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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Who married Josephine Beauharnais?
Coco Chanel - Yves Saint-Laurent - Christian Dior
Francophonie
a dining car
Napoleon Bonaparte
2. Who is Zin
soccer player of Algerian origin Who brought the World Cup to the French in 1998
a toasted ham and cheese sandwich
Coco Chanel - Yves Saint-Laurent - Christian Dior
a bean or a small porcelain figurine
3. The cathedral of Chartres is an example of Which type of art?
the Seine river
Gothic art
Vienna - to celebrate the end of the siege of the city by the Turks
une bouteille de champagne
4. When did the allies land in Normandy?
over 9 million
seafood
June 6th - 1944
perfume
5. What caused the French Revolution of 1789?
Carmen
high taxes and starvation
French Guyana - la Guyane fran
christenings and weddings
6. What is the French name for home cooking?
inwards
individual sports - such as tennis - cycling and sailing
cuisine bourgeoise
they have to pass the baccalaureate exam (le bac) to get in
7. After a fancy dinner - What is the evening topped off with?
the nuclear power industry
in the south Pacific
strong black coffee
Vienna - to celebrate the end of the siege of the city by the Turks
8. What is un potage?
soup
an orange soft drink
Napoleon Bonaparte
less
9. What country does the World Health Organization frequently name as the world's best overall health care provider?
Voltaire
le r
with a handshake or kiss on the cheek
France
10. What music festival is Aix-en-Provence famous for?
the Opera festival
1889 World's Fair
rabies vaccine
a restaurant in Paris
11. What is the difference between un ch
the name of the man Who invented moving pictures
fried eggs
Val
ch
12. What is la mairie?
the town hall
US
stuffed tomatoes
about 150 yrs ago
13. What is une madeleine?
Moli
between 7:00 and 9:30pm
The Marshall Plan (US)
a cookie
14. What is the name of the long beach in Southern France?
Alexandre Dumas (p
Fran
French Riviera
Braque and Picasso
15. What was the profession of Toulouse-Lautrec?
coin coin
painter
storming of the Bastille
about 400
16. The university of Paris in the Latin Quarter on the left bank of the Seine is called...?
la Sorbonne
a newspaper
in Deauville
Mayotte
17. Who designed the glass pyramid built in 1989 in the courtyard of the Louvre museum in Paris?
Chinese-American architect - l.M. Pei
Corsica - la Corse
2002
in the Caribbean
18. What fruit is used in Kirsch?
cherries
Le Palais du Luxembourg
wheat
a mile
19. When did Joan of Arc become Saint Joan?
1920
Hector Berlioz and Fr
20 yrs
Toulouse
20. What is un petit beurre?
a cookie
le baccalaur
a bean or a small porcelain figurine
North Africa
21. At Which celebrations do you give drag
Paris
christenings and weddings
Belgium
fish
22. What was the profession of Jean Renoir?
Braille script to help the blind read
film director
Nicolas Sarkozy
April Fool's Day
23. What is in caf
a pastry - also means a nun
Napoleon Bonaparte
hot milk and coffee
Jean-Luc Godard
24. What is hidden in une galette des Rois?
Louisiana
a tourist guide book
a bean or a small porcelain figurine
a public lavatory for men
25. Where is Orly
the first modern legal code of France
near Paris
Louis XV
French Guyana - la Guyane fran
26. We call it football - the French call it...?
noon
a railroad company
soccer
le football am
27. Where is la Polyn
in the south Pacific
the salamander
Italian
Fran
28. What is the name of the baby that French President Nicolas Sarkozy and (Italian model and actress) wife Carla Bruni had in October 2011?
for not understanding the people and frivolously spending money
the name of the man Who invented moving pictures
Giulia
in an apartment building
29. Who brought order back to France?
a French naval station
24 hrs (les 24 heures du Mans)
Napoleon Bonaparte
storming of the Bastille
30. How many people live in metropolitan Paris?
a cookie
14
Ice skate
over 9 million
31. What was the symbol of Fran
business section with offices - shopping and small factories
over 9 million
the salamander
Josephine Baker
32. What is the real name of the cartoonist Herg
mussels steamed open in wine and seasonings
Georges R
April Fool's Day
using the familiar tu when talking to somebody
33. What city has the biggest carnival in France every year?
Versailles
Nice
Louis XIV
a flaky pastry
34. Where does the festival of the American film take place?
in Deauville
le m
Ice skate
Herg
35. What is the largest airline in France?
French Guyana - la Guyane fran
a co-ed high school
more than a thousand
Air France
36. What type of shoes was invented in France 400 yrs ago?
high-heeled shoes
Kourou (French Guyana)
200 years ago
Napoleon Bonaparte
37. Who was Jacques Cartier?
a kind of outdoor bowling game played with two large metal balls and one smaller one
mineral water
French explorer
in a bathroom or kitchen
38. What helped rebuild France at the end of World War II?
Fran
The Marshall Plan (US)
Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon
near Paris
39. On June 12 - 1940 - Paris surrendered to What country to save itself from destruction?
democracy
Germany
Marie Curie's work
space - electronics and computer software
40. What is le slow?
a cookie
Grasse
slow dancing
an Egyptian Obelisk
41. How old was Joan of Arc when she was killed in May 1431?
19
Julius Caesar
le Front Populaire
Normandy and Brittany
42. Who was the musician Who collaborated with Moli
liquor
80%
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Les Pyr
43. What would you do at la Com
May -1954
pig's blood
watch a play
shop
44. What new d
Mayotte
Joan of Arc
high-heeled shoes
Hundred Years War
45. Who has been the leader of le Front National since 1972?
truffles
libert
5 yrs old
Jean-Marie Le Pen
46. What is une langue de chat?
Auguste Rodin
a sugared almond
a cookie
high taxes and starvation
47. What is the principal use of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon today
poetry
Mont Blanc
a bicycle race
a French naval station
48. Prior to the Roman invasion - What was the language of the French?
Celtic
a scallop (type of seafood)
the Lumi
fondue bourguignonne
49. Where is Nice
Le festival d'Avignon
H
Le centre Georges Pompidou (Beaubourg)
Southern France - on the C
50. For What is Grasse famous
perfume
Paris
boeuf bourguignon
an orange soft drink