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French Culture
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Subject
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culture
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Where do Parisians participate in skiing and other winter sports?
Charles de Gaulle
the Alps and the Pyrenees
a famous French puppet
the art of preparing good food
2. Is un centim
Marie Curie and Louis Pasteur
before lunch or dinner
Arles - France
less
3. Which artist painted scenes from the Moulin Rouge?
Spain
the Alps and the Pyrenees
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
La Joconde
4. What colors are on the flag of France
a scallop (type of seafood)
Ice skate
blue - white and red
horsemeat
5. On average - How many children do married couples have in France?
Voltaire
2
Napoleon Bonaparte
Arles - France
6. What is longer - un kilom
Nantes
A Moveable Feast
a mile
traditional - local cooking
7. What are the main crops in France
wheat - corn - sugar beets and grapes
Gaul
a cookie
the cathedral in Reims
8. What countries border France to the East?
Germany - Switzerland and Italy
lavender
Southern France - on the C
a music video
9. What is sold in une charcuterie?
raw - on the half shell with a splash of lemon
processed meats and sandwiches
14
ch
10. What is p
Renaissance
beef - veal - poultry and cheese
a paste of ground meat - fish and/or liver
Impressionism
11. When do the Christmas holiday celebrations begin in France
a flaky pastry
during WWI and WWII
December 6th (Saint Nicolas)
Le festival d'Avignon
12. What is more ornate Gothic or Romanesque architecture?
Gothic art
1920
Toulouse
1000
13. What is a famous French beef stew?
boeuf bourguignon
ARIANE
Maurice Ravel
Impressionism
14. What kind of art is found at the Jeu de Paume?
Impressionism
December 6th (Saint Nicolas)
between 7:00 and 9:30pm
Euro Disney
15. What do painters from the romantic period appeal to?
Versailles
lunch
emotions and imaginations
cherries
16. Where is France's spacecraft launched?
left one
Kourou (French Guyana)
2 lbs per person - a total of 60 -000 tons
African
17. What music festival is Aix-en-Provence famous for?
the Opera festival
a dozen oysters
Normandy and Brittany
more than a thousand
18. Who launched the first hot air balloon in 1783?
1962
Britain
brothers Jacques-Eug
a flaky pastry
19. What is fondue savoyarde?
G
the time of Gaul's invasion by the Romans
chunks of French bread that are dipped in hot - melted cheese
a secondary school (junior high or middle school)
20. What is the main ingredient in p
on the southwest coast of France
more than a thousand
goose liver
former colonies in Africa
21. Who is Guignol?
a famous French puppet
an orange soft drink
Eiffel Tower
Fran
22. When do you drink un ap
Germany - Switzerland and Italy
before lunch or dinner
Germany
Nice
23. What is the French term for bakery?
boulangerie
palace of the kings of France
Corsica - la Corse
a stew
24. Which artist cut off his ear?
Vincent Van Gogh
81
Spain
Huguenots
25. What do you call a stage of the Tour de France in French?
ARIANE
a French car from the Citro
red
une
26. What is un croque-monsieur?
The Marshall Plan (US)
Richelieu
racetracks
a toasted ham and cheese sandwich
27. Who led the armies of the French King Charles VII to victories against the English?
apple liquor
orange-flavored - sweet - thin pancakes
impressionist
Joan of Arc
28. On What kind of bottle would you find the word brut?
painting with geometric shapes
une bouteille de champagne
in the afternoon (un go
rich chocolate cake with vanilla or coffee icing in the shape of a log
29. What opera did Georges Bizet write that is considered his masterpiece?
sauerkraut - meat and potatoes
Carmen
of course
France
30. Where is le pays basque
rub the bowl with garlic
on the French and Spanish sides of the Western Pyrenees
France
garlic
31. Who won the Tour de France a record 7 times 1999-2005?
the American - Lance Armstrong
Mont Blanc
tripe cooked very slowly in sauce - up to 24 hours
a parking zone
32. Who is considered the greatest writer of fables in France?
Antoine de Saint-Exup
Normandy and Brittany
French explorer
Jean de la Fontaine
33. What structure was built in Paris in 1889 by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel?
December 6th (Saint Nicolas)
Jules Verne
citrus
Eiffel Tower
34. How long did the construction of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris take?
Livarot
high taxes and starvation
Spain
almost 200 yrs
35. Which musicians were prominent the early 19th century?
Southern France - on the C
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Hector Berlioz and Fr
nouvelle cuisine
36. What is hidden in une galette des Rois?
a bean or a small porcelain figurine
sixteen
1890s
strong black coffee
37. What are crudit
1000 feet/300 meters
fast food chains
a stick
raw - fresh vegetables
38. Is un m
Alexandre Dumas (p
a place where they make and sell cr
stethoscope
more
39. Which family had the fleur de lis as a symbol?
Germany - Switzerland and Italy
Nantes
Bourbons
Le centre Georges Pompidou (Beaubourg)
40. What are des fruits de mer?
le massif central
seafood
Lille
he was crowned King of France
41. What is further north - Lille or Bordeaux
Lille
film director
a railroad company
a lobster
42. What is la France d'outre-mer
film director
Austrian
overseas France
a pastry - also means a nun
43. Evian - Badoit and Vichy are French cities famous for What?
Avignon
a star
mineral water
Romanticism - Realism - and Impressionism
44. How many rooms are in the Palace of Fontainebleau
gather together and share events from their day
Coco Chanel - Yves Saint-Laurent - Christian Dior
lunch or dinner - almost never at breakfast
more than a thousand
45. What was the profession of Debussy?
le baccalaur
composer
Jean-Marie Le Pen
le Front Populaire
46. Who was the great king of the 16th century?
the Seine - the Garonne - the Rh
Julius Caesar
the Loire - 634 miles/1020 kilometers
Fran
47. Where is le Quartier latin - right or left bank
Germany
left
the Opera festival
in a bathroom or kitchen
48. What is une langue de chat?
1962
a summer home or cottage
a cookie
a veal tongue
49. Where would you find un chauffe-eau?
Le Palais du Luxembourg
in a bathroom or kitchen
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
a bean or a small porcelain figurine
50. How many French soldiers died in World War I?
the Opera festival
2 million
1998
a famous French puppet