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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?
sauerkraut - meat and potatoes
hot milk and coffee
raw - on the half shell with a splash of lemon
the Baroque period
2. What are crudit
raw - fresh vegetables
on an envelope
elephant
Fran
3. When was the first men's Tour de France held?
stethoscope
1903
Italian
on the French and Spanish sides of the Western Pyrenees
4. Who invented the process of pasteurization?
fillet of duck breast
using the familiar tu when talking to somebody
Louis Pasteur
The/ (le) Concorde
5. When do the festivals for the harvesting of wine grapes take place?
coin coin
almond or coconut
September
16th century
6. What country does more exporting of food than France?
blue - white and red
US
beef - veal - poultry and cheese
Fran
7. What would you do at les Galeries Lafayette?
Gothic art
emotions and imaginations
shop
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
8. How much mustard does each person in France use per year?
2 lbs per person - a total of 60 -000 tons
soccer player of Algerian origin Who brought the World Cup to the French in 1998
Louis XV
over 90 million
9. What are des tripes
tripe cooked very slowly in sauce - up to 24 hours
a place where they make and sell cr
the name of the man Who invented moving pictures
Paul Gauguin
10. Which three French clothing designers first influenced the fashion trends?
religious freedom
General Charles de Gaulle
the nuclear power industry
Coco Chanel - Yves Saint-Laurent - Christian Dior
11. What do French ducks say?
an ambulance
coin coin
in the afternoon (un go
Austrian
12. Who was the first woman to be appointed professor at the Sorbonne?
Parc Ast
26 percent
Paris
Marie Curie
13. When do you eat une galette des rois?
January 6th (Epiphany)
modern and contemporary art of the Western World
1998
a bean or a small porcelain figurine
14. What wine is used in boeuf bourguignon. Red or white?
red
Josephine Baker
a cookie
July 14 - 1789
15. Which river is known as the transportation corridor
a supersonic commercial airplane
soccer
Spain
the Loire at 626 miles
16. Which French President was responsible for the construction of the Louvre Pyramid - the Great Arch at La D
a sugared almond
cartoon character
Fran
Parc Ast
17. What was the object of a controversial retirement bill passed through the Assembl
to raise the retirement age
libert
African
in an apartment building
18. What do you call a stage of the Tour de France in French?
une
North Africa
5 yrs
France
19. At What meal are eggs eaten?
Les Pyr
Jean-Marie Le Pen
watch a play
lunch or dinner - almost never at breakfast
20. What is la viande chevaline?
horsemeat
le mar
American film star
to raise the retirement age
21. On What side of the road do you drive in France?
Val
French Riviera
elephant
on the right
22. Where would you find un chauffe-eau?
1995
in a bathroom or kitchen
France
that is where he died
23. What is une maison de retraite?
more
Le Palais du Luxembourg
a nursing home
white
24. What world famous theatre festival was founded in Provence in 1947?
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25. What are MC Solaar - Assassins and NTM?
Moulin Rouge
French rap groups
1889 World's Fair
81
26. When do you drink un ap
a pinball machine
before lunch or dinner
a mountain range
Brazil
27. Whose work on radioactivity was the first step toward radiation treatment for cancer?
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28. What is un potage?
Vincent Van Gogh
soup
jazz
1889 World's Fair
29. What happened in Paris in May 1968?
Braque and Picasso
student riots
Louis XIV
le smurf
30. What is the SNCF?
le Mar
Provence
1995
a railroad company
31. Who was made emperor in 800 AD?
high-heeled shoes
a scallop (type of seafood)
Charlemagne
Lutetia
32. Who said 'L'
Germany - Switzerland and Italy
monk
a restaurant in Paris
Louis XIV
33. What did Robert de Sorbon found?
blue - white and red
le tricolore
Toulouse
La Sorbonne university of Paris
34. What is le cochonnet in the game of boules?
founder of Renault automobiles
the little ball the player tries to get closest to
July 14 - 1789
a supersonic commercial airplane
35. Who crowned himself emperor in 1804?
Napoleon Bonaparte
Versailles
Val
cocorico
36. How long did it take Baron Georges Haussmann to transform the city of Paris?
20 yrs
d
Alexandre Dumas (p
Nice
37. During What century was Le Corbusier a famous architect?
20th century
Marie Curie
iron ore
a co-ed high school
38. Which French territory is off the coast of Canada
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon
5 yrs old
Parc Ast
39. Who brought order back to France?
Napoleon Bonaparte
bridges - specifically the Bordeaux Bridge
Hector Berlioz and Fr
Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI
40. What comes first - l'
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41. What is hidden in une galette des Rois?
Napoleon Bonaparte
Charlemagne
2 million
a bean or a small porcelain figurine
42. Which of Ernest Hemingway's books portray life in Paris between the two world wars?
Impressionism
Waterloo
General Charles de Gaulle
A Moveable Feast
43. What was the stage name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin?
Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon
Moli
a pinball machine
over 90 million
44. The cathedral of Chartres is an example of Which type of art?
a railroad company
Vincent Van Gogh
Gothic art
in the Caribbean
45. What is the Sorbonne?
a Paris university
1996
Germany
Victor Hugo
46. What is further north - Lille or Bordeaux
a lobster
Richelieu
Lille
Carmen
47. What type of cooking is called haute cuisine?
cartoon character
jazz
gourmet cooking
Napoleon Bonaparte
48. What new d
Mayotte
sauerkraut - meat and potatoes
a tourist boat on the Seine in Paris
Hector Berlioz and Fr
49. During World War II - What percentage of France's factories - machinery and transportation systems were lost?
chestnuts
white
a summer home or cottage
80%
50. What is un flipper?
scuba gear
a pinball machine
Impressionism
Jean de la Fontaine