Help me write a French pub quiz ?

[meddyg]

Can you add a question - and preferably an answer !
I know there's plenty of francophiles on here - and a few domiciled in 'l'héxagone' ..

can be literature, geography, history sport anything - for my French 'meet-up' group in Cardiff - I don't think anyone lurks here to steal the prize... (probably some chocolate)

this is how far I got

75 is Paris
What is 62?
What is 29 ?

Robert Louis Stevenson a visité les Cevennes en l’an 1879
Comment a-t-il fait son voyage?
Il est né à Edimbourg - où est-il mort ?

‘ La ville rose ‘ indique quelle ville de France ?

Quelle est la ville jumelle de Paris ?
Cardiff est jumelée avec - Luhansk, Xiamen & Stuttgart
Quelle est la ville jumelle en France de Cardiff?
La montagne la plus haute de la France ?
La deuxième et troisième ?
Qui a gagné le TdF cette année 2023?
 

[meddyg]

qq in English

Robert Louis Stevenson visited the Cevennes in the year 1879
How did he make his trip?
He was born in Edinburgh - where did he die?

‘The pink city’ indicates which city in France?

What is the twin city of Paris?
Cardiff is twinned with - Luhansk, Xiamen & Stuttgart
What is Cardiff's twin city in France?
The highest mountain in France?
The second and third?
Who won the TdF this year 2023?

[orraloon]

Who was the most recent French national to win a podium place in TdF, and when? 😉

[De Sisti]

Put your question into an AI tool and see how it can help?

[Ham]

Si vous rencontriez un bison fute, que feriez-vous?

[FifeingEejit]

Pronounce Reims

The English call it the Mulsanne, what's it's correct name

Not quite french:
Who was the most recent Monagesc (sp) winner  of the Monaco Grand Prix

What accolade does the Millau viaduct hold

[Cudzoziemiec]

How many Statue of Liberty replicas are there in Paris? (
How tall is the biggest? (11.5m)
What mythical creature does the smallest accompany? (A centaur)

[Jaded]

Which cathedral did Welborn Barton Griffith save. (Chartres, in WWII, he searched the cathedral, showing there were no German snipers there, and stopping the order to shell the cathedral)

[Speshact]

Flying Trapeze was invented by the Frenchman Jules Léotard. It is from his costume that the English word 'leotard' came into use. Is the French for a leotard 'un léotard' or 'un justaucorps'?

[Ham]

What it a crottoire? (colloquial, esp Parisienne, for pavement/trottoire, because dogs.)

[bhoot]

Pronounce Reims

Ha, I know that one! We had the tram maintenance contract there and I visited the depot.

[Regulator]

Let's go for something a little fun... 

(a) What do the French claim to have invented that was actually first described by an Englishman, Christopher Merrett? (Deliberately making sparkling wine)

(b) What was described as  similar to a "piece of leather or a shriveled eel"?  (Napoleon's penis)

(c) In which sport has France never won a world title, despite being finalists three times? (Rugby union)

[Tim Hall]

Other than a musical instrument, what is un trombone?

[chrisbainbridge]

Which Famous French surgeon was described as the worst of men and the best of surgeons and has his statue ritually defiled by students each year?

Baron Dupuytren

[FifeingEejit]

Pronounce Reims

Ha, I know that one! We had the tram maintenance contract there and I visited the depot.

I've watched many documentaries on the history of motor racing and still don't know....

[Preston Gubbals]

Pronounce Reims

Ha, I know that one! We had the tram maintenance contract there and I visited the depot.

I've watched many documentaries on the history of motor racing and still don't know....

I went to Universite de Reims Champagne-Ardenne as part of the Eramus scheme and still don't know.

[citoyen]

Pronounce Reims

Ha, I know that one! We had the tram maintenance contract there and I visited the depot.

I've watched many documentaries on the history of motor racing and still don't know....

I went to Universite de Reims Champagne-Ardenne as part of the Eramus scheme and still don't know...

...how to spell Erasmus.

[Jaded]

"ERANU"

[citoyen]

How about something like the English vs French names of Asterix characters but the only two that to mind are Idéfix=Dogmatix and Abraracourcix= Vitalstatistix. Will look them up properly later.

[Tim Hall]

How many parts was Gaul divided into?

[meddyg]

Thanks, chaps  - that was a good day's work !
and I'm still googling some of the answers ...

Merci, les gars - vous avez vraiment bossé
et il me reste á chercher quelques réponses sur Google !


Carry on , by all means !

[meddyg]

How about something like the English vs French names of Asterix characters but the only two that to mind are Idéfix=Dogmatix and Abraracourcix= Vitalstatistix. Will look them up properly later.

Yes, good call - I liked 'Assurancetourix'
And I'll do a few of the Tintin characters too - Milou is Snowy and Dupont & Dupond I think Thompson and Thomson!

[citoyen]

Yes, good call - I liked 'Assurancetourix'

That reminds me - English vs French names of TV programmes is another rich seam to mine...

eg:
Agence Tous Risques = The A-Team
Chapeau Melon et Bottes de Cuir = The Avengers
Des Chiffres et des Lettres = Countdown
Secret Story = Big Brother

[Tim Hall]

How about something like the English vs French names of Asterix characters but the only two that to mind are Idéfix=Dogmatix and Abraracourcix= Vitalstatistix. Will look them up properly later.

Yes, good call - I liked 'Assurancetourix'
And I'll do a few of the Tintin characters too - Milou is Snowy and Dupont & Dupond I think Thompson and Thomson!

Blistering barnacles! Tintin was Belgian. Or at least Herge was.  But you could include "where did Herge get his name from?"

[T42]

Quelle était la couleur du cheval blanc de Henri IV?  Blanc, bien sûr.

Qui était le fidel sous-ordonné de San-Antonio?  Bérurier.

Quelle était la mort ironique de René Goscinny (auteur d'Astérix)?  Fatal heart during a cardiac stress test.