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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. The French helped create the world's fastest passenger airplane called?
The/ (le) Concorde
fish
Fran
Jacques Cartier
2. Who succeeded Pompidou as president?
wheat - corn - sugar beets and grapes
Val
lunch
Napoleon Bonaparte
3. What is une langue de veau?
a railway known as the Channel Tunnel or Chunnel
a veal tongue
soccer player of Algerian origin Who brought the World Cup to the French in 1998
orange-flavored - sweet - thin pancakes
4. What kind of animal is Babar?
France
elephant
a platter with a selection of cheeses
A French first lady gave birth during her husband's presidency
5. What was the profession of Debussy?
l'
1000 feet/300 meters
high taxes and starvation
composer
6. What kind of composer was Debussy?
Provence
Moulin Rouge
impressionist
2 million
7. With Which school of literature is Victor Hugo often associated?
Romanticism - Realism - and Impressionism
Louis Pasteur
Romanticism
Louis XV
8. What are the two most popular French sporting events in summer?
African
Continental France
le baseball
Roland Garros Tennis Tournament and the cycling Tour de France
9. Who stayed at the Palace of Fontainebleau?
Napoleon
late 1800s
noon
5th Republic
10. What are the divisions of Paris called
Napoleon Bonaparte
les arrondissements
20th century
Romanticism - Realism - and Impressionism
11. What is the approximate geometrical shape of France
Braille script to help the blind read
tripe cooked very slowly in sauce - up to 24 hours
a hexagon
Normandy and Brittany
12. When did the Cannes Film Festival begin?
lunch or dinner - almost never at breakfast
le tricolore
1946
religious freedom
13. What did l'
Fran
Parc Ast
sauerkraut - meat and potatoes
religious freedom
14. Which French territory is in South America
Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon
November 1st
coin coin
French Guyana - la Guyane fran
15. Where did le croissant originate?
the Seine - the Garonne - the Rh
December 6th (Saint Nicolas)
Vienna - to celebrate the end of the siege of the city by the Turks
truffles
16. Why is Sainte H
that is where he died
Fran
Val
a dozen oysters
17. When did the Tour de France not occur during its history?
Nice
during WWI and WWII
a summer home or cottage
almond or coconut
18. What is une langue de chat?
a stick
a music video
jazz
a cookie
19. Where would you find un bidet?
the Baroque period
14
French Riviera
in a bathroom
20. What shape do the 20 major highways leading in and out of Paris form?
a star
Braque and Picasso
in Deauville
Paris
21. Where is le pays basque
emotions and imaginations
Auguste Rodin
Alsace and Lorraine
on the French and Spanish sides of the Western Pyrenees
22. What is in caf
soccer
a cookie
cheese - butter and apple brandy (Calvados)
hot milk and coffee
23. where did the first ever - public film screening take place in 1895?
Paris
white
La Joconde
G
24. What did France get back at the end of World War I?
Alsace and Lorraine
Le centre Georges Pompidou (Beaubourg)
the salamander
perfume
25. Who was the first great writer in France?
France
le massif central
Louis XIV
Fran
26. What wine is used in boeuf bourguignon. Red or white?
red
Moli
France
1889 World's Fair
27. What types of business attire did the French create?
Paris
suits and neckties
a cookie
le m
28. What is the plateau de fromages?
Napoleon Bonaparte
Jean de la Fontaine
a platter with a selection of cheeses
About 63 million people
29. What is the French term for bakery?
gourmet cooking
boulangerie
the Alps
using the formal vous when talking to somebody
30. Which art movement do the painters Edgar Degas - Claude Monet - and Pierre-Auguste Renoir belong to?
l'
Lutetia
Impressionism
2 lbs per person - a total of 60 -000 tons
31. For What is Grasse famous
French rap groups
a dining car
perfume
Marie Curie and Louis Pasteur
32. What is the name of the comprehensive exam students take at the end of high school?
le baccalaur
a cookie
la Sorbonne
Mayotte
33. How tall is the Eiffel Tower
1000 feet/300 meters
before lunch or dinner
1481
July
34. What type of game is boules?
a kind of outdoor bowling game played with two large metal balls and one smaller one
January 6th (Epiphany)
ages 2-6
81
35. On Which French city did the world focus when Diana - Princess of Wales died in 1997?
using the formal vous when talking to somebody
the name of the man Who invented moving pictures
Paris
Jean-Baptiste Lully
36. What is hidden in une galette des Rois?
a bean or a small porcelain figurine
in Deauville
Moli
1946
37. What was the stage name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin?
Romanticism - Realism - and Impressionism
Moli
between 7:00 and 9:30pm
France
38. What did the Popular Front governments enact?
almost 200 yrs
Impressionism
using the formal vous when talking to somebody
Important social and labor reforms
39. What is Orangina?
Sundays
an orange soft drink
the Seine river
Saturdays
40. Who invaded and occupied the northern and western parts of France in 1940?
Moli
former colonies in Africa
Germany
17th
41. when was the first female prime minister - Edith Cresson - appointed?
Italian
truffles
Versailles
1991
42. Where did Paris get its name from?
a Gallic tribe - Parisii
26 percent
Marseille
1000 feet/300 meters
43. Who married Josephine Beauharnais?
in a bathroom
Napoleon Bonaparte
1998
a mile
44. What are the Auteuil - Longchamps - Chantilly and St. Cloud in Paris?
watch a play
suits and neckties
The Marshall Plan (US)
racetracks
45. How old was Marie Antoinette when she married Louis XVI?
croissants and baguettes
14
Lille
Alsace and Lorraine
46. What is un croque-monsieur?
a toasted ham and cheese sandwich
on the right
Alsace and Lorraine
le lyc
47. What French actor - popular in the US - has starred in such movies as Green Card (1990) and Christopher Columbus (1992)?
Corsica - la Corse
G
perfume
Renaissance
48. Who wrote Candide?
Voltaire
about 300 -000
Air France
democracy
49. What comes first: l'
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183
50. What opera did Georges Bizet write that is considered his masterpiece?
they learn to read
1984
a stick
Carmen