French quiz questions

TAKE five minutes and see if you can answer the quiz questions on all things France posed by author Andrew Whittaker.

Some of the questions you will find in Andrew's book Speak the Culture: France, but he also likes to keep readers on their toes with brain teasers drawn from recent events.

Below you will find a set of ten questions, alongside a .pdf of the same questions but also the answers that you can take away with you.

Feel free to print off copies of the questions to hand out at a get-together or similar event, you could even use them in a language class, and look out for another quiz next month.

Speak the Culture: France Quiz Questions for May

Q. Why did a Paris prosecutor recently call for Bridget Bardot to be fined and imprisoned?
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Q. What is a Bande Dessinée, of which 34 million were sold in France last year?
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Q. Why is the French entry for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest causing such dismay in the mother country?
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Q. Who was the female star of Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, a New Wave film musical?
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Q. Who is Jean-Loup Dabadie and why was he been in the news?
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Q. What significance does the Café Guerbois in Paris carry in the history of French art?
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Q. Cyrano de Bergerac has become famous as the nasally gifted romantic of Rostand’s play, but what genre of literature did the real Cyrano write?
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Q. Which region of France is famous for its vin de paille, made by laying grapes out to dry on straw.
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Q. What did the French National Olympic Committee recently ban French athletes from wearing at the Beijing Games?
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Q. The French National Assembly recently approved legislation that would punish what with up to two years in prison?
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Download Speak the Culture: France Quiz Questions for May (.pdf)