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French Culture
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culture
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Which king of France was known as the Sun King?
founder of Renault automobiles
Jacques Cartier
Louis XIV
inwards
2. What is the largest port of France
fattened liver of duck or goose
Austrian
Fran
Marseille
3. What is la viande chevaline?
horsemeat
fast food chains
Julius Caesar
Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI
4. Who did France join in declaring war on Germany - Which began WWII?
1793
almond or coconut
Gaul
Britain
5. What are cr
tripe cooked very slowly in sauce - up to 24 hours
a cookie
painting with geometric shapes
orange-flavored - sweet - thin pancakes
6. What is the largest country of Western Europe?
Southern France
beef - veal - poultry and cheese
Celtic
France
7. What is an international organization of over 50 member states or countries where there is a notable affiliation with French language or culture?
cocorico
liquor
soup
Francophonie
8. Where is la Polyn
in the south Pacific
Louis XIV
2 lbs per person - a total of 60 -000 tons
the cathedral in Reims
9. During World War II - What percentage of France's factories - machinery and transportation systems were lost?
200 years ago
more than 2 million
rich chocolate cake with vanilla or coffee icing in the shape of a log
80%
10. What is the most popular sport in France?
le Front Populaire
soccer
US
la bouillabaisse
11. What is un wagon-restaurant?
a dining car
Bourbons
tripe cooked very slowly in sauce - up to 24 hours
Fran
12. Of What school of philosophy was Jean-Paul Sartre a major representative?
13. What industry produces most of France's electricity?
le P
General Charles de Gaulle
art museum including decorative arts from 1848 to 1914
the nuclear power industry
14. Who were the two most prominent scientists in early 20th century France?
space - electronics and computer software
Fran
Marie Curie and Louis Pasteur
19
15. How does France's economy compare to the rest of the world?
it is the 5th largest economy
Louisiana
US
Impressionism
16. What music festival is Aix-en-Provence famous for?
the Opera festival
a newspaper
Toulouse
Victor Hugo
17. What type of game is boules?
le P
brothers Jacques-Eug
the time of Gaul's invasion by the Romans
a kind of outdoor bowling game played with two large metal balls and one smaller one
18. What is the real name of the cartoonist Herg
the little ball the player tries to get closest to
La Sorbonne university of Paris
le lyc
Georges R
19. Which river divides Paris into the right bank and left bank
after the inventors - the Montgolfier brothers
suits and neckties
Chinese-American architect - l.M. Pei
the Seine river
20. What type of equipment did Emile Gagnon and Jacques Cousteau invent in 1942?
scuba gear
hiking
elephant
2 million
21. What is le slow?
l'
Southern France - on the C
Les Pyr
slow dancing
22. What was the Roman (Latin) name for Paris?
Southern France
a sugared almond
Napoleon Bonaparte
Lutetia
23. What is un mille-feuilles?
democracy
Jean-Marie Le Pen
a flaky pastry
France
24. Where is Orly
don't do it
near Paris
Waterloo
in a bathroom
25. Which art movement do the painters Edgar Degas - Claude Monet - and Pierre-Auguste Renoir belong to?
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Impressionism
a famous French puppet
raw - fresh vegetables
26. What is the name of the comprehensive exam students take at the end of high school?
Val
le baccalaur
Gothic art
that is where he died
27. Who won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1903?
a bicycle race
Marie and Pierre Curie
over 9 million
dom Perignon
28. Where was Napoleon Bonaparte born?
in the south Pacific
Grasse
Corsica (la Corse)
100
29. What famous conquest is depicted in the famous Bayeux tapestry?
1995
Gothic art
stethoscope
William the Conqueror invading England in 1066
30. What types of industry are most prominent in Toulouse - France?
Romanticism
Alsace and Lorraine
space - electronics and computer software
fast food chains
31. What French actor - popular in the US - has starred in such movies as Green Card (1990) and Christopher Columbus (1992)?
Grasse
lavender
G
Louisiana
32. What is a popular outdoor activity among the French?
film director
using the formal vous when talking to somebody
hiking
wheat
33. Who launched the first hot air balloon in 1783?
fondue bourguignonne
brothers Jacques-Eug
a nursing home
he disappeared on a mission during World War II
34. When did the Cannes Film Festival begin?
a pastry - also means a nun
1984
1946
Saturdays
35. Who wrote the absurdist plays Rhinoceros and La cantatrice chauve (the bald soprano)?
Eugene Ionesco
mineral water
Impressionism
Anne d'Autriche
36. When did Joan of Arc become Saint Joan?
1920
Arles - France
the first modern legal code of France
a Paris university
37. Who is France's most famous ecologist?
civil
a famous French puppet
French explorer
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
38. What is le Code Napol
18 yrs old
the first modern legal code of France
200 years ago
business section with offices - shopping and small factories
39. What is the nickname of the French flag?
parachute
student riots
le tricolore
Germany - Switzerland and Italy
40. When was the first women's Tour de France held?
2001
H
1984
18 yrs old
41. Who stayed at the Palace of Fontainebleau?
15-16
cherries
December 6th (Saint Nicolas)
Napoleon
42. What very famous writer was born in Nantes?
mineral water
stuffed tomatoes
Jules Verne
Jean-Baptiste Lully
43. What are the main crops in France
Celtic
wheat - corn - sugar beets and grapes
about 150 yrs ago
A Moveable Feast
44. What is the French for high school?
the name of the man Who invented moving pictures
Chinese-American architect - l.M. Pei
le lyc
1500
45. What is le Figaro?
a newspaper
the American - Lance Armstrong
a cookie
the Opera festival
46. What is vouvoiement?
using the formal vous when talking to somebody
libert
May 1st
Vincent Van Gogh
47. What is le Front National?
Louis XIV
Val
right wing - anti-immigration party
Toulouse
48. What is boudin noir (black pudding) made with?
49. What was the profession of the man Who invented Champagne?
monk
le Front Populaire
French Republic
Jacques Cartier
50. What type of transportation was invented in France by a French doctor 200 yrs ago?
less
1996
an ambulance
1889 World's Fair