JUST how good is your knowledge of France, both covering events from the present day to looking back over the past?
Well have a go at the questions posed by author Andrew Whittaker, who compiled the book Speak the Culture: France, to see how much you really know.
This month’s quiz questions take in a bit of sport, the arts and cinema as well as a test of your knowledge of recent events which made the news.
Speak the Culture: France Quiz Questions for July
Q. Which fashionista has angered locals by buying up dozens of buildings in the Provencal village of Lacoste, once home to the Marquis de Sade.
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Q. What art form is celebrated at the famous Les Rencontres d’Arles?
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Q. This year’s Tour de France only crosses the French border into one other country? Which country is it?
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Q. Whose forthcoming folk/pop album has raised hackles with the lyrics: “You are my drug. More lethal than heroin from Afghanistan, and more dangerous than Colombian cocaine”?
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Q. They were recently declared extinct by the magazine Le Point, but what is (or was) a Bobo?
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Q. What was unique about the playing style of Django Reinhardt, jazz guitar hero of the Quintette du Hot Club de France in the 1930s?
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Q. Who, sitting in the Café de Flore, concluded “man is condemned to be free”?
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Q. Whose own mother referred to her son, an author, as a “petit con (little git)” and a “parasite” in a recently released memoir?
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Q. Which region of France leads the way in celebrating the arrival of choucroute nouvelle (fermented cabbage) each autumn?
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Q. Who starred in Le Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulin, the most successful French film of 2001?
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Below is a .pdf that you can print off and take away with you, which you could hand out at a get-together or similar event.
Download speak-the-culture-quiz0708 (.pdf)
