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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. How many different types of cheese does France produce?
a tourist boat on the Seine in Paris
orange
about 400
Ice skate
2. What are MC Solaar - Assassins and NTM?
between 7:00 and 9:30pm
French rap groups
strong black coffee
fried eggs
3. What kind of animal is used to snuffle out wild mushrooms and truffles?
pig
1903
candied chestnuts
G
4. What do children learn in preschool
Germans
farmland
they learn to read
to raise the retirement age
5. For What is Limoges famous
Bourbons
la Sorbonne
porcelain
sauerkraut - meat and potatoes
6. What city was the center of international art in the 20th century until after World War II?
17th century playwright
Voltaire
Paris
June 6th - 1944
7. What type of game is boules?
in Paris - on an islet in the middle of the Seine River - facing west toward the original statue
20th century
a kind of outdoor bowling game played with two large metal balls and one smaller one
on the southwest coast of France
8. Where is the Center for French Space Programs?
5 yrs
Toulouse
le football or le foot
mineral water
9. What Museum in Paris is housed in an old train station?
Mus
un kilogramme
le Mar
lavender
10. What was the profession of the man Who invented Champagne?
monk
une salade
Italian princess - Marie de M
Carmen
11. What French cartoon detective is the subject of a new Steven Spielberg movie??
Provence
Coco Chanel - Yves Saint-Laurent - Christian Dior
a mountain range
Tintin
12. When was the French defeat at Dienbienphu?
May -1954
prehistoric cave paintings
Moli
porcelain
13. What countries border France to the East?
student riots
A French first lady gave birth during her husband's presidency
Romanesque
Germany - Switzerland and Italy
14. Couscous is a popular dish in France. Where did it come from?
North Africa
Jean de la Fontaine
brothers Jacques-Eug
the salamander
15. Which American trend has made its way to France and the French are very disapproving of it?
fast food chains
17th century playwright
15 -771 feet/4805 meters
he was crowned King of France
16. Near What country is Bayonne
Roman Catholic
porcelain
la bouillabaisse
Spain
17. Where is Nice
Italian princess - Marie de M
Southern France - on the C
le smurf
meuh
18. What are the main crops in France
La Sorbonne university of Paris
a tourist guide book
wheat - corn - sugar beets and grapes
26 percent
19. Who painted Guernica?
fertile soil
Pablo Picasso
La Joconde
the little ball the player tries to get closest to
20. When is the French labor day?
French Republic
May 1st
before lunch or dinner
Statue of Liberty
21. At Which celebrations do you give drag
Lutetia
the Baroque period
christenings and weddings
16th century
22. France's North American Colony - Louisiana - was sold to the US. What was the sale called?
soccer
Louisiana Purchase
les arrondissements
raw - fresh vegetables
23. What do French ducks say?
French Riviera
coin coin
the Opera festival
Germany
24. When do you drink un ap
noon
shopping center
high-heeled shoes
before lunch or dinner
25. How many rooms are in the Palace of Fontainebleau
Mont Blanc
an orange soft drink
14
more than a thousand
26. What French sculptor dominated the 19th century?
Auguste Rodin
French Guyana - la Guyane fran
in a bathroom or kitchen
Continental France
27. During Which period were les ch
Renaissance
hiking
painting with geometric shapes
le massif central
28. What type of land transportation links France and England
a bean or a small porcelain figurine
20th century
Versailles
a railway known as the Channel Tunnel or Chunnel
29. How tall is Mont Blanc - the tallest mountain in Europe?
bullfighting
a bean or a small porcelain figurine
a flaky pastry
15 -771 feet/4805 meters
30. Who sculpted Le Penseur?
le massif central
libert
Auguste Rodin
Alsace and Lorraine
31. What are des oeufs sur le plat?
the Loire at 626 miles
Josephine Baker
fried eggs
May -1954
32. Which American was known as the music-hall queen of Paris in 1920s?
a famous French puppet
Nicolas Sarkozy
19
Josephine Baker
33. What is the French term for soccer?
the Seine river
le football or le foot
Hundred Years War
the nuclear power industry
34. Who composed the national anthem of France?
le Mar
religious freedom
for not understanding the people and frivolously spending money
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
35. Is un m
chestnuts
Toulouse
more
late 1800s
36. What is un wagon-lit?
A Moveable Feast
d
pig's blood
sleeping car
37. Where is le grand Trianon
bridges - specifically the Bordeaux Bridge
suits and neckties
Versailles
on the southwest coast of France
38. We call it baseball - the French call it...?
a restaurant in Paris
a cookie
the town hall
le baseball
39. What is le Concorde?
15-16
the Loire at 626 miles
a supersonic commercial airplane
using the familiar tu when talking to somebody
40. Who launched the first hot air balloon in 1783?
brothers Jacques-Eug
5 yrs
prison
during WWI and WWII
41. To What age was France's legal retirement age lowered in 1982 by Socialist President Mitterrand?
60
right wing - anti-immigration party
June 6th - 1944
Victor Hugo
42. What type of cooking is called provincial?
Versailles
traditional - local cooking
Jacques Cartier
Provence
43. What do the French buy almost daily at the bakery?
for not understanding the people and frivolously spending money
more
croissants and baguettes
a mountain range
44. What was the nationality of the painter of the Mona Lisa?
Fran
less
Italian
pig's blood
45. On average - How many children do married couples have in France?
2
bridges - specifically the Bordeaux Bridge
apple liquor
200 years ago
46. What is the largest city in France?
sixteen
Paris
the Opera festival
Marseille
47. Who was the cardinal Who served as regent for Louis XIII?
Richelieu
Toulouse
May 1st
the American - Lance Armstrong
48. What is the largest airline in France?
Air France
la Sorbonne
painting with geometric shapes
a Gallic tribe - Parisii
49. At What meal are eggs eaten?
in the Caribbean
film star
emotions and imaginations
lunch or dinner - almost never at breakfast
50. Where was Napoleon Bonaparte born?
Southern France
seafood
Marie Curie and Louis Pasteur
Corsica (la Corse)