IT is time again to see how in touch with France you are thanks to questions posed by author Andrew Whittaker, who compiled the book Speak the Culture: France.
He has put together ten questions on things that have been in the news, as well as a few brainteasers covering French cinema and the arts.
The list of questions are below, alongside a .pdf that you can print off and take away with you, which you could hand out at a get-together or similar event.
Speak the Culture: France Quiz Questions for June
Q. What did archaeologists recently find at the bottom of the River Rhône in Arles?
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Q Which artist creating more than 60 different paintings of Mont St. Victoire near his Provençal home?
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Q. Which foreign singer became a Chevalier Dans L’Ordre Des Arts et des Lettres (awarded for significant contributions to the ‘French cultural inheritance’) on May 5, 2008?
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Q. Jacques Tati was famous for a pipe-smoking, mac-wearing character, star of such films as Mon Oncle (1958). What was the character called?
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Q. Why did a recent exhibition of unpublished colour photos of wartime Paris taken by André Zucca spark controversy?
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Q. The 2008 edition of the Michelin guide was published in March. Only one restaurant, Le Petit Nice, was newly elevated to three star status. Which city is it in?
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Q: Who wrote À la recherché du temps perdu, taking more than a decade to complete it?
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Q. Which team finished bottom of the French football Ligue 1 at the end of the 2007/2008 season?
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Q. In the classic 1966 film Un homme et une femme the lovers of the title keep returning to which seaside town?
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Q. Which newspaper was founded by Jean-Paul Sartre and his Maoist friends in 1973?
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Download: speak-the-culture-quiz0608 (.pdf)
