Rivers
Mountains
Strasbourg
Besançon
Colmar
100
The French rivers in the east are fed by this mountain range.
What is the Alps?
100
This mountain is French for White Mountain.
What is Mont Blanc?
100
The oldest Christmas Market in France.
What is Christkindelsmärik?
100
This leader overtook Besançon in 58 BC.
What is Julius Ceasar?
100
This king mentioned Colmar in his chronicles about the Saxon war.
What is Charlemagne?
200
This river is the deepest in France.
What is the Rhine?
200
This bird lives in the French Alps.
What is Rock Ptarmigan?
200
Strasbourg's UNESCO world heritage site.
What is Cathédrale Notre Dame de Strasbourg ?
200
Swiss refugees introduced this trade into Besançon in the 18th century.
What is watch and clockmaking?
200
This composer was from Colmar.
What is Jean-Baptiste Lemire.
300
This river drains 20% of Frances land area.
What is the Loire River
300
This mountain range extends 225 miles on the Franco-Swiss border.
What is the Jura mountains?
300
Strasbourg's original name.
What is Argantorati?
300
This writer was born in Besançon on The Grande Rue, in building No. 140.
What is Victor Hugo?
300
This hoard of precious objects hidden by Jews during the Black Death, was discovered in 1863.
What is the Colmar Treasure?
400
This ocean is where the majority of French rivers flow to.
What is the Atlantic?
400
This pine tree is known for growing on the French Alps and can live for 350-400 years.
What is Arolla Pine?
400
The style of architecture in Strasbourg.
What is half-timber?
400
This structure was so costly to build that Louis XIV enquired as to whether the walls had been made out of gold.
What is the Citadelle de Besançon?
400
This country occupied Colmar during the 30 years war.
What is Sweden?
500
This is the side where the Louvre sits on the Seine.
What is the left bank?
500
Before the French Alps, this mountain eroded in the Paleozoic Era.
What is the Hercynian Mountains?
500
Four European councils in Strasbourg.
What are Council of Europe, the Eurocorps, the European Court of Human Rights, and the European Parliament?
500
This President of Senegal and his wife attended the University of Franche-Comté in Besançon.
What is Abdoulaye Wade?
500
This statue residing in America, was sculpted by someone born in Colmar.
What is the statue of Liberty?