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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. Who are the two most famous Cubist Artists?
Vincent Van Gogh
shop
Continental France
Braque and Picasso
2. What do French roosters say at the crack of dawn?
Vercing
l'
cocorico
prison
3. What is Calvados?
apple liquor
of course
shop
ch
4. At Which celebrations do you give drag
5th Republic
christenings and weddings
Gaul
a flaky pastry
5. Which of Ernest Hemingway's books portray life in Paris between the two world wars?
a newspaper
film director
A Moveable Feast
left one
6. What are Europe's tallest mountains bordering France and Italy?
a platter with a selection of cheeses
Normandy and Brittany
1962
the Alps
7. What city was the center of international art in the 20th century until after World War II?
1946
Paris
to raise the retirement age
fattened liver of duck or goose
8. Name two delicacies of France?
frog legs (les cuisses de grenouille) and snails (les escargots) Also goose liver p
la Marseillaise
for not understanding the people and frivolously spending money
the 12th century
9. Is un m
Louis XV
Giulia
cheese - butter and apple brandy (Calvados)
more
10. Who led the underground resistance movement for those opposed to the Nazi takeover in France?
Normandy and Brittany
une
September
General Charles de Gaulle
11. What do the French cows say?
meuh
Hector Berlioz and Fr
fertile soil
1996
12. How many m
in an apartment building
a pastry - also means a nun
60
1000
13. Marie Antoinette was not French. What nationality was she?
animal parks (zoos)
January 6th (Epiphany)
Austrian
1889 World's Fair
14. In Which department would you find truffles
le P
200 years ago
the hunchback in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
la bouillabaisse
15. What French actor - popular in the US - has starred in such movies as Green Card (1990) and Christopher Columbus (1992)?
Jean de la Fontaine
he was crowned King of France
the town hall
G
16. How tall is the Eiffel Tower
1000 feet/300 meters
rich chocolate cake with vanilla or coffee icing in the shape of a log
right wing - anti-immigration party
a Paris university
17. On Which French city did the world focus when Diana - Princess of Wales died in 1997?
a famous French puppet
Hundred Years War
Paris
le mar
18. On What kind of bottle would you find the word brut?
une bouteille de champagne
painter
Mont Blanc
watch a play
19. What is un potage?
La Joconde
Paris
soup
Corsica - la Corse
20. Who did France join in declaring war on Germany - Which began WWII?
Braille script to help the blind read
Britain
the time of Gaul's invasion by the Romans
space - electronics and computer software
21. What is le slow?
slow dancing
lunch
the cathedral in Reims
elephant
22. What was the profession of Jean Renoir?
that is where he died
Air France
film director
iron ore
23. Where would you find un chauffe-eau?
in a bathroom or kitchen
Fran
American film star
Le centre Georges Pompidou (Beaubourg)
24. France's North American Colony - Louisiana - was sold to the US. What was the sale called?
Louisiana Purchase
Hundred Years War
impressionist
the name of the man Who invented moving pictures
25. What is the name of the comprehensive exam students take at the end of high school?
fondue bourguignonne
le baccalaur
Le centre Georges Pompidou (Beaubourg)
over 90 million
26. How many French speakers are there worldwide?
Fran
Lille
Germany
over 90 million
27. What is hidden in une galette des Rois?
a kind of outdoor bowling game played with two large metal balls and one smaller one
a bean or a small porcelain figurine
Grasse
a stew
28. What borders France to the south?
the Mediterranean Sea and Spain
Paris
more
bullfighting
29. Who is France's most famous ecologist?
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
fondue bourguignonne
on the French and Spanish sides of the Western Pyrenees
more
30. What is le Code Napol
the first modern legal code of France
he was crowned King of France
5th Republic
almost 200 yrs
31. Whose mistress was the Marquise de Pompadour?
Id
a bicycle race
cuisine bourgeoise
Louis XV
32. What does d
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33. When do the Christmas holiday celebrations begin in France
la Sorbonne
December 6th (Saint Nicolas)
G
Giulia
34. Where is la Polyn
in the south Pacific
December 6th (Saint Nicolas)
wheat - corn - sugar beets and grapes
in a bathroom or kitchen
35. How long does the car race at Le Mans last?
24 hrs (les 24 heures du Mans)
a cookie
Georges R
white
36. On What would you put une vinaigrette?
a tourist guide book
scuba gear
une salade
prison
37. Who is Quasimodo?
raw - on the half shell with a splash of lemon
G
Moli
the hunchback in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
38. Who was the queen of France at the time of the Revolution?
religious freedom
Italian
Marie Antoinette
boeuf bourguignon
39. We call it baseball - the French call it...?
rub the bowl with garlic
Marie Antoinette
le baseball
les arrondissements
40. What did Ren
stethoscope
hiking
telecommunication satellites
the little ball the player tries to get closest to
41. Where is Carcassonne
Southern France
Jean-Marie Le Pen
July 14 - 1789
2002
42. During World War II - What percentage of France's factories - machinery and transportation systems were lost?
1000 feet/300 meters
goose liver
80%
the Alps and the Pyrenees
43. What music festival is Aix-en-Provence famous for?
sauerkraut - meat and potatoes
Moli
the Opera festival
Nicolas Sarkozy
44. What are des tripes
tripe cooked very slowly in sauce - up to 24 hours
Toulouse
brothers Jacques-Eug
in a bathroom or kitchen
45. What helped rebuild France at the end of World War II?
Grasse
The Marshall Plan (US)
Val
2 million
46. Who wrote Tartuffe?
suits and neckties
Moli
1903
gourmet cooking
47. What is une b
a tourist boat on the Seine in Paris
elephant
Air France
a Christmas cake shaped like a log
48. What is une religieuse?
fish
about 400
a pastry - also means a nun
Roman Catholic
49. As the US is divided into states - France is divided into...
A Moveable Feast
d
Roland Garros Tennis Tournament and the cycling Tour de France
le Mar
50. What nut is sold hot on the streets of Paris in winter?
chestnuts
business section with offices - shopping and small factories
iron ore
a sugared almond