ELA/English Language Arts
Poet and president_____wrote the lyrics for his country's national anthem.
a. Who is Aimé Césaire?
b. Who is Charles de Gaulle?
c. Who is Léopold Sédar Senghor?
d. Who is Toussaint Louverture?
c. Who is Léopold Sédar Senghor
Pierre-Simon de LaPlace, one of Napoleon's Teachers, formulated a single set of partial___equations for tidal flow.
a. What is differential?
b. What is exponential?
c. What is linear?
d. What is quadratic?
a. What is differential?
The first person to win two Nobel Prizes was this person.
a. Who is Antoine Henri Becquerel?
b. Who is Emmanuelle Charpentier?
c. Who is Henri Moissan?
d. Who is Marie Curie?
d. Who is Marie Curie?
French Indochina was a colonial territory that today is part of China, Laos and this country.
a. What is Japan?
b. What is Korea?
c. What is Thailand?
d. What is Vietnam?
d. What is Vietnam?
"Clair de Lune" is a piece for this by Claude Debussy.
a. What is a 4-part choir?
b. What is a clarinet?
c. What is a full orchestra?
d. What is a piano?
d. What is a piano?
The number of Nobel Laureates in Literature from France, more than any other country.
a. What is 20?
b. What is 15?
c. What is 10?
d. What is 8?
Though the M in the slope equation y=mx+b is rumored to come from the French word monter, meaning "to climb"; in French it is replaced by which letter?
a. What is a?
b. What is c?
c. What is p?
d. What is s?
What is a?
The first antimatter on earth was produced at Cern in Switzerland in this year.
a. When is 1955?
b. When is 1995?
c. When is 1999?
d. When is 2005?
b. When is 1995?
The largest French-speaking city in the world is this.
a. What is Abidjan?
b. What is Kinshasa?
c. What is Paris?
d. What is Québec City?
b. What is Kinshasa?
Haitian artist Serge Jolimeau is best known for this.
a. What are impressionist paintings?
b. What are metal sculptures?
c. What are murals?
d. What is Reggae music?
b. What are metal sculptures?
A French word meaning "an unskilled person" is used in English to mean "a person who engages in an activity for pleasure."
a. What is an amateur?
b. What is a connoisseur?
c. What is a freelancer?
d. What is a hobbyist?
a. What is an amateur?
René Descartes connected geometry and what into analytic geometry?
a. What is algebra?
b. What is calculus?
c. What is philosophy?
d. What is trigonometry?
a. What is algebra?
The first internet search engine, called this, was developed at McGill University in Montreal.
a. What is Archie?
b. What is Jughead?
c. What is Veronica?
d. What is Yahoo?
a. What is Archie?
This country declared its independence in 1830.
a. What is Belgium?
b. What is Canada?
c. What is Haiti?
d. What is Senegal?
a. What is Belgium?
This dance from Guadeloupe and Martinique became better known outside the Caribbean when Cole Porter wrote the song "Begin the___"
a. What is Beguine?
b. What is Béké?
c. What is Bèlè?
d. What is Zouk?
a. What is Beguine?
Victor Hugo did not write this.
a. What is The Hunchback of Notre Dame?
b. What is Les Misérables?
c. What is The Phantom of the Opera?
d. Who is William Shakespeare?
c. What is The Phantom of the Opera?
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier initiated the investigation of the Fourier Series and is credited with the discovery of this.
a. What is analytic geometry?
b. What is the greenhouse effect?
c. What are harmonics?
d. What is trigonometry?
b. What is the greenhouse effect?
Phillippe Kahn sent the first picture by cell phone in this year.
a. When is 1994?
b. When is 1997?
c. When is 1999?
d. When is 2003?
b. When is 1997?
The territory of the Louisiana Purchase, made in 1803, makes up around this percentage of the current United States.
a. What is 10%?
b. What is 20%?
c. What is 35%?
d. What is 50%
b. What is 20%
Many Moroccan buildings are decorated with Zellij, or_____.
a. What are ceramic vases?
b. What are mosaic tiles?
c. What murals?
d. What are rugs?
b. What are mosaic tiles?
What is a French word meaning "knowing" that is used in English to mean "someone gifted in a narrow skill"?
a. What is a cognoscenti?
b. What is a prodigy?
c. What is a pundit?
d. What is a savant?
d. What is a savant?
Pascal's what is an array of numbers where the entry of each subsequent row is constructed by adding the number above and to the left with the number above and to the right.
a. What is a box?
b. What is a square?
c. What is a triangle?
d. What is a vertex?
c. What is a triangle?
Louis Pasteur developed the first vaccines for anthrax and this.
a. What is chickenpox?
b. What is meningitis?
c. What are rabies?
d. What is smallpox?
c. What are rabies?
Thirteen countries in Africa got their independence from France in this year.
a. What is 1789?
b. What is 1848?
c. What is 1960?
d. What is 1977?
c. What is 1960?
Belgian-Canadian Lara Fabian, representing_____, lost the 33rd Eurovision song contest to Canadian Céline Dion, who was representing_____.
a. What is Belgium, Canada?
b. What is Belgium, France?
c. What is France, Switzerland?
d. What is Luxembourg, Switzerland?
d. What is Luxembourg, Switzerland