Quarantine travel quiz: How well do you know Paris?
Sharpen your travel IQ while staying safe at home. In this new quiz, Chris Leadbeater tests your grasp of Paris, with 20 points on offer...
- A: Saint-Germain-des-Pres
- B: Le Marais
- C: Montmartre
- D: Ile de la Cite
- A: Crosses the river next to the Eiffel Tower
- B: Travels through the city’s longest tunnel
- C: Runs below the Arc de Triomphe
- D: Passes the underground tomb of a French king
- A: Mona Lisa (Da Vinci)
- B: The Lacemaker (Vermeer)
- C: Liberty Leading the People (Delacroix)
- D: Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette (Renoir)
- A: To get away from Parisians
- B: The Louvre was due to be turned into a museum
- C: Complications from a divorce
- D: An outbreak of cholera in the city
- A: Versailles
- B: The Paris Opera
- C: Place de la Concorde
- D: The Chateau de Chantilly
- A: Jim Morrison
- B: Jimi Hendrix
- C: Edith Piaf
- D: Oscar Wilde
- A: The Eiffel Tower
- B: The Grande Arche de la Defense
- C: The Tour Montparnasse
- D: The Sacre-Coeur
- A: Accident H Video (2006)
- B: Stalinist Paragon (1972)
- C: Gasoline Dinosaurs (1988)
- D: Nose Fees Burt (2004)
- E: Inverse Aloe (2007)
And some questions for younger readers, each worth four points...
- A: Notre-Dame cathedral
- B: The Arc de Triomphe
- C: The Eiffel Tower
- D: They are all the same height
- A: Parisian rat becomes president
- B: Parisian rat becomes pop star
- C: Parisian rat becomes celebrity chef
- D: Parisian rat sings opera
- A: Quasimodo
- B: Napoleon
- C: Joan of Arc
- D: Asterix
- A: The Rhine
- B: The Tiber
- C: The Rhone
- D: The Seine
- A: The Empire State Building
- B: The Hollywood Sign
- C: The Statue of Liberty
- D: The Golden Gate Bridge
ANSWERS
(1) C: Montmartre. Amelie works at the Cafe des Deux Moulins on Rue Lepic.
(2) A: It rolls across the Pont de Bir-Hakeim, in the shadow of the tower. Spectacular.
(3) D: Renoir’s 1876 Impressionist marvel is one of the great encapsulations of Parisian cafe society. It hung in the Louvre from 1929 to 1986 - but is now in the Musee d’Orsay.
(4) A: Louis was badly disturbed by a riot in February 1651 - when he was 12 - which saw the mob break into his bedroom at the Palais-Royal.
(5) C: Place de la Concorde. The film ends before her (1793) execution. The Palais Garnier, the grand old theatre of the Paris Opera, was not completed until 1875, but is used in the movie as an example of the city’s beauty.
(6) C: The Opera Bastille opened in 1989, on the 200th anniversary of the Revolution.
(7) B: Jimi Hendrix. He died in London and is buried in his native Seattle.
(8) C: The Tour Montparnasse, which was constructed between 1969 and 1973, and looks every inch the clunky Seventies skyscraper. It was the city’s tallest building until 2011.
(9) Gare d’Austerlitz; Gare de Bercy; Gare de l’Est; Gare de Lyon; Gare Montparnasse; Gare du Nord; Gare Saint-Lazare
(10) A: The Da Vinci Code; B: Last Tango In Paris; C: Dangerous Liaisons; D: Before Sunset; E: La Vie En Rose
(1) C: The Eiffel Tower climbs to 1,063ft. Notre Dame’s spire, destroyed in last April’s fire, reached 300ft. The Arc de Triomphe is 164ft tall.
(2) C: And opens a restaurant.
(3) A: Quasimodo - a bell-ringer, and the key character in Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.
(4) D: The Seine. The Rhone and Rhine are found in southern and eastern France respectively. The Tiber runs through Rome.
(5) C: A 37ft model of the Statue of Liberty stands on the Ile aux Cygnes - an island in the Seine.
The Daily Telegraph
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