Challenge your knowledge of France

LET'S see how good your knowledge of France really is with the latest quiz covering both events from the present day to those from the past?

Here are ten questions posed by author Andrew Whittaker, who compiled the book Speak the Culture: France, so see how much you really know.

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.

Plus there are many more questions to tackle in the French quiz archive.

Speak the Culture: France Quiz Questions for November

Q. Name the French winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Q. When the Papal See was moved to France in the 14th century, which city become home to the popes?
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Q. Why did more than 60 French people with the surname Bougon take a TV production company to court recently?
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Q. Who is Bertrand Delanoë?
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Q. Which foreign author and playwright died in the Hotel d’Alsace doss house on the Left Bank, Paris, in 1900?
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Q. Why did pop star Lââm find herself caught up in a national row recently?
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Q. Before the 19th century, farmers in Gascony wore tchangues to tend their flocks of sheep. What were tchangues?
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Q. Which actor, often referred to in relation to his famous father, died recently, aged 37?
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Q. Why was Mathias Guerrand-Hermes, heir to the Hermes fashion fortune, arrested in New York earlier this month?
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Q. Paris’ newly opened centre for modern art, Centquatre, launched at a cost of €100 million, is located in a former what?
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Download Speak the Culture: France Quiz Questions and Answers for November (.pdf) or read in-page below.