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100

Quel est le nom du tour de vélo renommée mondiale?

A) Tour de France

B) Formule 1

C) Tournoi de Wimbledon

A) Tour de France

100

What does 'famous inventors' mean in French?

A) inventeurs pauvres

B) inventeurs célèbres

C) inventeurs non reconnus

B) inventeurs célèbres

100

Which one is a city in France?

A) Nice

B) Venice

C) Barcelona

A) Nice (Venice is in Italy and Barcelona is in Spain.)

100

Who is the inventor of the light bulb? 

A) Thomas Edison

B) Michael Faraday 

C) Benjamin Franklin

A) Thomas Edison

100

J'ai une faim de ___________. Je peux manger n'importe quoi.

A) loup

B) chien

C) soup

A) loup

200

Quelle est la capitale de la Belgique?

A) Helsinki

B) Munich

C) Bruxelles

C) Bruxelles

200

Qui n’est pas un inventeur français?

A) Louis Braille

B) Jacques Cousteau

C) Alexander Graham Bell

C) Alexander Graham Bell

200

Which one is NOT a city in France?

A) Strasbourg

B) Bonn

C) Lyon

B) Bonn (It is in Germany.)

200

The inventor of the first practical electric refrigerator, Jacob Perkins, was of which nationality? 

A) American

B) British 

C) French

A) American

200

He wants to be a teacher just like his dad. You know what they say, _________________________.

A) it was music to my ears

B) keep me posted

C) the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree

C) the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree

300

Quel est le nom de famille le plus utilisé en France?

A) Richard

B) Dubois

C) Martin

C) Martin 

300

Qu'est-ce que Marie Curie a découvert?

A) le radium 

B) le thorium

C) le cuivre

A) le radium

300

What did Steve Jobs invent?

A) The steam engine

B) The microwave

C) The first personal computer

C) The first personal computer

300

What did Albert Einstain discover?

A) the electricity

B) the theory of relativity

C) the printing press

B) the theory of relativity

300

They were ___________________, both with the same high cheekbones and hairline.

A) on the same wavelength

B) two peas in a pod

C) stuck in the past

B) two peas in a pod

400

________ ecosystems are one of the largest ecosystems on Earth. They include kelp forests, coral reefs and shorelines.

A) Marine

B) Tundra

C) Tropical rainforest

A) Marine

400

Qui a inventé le premier la calculatrice numérique?

A) Louis Pasteur

B) Henri Becquerel

C) Blaise Pascal

C) Blaise Pascal

400

Which inventor below is NOT British?

A) Tim Berners-Lee (world wide web)

B) John Logie Baird (television)

C) Alfred Nobel (dynamite)

C) Alfred Nobel (He was Swedish.)

400

Which scientist is credited with the discovery of penicillin, the first widely used antibiotic? 

A) Louis Pasteur

B) Alexander Fleming 

C) Joseph Lister

A) Louis Pasteur

400

Mon frère oublie toujours son livre à la maison, parce qu'il a ____________________ .

A) se noyer dans un verre d'eau

B) la tête dans les nuages

C) être copain copain

B) la tête dans les nuages

500

Which type of consumer could be both predator and prey?

A) primary

B) secondary

C) tertiary

B) secondary

500

Quand les frères Lumière ont-ils inventé le Cinématographe?

A) en 1766

B) en 1895

C) en 1902

B) en 1895

500

Which language family does 'English' belong to?

A) The Romance Language Family

B) The Indo-European Language Family

C) The Austronesian Language Family

B) The Indo-European Language Family

500

Which one of the inventions below is NOT invented by a French inventor?

A) The Braille alphabet

B) The stethoscope

C) Telecommunication satellites

C) Telecommunication satellites (Engineers and scientists from various countries developed satellites collaboratively.)

The Braille alphabet was invented by Louis Braille in 1824.

The stethoscope was invented by René Laennec in  1816.

500

Trouvez le sens de cette expression: 

"se noyer dans un verre d'eau"?

A) se laisser importer par la moindre difficulté

B) être étourdi

C) avoir très faim

A) se laisser importer par la moindre difficulté