1. DaVinci spent his final years in France under the patronage of what French king?	François I
2. Which artist cut off his ear?	Vincent Van Gogh
3. Where was Picasso born?	Spain
4. Who sculpted "Le Penseur" (“The Thinker”)	Auguste Rodin
5. Who created the first vaccine for rabies and anthrax & a method to prevent wine & milk from causing sickness?	Louis Pasteur
6. Who said "Let them eat cake"?	Marie Antoinette
7. Who is the president of France?	Nicolas Sarkozy
8. What French couple won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1903?	Marie and Pierre Curie
9. What did the two brothers, Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier, construct in 1782?	the hot air balloon
10. What was the profession of Debussy?	composer
11. What American cyclist won the Tour de France a record 7 times?	Lance Armstrong
12. What did Carla Bruni do before she was France’s first lady?	model, actress, singer
13. What kind of literature did Paul Verlaine write?	poetry
14. During which century did André Gide write?	20th
15. What American actress has played roles in French movies (speaking French), and even dubs her own dialogue in French	Jodie Foster
16. Which American film star is married to a French singer/actress (Vanessa Paradis) and lives in France?	Johnny Depp
17. What was the profession of René Descartes?	writer, philosopher, mathematician
18. What was the profession of Coco Chanel?	fashion designer
19. Who was George Sand?	a female novelist in the 19th century
20. What French brothers pioneered cinematography & color photography?… their name appropriately means “light”	the Lumière brothers
21. What French oceanographer and environmentalist was captain of the Calypso?	Jacques-Yves Cousteau
22. Which profession did the French artist Degas turn to after becoming blind?	sculpture
23. What museum in Paris used to be a train station?	The Orsay
24. Where did Jacques Cartier do most of his exploring?	Canada, parts of U.S.
25. What do Lemercier, Mansart and LeVau have in common?	All were 17th century architects