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French Culture
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1. Who composed the national anthem of France?
May 1st
April Fool's Day
1998
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
2. Where is Napoleon's body today?
the Lumi
le baccalaur
H
parachute
3. Which type of American music has had the most influence on the French?
almost 200 yrs
The President and Prime Minister belong to different political parties
the town hall
jazz
4. Who stayed at the Palace of Fontainebleau?
Nice
monk
Napoleon
le Louvre
5. What is in caf
hot milk and coffee
1793
French Republic
sleeping car
6. Who married Josephine Beauharnais?
William the Conqueror invading England in 1066
fast food chains
yes - some French people eat it : a veal brain
Napoleon Bonaparte
7. The cathedral of Chartres is an example of Which type of art?
Alsace and Lorraine
Gothic art
Fran
Fran
8. What structure was built in Paris in 1889 by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel?
the Seine - the Garonne - the Rh
a French car from the Citro
painter
Eiffel Tower
9. What is the underground subway system called in Paris?
a star
le m
parachute
fertile soil
10. Which river divides Paris into the right bank and left bank
Nicolas Sarkozy
elephant
parachute
the Seine river
11. Which city in southwestern France is called la ville rose
15 -771 feet/4805 meters
a cookie
Toulouse
l'existentialisme
12. Which American trend has made its way to France and the French are very disapproving of it?
fast food chains
beef - veal - poultry and cheese
Alsace and Lorraine
Gothic art
13. What is un croque-monsieur?
Romanesque
Livarot
Marie and Pierre Curie
a toasted ham and cheese sandwich
14. Where is le grand Trianon
Versailles
in the afternoon (un go
Italian
95
15. What is une coquille Saint-Jacques?
a scallop (type of seafood)
Mont Blanc
Alsace and Lorraine
le massif central
16. Which American was known as the music-hall queen of Paris in 1920s?
Josephine Baker
Lille
modern and contemporary art of the Western World
chestnuts
17. Which of Ernest Hemingway's books portray life in Paris between the two world wars?
a stew
noon
un kilogramme
A Moveable Feast
18. On June 12 - 1940 - Paris surrendered to What country to save itself from destruction?
using the formal vous when talking to somebody
Mus
shop
Germany
19. What would you do at les Galeries Lafayette?
Alsace and Lorraine
1000
shop
French Riviera
20. What is la viande chevaline?
horsemeat
1890s
Toulouse
Napoleon Bonaparte
21. What fabric dye originated in France - but is very much part of American culture?
pig's blood
ARIANE
lunch
denim (de N
22. What would you do at la Com
18 yrs old
la bouillabaisse
watch a play
they learn to read
23. What regions are famous for their butter
1000
The Marshall Plan (US)
Normandy and Brittany
Mexico
24. when was Impressionism at its height as a style?
Id
late 1800s
in Deauville
Louis XIV
25. Cooking in France is considered a form of...
Italian princess - Marie de M
film star
art
movie camera and projector
26. Where would you most likely find par avion written?
le baseball
film director
before lunch or dinner
on an envelope
27. Which Republic is France under today?
5th Republic
the Mediterranean Sea and Spain
Charles de Gaulle
chunks of French bread that are dipped in hot - melted cheese
28. As the US is divided into states - France is divided into...
Tintin
d
French Riviera
pig's blood
29. when was the first female prime minister - Edith Cresson - appointed?
1991
Versailles
shop
Lutetia
30. We call it baseball - the French call it...?
le football or le foot
he disappeared on a mission during World War II
le baseball
left one
31. What day in France is comparable to American Independence Day - July 4th?
France
wheat - corn - sugar beets and grapes
Bastille Day - July 14th
le baccalaur
32. Who composed Bol
Livarot
Marie Curie's work
Maurice Ravel
cherries
33. When did Algeria gain its independence from France?
left
1962
Statue of Liberty
christenings and weddings
34. What day of the week do French children attend school while American children do not
Corsica - la Corse
Saturdays
Huguenots
a newspaper
35. When did France end nuclear testing?
individual sports - such as tennis - cycling and sailing
African
Louisiana Purchase
1996
36. What flavor is the liquor Cointreau?
Toulouse
orange
in an apartment building
they were all Impressionist painters
37. What is heavier - un kilo or 2 pounds?
a newspaper
Huguenots
le P
un kilo
38. Where is la promenade des Anglais
1481
a fried pastry
Nice
Louisiana Purchase
39. What is vouvoiement?
overseas France
le m
processed meats and sandwiches
using the formal vous when talking to somebody
40. What industry produces most of France's electricity?
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
the nuclear power industry
telecommunication satellites
film star
41. Who developed the champagne making method?
Alsace and Lorraine
dom Perignon
horsemeat
1000
42. What do the French buy almost daily at the bakery?
Paris
croissants and baguettes
Alexandre Dumas (p
over 9 million
43. The university of Paris in the Latin Quarter on the left bank of the Seine is called...?
Impressionism
la Sorbonne
shopping center
Brazil
44. Where did Paris get its name from?
The President and Prime Minister belong to different political parties
a Gallic tribe - Parisii
Germany - Switzerland and Italy
Alsace and Lorraine
45. Where did le croissant originate?
overseas France
French Riviera
Vienna - to celebrate the end of the siege of the city by the Turks
5 yrs
46. What is la mairie?
July
a toasted ham and cheese sandwich
the town hall
porcelain
47. How old was Marie Antoinette when she married Louis XVI?
parachute
a bicycle race
Versailles
14
48. Where is France's spacecraft launched?
a co-ed high school
Continental France
the Opera festival
Kourou (French Guyana)
49. Who wrote the absurdist plays Rhinoceros and La cantatrice chauve (the bald soprano)?
le tricolore
Eugene Ionesco
Gothic art
a tourist guide book
50. How many grammes in un kilo?
1000
Maurice Ravel
about 300 -000
African
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