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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. Which French city has been the center of perfume production for centuries?
une salade
they were all Impressionist painters
Napoleon Bonaparte
Grasse
2. What shape do the 20 major highways leading in and out of Paris form?
France
Francophonie
Carmen
a star
3. Who sculpted Le Penseur?
truffles
chunks of French bread that are dipped in hot - melted cheese
Auguste Rodin
a supersonic commercial airplane
4. Where would you find un chauffe-eau?
in a bathroom or kitchen
nouvelle cuisine
cheese - butter and apple brandy (Calvados)
horsemeat
5. How many people live in metropolitan Paris?
orange
sleeping car
over 9 million
a cookie
6. What country does the World Health Organization frequently name as the world's best overall health care provider?
Nice
Victor Hugo
1890s
France
7. What is un beignet?
US
Mont Blanc
religious freedom
a fried pastry
8. What is the largest country of Western Europe?
an Egyptian Obelisk
France
monk
croissants and baguettes
9. Why was Joan of Arc burned at the stake on May 30 - 1431?
they were all Impressionist painters
a stick
a railway known as the Channel Tunnel or Chunnel
she was accused of being a witch
10. What French sculptor dominated the 19th century?
Romanticism - Realism - and Impressionism
Auguste Rodin
a summer home or cottage
composer
11. Who was Moli
William the Conqueror invading England in 1066
animal parks (zoos)
Belgium
17th century playwright
12. Which French writer wrote the Three Musketeers- Les Trois mousquetaires?
candied chestnuts
Alexandre Dumas (p
cherries
with a handshake or kiss on the cheek
13. What percentage of France's total area is covered by woods and forests
in an apartment building
in the Caribbean
Important social and labor reforms
26 percent
14. On June 12 - 1940 - Paris surrendered to What country to save itself from destruction?
a flaky pastry
slow dancing
Germany
the cathedral
15. What are des tripes
Nice
Marseille
95
tripe cooked very slowly in sauce - up to 24 hours
16. Who ruled France when the metric system was established?
un lapin (a rabbit)
a platter with a selection of cheeses
Marie Curie and Louis Pasteur
Napoleon Bonaparte
17. What is the Mus
le smurf
Val
un kilo
art museum including decorative arts from 1848 to 1914
18. Where is la promenade des Anglais
Impressionism
Hundred Years War
Auguste Rodin
Nice
19. How do you most often eat oysters in France?
Belgium
Roman Catholic
raw - on the half shell with a splash of lemon
Moulin Rouge
20. What type of equipment did Emile Gagnon and Jacques Cousteau invent in 1942?
a famous French puppet
a tourist guide book
scuba gear
over 9 million
21. During Which period were les ch
Renaissance
Kourou (French Guyana)
using the familiar tu when talking to somebody
Marie Curie and Louis Pasteur
22. What was the profession of the man Who invented Champagne?
Paris
monk
Maurice Ravel
Belgium
23. What did l'
mineral water
1996
religious freedom
beef - veal - poultry and cheese
24. Where is France's spacecraft launched?
Mexico
Kourou (French Guyana)
in the afternoon (un go
Francophonie
25. At What age do French children attend preschool
Romanticism - Realism - and Impressionism
ages 2-6
Vercing
Nice
26. Cooking in France is considered a form of...
on the southwest coast of France
Renaissance
art
1903
27. After a fancy dinner - What is the evening topped off with?
June 6th - 1944
less
palace of the kings of France
strong black coffee
28. What is une b
actress
Moli
a hexagon
a Christmas cake shaped like a log
29. Who invented the process of pasteurization?
Louis Pasteur
Germany - Switzerland and Italy
gather together and share events from their day
Italian
30. What borders France to the south?
the Mediterranean Sea and Spain
cheese - butter and apple brandy (Calvados)
on the right
Gothic art
31. when was the first female prime minister - Edith Cresson - appointed?
Renaissance
Hector Berlioz and Fr
Braille script to help the blind read
1991
32. What is une maison de retraite?
the Loire at 626 miles
cheese - butter and apple brandy (Calvados)
Normandy and Brittany
a nursing home
33. What is heavier - un kilo or 2 pounds?
suits and neckties
in an apartment building
un kilo
scuba gear
34. Evian - Badoit and Vichy are French cities famous for What?
the salamander
mineral water
sixteen
chunks of French bread that are dipped in hot - melted cheese
35. As the US is divided into states - France is divided into...
Victor Hugo
space - electronics and computer software
d
the Seine - the Garonne - the Rh
36. What is the largest airline in France?
Air France
using the formal vous when talking to somebody
the little ball the player tries to get closest to
la Sorbonne
37. At What meal are eggs eaten?
15 -771 feet/4805 meters
Provence
Paris
lunch or dinner - almost never at breakfast
38. Who brought high cooking into France in 1600?
Italian princess - Marie de M
1889 World's Fair
Louis XIV
telecommunication satellites
39. Who are the two most famous Cubist Artists?
Marseille
France
the Loire - 634 miles/1020 kilometers
Braque and Picasso
40. In France - do windows usually swing inwards or outwards?
July
bridges - specifically the Bordeaux Bridge
inwards
Celtic
41. What is tutoiement?
a tourist guide book
emotions and imaginations
using the familiar tu when talking to somebody
the Alps and the Pyrenees
42. What is considered rude to do in a restaurant in France at the end of a meal
1889 World's Fair
the name of the man Who invented moving pictures
between 7:00 and 9:30pm
ask for a doggy bag
43. What is un rago
a stew
Jean de la Fontaine
Richelieu
white
44. What is une langue de veau?
a summer home or cottage
la Sorbonne
a veal tongue
Richelieu
45. On What would you put une vinaigrette?
une salade
late 1800s
Toulouse
a hexagon
46. What does tomates farcies mean?
Jules Verne
stuffed tomatoes
lunch or dinner - almost never at breakfast
Parc Ast
47. Who married Josephine Beauharnais?
1996
Napoleon Bonaparte
Fran
1962
48. What day of the week do French children attend school while American children do not
Saturdays
American film star
movie camera and projector
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
49. What is la gastronomie?
with a handshake or kiss on the cheek
ask for a doggy bag
Mont Blanc
the art of preparing good food
50. How long did it take Baron Georges Haussmann to transform the city of Paris?
20 yrs
sleeping car
1500
French explorer