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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. Name two delicacies of France?
rub the bowl with garlic
a dining car
Eiffel Tower
frog legs (les cuisses de grenouille) and snails (les escargots) Also goose liver p
2. Who was the first great writer in France?
la Manche 'the sleeve'
Fran
Charlemagne
Alsace and Lorraine
3. What time period is the comic strip Ast
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4. What kind of fruits are grown in Corsica?
citrus
Marseille
Germany - Switzerland and Italy
Pablo Picasso
5. We call it football - the French call it...?
he was crowned King of France
a music video
le football am
high taxes and starvation
6. What is a Michelin book?
the hunchback in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
a tourist guide book
farmland
le football am
7. What does une baguette mean besides a loaf of bread?
the Alps
a stick
Louis XIV
cartoon character
8. What are des oeufs sur le plat?
fried eggs
rich chocolate cake with vanilla or coffee icing in the shape of a log
impressionist
a cookie
9. Who won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1903?
Vincent Van Gogh
Marie and Pierre Curie
a cookie
ARIANE
10. What is un kilo the abbreviation of?
of course
cocorico
over 9 million
un kilogramme
11. What are the main crops in France
using the familiar tu when talking to somebody
the Opera festival
boulangerie
wheat - corn - sugar beets and grapes
12. where did the first ever - public film screening take place in 1895?
Nantes
Mayotte
a pinball machine
Paris
13. When did the allies land in Normandy?
don't do it
Versailles
during WWI and WWII
June 6th - 1944
14. What is further north - Lille or Bordeaux
Waterloo
Bastille Day - July 14th
Lille
over 90 million
15. What types of industry are most prominent in Toulouse - France?
fried eggs
la Manche 'the sleeve'
space - electronics and computer software
le tricolore
16. What is the largest city in France?
the name of the man Who invented moving pictures
Georges Pompidou
Paris
The Marshall Plan (US)
17. Who are the two most famous Cubist Artists?
more than a thousand
Braque and Picasso
boeuf bourguignon
between 7:00 and 9:30pm
18. Is the wine le Muscadet red or white?
Le Palais du Luxembourg
le r
white
Louis XIV
19. Who developed the champagne making method?
dom Perignon
high speed train (TGV)
actress
poetry
20. What is un homard?
a lobster
Brazil
racetracks
The President and Prime Minister belong to different political parties
21. What great American landmark did Gustave Eiffel help design and build?
Voltaire
a star
the salamander
Statue of Liberty
22. What is the Mus
an Egyptian Obelisk
May -1954
art museum including decorative arts from 1848 to 1914
Marie and Pierre Curie
23. Prior to the Roman invasion - What was the language of the French?
a restaurant in Paris
tip is included
Celtic
Important social and labor reforms
24. Which ingredient is essential in Proven
garlic
l'
the art of preparing good food
The President and Prime Minister belong to different political parties
25. What is in caf
mussels steamed open in wine and seasonings
Jean-Marie Le Pen
hot milk and coffee
raw - fresh vegetables
26. Who was the first national hero of France?
the town hall
le m
right wing - anti-immigration party
Vercing
27. What is the main ingredient of bouillabaisse?
fish
About 63 million people
2 million
Fran
28. Who sculpted Le Penseur?
French Republic
the American - Lance Armstrong
Hundred Years War
Auguste Rodin
29. What is the largest port of France
individual sports - such as tennis - cycling and sailing
Marseille
Louisiana
in an apartment building
30. What comes first - l'
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31. What shape do the 20 major highways leading in and out of Paris form?
un lapin (a rabbit)
a star
Paris
Versailles
32. For What is Grasse famous
Eiffel Tower
Southern France
perfume
2
33. In Which month is the Tour de France held?
on the southwest coast of France
the nuclear power industry
Normandy and Brittany
July
34. Who was the leading man in the 1990 film Cyrano de Bergerac?
G
raw - on the half shell with a splash of lemon
Corsica (la Corse)
shop
35. What is une b
rich chocolate cake with vanilla or coffee icing in the shape of a log
Herg
Maurice Ravel
chestnuts
36. What do some people do before putting the lettuce in a salad bowl?
of course
rub the bowl with garlic
1885
le r
37. When is the French labor day?
May 1st
Brazil
liquor
Versailles
38. How do French people greet each other
with a handshake or kiss on the cheek
a pinball machine
200 years ago
1998
39. What is magret de canard?
fillet of duck breast
Auguste Rodin
elephant
an ambulance
40. Who has been the leader of le Front National since 1972?
in Paris
Jean-Marie Le Pen
over 90 million
a newspaper
41. What borders France to the south?
the Mediterranean Sea and Spain
Alexandre Dumas (p
fondue bourguignonne
Napoleon
42. Where is Nice
a scallop (type of seafood)
dom Perignon
Southern France - on the C
perfume
43. What island in the Indian Ocean became the newest overseas territory (d
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Mayotte
1996
26 percent
44. Which French President was responsible for the construction of the Louvre Pyramid - the Great Arch at La D
fast food chains
1889 World's Fair
don't do it
Fran
45. What would you do at les Galeries Lafayette?
ARIANE
elephant
shop
14
46. What country is la Martinique part of
Impressionism
using the familiar tu when talking to somebody
US
France
47. What comes first: l'
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48. How tall is Mont Blanc - the tallest mountain in Europe?
Josephine Baker
Britain
15 -771 feet/4805 meters
pig's blood
49. What time do the French usually eat dinner?
le baseball
Romanesque
between 7:00 and 9:30pm
a platter with a selection of cheeses
50. What French cartoon detective is the subject of a new Steven Spielberg movie??
they were all Impressionist painters
founder of Renault automobiles
stuffed tomatoes
Tintin