We Are From France Trivia Quiz

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France shares borders with Belgium to the northeast, Germany and Luxembourg in the east, with Monaco, Switzerland and Italy to the southeast and with Spain and Andorra in the southwest. The Pyrenees mountains, a mountain range in southwest France, form a natural border between Spain and France.

Answer: Paris

Paris is situated on the river Seine and is the capital city of France. The Frankish king Clovis the Frank, the first king of the Merovingian dynasty, named Paris the capital city of the French region in 508 AD. After the Carolingian dynasty and Viking raids in the French territory, Paris became the permanent capital city of France in 987 AD.

Answer: Salvador Dali

Salvador Dalí was a surrealist painter born in Figueres, Spain in 1904. His best known painting, "The Persistence of Memory", was completed in 1931. Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas were all painters in the 19th-century art movement originating in Paris known as Impressionism.

Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon Bonaparte (born in 1769 and died in 1821) was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815. Napoleon led the French in the Napoleonic Wars from 1803 through 1815 until he was defeated in the Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815.

Answer: cycling race

The Tour de France is an annual multiple stage bicycle race primarily held in France. The event began in 1903 and has been held every year except during the the two World Wars.

Answer: Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist. He was best known for inventing a method to treat milk in order to prevent it from causing sickness, a process that came to be called pasteurization. His contribution to the germ theory of disease was demonstrating that fermentation was caused by the growth of micro-organism and that the growth of bacteria in nutrient broths was due to biogenesis. Pasteur also discovered the anaerobic organism which were micro-organisms that could develop and live without air or oxygen.

Answer: Escargots

Escargot is an appetizer served in French restaurants which consists of cooked snails. The snails are removed from their shells, cooked with garlic butter, chicken stock or wine and then placed back into the shells with the butter and sauce for serving. Occasionally additional ingredients may be added during the preparation such as garlic, thyme, parsley and pine nuts.

Answer: Gustave Eiffel

French engineer Gustave Eiffel was credited with designing the Eiffel Tower in 1889. The Eiffel Tower is an iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. The Eiffel Tower was constructed as the entrance arch to the 1889 World's Fair hosted by Paris.

The Eiffel Tower has become both a cultural icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world. Standing 320 meters (1,050 feet) tall, the Eiffel Tower is the tallest structure in Paris.

Answer: yes

France has hosted the Olympic Games five times. France hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1900 and 1924 and the Winter Olympic Games in 1924, 1968 and 1992.

Answer: Antoine de Saint-Exupery

French author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote novels including the 1931 novel "Night Flight", the 1939 memoir "Wind, Sand and Stars" and 1943 novel "The Little Prince". The novel "The Little Prince", or "Le Petit Prince" in French, was a tale of a pilot stranded in the Sahara Desert meeting a young prince fallen to Earth from a tiny asteroid called B-612.