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Paris, the City of Love, is known for its romantic atmosphere, iconic landmarks, and rich culture. From the Eiffel Tower to the Louvre Museum and the Notre-Dame Cathedral, the city is home to some of the most famous tourist attractions in the world. Whether you're a first-time visitor or a seasoned traveler, our list of Paris trivia questions is the perfect way to explore the city and learn more about its many wonders.
Our list of trivia questions covers a wide range of topics, including the city's history, landmarks, food, and entertainment. You'll find questions about the origin of Paris' name, the oldest building in the city, famous museums and galleries, traditional French dishes that originated in Paris, and much more. With our trivia questions, you'll be able to explore the city like never before and gain a deeper understanding of what makes Paris such a special place.
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1. What famous cathedral of Paris, France, opened in 1345, was made even more famous in an 1831 Victor Hugo novel that was adapted many times?
Answer: Notre-Dame De Paris
2. Croissant not included: for a brief, flashy moment in 2022, Paris’s legendary Moulin Rouge offered overnight stays on what Bay Area-based short-term rental website?
Answer: Airbnb
3. Started in 1944, "Le Parisien" is one of the top-selling daily what in France?
Answer: Newspapers
4. What Parisian-born actress and activist launched the U.N. Women campaign HeForShe in 2014, about three years after starring in her eighth “Harry Potter” film?
Answer: Emma Watson
5. Don't blush: the birthplace of the modern form of the can-can dance is what arousing Paris theatre with a name that translates to "red mill"?
Answer: Moulin Rouge
6. The title of what classic novel by James Baldwin refers to an Italian bartender whom the narrator meets at a gay bar in Paris?
Answer: Giovanni's Room
7. Completed in 1863, what famous Edouard Manet painting known as “Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe” in French was rejected by the Paris Salon due to its “obscene” depiction of nudity?
Answer: The Luncheon on the Grass
8. Chinese architect I. M. Pei designed the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, but his most recognizable work might be a glass structure in what shape at the Louvre in Paris?
Answer: Pyramid
9. Which French-Polish scientist was the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, among many other international accolades?
Answer: Marie Curie
10. What city was the center of the movement called Surrealism, whose artists include such notables as Jean Arp, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Rene Magritte, and Salvador Dali?
Answer: Paris
11. A precursor to facsimile machines, the very first commercial telefax line was built in 1865, running from Paris to what roaring city 240 miles to the southeast?
Answer: Lyon
12. Breaking, or breakdancing for us less hip folks, was the first dance sport discipline contested at the Summer Olympics when the 2024 festivities opened in what European city?
Answer: Paris
13. Vincent van Gogh painted his watery Seine series while living in and around what European capital city?
Answer: Paris
14. Which 1970 Disney animated musical about some felines living the high life in Paris, and featured the voice acting of Eva Gabor and Phil Harris?
Answer: The Aristocats
15. Which airport in Paris is the biggest and busiest in France? It’s named after a French president.
Answer: Charles de Gaulle Airport
16. On November 21, 1783, the first manned hot-air balloon flight took place in a balloon built by the Montgolfier brothers, in what world capital city?
Answer: Paris
17. What “M” French landmark is a large hill in Paris’s 18th arrondissement? It is home to the Basilica of the Sacre-Coeur.
Answer: Montmartre
18. At what famous museum in Paris can you view van Gogh’s “The Church at Auvers,” an oil painting of Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption?
Answer: Musée d'Orsay
19. What cocktail, commonly served with brunch, is of French origin and was first served at the Ritz Hotel in Paris in 1925?
Answer: Mimosa
20. Although CDG is the city's busiest airport with over 75 million passengers in 2019, the city's second-largest airport ORY still had over 30 million passengers in 2019. What is the city?
Answer: Paris
21. The French 75 cocktail was first created at a Parisian bar called the New York Bar in 1915 during what global conflict that ended on November 11, 1918?
Answer: World War I
22. Known for fine art and antiques, the Hotel Drouot is a large auction house featuring multiple independent auction firms in what world capital city?
Answer: Paris
23. In 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales died in a car crash that took place in a tunnel in which European capital city?
Answer: Paris
24. The Orient Express traditionally terminated in the Turkish city of Istanbul. What European city is its start point?
Answer: Paris
25. Lettered subway tiles spell out the text of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen at the Concorde stop of what city's metro line?
Answer: Paris
26. Based in Paris, what specialized U.N. agency established to promote world peace through global collaboration in learning, culture, and arts is perhaps better known for its famous list of World Heritage Sites first created in 1978?
Answer: United Nations Educational
27. What European capital city is served by the airport that uses the IATA code CDG? The airport is named for the man who served as its country's president from 1959 to 1969.
Answer: Paris
28. What film franchise had a 2018 release subtitled "Fallout" that was largely set in Paris? Both the filming and the movie's premiere occurred in the French capital.
Answer: Mission Impossible
29. Which Oscar-winning movie for Best Picture was set around the 1924 Summer Olympics that were held in Paris?
Answer: Chariots of Fire
30. What three-word phrase appears on the Paris city flag? In English, the phrase means "tossed but never sunk."
Answer: Fluctuat nec mergitur
31. Which life-size sculpture of a half-naked woman is believed to have been created by Alexandros of Antioch? When the piece was moved to Paris from Greece in 1820, it lost part of its arms.
Answer: Venus de Milo
32. A 2015 climate change agreement is named for what European capital city, which also gives its name to the treaties that ended the Spanish-American War and the American Revolutionary War?
Answer: Paris
33. Being one of the iconic landmarks in Paris and also being a well-known tourist driving experience, how many roads are connected to the roundabout circling the Arc de Triomphe?
Answer: 12
34. On October 3, 1881, a Paris café became the site of the first conversation in the "modern" form of what language, which had been revived after nearly sixteen centuries?
Answer: Hebrew
35. What is the appropriate last name for the brothers who invented a movie camera and projector and who presented the first commercial movie showing in Paris in 1895?
Answer: Lumiere
36. Which world-famous Frenchman was born on June 11, 1910, in Saint-André-de-Cubzac, France, and died on June 25, 1997, in Paris? He is also known as an inventor and explorer.
Answer: Jacques Cousteau
37. What world-renowned architect, co-designer of the Pompidou Center (Centre de Georges Pompidou) in Paris, was responsible for the design of the Nasher Sculpture Center?
Answer: Renzo Piano
38. Paris's Pere Lachaise Cemetery is the forever home of Frederic Chopin, Edith Piaf, Oscar Wilde, and what musician-slash-"Lizard King," who provides the cemetery's most popular pilgrimage?
Answer: Jim Morrison
39. What bridge—ironically given the meaning of its name in French—is the oldest standing bridge over the Seine in Paris, having been completed in 1607?
Answer: Pont Neuf
40. What UNESCO World Heritage site is known for its magnificent Gothic architecture and for being the place where Marie Antoinette was imprisoned before her date with the guillotine?
Answer: Conciergerie
41. The Paris Agreement, also called the “Paris Accords” or “Paris Climate Accords," was signed in 2016. Which Western nation withdrew from the international treaty on climate change in 2020, only to rejoin in 2021?
Answer: United States
42. George Washington selected Pierre Charles L'Enfant to create a city plan for Washington, DC, perhaps in the hopes that L'Enfant would be influenced by what other world capital city, which is where L'Enfant was born?
Answer: Paris
43. Oh là là! Signed in 2016 by 195 countries, the international treaty on climate change that was negotiated at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference is named after what capital city?
Answer: Paris
44. The University of Paris is often colloquially known by what eight-letter name, a reference to one of the buildings on its campus in the city's Latin Quarter?
Answer: Sorbonne
45. The United Nations General Assembly adopted a historic document (Resolution 217) in Paris at its third session in 1948. The document is regularly abbreviated as UDHR, which stands for what?
Answer: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
46. From its opening in April 1992 until May 1994, the Disney theme park now called Disneyland Paris was known by what continental name?
Answer: Euro Disney
47. With roughly 12 million visitors a year, it is said to be the most visited site in all of Europe. The Parisian commune of Chessy is home to the European version of what major American attraction?
Answer: Disneyland (Disneyland Paris)
48. Winning an award at the Paris Exposition, who invented the first conveyor belt in 1892?
Answer: Thomas Robbins
49. The competition that shocked the wine world in 1976, when California wines beat out their French counterparts, is often called the Judgment of (What City)?
Answer: Paris
50. The world's first business school, still in existence and now called ESCP Europe, was founded in 1819 in what European city?
Answer: Paris
51. Along with rum, lime juice, and sugar, what liqueur makes up a Parisian Daiquiri? The liqueur is made from elderberry flowers.
Answer: St. Germain
52. What water-spewing monument in Paris’s 5th arrondissement was part of Baron Haussmann’s reconstruction of the city during the French Second Empire, was originally conceived as a tribute to peace by architect Gabriel Davioud, but was ultimately requested to simply cover up an end wall of a nearby building?
Answer: Fontaine Saint-Michel
53. Which champagne cocktail named after the kick from a gun is traditionally made with gin, lemon juice, and sugar? If you’re in Paris, you could be extra fancy and order a Soixante Quinze.
Answer: French 75
54. What museum in Paris, the home of many Impressionist and post-Impressionist paintings, was once a railway station on the Left Bank of the Seine River?
Answer: Musée d'Orsay
55. What “P” building is a complex near Les Halles in Paris France? It is named after a French president of the 1970s.
Answer: Pompidou Centre
56. The district known as “Paris Centre” is made up of how many arrondissements in central Paris?
Answer: Four
57. It’s known as Groupe d'action financière in France, but what is the international name of the organization founded in 1989 at the G7 Summit in Paris that fights money laundering and terrorism financing?
Answer: Financial Action Task Force
58. What Paris art museum, which opened in 1919, has more than 6,000 sculptures, 8,000 drawings, 8,000 photographs, and 7,000 objets d'art primarily by a famous French sculptor, first name Auguste, who is perhaps most well-known for The Thinker?
Answer: Musée Rodin
59. Discovered in 1820 and dating back to the 2nd century BCE, what is the three-word name of the famous armless statue at the Louvre thought to depict the goddess of love?
Answer: Venus de Milo
60. In the last season of Friends, what company does Rachel get a job with that leads her to want to move to Paris?
Answer: Louis Vuitton
61. Which is the only station on the London Underground that shares its name with a station on the Paris Métro? This station is on the Circle line and the District line in Zone 1.
Answer: Temple
62. The only Olympics in which Cricket was a sport was the 1900 event hosted in what European capital?
Answer: Paris
63. Paris's Arc de Triomphe was commissioned in 1806 after the triumph of Napoleon at the Battle of what town with a literal A-to-Z name?
Answer: Austerlitz
64. Which Parisian store, founded in 1852 and the world's oldest continually operating department store, created the first department store catalog?
Answer: Le Bon Marche
65. A woman stands behind a well-stocked bar at Paris's Folies-Bergère nightclub in an 1882 painting by what French Impressionist?
Answer: Edouard Manet
66. There's a famous French folktale written by Charles Perrault and first published in Paris in 1697, describing a serial killer in the habit of murdering his wives. This man was known by his hair color, and his name has distinct similarities with a few well-known pirates. Who is this French folktale character?
Answer: Bluebeard
67. Known for its glass roof, what architectural masterpiece in central Paris will host the fencing and taekwondo events at the 2024 Olympics?
Answer: Grand Palais
68. What cubist's work, featuring outlines of birds, was the first piece by a living artist to adorn the Louvre? It covered the ceiling of what was once King Henri II's antechamber and caused an uproar in Paris.
Answer: Georges Braque
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