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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. What did Paul Verlaine write?
July
poetry
prehistoric cave paintings
the salamander
2. What happened in Paris in May 1968?
student riots
soup
France
a stick
3. What was the nationality of the painter of the Mona Lisa?
Italian
le tricolore
a co-ed high school
about $7 -500
4. Near What country is Bayonne
Louis Pasteur
Spain
Charlemagne
Roman Catholic
5. Who brought high cooking into France in 1600?
beef - veal - poultry and cheese
a secondary school (junior high or middle school)
France
Italian princess - Marie de M
6. Where is la Guadeloupe located
in the Caribbean
truffles
Marie Antoinette
Fran
7. What industry produces most of France's electricity?
Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon
about 150 yrs ago
the nuclear power industry
Nicolas Sarkozy
8. Who wrote Candide?
Voltaire
Nantes
Paris
noon
9. When do you eat une galette des rois?
January 6th (Epiphany)
before lunch or dinner
le lyc
May 1st
10. Who was the cardinal Who served as regent for Louis XIII?
95
Fran
bullfighting
Richelieu
11. What war leader was chief of the French army at age 26?
5th Republic
less
sixteen
Napoleon Bonaparte
12. What country does the World Health Organization frequently name as the world's best overall health care provider?
France
raw - fresh vegetables
Normandy and Brittany
Richelieu
13. What is a famous French beef stew?
parachute
le tricolore
boeuf bourguignon
using the formal vous when talking to somebody
14. In France - Where would you find a concierge?
orange
Impressionism
in an apartment building
religious freedom
15. Which French territory is off the coast of Canada
garlic
Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon
the hunchback in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
more
16. What is une douzaine d'hu
Louis XIV
Louis XIV
a dozen oysters
17th
17. Which transportation system in France is among the most modern and efficient in the world?
Southern France - on the C
high speed train (TGV)
Fran
the 12th century
18. How many departments are there in mainland France
95
a bicycle race
during the Baroque Period 16th to 18th century
Marseille
19. Where was the final defeat of Napoleon?
a hexagon
Provence
a stick
Waterloo
20. How long does the car race at Le Mans last?
General Charles de Gaulle
a hexagon
Braque and Picasso
24 hrs (les 24 heures du Mans)
21. What is the French national motto that came as a result of the Revolution?
Romanesque
libert
Gaul
during WWI and WWII
22. With Which school of literature is Victor Hugo often associated?
Romanticism
La Joconde
Southern France
July 14 - 1789
23. Where is le pays basque
on the French and Spanish sides of the Western Pyrenees
1000
overseas France
painter
24. Who said 'L'
18 yrs old
before lunch or dinner
citrus
Louis XIV
25. What is la zone bleue?
palace of the kings of France
in a bathroom
a parking zone
the 12th century
26. What is the nickname of the French flag?
le tricolore
Georges Pompidou
prehistoric cave paintings
Germans
27. What type of land transportation links France and England
a railway known as the Channel Tunnel or Chunnel
on an envelope
the little ball the player tries to get closest to
Marie Curie
28. What is le Front National?
right wing - anti-immigration party
fattened liver of duck or goose
near Paris
goose liver
29. Where is Napoleon's body today?
H
a Christmas cake shaped like a log
a parking zone
20th century
30. What was the object of a controversial retirement bill passed through the Assembl
watch a play
to raise the retirement age
May -1954
student riots
31. At What age did Louis XIV begin running France?
une
81
5 yrs old
Mayotte
32. What was the profession of Jean Renoir?
of course
film director
Brazil
a summer home or cottage
33. What are the four major rivers in France?
the Seine - the Garonne - the Rh
a restaurant in Paris
Louis Pasteur
the Seine river
34. Who succeeded Charles de Gaulle as President?
animal parks (zoos)
Georges Pompidou
religious freedom
Paul Gauguin
35. What is the French term for bakery?
Alexandre Dumas (p
animal parks (zoos)
boulangerie
Napoleon Bonaparte
36. ARIANE launchers are used mainly to send What into space?
un kilogramme
telecommunication satellites
the Seine - the Garonne - the Rh
scuba gear
37. What type of painting is Cubism?
Livarot
painting with geometric shapes
La Sorbonne university of Paris
Huguenots
38. What was the profession of Toulouse-Lautrec?
a music video
painter
20th century
Marseille
39. How old must you be to vote in France
sixteen
18 yrs old
gourmet cooking
modern and contemporary art of the Western World
40. What is the Pompidou Center?
civil
modern and contemporary art of the Western World
Alsace and Lorraine
le Front Populaire
41. What type of game is boules?
seafood (fish - lobster) and cr
shop
that is where he died
a kind of outdoor bowling game played with two large metal balls and one smaller one
42. Who is Ast
18 yrs old
Alsace and Lorraine
gather together and share events from their day
cartoon character
43. What was the country of France named before Roman times?
Jean-Marie Le Pen
May 1st
left
Gaul
44. How many grammes in un kilo?
200 years ago
Marie and Pierre Curie
1000
film director
45. Which Republic is France under today?
the Alps
5th Republic
a tourist boat on the Seine in Paris
more
46. How does France's economy compare to the rest of the world?
it is the 5th largest economy
the American - Lance Armstrong
Parc Ast
red
47. When did France end nuclear testing?
H
les arrondissements
1996
January 6th (Epiphany)
48. What is the approximate geometrical shape of France
France
that is where he died
a hexagon
Marie Curie
49. Evian - Badoit and Vichy are French cities famous for What?
Tintin
brothers Jacques-Eug
mineral water
Waterloo
50. What opera did Georges Bizet write that is considered his masterpiece?
Fran
A Moveable Feast
Carmen
Normandy and Brittany