French Geography and Nature

Geography And Nature

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  1. Complete the sentence about Basilique Notre-Dame de Fourvière with the correct year: Fourvière is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, to whom is attributed the salvation of the city of Lyon from the bubonic…
  2. Complete the sentence about French Guiana with the correct year: Fully integrated in the French Republic since ______, French Guiana is a part of the European Union, and its official currency is the e…
  3. Complete the sentence about Guadeloupe with the correct year: Christopher Columbus visited Guadeloupe in ______ and gave the island its name, after Guadalupe, Cáceres.
  4. Complete the sentence about Martinique with the correct year: Columbus landed during a later voyage, on 15 June ______, after a 21-day trade wind passage, his fastest ocean voyage.
  5. Complete the sentence about Martinique with the correct year: In ______, Spain formally ceded Martinique to France after 133 years of Spanish rule.
  6. Complete the sentence about Martinique with the correct year: On 15 September ______, Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc, French governor of the island of St.
  7. Complete the sentence about Réunion with the correct year: Since ______, Réunion has been governed as a French region and thus has a similar status to its counterparts in Metropolitan France.
  8. Complete the sentence about Réunion with the correct year: In ______, it was captured by the British, who restored the name Isle Bourbon.
  9. Complete the sentence about Mayotte with the correct year: Mayotte chose to remain with France after the nearby Comoros declared its independence following their ______ independence referendum.
  10. Complete the sentence about New Caledonia with the correct year: In ______, the crew of the American ship Cutter was killed and eaten by the Pouma clan.
  11. Complete the sentence about New Caledonia with the correct year: On 24 September ______, under orders from Emperor Napoleon III, Admiral Febvrier Despointes took formal possession of New Caledonia.
  12. Complete the sentence about French Polynesia with the correct year: Tahiti, which is in the Society Islands group, is the most populous island, home to nearly 69% of the population of French Polynesia…
  13. Complete the sentence about French Polynesia with the correct year: Although not an integral part of its territory, Clipperton Island was administered from French Polynesia until ______.
  14. Complete the sentence about French Polynesia with the correct year: In ______, the EFO became an overseas territory under the constitution of the French Fourth Republic, and Polynesians were granted t…
  15. Complete the sentence about French Polynesia with the correct year: In ______, it became a member of the Pacific Community, a regional development organization.
  16. Complete the sentence about Saint Pierre and Miquelon with the correct year: In ______, the French explorer Jacques Cartier claimed the islands as a possession of France.
  17. Complete the sentence about Saint Pierre and Miquelon with the correct year: In the ______ Peace of Utrecht, which ended the War of the Spanish Succession, France ceded the islands to Britain.
  18. Complete the sentence about Wallis and Futuna with the correct year: Futuna was first put on European maps by Willem Schouten and Jacob Le Maire, during their circumnavigation of the globe, in ______.
  19. Complete the sentence about Wallis and Futuna with the correct year: The Wallis Islands are named after the British explorer Samuel Wallis, who sailed past them in ______, after being the first Europe…
  20. Complete the sentence about Wallis and Futuna with the correct year: The French were the first Europeans to settle in the territory, with the arrival of French missionaries in ______, who converted th…
  21. Complete the sentence about Wallis and Futuna with the correct year: Pierre Chanel, canonized in ______, is a major patron saint of the island of Futuna and of the region.
  22. Complete the sentence about Wallis and Futuna with the correct year: On 5 April ______, the missionaries asked for the protection of France, after the uprising of part of the local population.
  23. Complete the sentence about European robin with the correct year: The European robin was described by Carl Linnaeus in ______ in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Motacil…
  24. Complete the sentence about European robin with the correct year: The genus Erithacus was described by French naturalist Georges Cuvier in ______, giving the bird its current binomial name E. rubecula…
  25. Complete the sentence about Gallic rooster with the correct year: The ______ FIFA World Cup, hosted by France, adopted an anthropomorphic rooster named Footix as its mascot.
  26. Complete the sentence about Gallic rooster with the correct year: Inspired by the French example, a rooster was adopted as the symbol of Walloon movement in ______.
  27. Complete the sentence with the correct year: By ______, there were few Toy Bulldogs left in England, such was their popularity in France.
  28. Complete the sentence about French bulldog with the correct year: Americans had been importing French Bulldogs for a while, but it was not until ______ that they were brought over in order to set up a…
  29. Complete the sentence about French bulldog with the correct year: The American Kennel Club recognized the breed quickly after the breed club was formed, and by ______ the French Bulldog was the fifth…
  30. Complete the sentence about Camargue horse with the correct year: A breed society, the Association des Eleveurs de Chevaux de Race Camargue, was established in ______.
  31. Complete the sentence about Camargue horse with the correct year: In ______ the breed was formally recognised by the Ministère de l'Agriculture and a stud-book was started.
  32. Complete the sentence about Brittany spaniel with the correct year: The Breton was first recognised as a breed in ______ when an orange-and-white dog named Boy was registered in France.
  33. Complete the sentence about Charolais cattle with the correct year: The breed was introduced to the southern United States from Mexico in ______.
  34. Complete the sentence about Pyrenean ibex with the correct year: The last Pyrenean ibex died in January ______, making the subspecies extinct.
  35. Complete the sentence about Pyrenean ibex with the correct year: Following several failed attempts to revive the subspecies through cloning of preserved tissue from the last surviving female, a living…
  36. Complete the sentence about Pyrenean ibex with the correct year: The cloned Pyrenean ibex was born in Spain through genetic cloning techniques, with the research article published in ______.
  37. Which place completes this sentence about Marseille? In Europe, the city has the third largest Jewish community after London and ______.
  38. Which place completes this sentence about Nice? Around 350 BC, Greeks of ______ founded a permanent settlement and called it Nikaia, after Nike, the goddess of victory.
  39. Which place completes this sentence about Nantes? Although Nantes was the primary residence of the 15th-century dukes of Brittany, ______ became the provincial capital after the 1532 union of Brittany…
  40. Which place completes this sentence about Strasbourg? The port of Strasbourg is the second largest on the Rhine after Duisburg in Germany, and the second-largest river port in France after ______.
  41. Which place completes this sentence about Tours? The historic city is nicknamed the "White and Blue City" and "Le Petit ______".
  42. Which place completes this sentence about Perpignan? The A9 motorway connects Perpignan with Barcelona and ______.
  43. Which place completes this sentence about Poitiers? Until 1857, Poitiers hosted the ruins of a vast Roman Amphitheatre, which was larger than the Amphitheater of ______.
  44. Which place completes this sentence about Colmar? The city adopted the Protestant Reformation in 1575, long after the northern neighbours of ______ and Sélestat.
  45. Which place completes this sentence about Louvre? The Louvre Museum is located inside the Louvre Palace, in the centre of ______, adjacent to the Tuileries Gardens.
  46. Which place completes this sentence about Sacré-Cœur, Paris? Until his death in 1877, Fournier was an active builder who completed the long-delayed restoration of ______ Cathedral.
  47. Which place completes this sentence about Pont du Gard? A roughly V-shaped course around the eastern end of the Garrigues de ______ was therefore the only practical way of transporting the water from…
  48. Which place completes this sentence about Pont du Gard? The water arrived in the castellum divisorum at ______ – an open, shallow, circular basin 5.5 m in diameter by 1 m deep.
  49. Which place completes this sentence about Pont du Gard? Much of the ______ aqueduct was built underground, as was typical of Roman aqueducts.
  50. Which place completes this sentence about Rhône? As of 2017, the part between ______ and Sault-Brénaz is closed for navigation.
  51. Which place completes this sentence about Rhône? The first experimental steam boat was built at ______ by Jouffroy d'Abbans in 1783.
  52. Which place completes this sentence about Garonne? Umayyad and Aquitanian forces fought the Battle of the River Garonne in 732 beside the river near present-day ______.
  53. Which place completes this sentence about Garonne? Several river islands are located in the Garonne's lower course, immediately upstream from ______.
  54. Which place completes this sentence about Garonne? The river not only allows seagoing vessels to reach the port of ______ but also forms part of the Canal des Deux Mers, linking the Mediterranean Sea…
  55. Which place completes this sentence about Garonne? Prior to the building of the Canal lateral à la Garonne, between 1838 and 1856, shallow-draught boats used the Garonne itself as far as ______.
  56. Which place completes this sentence about Provence? The largest city of the region and its modern-day capital is ______.
  57. Which place completes this sentence about Provence? In 1985, a diver named Henri Cosquer discovered the mouth of a submarine cave 37 metres below the surface of the Calanque de Morgiou near ______.
  58. Which place completes this sentence about Alsace? The economic and cultural capital of Alsace, as well as its largest city, is ______, which sits on the present German international border.
  59. Which place completes this sentence about Aquitaine? Visigoths established their capital in ______, but their tenure on Aquitaine was feeble.
  60. Which place completes this sentence about Occitania? The region of Occitania as it is today covers a territory similar to that ruled by the Counts of ______ in the 12th and 13th centuries.
  61. Which place completes this sentence about Occitania? During the Ancien Régime, most of these territories lay within the jurisdiction of the Parlement of ______, founded in 1443.
  62. Which place completes this sentence about Gironde? Named after the Gironde estuary, a major waterway, its prefecture is ______.
  63. Which place completes this sentence about Menton? Since the end of the 14th century, it has been on the border between the County of ______, held by the Duke of Savoy, and the Republic of Genoa.
  64. Which place completes this sentence about Antibes? In 2023, the commune had a population of 77,637, making it Alpes-Maritimes's second-most populated after ______.
  65. Which place completes this sentence about Albi? The site includes the Musée ______-Lautrec, dedicated to the artist who was born in Albi.
  66. Which place completes this sentence about Reims Cathedral? The first Christian church there was founded by the first bishop, Saint Sixtus of ______ between 250 and 300.
  67. Which place completes this sentence about Basilique Notre-Dame de Fourvière? Fourvière is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, to whom is attributed the salvation of the city of ______ from the bubonic plagu…
  68. Which place completes this sentence about Basilique Notre-Dame de Fourvière? At certain times, members of the public may access the basilica's north tower for a 180-degree view of ______ and its subur…

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