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French Culture - 3
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culture
Instructions:
Answer 42 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The 'boules' playing Petanglee are made of What?
52 b.c.
11
Marianne
metal
2. French Kind: 'The Hammer'
Charles Martel
pain perdu
1815
metal
3. Two official languages of Belgium
Gaston Leroux
French and Dutch
Tuesday
Versailles
4. Calvados is a drink made of What fruit?
Apples
chef
Gaston Leroux
Caesar
5. Palme d'Or award is for...
Napoleon
Best film
Pierre Curie
5 weeks
6. What are the 'Cuisines de Grenouille'?
Frog legs
Marianne
metal
Marsollier Opera House
7. Who painted the Mona Lisa?
Charles Martel
Marianne
Leonardo De Vinci
chef
8. Profession of Jacques Pepin
chef
96
frozen food
52 b.c.
9. Year the Franco-Prussian war began
5 weeks
1870
Cave art paintings
Pierre Curie
10. Profession of Coco Chanel
fashion designer
Napoleon
5 weeks
Nord - pas de Callais
11. Cemetary with the grave of Jim Morrison
French and Dutch
Pere-Lachaise
pain perdu
September 22 - 2012
12. What are the paid hall monitors in French high schools called?
5 weeks
Burgendy
1871
Servalent
13. What is the 'boules' of the bakery?
Tuesday
Bowl of bread
Marsollier Opera House
Leonardo De Vinci
14. On What day is 'la fete de la Gastronomie in 2012?
Versailles
September 22 - 2012
Marsollier Opera House
November 1st
15. Year of Battle of Waterloo
Free Country
24 hours
1815
Versailles
16. 'French Toast' in Frence
96
Pierre Curie
Leonardo De Vinci
pain perdu
17. Year of Paris Commund
Best film
24 hours
Bowl of bread
1871
18. City that is encircled by medieval walls
1871
Carcassone
1870
Gpsy
19. Region Lille is located
November 1st
Nord - pas de Callais
Charles Martel
Bowl of bread
20. U.S. Opera House with two Matise Paintings
Pierre Curie
Gpsy
Servalent
Marsollier Opera House
21. What can you see in the caves at Lascaux?
Apples
waffle
Tuesday
Cave art paintings
22. General that won the Battle of Alesia
24 hours
Caesar
Nord - pas de Callais
Cave art paintings
23. Franche-Coumtre
2007-2012
Servalent
September 22 - 2012
Free Country
24. When is the next 'jour ferie' in France?
Bowl of bread
waffle
November 1st
24 hours
25. How long is the Lemans sports car race?
Marsollier Opera House
Tuesday
Gaston Leroux
24 hours
26. Who wrote 'Le Fantome de l'Opera?'
Servalent
Bowl of bread
Gaston Leroux
2007-2012
27. Who lost the Battle of Waterloo?
Burgendy
November 1st
Marsollier Opera House
Napoleon
28. What region is Dijon located?
French and Dutch
Pere-Lachaise
Burgendy
Belguim
29. French Gold medals in 2012
frozen food
Cave art paintings
Tuesday
11
30. What day is the Louvre closed?
24 hours
Tuesday
Pere-Lachaise
waffle
31. Woman sculpture in every Town Hall
Tuesday
11
Marianne
fashion designer
32. Departments in France
Servalent
Belguim
96
pain perdu
33. How tall is the Eiffel Tower?
Apples
French and Dutch
metal
1 -063
34. Ethnicity of Django Rhinehart
11
Gpsy
Belguim
Tuesday
35. What are 'produits congeles'?
frozen food
metal
waffle
Pere-Lachaise
36. What country was the Battle of Waterloo fought in?
Charles Martel
Belguim
fashion designer
Caesar
37. What is a gaufre?
Versailles
waffle
Pere-Lachaise
September 22 - 2012
38. What year did the Battle of Alesia occur
Leonardo De Vinci
2007-2012
Gaston Leroux
52 b.c.
39. What years was Nicholas Sarkozy President for?
Nord - pas de Callais
1815
fashion designer
2007-2012
40. How many weeks of paid vacation?
5 weeks
Leonardo De Vinci
frozen food
Servalent
41. Marie Curie's husband
1870
Pierre Curie
Tuesday
Free Country
42. Treaty that ended WWI
Apples
French and Dutch
Versailles
September 22 - 2012