Rennes trivia questions

20 questions about Rennes

1. 1. In which French region is Rennes?

   1. Normandy
   2. Brittany
   3. Pays de la Loire
   4. Centre-Val de Loire
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   B. Brittany

   Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennes

2. 2. What is a galette-saucisse, the street food of Rennes?

   1. A fried fish in batter
   2. A cheese baguette
   3. A grilled sausage wrapped in a buckwheat crêpe
   4. A sausage inside puff pastry
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   C. A grilled sausage wrapped in a buckwheat crêpe

   Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galette-saucisse

3. 3. A Breton galette, as used in the galette-saucisse, is traditionally made from which flour?

   1. Buckwheat
   2. Rice
   3. Chestnut
   4. Corn
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   A. Buckwheat

   Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galette-saucisse

4. 4. In which month is the Rennes music festival Les Transmusicales held?

   1. March
   2. June
   3. September
   4. December
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   D. December

   Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmusicales

5. 5. Which football club plays at the Roazhon Park stadium in Rennes?

   1. Stade Rennais
   2. Girondins de Bordeaux
   3. Olympique Lyonnais
   4. FC Nantes
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   A. Stade Rennais

   Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennes

6. 6. What is the Breton name of Rennes?

   1. Naoned
   2. Gwened
   3. Roazhon
   4. Kemper
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   C. Roazhon

   Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennes

7. 7. On which day of the week does Rennes' big Marché des Lices take place?

   1. Sunday
   2. Saturday morning
   3. Wednesday evening
   4. Friday night
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   B. Saturday morning

   Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/March%C3%A9_des_Lices

8. 8. What damaged Rennes' Parlement de Bretagne building in 1994?

   1. An earthquake
   2. A flood of the Vilaine
   3. A wartime bombing
   4. A fire
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   D. A fire

   Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlement_de_Bretagne

9. 9. What event in 1720 destroyed most timber-framed houses in the north of Rennes' centre?

   1. A great fire
   2. A siege
   3. A flood
   4. An earthquake
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   A. A great fire

   Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennes

10. 10. Which Breton ruler was crowned Duchess of Brittany in Rennes in 1489?

    1. Joan of Arc
    2. Eleanor of Aquitaine
    3. Anne of Brittany
    4. Catherine de' Medici
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    C. Anne of Brittany

    Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_Brittany

11. 11. Les Tombées de la Nuit, a Rennes street-arts and performance festival created in 1981, takes place in which season?

    1. Winter
    2. Early summer (July)
    3. Late autumn
    4. Early spring
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    B. Early summer (July)

    Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Tomb%C3%A9es_de_la_Nuit

12. 12. Which Rennes festival is a fighting-game competition?

    1. Mythos
    2. Travelling
    3. Les Transmusicales
    4. Stunfest
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    D. Stunfest

    Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennes

13. 13. Which of these Rennes festivals is a film festival?

    1. Travelling
    2. Stunfest
    3. Les Transmusicales
    4. Les Tombées de la Nuit
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    A. Travelling

    Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennes

14. 14. In which French department is Rennes?

    1. Finistère
    2. Morbihan
    3. Ille-et-Vilaine
    4. Côtes-d'Armor
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    C. Ille-et-Vilaine

    Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennes

15. 15. What was the name of the small Gallic village that preceded Rennes more than 2,000 years ago?

    1. Lutetia
    2. Condate
    3. Burdigala
    4. Nemausus
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    B. Condate

    Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennes

16. 16. In which year was the Rennes music festival Les Trans Musicales created?

    1. 1969
    2. 1974
    3. 1979
    4. 1989
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    C. 1979

    Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmusicales_de_Rennes

17. 17. Which architect designed the Hôtel de Ville (city hall) of Rennes, built 1734–1743?

    1. Jacques V Gabriel
    2. Victor Louis
    3. Louis Le Vau
    4. Claude Perrault
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    A. Jacques V Gabriel

    Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B4tel_de_ville_de_Rennes

18. 18. Who was Anne of Brittany married to by proxy at Rennes Cathedral in December 1490?

    1. Louis XII
    2. Charles VIII
    3. Henry VII of England
    4. Maximilian I of Austria
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    D. Maximilian I of Austria

    Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_Brittany

19. 19. The Marché des Lices in Rennes has its first recorded traces in which year?

    1. 1522
    2. 1622
    3. 1722
    4. 1822
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    B. 1622

    Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/March%C3%A9_des_Lices

20. 20. Whose 1899 retrial by a military court was held in Rennes?

    1. Alfred Dreyfus
    2. Émile Zola
    3. Georges Picquart
    4. Ferdinand Esterhazy
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    A. Alfred Dreyfus

    Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_affair

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