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French Culture
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1. Who was the first president of the 5th republic?
Charles de Gaulle
Lutetia
Kourou (French Guyana)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
2. What is une pissoire?
Napoleon
Anne d'Autriche
in Deauville
a public lavatory for men
3. What is the French term for bakery?
cocorico
a summer home or cottage
a public lavatory for men
boulangerie
4. Where is Biarritz
blue - white and red
on the southwest coast of France
Belgium
tripe cooked very slowly in sauce - up to 24 hours
5. In France - What type of wedding is required by law - civil or religious?
Saturdays
Marie Curie and Louis Pasteur
Germans
civil
6. What is sold in une charcuterie?
d
about $7 -500
processed meats and sandwiches
Renaissance
7. What is un wagon-restaurant?
they have to pass the baccalaureate exam (le bac) to get in
a scallop (type of seafood)
a dining car
Grasse
8. The Man in the Iron Mask was the supposed twin brother of Which French king?
Le centre Georges Pompidou (Beaubourg)
Louis XIV
sauerkraut - meat and potatoes
a mountain range
9. What is la viande chevaline?
Jules Verne
horsemeat
15 -771 feet/4805 meters
nouvelle cuisine
10. Where is Carcassonne
Paul Gauguin
Marie Antoinette
Southern France
fattened liver of duck or goose
11. What was the object of a controversial retirement bill passed through the Assembl
Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon
film director
French Riviera
to raise the retirement age
12. How many different types of cheese does France produce?
July 14 - 1789
Giulia
about 400
Germany - Switzerland and Italy
13. Who wrote Tartuffe?
Moli
during WWI and WWII
Renaissance
Carmen
14. What are the two most popular French sporting events in summer?
French Republic
Roland Garros Tennis Tournament and the cycling Tour de France
G
Id
15. Where would you find un bidet?
1996
farmland
in a bathroom
ch
16. Who crowned himself emperor in 1804?
Marie Curie
Louis XIV
Napoleon Bonaparte
Huguenots
17. What is the French term for the meal that is celebrated on Christmas Eve - Dec 24th?
the Alps
les arrondissements
Versailles
le r
18. What is the principal use of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon today
high speed train (TGV)
a French naval station
a hexagon
religious freedom
19. When did the Cannes Film Festival begin?
a cookie
ch
ages 2-6
1946
20. Who wrote Gargantua and Pantagruel?
cartoon character
Eugene Ionesco
Fran
a pinball machine
21. What do French ducks say?
coin coin
100
Vienna - to celebrate the end of the siege of the city by the Turks
a mile
22. Which ingredient is essential in Proven
garlic
summer
le baccalaur
about 150 yrs ago
23. Who designed the glass pyramid built in 1989 in the courtyard of the Louvre museum in Paris?
Jean-Luc Godard
Chinese-American architect - l.M. Pei
painter
iron ore
24. What structure was built in Paris in 1889 by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel?
1962
pig's blood
le football or le foot
Eiffel Tower
25. At Which celebrations do you give drag
after the inventors - the Montgolfier brothers
christenings and weddings
A Moveable Feast
the Mediterranean Sea and Spain
26. How much do sponsors pay to participate in the Tour de France?
Charles de Gaulle
about $7 -500
January 6th (Epiphany)
Germany
27. Where does a smaller Statue of Liberty stand in France
lunch or dinner - almost never at breakfast
in Paris - on an islet in the middle of the Seine River - facing west toward the original statue
1481
jazz
28. What happened to Charles VII on July 17 - 1429?
about 150 yrs ago
stethoscope
Giulia
he was crowned King of France
29. What is une madeleine?
November 1st
a cookie
in Paris
1481
30. When did Joan of Arc become Saint Joan?
student riots
a veal tongue
1920
a tourist guide book
31. Which artist painted scenes from the Moulin Rouge?
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
blue - white and red
Euro Disney
over 90 million
32. What world famous theatre festival was founded in Provence in 1947?
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33. What did Gustave Eiffel build before he built the Eiffel Tower?
croissants and baguettes
French Republic
bridges - specifically the Bordeaux Bridge
suits and neckties
34. What type of land is more prevalent in France than in any other country in Western Europe
high-heeled shoes
truffles
Mus
farmland
35. During Which century did Albert Camus write?
20th century
an ambulance
the 13th century
Belgium
36. Who is considered the greatest writer of fables in France?
between 7:00 and 9:30pm
orange
Jean de la Fontaine
Braille script to help the blind read
37. What are des fruits de mer?
art museum including decorative arts from 1848 to 1914
right wing - anti-immigration party
seafood
Statue of Liberty
38. What would you find at Lascaux
a flaky pastry
prehistoric cave paintings
Southern France
Chinese-American architect - l.M. Pei
39. What is the name of the French space program?
ARIANE
5th Republic
gather together and share events from their day
a French naval station
40. What type of game is boules?
le tricolore
a kind of outdoor bowling game played with two large metal balls and one smaller one
Fran
Corsica - la Corse
41. When is the French labor day?
rabies vaccine
May 1st
on the French and Spanish sides of the Western Pyrenees
sleeping car
42. When do the Christmas holiday celebrations begin in France
Coco Chanel - Yves Saint-Laurent - Christian Dior
near Paris
December 6th (Saint Nicolas)
July 14 - 1789
43. Who painted Guernica?
Pablo Picasso
cartoon character
of course
Continental France
44. Where is le Mus
chunks of French bread that are dipped in hot - melted cheese
in Paris
une
high speed train (TGV)
45. Who is responsible for the invention of the cinema in the late 19th century?
white
perfume
the Lumi
15-16
46. What was the Roman (Latin) name for Paris?
about $7 -500
truffles
Lutetia
A type of soft cheese
47. We call it baseball - the French call it...?
pig
business section with offices - shopping and small factories
le m
le baseball
48. What is un homard?
un lapin (a rabbit)
May -1954
a stew
a lobster
49. Where was a papal palace built in France
rabies vaccine
Avignon
Id
between 7:00 and 9:30pm
50. What palace in Paris serves as a meeting place for the 348-member French S
more
2
in the afternoon (un go
Le Palais du Luxembourg