A France Question Tour

Bonjour! Ou Bonsoir! Eight categories, thirty-two questions, you know the drill. Or maybe you don't, but this should be fairly easy to comprehend. Bonne chance!

All questions will relate to mainland France.

For the verb, use the infinitive (the "to" form of the verb, such as "to run."

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Hint	Answer
City 1: Center of the EU's aerospace program	Toulouse
City 2: Site of a failed Canadian landing in WWII (they would eventually free the city, though.)	Dieppe
City 3: Home of the popes from 1301-1377	Avignon
City 4: City on the French Riviera whose name in English is a synonym for "pleasant."	Nice
Artificial Landmark 1: Tidal commune known for its abbey that recently celebrated its 1,000th birthday.	Mont St Michel
Artificial Landmark 2: The company that designed this "Dame de Fer" also designed the steel skeleton of the Statue of Liberty.	Eiffel Tower
Artificial Landmark 3: Art museum located inside of a former train station.	Musee d'Orsay
Artificial Landmark 4: Hunting lodge turned into an extravagant palace	Versailles
Natural Landmark 1: Town home to white cliffs; also, the last place where the plane "The White Bird" was seen before its disappearance.	Etretat
Natural Landmark 2: Canyon in the French Riviera that reaches over 700 meters deep	Gorges du Verdon
Natural Landmark 3: Tallest mountain in Europe (discounting Mount Elbrus), shared with Italy.	Mont Blanc
Natural Landmark 4: Tallest sand dunes in Europe	Pilat
People 1: Patron saint of France.	Joan of Arc
People 2: Corsican general who led conquests of much of Europe.	Napoleon Bonaparte
People 3: Polish-French scientist who led the study of radiation (and discovered the element Polonium.)	Marie Curie
People 4: Enlightenment critic of the church and supporter of civil liberties.	Voltaire

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Events 1: Prison stormed to mark the beginning of the French Revolution.	Bastille
Events 2: Final battle of the Gallic Wars, marked by Vercingetorix's surrender to Julius Caesar.	Battle of Alesia
Events 3: Campaign to remove Catharism from southern France from 1209-1229	Albigensian Crusade
Events 4: A Jewish officer was falsely accused of treason in this military scandal.	Dreyfus Affair
Culture 1: 68-meter embroidery that depicts the Battle of Hastings.	Bayeux Tapestry
Culture 2: Claude Monet's most famous series of paintings depicting his garden in Giverny.	Water Lilies
Culture 3: Novel by Victor Hugo that would later become a Disney movie; it helped to preserve a famous cathedral.	The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Culture 4: Oldest and most famous of the "Grand Tours."	Tour de France
Food 1: Controversial dish of waterbird liver.	Foie Gras
Food 2: Pastry filled with cream and topped with icing.	Eclair
Food 3: Tart filled with custard and a combination of cheese, meat, seafood, and vegetables, originating from Lorraine.	Quiche
Food 4: Famous blue cheese from Occitania.	Roquefort
Vocab 1: (Noun) Un etudiant / Une etudiante	A Student
Vocab 2: (Adjective) Premier / Premiere	First
Vocab 3: (Verb) Adorer	To love
Vocab 4: (Preposition) Devant	In front of, before (spatially)