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Re: Help me write a French pub quiz ?
« Reply #25 on: 14 December, 2023, 04:35:50 pm »
Which country is France's longest border?

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Re: Help me write a French pub quiz ?
« Reply #26 on: 14 December, 2023, 05:27:30 pm »
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Ha, I know that one! We had the tram maintenance contract there and I visited the depot.

Mrs Pingu and I were mercilessly mocked by our French hosts when we fell foul of this years ago. I was praised by them when I got it right this year.  ::-)

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Re: Help me write a French pub quiz ?
« Reply #27 on: 14 December, 2023, 06:36:07 pm »
Which country is France's longest border?

Brazil.

How many parts was Gaul divided into?

Tres partes - Wigan, Hunslet and Hull Kingston Rovers.
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Re: Help me write a French pub quiz ?
« Reply #28 on: 14 December, 2023, 06:40:27 pm »
What it a crottoire? (colloquial, esp Parisienne, for pavement/trottoire, because dogs.)

In linked vein, some variant on 'what was a Motocrotte?' or 'what was a Caninette the official name for?'

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Re: Help me write a French pub quiz ?
« Reply #29 on: 14 December, 2023, 08:16:21 pm »


Which country does France not have a land border with:

- Belgium
- Brazil
- Netherlands
- United Kingdom.

J
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Re: Help me write a French pub quiz ?
« Reply #30 on: 14 December, 2023, 10:16:22 pm »


Which country does France not have a land border with:

- Belgium
- Brazil
- Netherlands
- United Kingdom.

J
Nederlands?

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Re: Help me write a French pub quiz ?
« Reply #31 on: 14 December, 2023, 10:19:51 pm »
Fiji?

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Re: Help me write a French pub quiz ?
« Reply #32 on: 14 December, 2023, 10:23:41 pm »


Which country does France not have a land border with:

- Belgium
- Brazil
- Netherlands
- United Kingdom.

J
Nederlands?

And into my trap you did fall. *squelch*

The Netherlands and France share a land border, between Saint Martin and Sint Maarten on the island of Saint Martin...

J

(Note: Tho technically we could have some pedantry as to Kingdom of the Netherlands, and The Netherlands )
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Re: Help me write a French pub quiz ?
« Reply #33 on: 14 December, 2023, 10:58:46 pm »


Which country does France not have a land border with:

- Belgium
- Brazil
- Netherlands
- United Kingdom.

J

Oh.

I hadn’t realised there was only one country that France didn’t have a land border with.
It is simpler than it looks.

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Re: Help me write a French pub quiz ?
« Reply #34 on: 14 December, 2023, 11:04:18 pm »


Which country does France not have a land border with:

- Belgium
- Brazil
- Netherlands
- United Kingdom.

J

Oh.

I hadn’t realised there was only one country that France didn’t have a land border with.

From that list yes, they don't have a land border with Bhutan... or Australia... or quite a few others.

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Re: Help me write a French pub quiz ?
« Reply #35 on: 14 December, 2023, 11:25:55 pm »

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Re: Help me write a French pub quiz ?
« Reply #36 on: 14 December, 2023, 11:28:27 pm »


Which country of the following countries does France not have a land border with:

- Belgium
- Brazil
- Netherlands
- United Kingdom.

J

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Re: Help me write a French pub quiz ?
« Reply #37 on: 14 December, 2023, 11:29:29 pm »
I don't think J is a country, thobut.

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Re: Help me write a French pub quiz ?
« Reply #38 on: 14 December, 2023, 11:35:38 pm »
I don't think J is a country, thobut.

No, I believe it's an island crown dependency off the coast of France so therefore it doesn't have a land border.
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Re: Help me write a French pub quiz ?
« Reply #39 on: 15 December, 2023, 01:48:55 am »
Since the opening of the Channel Tunnel the UK and France have technically had a land border so the correct answer is either “None of the above” or “Belgium”, depending on whether you believe in the existence of the latter.
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Re: Help me write a French pub quiz ?
« Reply #40 on: 15 December, 2023, 08:44:56 am »
The world's first commercial fax service was inaugurated in 1864 between which two French cities?

Entre quelles deux villes françaises le premier service de fax commercial au monde a-t-il été ouvert en 1864 ?

(Paris & Lyon. Predating the invention of the telephone by 11 years)
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Re: Help me write a French pub quiz ?
« Reply #41 on: 15 December, 2023, 10:13:07 am »
Qui étaient Danton, d'Anton et Danton? All the same bloke, originally Georges Danton, but he assumed the particule early in his political career then dropped it when it became a negative survival characteristic.

Et M. Poubelle?  "inventeur du système de collection des déchets en 1884, le préfet de la Seine, Eugène Poubelle".

Que veut dire pisser dans un violon?  Parler sans effet - pisser dans un violon ferait autant de bruit.

Quel était le lieu de naissance des petits gâteaux préférés de M. Proust? Dans quel département? Commercy, dans la Meuse (55).

Mais qu'est-ce qu'il avait écrit au départ, avant de le changer en madeleines?  Le pain grillé.

Que veut dire le circonflexe?  Dans les vieux manuscrits il remplaçait parfois la lettre S.  (En vu duquel on aurait pu écrire Proust comme Proût, ce qui donne une toute autre odeur à la chose.)

Quelle est l'origine des numéros de département?  Alphabetical order back when Napoleon was running things.

Quelle est l'origine de la plupart des noms des départements? Noms des rivières.

Trois exceptions?  Finistère, Nord, Paris.

Où peut on trouver des gypaètes?  Gorges de la Jonte et du Tarn, et dans le Mercantour - c'est des vautours barbus.

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Re: Help me write a French pub quiz ?
« Reply #42 on: 15 December, 2023, 10:31:50 am »
When Dante Gabriel Rossetti translated the poem "Ballade des dames du temps jadis" into English, which word did he coin?
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Re: Help me write a French pub quiz ?
« Reply #43 on: 15 December, 2023, 10:45:26 am »
In what year/decade was the last person guillotined in France?


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Re: Help me write a French pub quiz ?
« Reply #44 on: 15 December, 2023, 10:59:11 am »
In what year/decade was the last person guillotined in France?
Frighteningly recent IIRC. 70s?
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Re: Help me write a French pub quiz ?
« Reply #45 on: 15 December, 2023, 11:06:45 am »
Quelle est l'origine de la plupart des noms des départements? Noms des rivières.

Oh! I can't say I've ever noticed that before but now you mention it, it seems blindingly obvious.
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Re: Help me write a French pub quiz ?
« Reply #46 on: 15 December, 2023, 11:18:20 am »
In what year/decade was the last person guillotined in France?
Frighteningly recent IIRC. 70s?

1977

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Re: Help me write a French pub quiz ?
« Reply #47 on: 15 December, 2023, 11:25:58 am »
Which French car is a goddess? (And can I have one please?)
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Re: Help me write a French pub quiz ?
« Reply #48 on: 15 December, 2023, 12:51:25 pm »
Which French car is a goddess? (And can I have one please?)

With a slightly younger, less talented sibling of an Idea, and a child named in drag (co-efficiency)

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Re: Help me write a French pub quiz ?
« Reply #49 on: 15 December, 2023, 01:05:39 pm »
Why is the Citroen logo shaped like that?
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