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Fascinating France Fun Facts French 1
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1
Who was the famous American author of the "Lost Generations"?
Earnest Hemingway
Louis XII
Auguste Renoir
Claude Monet
2
French is not an official language in which country?
Blaze
France
Belize
Canada
3
Where would you be if you saw signs for Mairie des Lilas, Porte Dorleans, Pont de Sevres?
Subway
retro
someway
Metro
4
What French General said, "France has lost a battle.But France has not lost the world"?
Charles de Gaulle
Charlie Buckets
Charlie Brown
Napoleon Bonaparte
5
In 1785, millions of skeletons were transported from overcrowded cemeteries to these quarries?
The cat with combs
Notre Dame
ossuaires de Paris
The Catacombs
6
What city inspired artist Vincent VanGogh?
Paris
Arles
Giverny
Cagnes
7
What is the French equivalent to our Uncle Sam?
La Marseillaise
Le Tricolore
Liberte FlaterniPe Eqalite
Marianne
8
Which French president was responsible to the building of the Louvre, Pyramid, the Great Arch?
Napoleon Bonaparte
Francois II
Francois Mitterand
Louis XVI
9
Where in France is a world-famous film fest held?
connes
Cans
comes
Cannes
10
What DELTA is known for wild horses, flamingos, rice, bullfighters, and gypsies?
Rhone
Comurgou
Lyon
Camargue
11
What is the translation of the European country named Angleterre?
Belgium
Germany
Spain
England
12
Who was the wife of Louis XVI ?
Mari Leszczynska
Mari Antoinette
Mari de Medicis
Mary Stuart
13
What is the English meaning of the French expression "sang-froid"?
pen name
private conversation
Composure
social blunder
14
The French royal Francois I was associated with this emblem.
Salamander
Swan
Bee
Ermine
15
What year did French women achieve the right to vote?
2005
1945
1965
1845
16
Albert Camus, Anatole France, Andre Gide, and Frederic Mistral all shared the distinct honor?
livre
Opal Peanut
Nobel Prize
New-berry Award
17
These extraordinary structures all have in common:Amiens, Reims, Strasbourg, Bourges, Chartres?
Gothic Architecutre
Roman Architecture
Gourmet Architecture
Greek Architecture
18
What is the name of the tallest bridge in France (and the world)?
Le Viadue de Millau
Passerelle des Douanes
Traversée de Paris
Passerelle de la rue de Maubeuge
19
What do Alsatian, Breton, Catalan, and Provencal all have in common?
Diginitaries
Dictates
Dialects
Diaries
20
In what field did Evariste Galois, Rene Descartes, Jules-Henri Poincare, make contributions?
History
English
Chemistry
Mathamatics