Mixed Bag
Which 21-stage, 23-day, 2,200-mile men’s bike race is held each summer and ends at the Champs-Élysées?
What is le Tour de France
Located about 12 miles west of Paris, what former royal residence built by Louis XIV of France now draws an estimated 15 million visitors per year, making it one of the most popular tourist sites in the world?
What is Versailles?
The Palme d’Or is the top prize awarded at the Internation Film Festival held in which French City?
What is Cannes?
What Parisian-born actress and activist launched the U.N. Women campaign HeForShe in 2014 – about three years after starring in her eighth “Harry Potter” film?
Who is Emma Watson?
Québec is the main French-speaking province of this country
What is Canada?
The nursery rhyme titled "Brother John" is more often known by what French-language name?
What is Frère Jacques?
Which glass and metal structure designed by Chinese American architect I. M. Pei stands in the main courtyard of the Louvre Museum?
What is the Louvre Pyramid?
The Blériot XI is the aircraft French aviator Louis Blériot used to become the first person to fly an airplane across what famous arm of the Atlantic Ocean that splits Southern England from Northern France?
What is the English Channel?
Which French monarch with the nickname “The Sun King” reigned for 72 years from the age of four? Name and regnal number required.
Who is Louis XIV?
This francophone country is only half of an island
What is Haiti?
What color features in the national flags of all eight countries that border mainland France?
What is red?
In France, the July 14 national holiday is called Fête nationale française. What’s it called in English? (Hint: The observance marks the fall of a French prison at the start of the Revolution)
What is Bastille Day?
France shares a land border with what country that also immediately follows it on an alphabetical list of the English names of E.U. nations?
What is Germany?
Born in 1822, which French chemist has a type of food preservation process (typically used for items like milk and juice) named after him and is recognized by many as the “Father of bacteriology” and the “Father of microbiology”?
Who is Louis Pasteur?
This territory of France in the South Pacific is made up of 118 islands
What is French Polynesia?
On the periodic table, Francium is named for the country of France. Less obviously, what metallic element gets its name from the old Latin name for what is now France?
What is Gallium?
In “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” Jules Verne based Captain Nemo’s Nautilus on what kind of machine technology that he’d seen at the 1867 Exposition Universelle in France?
What is a submarine?
What “M” French landmark is a large hill in Paris’s 18th arrondissement? It is home to the Basilica of the Sacre-Coeur.
What is Montmarte?
Which author of the romance novel "Clisson et Eugénie" (whose literary career is much less remembered than his political and military ones) was born on Corsica in 1769, and died on Saint Helena in 1821?
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
Cayenne is the capital of which overseas department of France?
What is French Guiana?
What sun-powered transportation experiment in France took a real bad turn in 2016, and didn’t end up paving the way for a new eco-friendly infrastructure?
What is the Solar Roadway?
Found in Montastruc, France, one of the most ancient human artworks is a sculpture of reindeer carved from what pointy part of a mammoth?
What is the Canine
In 1541, Hernando de Soto claimed what is now Louisiana as a territory for which European country that would eventually lose it to France in 1682?
What is Spain
Who was the only person to be prime minister more than once under the Fifth Republic of France? He served from 1974 to 1976, and again from 1986 to 1988.
Who is Jacques Chirac?
The "Basilica of Our Lady of Peace" is one of the largest churches in the world. It is located in the capital of this African francophone country
What is Côte d'Ivoire?