Clouseau's French Interrogation Session Quiz

Answer: Bique Eze yeux arrhes eux main qui.

Bique is a female goat, Eze is a French village above Monaco. "Les arrhes" are a deposit fee for a rental or other types of purchases. Le cil is the eyelash. Le standing in French means class, prestige, as for a building you live in. Un snack is a snack bar. l'aise= ease. L'ananas is pineapple and purported to help you lose weight, thus is served after an enormous holiday meal.
Laïque is lay or secular and yet, is normally referring to the fight to have religious education.

Answer: No, de haut elle hisse foule.

Voyons voir, Havre, major port city in the North of France, Yorre, another city name as in Vichy St Yorre, bottled mineral water that tastes of sulfur. Hisser= to raise a flag or mast. Dose= same word.
Bail is your lease on your apartment. Le droit au bail is the right to a lease? in any case, they charge you a fee on top of your rent.
Hâte is haste. "J'ai hâte de quitter ce bureau", I'm just dying to leave this office. La foule is the crowd.

Answer: Ou aïe arrhes yeux sot à pie?

Goth, well that's the opposite of the old Vandals, right? Un sot is an idiot, a well-known saying is as follows: Il n'y a pas de sot metier, il y a que des sots. Errer is to wander around aimlessly, or perhaps in search of something. "J'errais dans les couloirs à la recherche d'un café." Un faon is like Bambi.

Hein is an exclamation like "you know?" or "huh" at the end of a sentence. Un pot is often times used for a drink nowadays. "On boit un pot?" means shall we have a drink? "Un pot d'acceuil" at the Club you're staying at is a little welcome cocktail. Toast is used for a few things...one of them being toast.

They still use "pain grillé" though for some breads. Une dette is a debt. La toux is a cough.

Answer: Août doux yeux laïque maïs six taire?

Doux= sweet or soft depending on the context. Doucement can mean slow as well. Bouée=buoy. Chiche=Say, let's go. Or "Ok you're on". prête= ready in the feminine. taire= to quiet or mute vs se taire=to be quiet. Taisez-vous= means "quiet down". Some French translate that as "shut up", little knowing how much stronger that is.

They'd probably say, "Ferme-la" literally "shut it." Non non non, I've never heard anyone say, "Fermez la bouche!" which American French teachers have perpetuated over the years. Un dogue is a bulldog type dog, or a watchdog. Beaune is in Burgundy, the Hospices de Beaune is one of the most beautiful sites, though I'm sure many of you would be there for the restorative qualities of the wine.

Answer: Ou aïe hisse y co-mangues?

mangues=mango. Une hache is an ax.

Answer: Où aïe dont oui havre classe?

Lisse is smooth. Le chou is cabbage. La peau is skin.
Le col is several things, the collar, the mountain pass, and a few other anatomical items. Laid(e) is ugly.

Answer: Aïe donne non. Mai, dé arrhes note aine maille clos sept!

Un clos is like a courtyard, or an enclosed space or a garden. Une taie means a cover or a pillow case or slip. Dogme is dogma.
Une dalle is like a floor tile. Sain(e) means healthy.

Answer: Y s, aïe saut escrime toux.

La manne comes from heaven, manna. Mou or molle is soft or mushy. Une pâte molle for a person is a really boring unenergetic person. Escrime is fencing. Mette is the subjonctif of the verb mettre.

Answer: Ouate does deux ferme aire Havre?

Aine is the name of a department but also the groin. Roder is to break in as in a car or a machine. Also means to sneak around a building. Le cross is cross country as in a motorcycle or bike. Ail is garlic of course.

Answer: Ouate d'où yeux doux en de weekend?

Une plaie is a wound. Ouate is the cotton wool or dressing used on wounds. Fasse is the subjonctif form of faire...Qu'il fasse le nécessaire. Have him do what he has to do.

What does aïe mean? Ouch!
Thanks to Peter Sellers for his brilliant work.