Q 01/05

Which North African country, home to millions of French speakers, has stayed out of La Francophonie?

A) Tunisia

B) Algeria

C) Mauritania

D) Egypt

Answer · why

B) Algeria

Algeria is not a member, although French is widely used in its government, media and schools. France ruled the country for 132 years, until independen...

Q 02/05

Which country, Africa's second-largest by area, is the most populous officially French-speaking nation on Earth?

A) Senegal

B) Nigeria

C) Mauritania

D) DR Congo

Answer · why

D) DR Congo

DR Congo has well over 100 million people, far more than France itself. French is its only official language, a legacy of Belgian rule, alongside four...

Q 03/05

Which European microstate counts the president of France as one of its two princes, alongside a Spanish bishop?

A) Andorra

B) Monaco

C) San Marino

D) Malta

Answer · why

A) Andorra

Andorra is headed by two co-princes, the president of France and the Bishop of Urgell. Its only official language is Catalan, yet it is a member of La...

Q 04/05

Which comic characters did the Belgian cartoonist Peyo first draw in 1958 for the French-language magazine Spirou?

A) The Moomins

B) The Snorks

C) The Smurfs

D) The Minions

Answer · why

C) The Smurfs

The Smurfs began as Les Schtroumpfs, a word Peyo made up at a meal when he could not remember the word for salt. Smurf is the Dutch translation.

Q 05/05

Which dish of French fries, cheese curds and gravy emerged in rural Quebec in the late 1950s?

A) Tourtière

B) Cretons

C) Bannock

D) Poutine

Answer · why

D) Poutine

Poutine was long mocked and used to belittle Quebec society, until younger Quebecers reclaimed the dish as their own. Several restaurants still claim ...