France quiz for Yankees

How much do you tip at restaurants?

  • 15%

    Votes: 8 42.1%

  • 18%

    Votes: 3 15.8%

  • 20%

    Votes: 3 15.8%

  • Whatever it takes to keep them from spitting in my food!

    Votes: 5 26.3%
  • Total voters
    19
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Mon Dieu! Crack open a bottle of Veuve Cliquot and put on your thinking beret, its the French History Quiz! (Feel free to be rude in your answers!;) )

#1 -What was the Roman name for France?
#2 -What is the present day site of a Greek colony est. 600bc?
#3 -Who were the prominent religious figures between 200bc and 200ad?
#4 -Who was Pepin the Short?
#5 -What happened on Christmas Day 800ad?
#6 -What started in Flanders in 1337?
#7 -Who died on St. Helena in 1821?
#8 -Name the first 2 French colonies in the Caribbean.
#9 -What was 'Plan Yellow'?
#10-What is the AOC and why does Robert Parker have a hard-on for France?

Vive le France! :frog:

Coming next:Russia!
 
I am not an American but I'll try to take the test.

1) Gaul
2) Marsellies
3) Druids?
4) One of the Frankish kings
5) Charlemagne was crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope.
6) Rebellion against the Spanish?
7) Napoleon Bonarparte.
8) Antigua? Guadalphel something?
9) One of the warplans during WW2? Remember reading it somewhere but forgotten...........
10)

3 ,6 ,8 ,9 are wild guesses. No idea about 10.
 
#6 -What started in Flanders in 1337?
-> Man ,even i don't know that one for sure.Wasn't it the rebellion at bruges , And then the peasent reveolt of johan Van artevelde in Gent ,that then resulted in the gold spur's battle (Led by the Duke of Flandres),effectively making flanders independent of France.
Or was that in whole the beginning of the hundred years war?
 
SKM got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 right exactly. 9 was the German codename for the invasion of France 1940. 8 is half right, Guadeloupe and...

Duck got 6. 100 years war.;)


I'll give a hint about 10, if you promise not to whine about it...
 
"I'll give a hint about 10, if you promise not to whine about it..."

Who's whining? :) Anyway, you haven't given us the clue. Seriously speaking, I have absolutely no idea at all about no 10. At least I got no 9 1/2 right since I said it's a WW2 warplan....... Just didn't go into details. :D

No 8 - Jamaica?
 
#1 -What was the Roman name for France?
Surrender Land

#2 -What is the present day site of a Greek colony est. 600bc?
Surrenderapolis

#3 -Who were the prominent religious figures between 200bc and 200ad?
The Surrenderers

#4 -Who was Pepin the Short?
Frankins King who surrendered to Otto the Impotent

#5 -What happened on Christmas Day 800ad?
France surrendered

#6 -What started in Flanders in 1337?
The French golden age of Surrendering

#7 -Who died on St. Helena in 1821?
The last Frenchman who did not surrender

#8 -Name the first 2 French colonies in the Caribbean.
Mercy Please and Spare Me

#9 -What was 'Plan Yellow'?
The French plan for surrendering in 1913, before war breaks out

#10-What is the AOC and why does Robert Parker have a hard-on for France?
Age Of Cowards, Robert Parker could not get anyone else to surrender to him.

:D
 
Originally posted by joespaniel
Mon Dieu! Crack open a bottle of Veuve Cliquot and put on your thinking beret, its the French History Quiz! (Feel free to be rude in your answers!;) )

#1 -What was the Roman name for France?
#2 -What is the present day site of a Greek colony est. 600bc?
#3 -Who were the prominent religious figures between 200bc and 200ad?
#4 -Who was Pepin the Short?
#5 -What happened on Christmas Day 800ad?
#6 -What started in Flanders in 1337?
#7 -Who died on St. Helena in 1821?
#8 -Name the first 2 French colonies in the Caribbean.
#9 -What was 'Plan Yellow'?
#10-What is the AOC and why does Robert Parker have a hard-on for France?

Vive le France! :frog:

Coming next:Russia!
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Let me see.....

Gaul (or Gallia in Dutch)
Marseille
druids?
I only know Jean-Pierre Papin
dunno
dunno
Napoleon Bonaparte
dunno
the German invasion of Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg and France
dunno
 
1) Gaul
2) Marseilles
3) Uh... this needs to be narrowed down. Roman Provence had the Roman pantheon, the rest of the country the Celtic gods.
4) A short fellow named Pepin. (Who happened to be an 8th century Frankish king.)
5) crowning of Charlemagne, Pepin's son(?)
6) some revolutionary painting!
7) Nappy B
8) Port-au-Prince (Haiti), St. Etienne
9) ze German plan to crush the western countries - altho I didn't know this before reading the rest of the thread...
10) Nothing of importance; He needs a woman badly
 
Do I have to get serious here?!? Well smurf!!! :mad:

A. O. C. is Applealtion Origine Controllee (sp), roughly translating to controling name/label of origine.
which is the name each of the regulated wine growng districts (these are more specific that braoder regions like Bordeaux or Burgandy).

Examples opf A.O.C. would be Paullac, Chablis, Reims, Anjou, Nuits St George, etc.

I do not recall Robert Parker, but I assume he must some some of wine writer or tout.

And by the way I do have Veuve Cliquot Ponsardin (Brut, NV) in my refrigerator.
 
Bust open that bottle, Lefty, you got number 10. Robert Parker is a world class wine critic, known as the "million dollar nose".:lol:

Martinique is the other half of #8. Good job everyone.:goodjob:

If someone else would like to ask qustion(s), please do!
 
Originally posted by joespaniel
In 1796, two important things happened in the life of Napoleon Bonaparte. What were they?
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Married Josephine, the love of his life (and the hypocrit would cheat on her ever after, and her on him), and he was appointed commander of the Army of Italy, leaving his command of the army of the interior.
He would show a bunch of old Austrian farts what the Sans coullettes could do when propery led. ;)

Next question, in the same vane, from the 1796 campaign.
Who were Napoleon's best two generals in this campagne, whom many thought should command over old boney?
 
Joubert who join the Atmy of Italy a little later would also be in this category.
 
You hit it the first time, Lefty!

Your up. ;)
 
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