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France Multiple Choice
Can you answers these multiple choice questions about France?
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| First submitted | January 22, 2019 |
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| Average score | 66.7% |
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1. Which of these countries does not border France?
Austria
Germany
Italy
Switzerland
2. On what day of the year do the French celebrate their national holiday?
Commonly known as Bastille Day in English-speaking countries
January 7th
July 14th
September 2nd
October 23rd
3. Who is usually considered to be the first king of France?
Charles the Fat
Clovis
Louis I
Pepin the Short
4. Which of these cities is not on the Mediterranean?
Cannes
Marseilles
Nantes
Nice
5. What did Louis Daguerre invent?
The can-can dance
The flying buttress
Photography
The submarine
6. Which one of these countries was never a French colony?
Haiti
Kenya
Senegal
Vietnam
7. Which of these people was never President of France?
Jacques Chirac
Charles de Gaulle
Louis Lumière
François Mitterrand
8. What is the approximate population of France?
34 million
68 million
102 million
136 million
9. What is the most common country of birth for French residents who were not born in France?
Algeria
China
Germany
United States
10. What is the westernmost region on the French mainland?
Brittany
Normandy
Occitanie
Pays de la Loire
11. About what percentage of France's electricity comes from nuclear power?
0%
10%
30%
70%
12. Does France have territory on the continent of South America?
The overseas region of French Guiana is located in South America
Yes
No
13. What is Denis Diderot best known for?
Editing an important encyclopedia
Inventing canned food
Winning battles during WWI
Writing "In Search of Lost Time"
14. How many times has France won the men's FIFA World Cup?
France won in 1998 and 2018
Never
Once
Twice
Three times
15. What peaceful period of French history lasted from 1871 to 1914?
Les Années Magnifiques
La Belle Époque
La Bonne Journée
La Durée Convenable
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25 Comments
IceLemonTea
+5
Level 64
Jan 22, 2019
Is a yes/no question really a "multiple" choice question? or am I nitpicking too much...
Sifhraven
+24
Level 73
May 2, 2019
Multiple means more than one so yes, technically it is multiple choice. Either way, yes, you are nitpicking ;)
gerobach
+6
Level 76
May 2, 2019
French city is Marseille (not Marseilles)
fitheach
+6
Level 58
May 2, 2019
Marseilles is an English spelling of the city's name (as is Marseille, both are used).
divantilya
+3
Level 36
May 2, 2019
^ Why can't the "English spelling" just go along with the actual name, as it does with Brasilia, Sao Paulo, Paramaribo, etc.- What is this obsession with anglicizing everything possible? - By adding the unnecessary "s" to the town's name, Americans especially, are apt to mispronounce it and cause confusion with "La Marseillaise" (the French National Anthem), in which the "s" is pronounced.
AntiMatter8192
+9
Level 75
Apr 24, 2023
Because the speakers, not some higher authority, determines how the English language functions, and they apparently chose Marseilles as acceptable. Either way, I don't see how it changes anything in regards to how similar it is to Marseillaise.
RuthlessCosmo
+2
Level 75
May 2, 2025
The same speakers who turned Livorno into Leghorn, Ypres into Wipers, Beijing into Peking, Firenze into Florence, and so on.
Amilcar
+9
Level 70
May 2, 2025
It's hardly just English spelling that does this. London is spelled as Londres in French. Britain is Inglistan in Persian. There are countless other examples. It's entirely normal for languages to develop their own versions of foreign place names that get well enough established over the centuries to become the English or French or Arabic or Persian word for that particular place.
Patah
+4
Level 71
May 2, 2025
And yet we say Londres instead of London, Douvres instead of Dover, and I don't see many Brits complaining about that.
fitheach
+5
Level 58
May 2, 2019
I'm not sure Daguerre "invented" photography, although he was certainly one of the fathers of it. Photography was one of those disciplines that was developed by a few individuals around the same time (e.g. Henry Fox Talbot) and Daguerre was one of those (an important one nonetheless).
Nicryc
+4
Level 26
Jun 19, 2020
According to Wikipedia, Nicéphore Niépce is the inventor of photography. The first picture taken and preserved being "Point de vue du Gras" from 1827.
dunkinggandalf2
+1
Level 71
Aug 17, 2022
Yes! Give Niepce some respect!
Evxnn
+1
Level 11
Dec 16, 2022
yeah i learnt it in school (i'm french) nicéphore died before to be famous with his photography i think and daguerre is now the most famous
ander217
+1
Level 75
May 7, 2019
I knew France had a department in South America, but it is not a territory so I answered no. I thought the clue was a bit tricky.
JackintheBox
+1
Level 80
Feb 26, 2021
Arrgghh, I just missed the Diderot question
ng218
+1
Level 50
Jun 15, 2023
I expected myself to do poorly here, as I don't live on escargot sadly.
Pangenou
+2
Level 48
May 2, 2025
Louis Daguerre did not invent photography. Nicéphore Niépce did.
Arp2600
+1
Level 88
May 2, 2025
Yes, this has been settled a long time ago. It's a complicated story but Niépce is clearly the inventor, while Daguerre improved it enough to present it and sell it (and it's an important fact that the two had a contract about it). At the same time, in England, William Henry Fox Talbot had created a similar process but a bit after Niépce, and he presented it a bit too late as well.
Crazyguineapig
+1
Level 34
May 20, 2025
To be precise, Daguerre invented the daguerreotype
Patah
+2
Level 71
May 2, 2025
100%, but being French helped a lot, no doubt :D
dumBunny
+2
Level 57
May 2, 2025
I didn't know who Denis Diderot was, and I got the question wrong. Now that I looked him up, I'm feeling very ignorant for not knowing who he was.
NiceAsPie
+2
Level 61
May 2, 2025
Good job he came up with the encyclopaedia, without which no-one would be able to look up who he was ..
galapsY
+1
Level 22
May 3, 2025
Nice quiz! But saying Diderot edited “an important” encyclopedia is an understatement, he created the first ever encyclopedia, which is commonly referred as “THE encyclopedia”
Ferbin
+1
Level 78
May 7, 2025
True.
shrekcena
+1
Level 58
May 6, 2025
I'm American and thought I would get like a 10/15 but I got 15/15 😎
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