apple brandy (Calvados)
La Joconde
42. How did Saint-Exup
he disappeared on a mission during World War II
a French naval station
Germany - Switzerland and Italy
Parc Ast
43. What flavor is the liquor Cointreau?
before lunch or dinner
Louis XIV
60
orange
44. For What is Limoges famous
porcelain
art
Fran
emotions and imaginations
45. Why were the first hot air balloons know as montgolfi
the hunchback in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
after the inventors - the Montgolfier brothers
the Mediterranean Sea and Spain
Spain
46. Who succeeded Charles de Gaulle as President?
Georges Pompidou
fertile soil
they learn to read
a stew
47. What city has the biggest carnival in France every year?
Air France
Napoleon Bonaparte
Nice
Louisiana Purchase
48. What is a significant mineral of France
American film star
81
iron ore
North Africa
49. What would you do at la Com
watch a play
farmland
left
over 9 million
50. What religion do most people in France belong to?
raw - fresh vegetables
poetry
Moli
Roman Catholic