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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. What regions are famous for their butter
stuffed tomatoes
Normandy and Brittany
garlic
Lille
2. What is sold in une charcuterie?
French Riviera
prehistoric cave paintings
processed meats and sandwiches
Italian princess - Marie de M
3. Who brought high cooking into France in 1600?
January 6th (Epiphany)
Louisiana Purchase
Italian princess - Marie de M
les arrondissements
4. What did l'
prison
un lapin (a rabbit)
religious freedom
wheat - corn - sugar beets and grapes
5. For Which occasion was the Eiffel Tower built?
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6. Who composed the national anthem of France?
a scallop (type of seafood)
high speed train (TGV)
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
ch
7. What is the SNCF?
Alsace and Lorraine
croissants and baguettes
a railroad company
Euro Disney
8. What is tutoiement?
using the familiar tu when talking to somebody
the hunchback in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
French explorer
cartoon character
9. What type of land transportation links France and England
95
North Africa
shop
a railway known as the Channel Tunnel or Chunnel
10. Why was Joan of Arc burned at the stake on May 30 - 1431?
she was accused of being a witch
May -1954
Auguste Rodin
200 years ago
11. What types of industry are most prominent in Toulouse - France?
a paste of ground meat - fish and/or liver
Gothic art
a public lavatory for men
space - electronics and computer software
12. When do you drink un ap
Versailles
before lunch or dinner
raw - on the half shell with a splash of lemon
during the Baroque Period 16th to 18th century
13. Which Republic is France under today?
200 years ago
Le festival d'Avignon
5th Republic
between 7:00 and 9:30pm
14. What types of business attire did the French create?
suits and neckties
l'existentialisme
Southern France - on the C
on the right
15. What is une maison de retraite?
Euro Disney
le football or le foot
a nursing home
La Joconde
16. When do the Christmas holiday celebrations begin in France
christenings and weddings
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
over 9 million
December 6th (Saint Nicolas)
17. How many centim
Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI
cartoon character
movie camera and projector
100
18. What is un potage?
soup
North Africa
Paris
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
19. What very famous writer was born in Nantes?
Jules Verne
un kilogramme
about 150 yrs ago
William the Conqueror invading England in 1066
20. What type of cooking is called provincial?
le mar
left
traditional - local cooking
watch a play
21. Which artist cut off his ear?
Vincent Van Gogh
Air France
Avignon
20 yrs
22. Near Which large city is Versailles located
Paris
95
an ambulance
fattened liver of duck or goose
23. What is un flipper?
inwards
le Front Populaire
stethoscope
a pinball machine
24. What was Louis Pasteur's most important vaccine?
une
rabies vaccine
Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon
1000
25. What is une r
le r
5 yrs
a summer home or cottage
a mountain range
26. Which state was a French territory until sold to the US in 1803?
Louisiana
La Joconde
a scallop (type of seafood)
The Marshall Plan (US)
27. What is the largest port of France
Marseille
Giulia
the American - Lance Armstrong
the Opera festival
28. What practice dating back to the 18th century - known as la tauromachie - or corrida - was granted official protection by the French Minister for Culture in 2011?
American film star
bullfighting
A type of soft cheese
G
29. Where is Carcassonne
yes - some French people eat it : a veal brain
impressionist
French Riviera
Southern France
30. What coalition group won the elections in 1936?
ARIANE
le Front Populaire
Nicolas Sarkozy
soccer player of Algerian origin Who brought the World Cup to the French in 1998
31. What has 4 legs - 2 long ears and tastes delicious in a stew?
un lapin (a rabbit)
beef - veal - poultry and cheese
Alexandre Dumas (p
Le centre Georges Pompidou (Beaubourg)
32. How many people live in metropolitan Paris?
denim (de N
a kind of outdoor bowling game played with two large metal balls and one smaller one
stuffed tomatoes
over 9 million
33. What is the name of the French space program?
Mus
Louis XIV
General Charles de Gaulle
ARIANE
34. When did the Cannes Film Festival begin?
African
H
1946
garlic
35. What helped rebuild France at the end of World War II?
The Marshall Plan (US)
parachute
African
Spain
36. What is the name of the comprehensive exam students take at the end of high school?
Pablo Picasso
coin coin
Sundays
le baccalaur
37. How old was Marie Antoinette when she married Louis XVI?
le massif central
14
Voltaire
un kilogramme
38. Where was Napoleon Bonaparte born?
US
Sundays
dom Perignon
Corsica (la Corse)
39. Which museum was originated by Louis XIV?
a railroad company
emotions and imaginations
French Riviera
le Louvre
40. Which holiday celebrated in the US began in France 450 yrs ago?
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41. What is the largest country of Western Europe?
almost 200 yrs
a fried pastry
France
Grasse
42. What is un croque-monsieur?
a toasted ham and cheese sandwich
200 years ago
in the south Pacific
he was crowned King of France
43. Who was imprisoned at the Conciergerie?
high speed train (TGV)
Napoleon Bonaparte
a hexagon
Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI
44. What is le Camembert?
Italian
soccer
A type of soft cheese
20 yrs
45. Is the wine le Muscadet red or white?
white
G
Statue of Liberty
Sundays
46. How much mustard does each person in France use per year?
2 lbs per person - a total of 60 -000 tons
the Seine - the Garonne - the Rh
a bicycle race
a French naval station
47. Cooking in France is considered a form of...
a stick
art
a paste of ground meat - fish and/or liver
Saturdays
48. What is une cr
a sugared almond
a place where they make and sell cr
a dining car
the Mediterranean Sea and Spain
49. Which ingredient is essential in Proven
chunks of French bread that are dipped in hot - melted cheese
Arles - France
the first modern legal code of France
garlic
50. What is the French delicacy foie gras?
Louis Pasteur
fattened liver of duck or goose
Marie Curie's work
the Mediterranean Sea and Spain