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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 do you most often eat oysters in France?
a sugared almond
Nicolas Sarkozy
a tourist guide book
raw - on the half shell with a splash of lemon
2. Where was the first biscuit factory?
Nantes
Southern France - on the C
A French first lady gave birth during her husband's presidency
seafood (fish - lobster) and cr
3. What great American landmark did Gustave Eiffel help design and build?
Marie and Pierre Curie
bullfighting
a nursing home
Statue of Liberty
4. What type of cooking is called provincial?
lunch or dinner - almost never at breakfast
une salade
Napoleon
traditional - local cooking
5. Couscous is a popular dish in France. Where did it come from?
frog legs (les cuisses de grenouille) and snails (les escargots) Also goose liver p
The/ (le) Concorde
North Africa
a famous French puppet
6. When did France play host to the World Cup for soccer?
1998
Roman Catholic
France
fertile soil
7. Who was the head of the Vichy government?
bullfighting
it is the 5th largest economy
le Mar
beef - veal - poultry and cheese
8. Who sculpted Le Penseur?
libert
About 63 million people
Auguste Rodin
Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI
9. What do painters from the romantic period appeal to?
le Louvre
le massif central
emotions and imaginations
Marie and Pierre Curie
10. What type of painting is Cubism?
painting with geometric shapes
14
a toasted ham and cheese sandwich
about 150 yrs ago
11. Which artist cut off his ear?
Vincent Van Gogh
Alsace and Lorraine
christenings and weddings
processed meats and sandwiches
12. Who was the great king of the 16th century?
May -1954
overseas France
Fran
lunch
13. When was the first men's Tour de France held?
coin coin
1903
Huguenots
Antoine de Saint-Exup
14. Where is the Center for French Space Programs?
French Riviera
traditional - local cooking
business section with offices - shopping and small factories
Toulouse
15. Where is the hall of mirrors
Versailles
between 7:00 and 9:30pm
December 6th (Saint Nicolas)
le Louvre
16. How many grammes in un kilo?
1000
Nice
French Guyana - la Guyane fran
fish
17. What time do the French usually eat dinner?
la Marseillaise
former colonies in Africa
between 7:00 and 9:30pm
chestnuts
18. How are students chosen to attend a university
80%
they have to pass the baccalaureate exam (le bac) to get in
civil
a lobster
19. What type of cooking is called haute cuisine?
le massif central
Marie and Pierre Curie
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
gourmet cooking
20. What happened to Charles VII on July 17 - 1429?
for not understanding the people and frivolously spending money
le baseball
porcelain
he was crowned King of France
21. What island in the Indian Ocean became the newest overseas territory (d
Mayotte
Louis XIV
Napoleon Bonaparte
garlic
22. On What kind of bottle would you find the word brut?
1000 feet/300 meters
une bouteille de champagne
before lunch or dinner
Josephine Baker
23. After a fancy dinner - What is the evening topped off with?
strong black coffee
a dozen oysters
Le festival d'Avignon
don't do it
24. What is le Figaro?
Alsace and Lorraine
a kind of outdoor bowling game played with two large metal balls and one smaller one
a newspaper
the Loire - 634 miles/1020 kilometers
25. Who succeeded Pompidou as president?
1903
Val
Francophonie
the Lumi
26. Who was the musician Who collaborated with Moli
a toasted ham and cheese sandwich
the Baroque period
Les Pyr
Jean-Baptiste Lully
27. What comes first - l'
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28. What is un mille-feuilles?
Fran
after the inventors - the Montgolfier brothers
Statue of Liberty
a flaky pastry
29. What would you do at a patinoire?
Ice skate
late 1800s
apple liquor
former colonies in Africa
30. For What is Grasse famous
perfume
the Baroque period
goose liver
orange
31. What countries border France to the East?
Germany - Switzerland and Italy
white
a co-ed high school
strong black coffee
32. Evian - Badoit and Vichy are French cities famous for What?
1903
mineral water
Le Palais du Luxembourg
Toulouse
33. Where is le Mus
meuh
18 yrs old
in Paris
about $7 -500
34. What is the Pompidou Center?
Paul Gauguin
bullfighting
Julius Caesar
modern and contemporary art of the Western World
35. Who was made emperor in 800 AD?
Charlemagne
G
Britain
Fran
36. What is the approximate geometrical shape of France
orange-flavored - sweet - thin pancakes
Id
Paris
a hexagon
37. Why was Joan of Arc burned at the stake on May 30 - 1431?
Josephine Baker
she was accused of being a witch
an orange soft drink
Britain
38. Which three French clothing designers first influenced the fashion trends?
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Coco Chanel - Yves Saint-Laurent - Christian Dior
prehistoric cave paintings
lunch
39. What is the French national motto that came as a result of the Revolution?
libert
Vercing
French Republic
Italian
40. What is le cochonnet in the game of boules?
the little ball the player tries to get closest to
French Riviera
Charles de Gaulle
15-16
41. When is the French labor day?
May 1st
about 300 -000
African
l'
42. What palace in Paris serves as a meeting place for the 348-member French S
1481
G
a secondary school (junior high or middle school)
Le Palais du Luxembourg
43. What is le slow?
slow dancing
a star
le tricolore
1998
44. Who was the first French explorer of North America?
France
La Joconde
Jacques Cartier
une salade
45. Where did Vincent Van Gogh settle in the late 19th century because he found inspiration for his paintings there?
the 12th century
he disappeared on a mission during World War II
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Arles - France
46. During World War II - What percentage of France's factories - machinery and transportation systems were lost?
Alsace and Lorraine
A type of soft cheese
80%
French Riviera
47. What did Paul Verlaine write?
prehistoric cave paintings
le massif central
poetry
film director
48. From What origin are most Martiniquais and Guadeloup
African
Julius Caesar
a bicycle race
that is where he died
49. Who is France's most famous ecologist?
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
wheat
Britain
art
50. What is une langue de chat?
Georges R
Celtic
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Spain