France

Question 1

French general in WWII who later became president

Answer 1

Charles de Gaulle

Question 2

Sculptor of “The Kiss” and “The Thinker” (originally supposed to portray Dante)

Answer 2

Auguste Rodin

Question 3

Chemist who created vaccines for anthrax and rabies

Answer 3

Louis Pasteur

Question 4

Explorer who claimed Canada in the 1530s-40s

Answer 4

Jacques Cartier

Question 5

Navigator/cartographer who founded New France and Quebec City in 1608

Answer 5

Samuel de Champlain

Question 6

Mathematician and inventor of mechanical calculator; famous wager

Answer 6

Blaise Pascal

Question 7

Louis XIII’s chief minister, and antagonist in “The Three Musketeers”

Answer 7

Cardinal Richelieu

Question 8

French modernist artist; “Woman with a Hat”, “The Joy of Life”, “Nu bleu”

Answer 8

Henri Matisse

Question 9

Post-Impressionist painter; “Man With a Pipe”

Answer 9

Paul Cezanne

Question 10

Playwright; “The Misanthrope”, “Tartuffe”

Answer 10

Moliere

Question 11

Feminist writer/philosopher; “The Second Sex”, “She Came to Stay”, “The Mandarins”; open relationship with Satre

Answer 11

Simone de Beauvoir