France

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1. By what name is the French national flag known? The Marseilles La Chavignon Le Cockerel The Tricolor

2. What is the name of the most famous French mime artist? Maurice Chevalier Marcel Marceau Sacha Distel Georges Pompidou

3. What is the French term for a pen name or pseudonym? Answer: (Three Words)

4. From what is the French liquer 'Calvados' made? Apples Plums Pears Bananas

5. Which Chateau in the department of Yvelines is the summer residence of the French President? Rambouillet La Valliere Thierry Versailles

6. Who wrote the words 'We seek him here, we seek him there, those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? Is he in hell? That damned, elusive Pimpernel'? Emile Zola Honore de Balzac Emma Orczy Marcel Proust

7. Under which treaty did Germany surrender Alsace-Lorraine to the French in 1919? Villiers Sevres Paris Versailles

8. Who was the French tightrope walker who crossed the Niagara Falls, then repeated the feat blindfolded, then pushing a wheelbarrow? Charles Blondin Jean Orcy Charles Zidane Jean Descartes

9. Which French author wrote the book Les Miserables, adapted as a musical in 1980? Gustave Flaubert Arthur Rimbaud Charles Baudelaire Victor Hugo

10. What is the French name for the English Channel? La Biscay Le Chanel La Manche La Boulogne