French Quiz - November 2015

1    How is Edmond Dantès known in a famous novel by Alexandre Dumas?

2    Which Luc Jacquet film about certain flightless birds in Antarctica, won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature at the 2006 ceremony?

3    The Millau Viaduct, designed by Norman Foster, spans which French river?

4    Which French sauce, an emulsion of egg yolk and liquid butter, usually seasoned with lemon juice and pepper, is well known as a key ingredient of Eggs Benedict, and is often paired with vegetables such as asparagus?

5    Name the German-born French composer best remembered for his opera The Tales of Hoffman.

6    Name the horse-racing course on the northern coast of France, which is home to the Prix Morny, a Group 1 flat race.

7    Which French writer, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, died in a car accident in Burgundy in 1960?

8    Name the Manchester City and France midfielder of Algerian heritage, born in Marseille in June 1987.

9    The British lingerie retailer with a French sounding name, was founded in 1994 by Serena Rees and her then husband Joseph Corré, the son of Vivienne Westwood?

10    Hotel du Lac, a 1984 Booker Prize-winning novel by Anita Brookner, is set on the shore of which lake shared by France and Switzerland?

11    After leaving Southampton, at which French port did RMS Titanic next take on passengers in 1912?

12    What French word beginning with ‘J’ describes food that is cut into, short, thin strips?

13    Which French phrase, translating as ‘black beast’, means a bugbear or a pet dislike?

14    Which predominantly French-speaking city is used to denote the letter ‘Q’ in the NATO alphabet?

15    Which soft cow’s milk cheese is name after the French region where it originated, roughly corresponding to the Seine-et-Marne?

16    Which country did France beat 32-10 in their opening match of the 2015 Rugby World Cup?

17    Available from French pharmacies, testing kits for what went on sale this autumn for €25?

18    In September, which 64-year-old married French actress Jeanne Marine, in a ceremony on the French Riviera?

19    What change to some of France’s best-known museums including the Louvre and Museé d’Orsay in Paris, did President François Hollande announce in September?

20    Which teenager, a French international, scored for Manchester United on his debut in a 3-1 victory against Liverpool?

Find the anagram! Take the first letter from the answers to the questions above and rearrange the letters to spell out the surname of a male French tennis player. When a person is the answer, use the first letter of their surname.

Questions 5, 4, 9, 8