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French Culture
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culture
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1. France's North American Colony - Louisiana - was sold to the US. What was the sale called?
Louisiana Purchase
1998
dom Perignon
farmland
2. What day of the week do French children attend school while American children do not
Gaul
more
Saturdays
a Paris university
3. When was a bill approved giving Corsica limited autonomy?
about 300 -000
a newspaper
2001
right wing - anti-immigration party
4. Where does a smaller Statue of Liberty stand in France
an ambulance
Impressionism
le Front Populaire
in Paris - on an islet in the middle of the Seine River - facing west toward the original statue
5. On What would you put une vinaigrette?
suits and neckties
une salade
1998
citrus
6. Who entered WWI in 1917 to help France defeat Germany?
US
they have to pass the baccalaureate exam (le bac) to get in
Napoleon Bonaparte
he was crowned King of France
7. At dinner time - What do French families do at the table?
Germany
gather together and share events from their day
on an envelope
high-heeled shoes
8. What mountain range is in central France
near Paris
Louis XIV
le massif central
Spain
9. How many grammes in un kilo?
Voltaire
a stick
1000
art
10. Which American trend has made its way to France and the French are very disapproving of it?
a parking zone
inwards
1998
fast food chains
11. Where is Orly
Auguste Rodin
une bouteille de champagne
near Paris
a Paris university
12. The Palace of Versailles is a monument to art of Which period?
fertile soil
he was crowned King of France
rabies vaccine
the Baroque period
13. We call it baseball - the French call it...?
l'existentialisme
le baseball
gather together and share events from their day
l'
14. What is un centre commercial?
shopping center
Sundays
Louis XV
Id
15. What city has the biggest carnival in France every year?
Arles - France
a sugared almond
a dozen oysters
Nice
16. where in France is the Celtic influence still strong?
Normandy and Brittany
noon
space - electronics and computer software
a music video
17. Who wrote Le Petit Prince?
Antoine de Saint-Exup
they learn to read
Vienna - to celebrate the end of the siege of the city by the Turks
a hexagon
18. Who ruled France when the metric system was established?
Pablo Picasso
Saturdays
Napoleon Bonaparte
seafood (fish - lobster) and cr
19. Where is le Quartier latin - right or left bank
24 hrs (les 24 heures du Mans)
1885
Carmen
left
20. What are les parcs zoologiques
more
a mountain range
La Joconde
animal parks (zoos)
21. After a fancy dinner - What is the evening topped off with?
Charlemagne
Alsace and Lorraine
Lille
strong black coffee
22. At What meal are eggs eaten?
lunch or dinner - almost never at breakfast
rabies vaccine
Maurice Ravel
a co-ed high school
23. Which type of American music has had the most influence on the French?
La Joconde
jazz
le football or le foot
in Deauville
24. How long did it take Baron Georges Haussmann to transform the city of Paris?
the Loire at 626 miles
20 yrs
a star
Southern France
25. What is la France d'outre-mer
overseas France
Fran
Bourbons
2
26. When would one eat a go
Avignon
in the afternoon (un go
ARIANE
un kilo
27. The French invented the coffee pot How many years ago?
Marie Curie and Louis Pasteur
200 years ago
Germany
Belgium
28. Where did le croissant originate?
Vienna - to celebrate the end of the siege of the city by the Turks
farmland
porcelain
a dozen oysters
29. What is la France m
in a bathroom or kitchen
Giulia
Continental France
inwards
30. What type of game is boules?
William the Conqueror invading England in 1066
a railroad company
a kind of outdoor bowling game played with two large metal balls and one smaller one
1481
31. Where would you find un chauffe-eau?
the first modern legal code of France
Charles de Gaulle
Kourou (French Guyana)
in a bathroom or kitchen
32. What time is the main meal served in France?
noon
Marie Antoinette
Voltaire
African
33. ARIANE launchers are used mainly to send What into space?
telecommunication satellites
une bouteille de champagne
orange-flavored - sweet - thin pancakes
liquor
34. What is une pissoire?
Napoleon Bonaparte
red
a public lavatory for men
a dozen oysters
35. What is the flavor of un macaron?
seafood (fish - lobster) and cr
elephant
almond or coconut
raw - on the half shell with a splash of lemon
36. What is a significant mineral of France
soccer player of Algerian origin Who brought the World Cup to the French in 1998
composer
Gothic art
iron ore
37. Where is le pays basque
Romanesque
on the French and Spanish sides of the Western Pyrenees
a bicycle race
September
38. What is the French term for bakery?
boulangerie
la Sorbonne
near Paris
July
39. We call it football - the French call it...?
le football am
Joan of Arc
1885
painting with geometric shapes
40. In France - do windows usually swing inwards or outwards?
Livarot
inwards
French Riviera
in an apartment building
41. What do French roosters say at the crack of dawn?
cocorico
a tourist boat on the Seine in Paris
apple liquor
French explorer
42. What is the profession of Catherine Deneuve?
actress
blue - white and red
Napoleon Bonaparte
overseas France
43. What would you do at les Galeries Lafayette?
Napoleon Bonaparte
1500
shop
a Christmas cake shaped like a log
44. What happened in Paris in May 1968?
a veal tongue
Romanesque
student riots
overseas France
45. Who signed an armistice with Hitler that divided France into 2 parts?
the Lumi
cuisine bourgeoise
le mar
1991
46. How old was Joan of Arc when she was killed in May 1431?
late 1800s
19
Arles - France
le Louvre
47. Who was imprisoned at the Conciergerie?
Victor Hugo
une bouteille de champagne
Georges Pompidou
Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI
48. What is fondue savoyarde?
chunks of French bread that are dipped in hot - melted cheese
the Opera festival
fillet of duck breast
near Paris
49. What is a lyc
January 6th (Epiphany)
a co-ed high school
more than 2 million
Fran
50. What would you find at Lascaux
Carmen
prehistoric cave paintings
Air France
a fried pastry