Episode 63
France Trivia (Trivia Battle)
🇫🇷 Bonjour, trivia fans! Put your family's knowledge of France to the test with questions about famous landmarks, French history, geography, art, and culture. Who knows France best and can take home the golden croissant? 🥐🏆
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Hosts: Steve Koch & Lovella Koch
Kids vs Parents is produced by Vandalpop Media
Producer: Steve Koch
Editors: Ever Cunningham, Steve Koch
Cover Design: Patrick Hardy
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Transcript
Okay, some quick French trivia to start us off.
Steve:What is the capital of France?
Lovella:Ooh, Paris.
Steve:Correct.
Steve:Yes.
Lovella:Welcome to Kids vs. Parents.
Steve:This is the family trivia battle where the backseat takes on the front seat.
Steve:I'm Lovella.
Steve:And I'm Steve.
Steve:Today we have France trivia.
Steve:Bonjour, everybody.
Steve:Bonjour.
Lovella:This comes suggested by some of our French listeners, Seine and Neil.
Steve:That's right.
Steve:Yes.
Steve:They wrote in.
Steve:They wanted us to do an episode on France.
Steve:So we decided we would do it around this time because July 14th is Bastille Day.
Steve:Oh, cool.
Steve:Which is their national holiday.
Steve:It's kind of like Australia Day for us and kind of like Independence Day for America.
Lovella:Yeah.
Steve:One of those national holidays.
Steve:I'm sure they have lots of croissants and cheese and wine and all that.
Steve:That's what I'm assuming anyway.
Steve:from the movies.
Steve:Baguettes.
Lovella:Yeah.
Lovella:Anyways, today's prize,
Lovella:the winner gets the golden croissant.
Lovella:Ooh.
Lovella:That sounds interesting.
Lovella:Okay.
Lovella:I like it.
Lovella:And gets to choose the next breakfast item,
Lovella:like cereal, pancakes, waffles,
Lovella:and that stuff.
Steve:They get choice of breakfast.
Steve:I like that.
Steve:So you could pick your own cereal, maybe.
Steve:Or you could go, I want pancakes.
Steve:Yeah, that'd be fun.
Lovella:What would you choose?
Steve:I think I'd pick croissants.
Steve:Yes.
Steve:Ham and cheese croissants.
Lovella:And cheese croissants.
Lovella:Yes.
Steve:Yum.
Steve:So good.
Steve:All right.
Steve:Who's going to go first today, Lovella?
Steve:Let's do the kids.
Steve:Kids first.
Steve:Yes.
Steve:Let's send the kids in first and parents can see how they go with their French trivia afterwards.
Steve:All right.
Steve:Kids, first question for you.
Steve:Question number one.
Steve:What colors are on the French flag?
Steve:red white and blue you don't sound too wait confident in that isn't it green in there
Steve:don't know i'm sorry there's three colors on the french flag i'm sorry guys i i don't know um
Lovella:I think it is red, white, and blue, isn't it?
Steve:Is that your answer?
Steve:Yeah.
Steve:You still seem like you were questioning.
Steve:I'm just waiting for you to give me your answer.
Lovella:Yeah, I'm just going to go red, white, and blue.
Steve:You are correct.
Lovella:I am?
Steve:Yes.
Lovella:Well done.
Lovella:Oh, yes.
Lovella:Let's go.
Steve:Yes, they are red, white, and blue stripes.
Lovella:Yeah, it's like…
Steve:Yeah, vertical stripes.
Lovella:Vertical, yeah.
Steve:Yeah.
Lovella:I thought so.
Steve:That's it.
Steve:Okay, question number three.
Steve:What is the currency used in France today?
Steve:okay so u.s has dollars u.s dollars australia has australian dollars like japan has yen
Lovella:um london has the pound what is france i don't know i don't know it's okay you don't know i don't
Steve:Have a guess.
Steve:What do you think?
Lovella:No, I can't.
Lovella:Anything coming to you?
Lovella:No.
Lovella:No idea?
Lovella:No.
Steve:It is the euro.
Lovella:I would never have gotten that.
Lovella:You would never have gotten that one?
Lovella:No.
Lovella:That's the first time I've heard of that.
Lovella:Okay.
Lovella:All right.
Lovella:Interesting.
Steve:Well, there you go.
Steve:The euro.
Steve:All right.
Steve:Here we go.
Steve:Question number three.
Steve:What famous French landmark lights up at night and overlooks Paris?
Lovella:Oh, the Isle Tower.
Steve:Correct.
Steve:Well done.
Lovella:Yeah.
Steve:All right.
Steve:You are two on the board now.
Steve:All right.
Lovella:Here we go.
Steve:All right.
Steve:You're doing well.
Steve:Last question.
Steve:Here we go.
Steve:I'm going to go with landmarks again.
Steve:You ready?
Steve:What famous landmark was given to America as a gift from France?
Lovella:I don't know.
Steve:You don't know that one?
Lovella:No, I don't know.
Steve:No idea?
Lovella:No.
Steve:I'll give you a hint.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:It's in New York.
Steve:Famous landmark that was actually a gift to the United States from France.
Lovella:Um, I want to say the Statue of Liberty, but that just doesn't seem right.
Steve:Because you're wondering how they'll wrap it?
Steve:How do they wrap it?
Lovella:Yeah, sure.
Lovella:That's exactly what I'm imagining.
Lovella:Uh, I don't know.
Lovella:Statue of Liberty.
Steve:You are correct.
Lovella:Really?
Steve:Yeah.
Lovella:Nice.
Steve:Yes, that was a gift.
Steve:All right.
Steve:Interesting.
Lovella:I did not know that.
Steve:That's cool.
Lovella:Cool facts.
Steve:I don't know how they wrapped it up.
Steve:I don't know how they got it over here on a boat, probably.
Lovella:Well, it might not have even been like put together.
Lovella:It could have just been.
Steve:Oh, in pieces.
Steve:In pieces.
Lovella:And then America had to put it together.
Steve:America had to put it together.
Steve:A bit like furniture you get from Ikea.
Lovella:Yeah.
Steve:All right.
Steve:Well done.
Steve:You got three out of four for French trivia.
Steve:Not bad, not bad.
Steve:That's really well done, Lovella, for French trivia.
Steve:Yeah.
Steve:You don't know a lot about the country.
Steve:No, I don't.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:Let's see how I do at this then.
Steve:Okay, parents, you're up next with your French trivia.
Steve:Here we go.
Lovella:Question number one.
Lovella:What famous art museum is located in Paris?
Steve:That is the Louvre.
Lovella:Correct.
Lovella:Yes.
Lovella:Good job.
Lovella:All right.
Lovella:Question number two.
Lovella:Name one country that shares a border with mainland France.
Steve:uh man now you're testing me on my geography ah gee i i honestly
Steve:I think Spain is one. I'm pretty confident Spain is on the south, but that's all I really know.
Steve:So I'm going to say Spain. I'm pretty confident that's right, but I don't know any others.
Steve:You are correct.
Steve:Oh, what were the others?
Lovella:You could have said Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, or Andorra.
Steve:Okay. All right. Nice.
Lovella:Okay. Question number three. This one's multiple choice.
Lovella:Excuse me if I cannot speak French.
Lovella:Here we go.
Lovella:Okay.
Lovella:RSVP is short for what French phrase commonly seen on invitations?
Lovella:Respondez, s'il vous plaît.
Lovella:Reservation, s'il vous plaît.
Lovella:Rendez-vous, s'il vous plaît.
Lovella:Or reunion, s'il vous plaît.
Steve:oh wow i sound so bad speaking french no you actually did a really good job no but like you
Lovella:did you sounded very good i sound funny you sounded very good i sounded funny well done
Steve:um okay I'm sorry to do this to you but I need to read again because I've forgotten but I think I
Lovella:know the answer to this responders civil play reservation civil play rendezvous civil play
Steve:or reunion civil play okay so I believe civil play means like please I don't know don't look at me
Steve:I'm not French well you might be you might have the answer there I don't know so I think this is
Steve:Respondez
Lovella:Civil Play. You are correct.
Steve:Yay. Nice.
Lovella:Okay. All right. Cool.
Lovella:That was hard. That was hard for me to pronounce.
Lovella:Well done. Okay.
Lovella:Last question.
Lovella:What famous French novelist
Lovella:wrote Les Mis?
Steve:Les Mis. Okay. I don't know this off the top of my head. I'll know it when you say the answer,
Steve:but I do not know who wrote Les Mis.
Steve:Not the musical, right?
Steve:Because I think that was an Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Steve:We're talking about the book, right?
Steve:Yeah.
Steve:Novelist.
Steve:Yes.
Steve:French novelist.
Steve:I don't know.
Lovella:The correct answer was Victor Hugo.
Steve:Oh, Victor Hugo.
Steve:Yes.
Steve:That's right.
Steve:I remember that.
Steve:Cool.
Steve:Well, I think we're on a tiebreaker.
Steve:I got three out of four.
Steve:You got three out of four.
Lovella:Yeah.
Steve:So here we go.
Steve:tiebreaker time.
Lovella:All right.
Steve:You explain the tiebreaker, Lovella.
Lovella:All right.
Lovella:So our bonus tiebreaker round is basically
Lovella:there's one question first to buzz in
Lovella:and get the correct answer wins.
Steve:Two points, right?
Lovella:Two points, yes.
Steve:Yeah.
Lovella:But if you don't get it right
Lovella:and you buzz in first,
Lovella:that means the two points go to the other team.
Steve:Oh, okay.
Steve:So you got to know the answer.
Steve:All right.
Lovella:All right.
Steve:Would you like to read the question out
Steve:or would you like me to read the question out?
Steve:No, you can do that.
Steve:You can do that.
Steve:All right.
Steve:I will read the question out.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:Bonus or tiebreaker question.
Steve:Here we go.
Steve:what famous painting can be found in the Louvre
Steve:buzz yeah i know this one too buzz go ahead it's the mona lisa yeah mona lisa very good
Lovella:there's a bunch of very famous paintings found in the Louvre but mona lisa is that's the most
Steve:famous i would say arguably the most famous painting of all time i would say well done
Steve:Congratulations.
Steve:Thank you.
Steve:You win French trivia.
Steve:That means you get to choose the breakfast.
Steve:You won the golden croissant.
Lovella:Okay.
Steve:What are you going to pick for breakfast?
Lovella:So I've got a few options.
Steve:Yeah.
Lovella:Pancakes, ham and cheese croissant, or Australia, we have this cereal that's really, really good.
Lovella:It's in shapes of bricks.
Lovella:It's called Nutri-Grain.
Lovella:It's really good, guys.
Lovella:Like, go to Australia, have Nutri-Grain for breakfast.
Lovella:It's so good.
Lovella:I love it.
Steve:Okay.
Steve:I think we can probably do pancakes.
Steve:Let's do pancakes.
Steve:I'll do that for you.
Steve:I'll whip up a batch of pancakes for you for winning their French trivia.
Lovella:All right.
Lovella:Bye.
Steve:All right.
Steve:Congratulations.
Steve:Thank you.
Steve:Thank you for playing, everybody.
Steve:And thank you to Sane and Neil for suggesting and writing in.
Lovella:And if you want to suggest a topic like Sane and Neil, click the link in the show notes.
Steve:And yeah, we might feature your episode on a future episode.
Lovella:Yeah.
Lovella:Yeah.
Lovella:Thanks for joining us.
Lovella:Au revoir.
Steve:Au revoir.
