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French Culture
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1. What very famous writer was born in Nantes?
a supersonic commercial airplane
Jules Verne
a stew
Nice
2. What is une b
Paris
a lobster
a Christmas cake shaped like a log
about 400
3. What event is considered the start of the French Revolution?
storming of the Bastille
they learn to read
a mile
a fried pastry
4. What type of game is boules?
almost 200 yrs
a kind of outdoor bowling game played with two large metal balls and one smaller one
a music video
Euro Disney
5. Where is la Polyn
Herg
Alsace and Lorraine
in the south Pacific
the Mediterranean Sea and Spain
6. What cartoonist name sounds like the artist - Georges R
Brazil
Jean de la Fontaine
Livarot
Herg
7. Who launched the first hot air balloon in 1783?
a railroad company
La Sorbonne university of Paris
christenings and weddings
brothers Jacques-Eug
8. What is le Concorde?
le lyc
1889 World's Fair
1000
a supersonic commercial airplane
9. What is the most popular sport in France?
a mountain range
soccer
French Riviera
Lille
10. What do some people do before putting the lettuce in a salad bowl?
bullfighting
Napoleon Bonaparte
more than a thousand
rub the bowl with garlic
11. Where would you find un chauffe-eau?
an orange soft drink
an Egyptian Obelisk
in a bathroom or kitchen
Braque and Picasso
12. What is la mairie?
less
Mont Blanc
Nice
the town hall
13. What is the name of the baby that French President Nicolas Sarkozy and (Italian model and actress) wife Carla Bruni had in October 2011?
Provence
a music video
Giulia
dom Perignon
14. What would you do at la Com
a cookie
watch a play
an ambulance
Napoleon Bonaparte
15. What is further east - Marseille or Toulouse
Marseille
100
strong black coffee
ch
16. How does France's economy compare to the rest of the world?
it is the 5th largest economy
Napoleon Bonaparte
US
red
17. What is la viande chevaline?
beef - veal - poultry and cheese
le massif central
horsemeat
Germany - Switzerland and Italy
18. In France - do windows usually swing inwards or outwards?
coin coin
20th century
tripe cooked very slowly in sauce - up to 24 hours
inwards
19. What shape do the 20 major highways leading in and out of Paris form?
Le Palais du Luxembourg
Germany
a star
16th century
20. Which transportation system in France is among the most modern and efficient in the world?
Gothic art
95
80%
high speed train (TGV)
21. What is Chartres famous for
the cathedral
the Loire - 634 miles/1020 kilometers
Austrian
Louis XV
22. What is a popular outdoor activity among the French?
dom Perignon
Coco Chanel - Yves Saint-Laurent - Christian Dior
hiking
croissants and baguettes
23. Name two delicacies of France?
chestnuts
frog legs (les cuisses de grenouille) and snails (les escargots) Also goose liver p
blue - white and red
white
24. What was the symbol of Fran
5th Republic
the salamander
le P
a summer home or cottage
25. The university of Paris in the Latin Quarter on the left bank of the Seine is called...?
Continental France
the art of preparing good food
in Deauville
la Sorbonne
26. Where is le Mus
in Paris
during WWI and WWII
the salamander
animal parks (zoos)
27. France's North American Colony - Louisiana - was sold to the US. What was the sale called?
Louisiana Purchase
Jean-Luc Godard
the Loire - 634 miles/1020 kilometers
200 years ago
28. Near Which large city is Versailles located
a newspaper
Celtic
Paris
an orange soft drink
29. Is the wine le Muscadet red or white?
less
a fried pastry
white
Fran
30. What was the country of France named before Roman times?
1920
la Manche 'the sleeve'
Gaul
a kind of outdoor bowling game played with two large metal balls and one smaller one
31. As the US is divided into states - France is divided into...
impressionist
d
chestnuts
a stick
32. Which family had the fleur de lis as a symbol?
Bourbons
le massif central
the Opera festival
Toulouse
33. What was the stage name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin?
Moli
an ambulance
Richelieu
French Riviera
34. How long does the car race at Le Mans last?
lunch
24 hrs (les 24 heures du Mans)
Moli
coin coin
35. What was the original purpose of le Louvre?
Louis XIV
Nicolas Sarkozy
right wing - anti-immigration party
palace of the kings of France
36. What do painters from the romantic period appeal to?
emotions and imaginations
Paris
July 14 - 1789
ask for a doggy bag
37. What type of land transportation links France and England
un kilogramme
a railway known as the Channel Tunnel or Chunnel
Jean-Marie Le Pen
Fran
38. Which art movement do the painters Edgar Degas - Claude Monet - and Pierre-Auguste Renoir belong to?
Fran
Impressionism
a cookie
Francophonie
39. How much mustard does each person in France use per year?
2 lbs per person - a total of 60 -000 tons
le baccalaur
right wing - anti-immigration party
beef - veal - poultry and cheese
40. Where does the festival of the American film take place?
a hexagon
le Mar
Corsica (la Corse)
in Deauville
41. What is the French national anthem?
Marie Curie and Louis Pasteur
la Marseillaise
Germans
US
42. In Which department would you find truffles
fertile soil
impressionist
le P
an ambulance
43. What French island is located in the Mediterranean
June 6th - 1944
Paris
Corsica - la Corse
tripe cooked very slowly in sauce - up to 24 hours
44. What is une douzaine d'hu
1889 World's Fair
Eugene Ionesco
Alsace and Lorraine
a dozen oysters
45. How old was Joan of Arc when she was killed in May 1431?
19
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
Louis XIV
Id
46. What is the largest country of Western Europe?
gourmet cooking
the American - Lance Armstrong
France
blue - white and red
47. Who crowned himself emperor in 1804?
Napoleon Bonaparte
17th century playwright
le r
Germany
48. What mountain range separates France and Spain
Les Pyr
Mus
Le Palais du Luxembourg
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
49. What are the Auteuil - Longchamps - Chantilly and St. Cloud in Paris?
l'existentialisme
1890s
racetracks
painter
50. What kind of composer was Debussy?
impressionist
Jacques Cartier
Normandy and Brittany
The President and Prime Minister belong to different political parties
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