The City of Lights
The Souls of Paris
To the Countryside!
La Vie En Rose
Were you paying attention?
100
The Eiffel Tower was completed on March 31, 1889, just in time for the 1889 World's Fair, hosted in Paris to celebrate the 100th anniversary of this usurpation.
What is the French Revolution?
100
Kisses and lipstick graffiti used to cover the tomb of this literary figure, buried in Père Lachaise cemetery.
Who is Oscar Wilde?
100
The Pont du Gard aqueduct, A UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the most-visited monument in France, built by the Romans in this century.
What is the first century (CE)?
100
Le Musée d'Orsay displays one of these artist's famous self portraits, respected for their raw emotional intensity; bold, expressive color; and thick, impasto brushwork that reveal his psychological turmoil.
Who is Vincent van Gogh?
100
This is the number of bags each of us is allowed to check on the way to France
What is zero.
200
This Gothic-style chapel boasts one of the world's largest and most striking stained glass displays. And shares a name with Kayleigh Rose Amstutz's stage persona. (Perhaps we'll take "The Subway" there?)
What is (Saint) Chappelle?
200
Alongside Père Lachaise's renown artists is Edith Piaf, the rags-to-riches Parisian singer and lyricist famous for songs like "Non, je ne regrette rien" and this song about a "Life in Happy Hues."
What is "La Vie en Rose?"
200
Because they resided here -- instead of Rome or Vatican City -- Avignon is also known as the "Palace of..." this office heading the Roman Catholic Church.
What is the papacy (or, popes, or Papes)?
200
Monet's famous paintings of these flowers, are among his most renowned oil-on-canvas masterpieces for abstracting water in his late Impressionist period.
What are water lilies?
200
Our Global Works trip leader, Nahely, hails from this country, a commonwealth and Caribbean archipelago also home to Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio.
What is Puerto Rico?
300
Five years after Notre-Dame fire, no culprit has been found. But the Chief Paris prosecutor believes it caused accidentally by an electrical fault or smoldering one of these, common to Paris' café's.
What are cigarette butts?
300
Also interred at Père Lachaise is this legendary performer, Poland's "poet of the piano," the pen behind the famous "Nocturne in E-flat major."
Who is Frédéric François Chopin?
300
Carcassonne's iconic medieval fortified city, for its fairytale beauty has served as a filming location for numerous movies and TV shows, notably representing Sherwood Forest and Nottingham Castle in this 1991 film.
What is Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves?
300
Even the D'Orsay's architecture itself -- with its massive clocks and terminal arches -- is art: It's a prime example of a Beaux-Arts one of these operating until 1939.
What is a train station?
300
Eric, our Global Works organizer described our service day organizer, Bernard, using this word, which originally referred to a sharp twist, a flourish in weaving, or a verbal evasion.
What is quirky?
400
Napolean commisioned L'Arc De Triomphe to celebrate Le Grande Armée's victory at the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805 over these opponents.
Who were the Russians and Austrians?
400
Marcel Proust spends his afterline À la recherche du temps perdu in Père Lachaise. Entombed in Le Marais, he's tantalizingly close to, but unable to taste, these shell-shaped cake dipped in tea that trigger memories of his protagonists' past.
What are Madeleines?
400
Santiago de Compostela, the trail to the tomb of Saint James the Greater -- where we'll do our service work with Bernard -- is a major Catholic one of these... like Vatican to practicing Roman Catholics or Mecca in Saudi Arabia to practicing Muslims.
What is pilgrimage?
400
D'Orsay's home to one painting in Van Gogh's Starry Night story, this one depicting this river that begins in the Swiss Alps, flows through Lake Geneva, empties into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Rhône?
400
Our second trip leader, accompanying Nahely -- from Chicago, immersed in Paris for the last 6 years -- goes by this name.
What is Sophia Lucia Menedian?
500
Catherine de' Medici commissioned Le Jardin des Tuileries in 1564 for private, royal use. It was opened to the public in 1667. It became public property after this 18th Century rradical, total transformation of society, politics, and culture.
What was the French Revolution?
500
Your favorite diva's favorite Diva is interred at Cimetière du Père-Lachaise. This American-born Greek soprano and one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century.
Who is Maria Callas?
500
Le Train à Grande Vitesse revolutionized rail travel, launching in 1981 and holds the world speed record for conventional trains, reaching a top speed of this many miles per hour.
What is 357?
(Will accept 7 mph above or below.)
500
There's more to D'Orsay than pretty pictures. It features, too, sculptures like Rodin's Gates of Hell, a towering bronze bringing to life this work of Dante Alighieri's, the first epic poem in his The Divine Comedy.
What is Inferno?
500
Nahely said her favorite restaurant on our trip is in this Provençal city is renowned for its preserved medieval ramparts.
What is Avignon?