Questions pour un champion en herbe Quiz

Answer: le pied

"La batterie" is a drum set in this context, may be used for car battery (aka Delco amongst the seniors for a brand name) and "la pile" is for an appliance battery. Une batterie can mean an assortment as in a batterie de cuisine, a set of pots and pans. "Une caisse" means many things, case, box, even a slang word for car like "wheels" but here, it means the bass drum and therefore you use the pedal and your foot.

Answer: La méditerranée

Marseille is of course located on the Mediterranean sea. A port town, it has been there for much longer than France, even predating the Romans as its name is actually "Massilia" from the Phonecian-Greek settlement there. They recently dug up a Greek ship while putting in a shopping center, and had to make the center around it.

Answer: Les journaux (les quotidiens)

Un journal is a newspaper or un journal télévisé, the daily news on TV. Un quotidien is a daily. Un mensuel being a monthly.
I hope you didn't get Pinocchio!

Answer: yeux

L'oeil is a difficult word to pronounce for foreigners, but to make matters worse, it has that tricky irregular plural, "yeux" that we confuse with eggs, or oeufs. Oeils doesn't exist. Ouf is an exclamation of relief. Literally: how do you spell relief?
The fact that this is in a French test means that even native speaker kids get it wrong, like cheval chevaux...so don't worry if you did too!

Answer: Rome

Rome is the place...we now have him to thank for the word "Carolingian", one of my personal favorites. French kids have to know quite a bit about their own history. Avignon was of course the alternative to Rome for the Popes. Reims was where Clovis was crowned by Saint Rémy.

Answer: Est

Strasbourg is on the border of Germany and France. It is the major city of Alsace.

Answer: holdup

The French government, whereas not nearly so strict as the French Canadian administration, has instituted a policy of if you do wish to use English in an advertisement, you must have the French below it. I've even seen "Yes!" and an asterisk referring you to "oui!" below it. However, they often use the word holdup and the others.
French kids are starting English in primary school if possible unless they live near another linguistic border such as Germany, Spain, Belgium or Italy at which time they often teach the language of the neighbor.

Answer: la fille rousse

Roux rousse are for hair color or even fur. Rouge is for other things. Though now you do see Red hair. Russe is Russian of course, rusée is clever or resourceful.

Answer: Lausanne

Lausanne is in Switzerland.

Answer: Les romains

France teaches its schoolchildren early about the Gauls.
And if they don't get it, they can go to the Parc Asterisk near Paris.
Now for those of you who haven't forgotten that the title doesn't make sense, the French use this term to mean young, growing up, or a kid. "Un Picasso en herbe" is a budding artist. "Vos patissiers en herbe feront ce gateau dans un rien de temps." Your little pastry chefs will make this cake in no time. Merci, à bientôt.