Vive les 'R's! Trivia Quiz

Answer: stream or gutter

Red is rouge for anything but hair color which is roux or rousse. Rusty is rouille (with accent), rustle would be ruisseler as a verb. Un ruisseau is the normal term for a stream.

Answer: to snore

renifler = sniff, to blow up is gonfler, to yawn is bailler. A sniffer plane that fuels up in the air, is called un avion renifleur.

Answer: redhead (female)

rust = rouille, protest = rouspeter, rouse= reveiller. The sauce called rouille is a garlic mayonnaise served on croutons and is actually deep yellow going on orangish. It is often served in bouillabaisse. Une rousse is a female redhead and un rouquin is the slang version of a redhead guy, closer to carrot-top! Les cheveux roux is red hair.

Answer: brawl or fight

rice = le riz, grimace is un rictus, l'huile de ricin is castor oil, yuck! The latter is still used in cosmetics. 'Une rixe' is cited as one of the exceptions to your personal insurance on a policy! Getting into a bar fight! It's closer to the West Side story type of fight in the newspaper. I hear about them every morning on the local radio.

Answer: to roar

to blush is rougir, to pull down is tirer, porter une perruque is to wear a wig or toupee. The Lion candy bar says that 'vous rugirez pour un Lion'. Or at least it used to!

Answer: Complain and or gripe

reveiller quelqu'un = wake s.o. up, battre quelqu'un, and riposter would be retort. The French are very good at this!

Answer: kidney (meat)

Un rein is the organ, a frog is une grenouille of course, and to be grouchy is grognon.

Answer: burp

To snore is ronfler, to sniff is renifler, and to roast is rotir. Un rot is the noun for a burp.

Answer: commoner

Un roturier is indeed a commoner. A roaster, they'd use a different sort of word for their turkey, un roteur would be someone who burps, though they don't have a title for it. Perhaps that would mean they were a roturier roteur.

Answer: nook or cranny

Chercher dans tous les coins et les recoins, is to look absolutely everywhere. A coin is 'une piece', un coin is also a corner or a place, reconnaitre is to recognize.

Answer: faucet or tap

A robber is un voleur or un cambrioleur, hose is un tuyau, marionnette is une marionnette! Il faut fermer ou ouvrir les robinets. They use open and close for the faucet. The gas outlet is also called 'un robinet a gaz'.

Answer: row (as in a boat)

To burn into flames is cramer, it used to be colloquial now if there's something burning in the oven someone generally says, 'qu'est-ce qui crame?!' Ramoner is to sweep out the chimney or a pipe. Current usage of ramer is when a program runs very slowly, 'ca rame'.

Answer: reindeer

The kidney is un rein, the reign is la reigne, rain is of course la pluie. Une renne is feminine, don't ask me why!

Answer: rake

A raccoon is un raton laveur, rat is un rat! A rattle is un hochet. 'Prendre un rateau' in many areas of France is to be seriously embarrassed as in the slapstick comedies when you step on a rake and it whacks you squarely in the face.

Answer: complain or gripe

A railway station is la gare, to return is retourner, rallumer is to light something back up.