How much do you know about French politics [and history]?

[Hash]

It's been quite some time I haven't made one of these, and since it's currently the big hit...

EASY (26)

1. Name the current President and his party (2)

2. Name the current Prime Minister and his party (2)

3. What are the two houses of the French Parliament? (2)

4. How many regions is France divided into (excluding five overseas regions)? (1)

5. Which party holds the second-most seats in the Parliament? (1)

6. Name all six Presidents of France since 1958 (excluding one interim) (6)

7. Name all twelve Prime Ministers of France since 1981 (12)

INTERMEDIATE (38)

8. Name three left-wing parties, aside from the PS, which currently hold seats in Parliament (3)

9. What are the names of the local assemblies governing each department, and what are the 'constituencies' used to elect members of these assemblies called? (2)

10. How many departments are there (1)

11. In legislative elections, if no candidate wins a majority of the vote by the first round, what is the threshold to qualify for the runoff? (1)

12. Which three direct elections in France use some sort of proportional representation? (3)

13. Name the top four candidates in the 2002 presidential election (4)

14. In metropolitan France, certain regional languages are recognized locally as part of local heritage. Name four of these languages (4)

15. Name the top three candidates in the 1974 and 1965 presidential elections (6)

16. Aside from 2002, in which presidential election since 1965 did no left-wing candidate qualify for the runoff? (1)

17. Name four political parties, two of which must be left-wing (generally) and two of which must be right-wing (generally), which existed during the Third Republic? (4)

18. Aside from June 1946, which party topped the poll in terms of votes in all legislative elections during the GPRF and Fourth Republic?

19. What was the Troisième Force and name the three main parties of the Troisième Force (4)?

20. Who are the current regional presidents of Ile-de-France, Provence-Alpes-Cote-d'Azur, Bretagne and Corse? (4)

21. Of the regions of metropolitan France, which is the only region not governed by the left? (1)

ADVANCED (27)

22. Who were the Ralliés? (1)

23. Who were Léon Blum, Édouard Daladier, Aristide Briand and Albert Lebrun (4)

24. Which President of the Third Republic died while sleeping with his mistress? Which one became insane while in office? (2)

25. At which 1971 Congress (city name) was the Socialist Party formed? (1)

26. Which Senate parliamentary group currently in existence was founded in 1892 (though under a different name) and which party/parties have traditionally composed it? (2)

27. Who were Louis Marin, Pierre-Etienne Flandin, Georges Bidault and Camille Chautemps? (4)

28. What was the name given to the legislature elected in 1919? (1)

29. Which two elections were won by the Cartel des gauches? (2)

30. Name four of the six candidates in the 1848 presidential election, including the top two candidates (4)

31. Name the only regionalist French MEP and the party he represents (2)

32. Who were Jean Royer, Antoine Waechter, Georges Marchais and Jacques Duclos? (4)

IMPOSSIBLE (9)

33. Which French city elected the first socialist mayor in the world in 1882? (2)

34. Which French city elected the first Communist mayor in France in 1921? (2)

35. Name the current mayors of Nice, Marseille and Montreuil (3)

36. Who said "our cities are in the hands of the bearded men (Muslims)" and "Mr. Durafour-crématoire" [two separate politicians] (2)

BONUS

37. Which politician does Jean-Marie Le Pen refer to as "Brutus"? (2)

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

1 nichola sarkozy, rally for something
2 uh
3 house and senate
4 ?
5 socialsts
6 sarko, cirac, mitterand, dugalle, uh
7 LOL
8 communists, greens
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11 15%
12 senate
13 lepen, chirac, .. bayrou?
14 britonique, uh, occitanian? rhonesomething??
15 lol
16 ?
17 socialists, radicals, uh
18 ?
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26 rally for the president?
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[Foucaulf]

Now this is interesting! Let's see if I at least pass.
I apologize beforehand for not bothering with accents.

1. Nicolas Sarkozy, Union pour un Mouvement Populaire

2. Francois Fillon, UMP

3. Assemblee Nationale and the Senat

4. Twenty-two (?)

5. Parti Socialiste

6. Charles de Gaulle, Georges Pompidou, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Francois Mitterand, Jacques Chirac and Sarko

7. Pompidou, Chaban-Delmas, Messner (?), Rocard, Chirac, Cresson, Beregovoy, Jospin, Juppe (?), de Villepin and Fillon. There was also whoever filled in during the second cohabitation.

8. Front de Gauche (PCF and others), les Verts and Parti Radical de Gauche?

9. I think the English name is the General Assembly; cantons

10. 101 if you count Mayotte.

11. 15%?

12. Regional, European and Municipal?

13. Chirac, Le Pen, Jospin and some left-wing splinter. Hue if it's the PCF.

14. Alsatian, Occitan, Catalan and Picard? I'll add Breton and Catalan in case you're not only taking the top four.

15. 74 is Giscard, Mitterand, some Gaullist
65 is De Gaulle, Mitterand and some Communist (Marchais?)

16. 1969? The one with Pompidou and Poher.

17. Left: SFIO and Parti Radical
Right: I thought there was one called the Democratic Alliance, though South Africa may be contaminating my memory.

18. Parti Communiste Francais (PCF)

19. Alliance of parties during the Fourth Republic against communists and Gaullists? If that is the case, then we have SFIO, Parti Radical and MRF.

21. Alsace

23. I know they are all Presidents of the Third Republic.  Daladier served during the years of the Popular Front and Briand during Interwar. Not sure of the others.

25. Reims??

26. RLDE?? If it is that you have centrist parties like UDF.

27. I assume all of these are PMs of the Third Republic. Chautemps is the only one I recognize; he served around WWI.

29. 1932 and 1936??

30. Jesus, since it was the Second Republic was Napoleon III on there?

32. Royer: Sounds like a centrist and a founding father of the European Community.
Waechter: Green politician who started his own party after les Verts was too left-wing, generally a failure
Marchais: Leader of the PCF during the sixties, specifically had an anti-immigrant streak.
Duclos: French politician that did advance the European cause, publishing the Duclos report and such. Is the father of Socialist politician Martine Aubry. I am an idiot, but PM me if you know who I was thinking of

33. Toulouse??

34. Tours??

BONUS

37. Who the hell knows, Bruno Gollinsch

[big bad fab]

I'll answer only to the 5 questions on which I have doubts, because I'm lazy and because that would kill the interest of this game for other people:

31. I DON'T KNOW ! And I don't want to know
Some guy from Martinique ?

33. Wasn't it Carmaux ? Or Commentry ?

34. This is a very good question... I would have said some town of Aliier but I must mess with Commentry... No, I don't see... And that should be something surprising probably... I should know, that's terrible
Very fine question, Hash !

36. Just for the first quotation (the other is obvious): Panzergirl ?

37. Mégret, probably, though I have a doubt.

(and about 30. fortunately you didn't ask for the whole 6, as I've completely forgotten about 2 of them, and for the 3rd, as I wasn't sure at all !)

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Oooh... fun. I'll do these later.

[Math]

34. This is a very good question... I would have said some town of Aliier but I must mess with Commentry... No, I don't see... And that should be something surprising probably... I should know, that's terrible
Very fine question, Hash !

Ahah by chance I spent some days close to this city two weeks ago and it was written in the Guide du Routard! And be sure I don't spend my holidays in the Red Allier...

[Antonio the Sixth]

I hope I'll get at least 80 there. Or I fail forever...


EASY (26)

1. Name the current President and his party (2)

Nicolas "Pathetic Joke" Sarkozy, UMP

2. Name the current Prime Minister and his party (2)

François Fillon, UMP

3. What are the two houses of the French Parliament? (2)

Assemblée Nationale (lower house)
Sénat (upper House)

4. How many regions is France divided into (excluding five overseas regions)? (1)

22

5. Which party holds the second-most seats in the Parliament? (1)

Parti Socialiste (left-wing)

6. Name all six Presidents of France since 1958 (excluding one interim) (6)

1958-1969 : Charles De Gaulle
1969 : Alain Poher (interim)
1969-1974 : Georges Pompidou
1974 : Alain Poher (interim)
1974-1981 : Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
1981-1995 : François Mitterrand
1995-2007 : Jacques Chirac
2007-... : Nicolas Sarkozy

7. Name all twelve Prime Ministers of France since 1981 (12)

1981-1984 : Pierre Mauroy
1984-1986 : Laurent Fabius
1986-1988 : Jacques Chirac
1988-1991 : Michel Rocard
1991-1992 : Edith Cresson
1992-1993 : Pierre Bérégovoy
1993-1995 : Edouard Balladur
1995-1997 : Alain Juppé
1997-2002 : Lionel Jospin
2002-2005 : Jean-Pierre Raffarin
2005-2007 : Dominique de Villepin
2007-... : François Fillon

INTERMEDIATE (38)

8. Name three left-wing parties, aside from the PS, which currently hold seats in Parliament (3)

Parti Communiste Français (around 15)
Europe Ecologie - Les Verts (4)
Parti Radical de Gauche (a couple)

9. What are the names of the local assemblies governing each department, and what are the 'constituencies' used to elect members of these assemblies called? (2)

The assemblies are called Conseil Général
The constituencies are the Cantons

10. How many departments are there (1)

101

11. In legislative elections, if no candidate wins a majority of the vote by the first round, what is the threshold to qualify for the runoff? (1)

12.5% of registered voters

12. Which three direct elections in France use some sort of proportional representation? (3)

Municipal elections, in cities with over 3500 inhabitants (joke PR)
Regional elections
European Parliament elections

13. Name the top four candidates in the 2002 presidential election (4)

Jacques Chirac (around 19%)
Jean-Marie Le Pen (around 17%)
Lionel Jospin (around 16%)
François Bayrou (around 6%)

14. In metropolitan France, certain regional languages are recognized locally as part of local heritage. Name four of these languages (4)

Hum... Breton, Alsacien, Basque and... Occitan ?

15. Name the top three candidates in the 1974 and 1965 presidential elections (6)

1974 : François Mitterrand, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Jacques Chaban-Delmas
1965 : Charles De Gaulle, François Mitterrand, Jean Lecanuet

16. Aside from 2002, in which presidential election since 1965 did no left-wing candidate qualify for the runoff? (1)

1969 (gaullist Pompidou and centrist Poher qualified)

17. Name four political parties, two of which must be left-wing (generally) and two of which must be right-wing (generally), which existed during the Third Republic? (4)

Left : SFIO, Parti Radical
Right : Alliance Républicaine, otherwise... does Action Française count ?

18. Aside from June 1946, which party topped the poll in terms of votes in all legislative elections during the GPRF and Fourth Republic?

The PCF

19. What was the Troisième Force and name the three main parties of the Troisième Force (4)?

An electoral and political alliance during the 4th Republic aimed to fight Communists and Gaullists and assure the regime's stability.
Its 3 main parties were SFIO (socialists), MRP (christian-democrats), and radicals

20. Who are the current regional presidents of Ile-de-France, Provence-Alpes-Cote-d'Azur, Bretagne and Corse? (4)

IdF : Jean-Paul Huchon
PACA : Michel Vauzelle
Bretagne : Jean-Yves Le Drian
Corse : Paul Giacobbi

21. Of the regions of metropolitan France, which is the only region not governed by the left? (1)

Alsace

ADVANCED (27)

22. Who were the Ralliés? (1)

Meh, I've absolutely no idea...

23. Who were Léon Blum, Édouard Daladier, Aristide Briand and Albert Lebrun (4)

Blum : SFIO leader in the 20s and the 30s, he became Pres of Council in 1936-1937 and in 1938 under the Front Populaire. He was persecuted by Vichy during occupation and shortly became President of GPRF after war.

Daladier : Radical politician in the 1930s, he was supportive of an alliance with the left and participated to the Front Populaire.

Briand : Center-left politicianof the early XXth century who took part to the elaboration of the 1905 Separation law. He did a lot to improve relations with Germany and received the Peace Nobel Price.

Lebrun : Last President of the 3rd Republic, elected in 1932 and reelected in 1939. Like most of his predecessors, he did absolutely nothing.

24. Which President of the Third Republic died while sleeping with his mistress? Which one became insane while in office? (2)

For the first, was it Jean Casimir-Périer ? I don't remember very well.
For the second, Paul Deschanel.

25. At which 1971 Congress (city name) was the Socialist Party formed? (1)

Epinay

To be exact, the PS wasn't founded at the Epinay Congress, but 2 years earlier with Savary as First Secretary (I don't remember the congress' place). During Epinay, Mitterrand's CIR joined the party and he took over it.

26. Which Senate parliamentary group currently in existence was founded in 1892 (though under a different name) and which party/parties have traditionally composed it? (2)

RDSE. Don't know the initial name, but it was mostly composed by Radicals and other centrists.

27. Who were Louis Marin, Pierre-Etienne Flandin, Georges Bidault and Camille Chautemps? (4)

Marin and Chautemps were Presidents of Council during the 3rd Republic, as well as Flandin who also occupied this office for a short time during the Vichy regime. Geroges Bidault was a President of the GPRF.

28. What was the name given to the legislature elected in 1919? (1)

La "Chambre bleu horizon". It was marked by the crushing victory of the right-wing coalition called Bloc National.

29. Which two elections were won by the Cartel des gauches? (2)

1924 and 1932.

30. Name four of the six candidates in the 1848 presidential election, including the top two candidates (4)

Louis-Naploéon Bonaparte, who crushed everybody else with around 70%
Louis Cavaignac, the "runner-up"
Alphonse de Lamartine
Charles Ledru-Rollin

31. Name the only regionalist French MEP and the party he represents (2)

Don't know his name, but I seem to recall he was from the Mouvement Indépendantiste Martiniquais (MIM).

32. Who were Jean Royer, Antoine Waechter, Georges Marchais and Jacques Duclos? (4)

Candidates running for different presidential elections of the 5th Republic. Respectively a conservative in 1974, an ecologist in 1988, a communist in 1981 and a communist in 1969.

IMPOSSIBLE (9)

33. Which French city elected the first socialist mayor in the world in 1882? (2)

I might say something very stupid but... Was it Carmaux with Jaurès ?

34. Which French city elected the first Communist mayor in France in 1921? (2)

Dunno.

35. Name the current mayors of Nice, Marseille and Montreuil (3)

Nice : Christian Estrosi (UMP)
Marseille : Jean-Claude Gaudin (UMP)
Montreuil : Dominique Voynet (EELV)

36. Who said "our cities are in the hands of the bearded men (Muslims)" and "Mr. Durafour-crématoire" [two separate politicians] (2)

1st : Sarkozy, during the 2005 riots (?)
2nd : Jean-Marie Le Pen

BONUS

37. Which politician does Jean-Marie Le Pen refer to as "Brutus"? (2)

Bruno Mégret, duh !


I think I might get 90.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Must apologise for generally answering with English translations, but my French spelling is absolutely diabolical.

1. Sarkozy, UMP. Which was originally Chirac's and stood for the amusingly Third World like 'Union for a Presidential Majority'. It now means 'Union for a Popular Movement' or something meaningless and utterly French.

2. Fillon, and he's from the same party (UMP).

3. National Assembly and Senate.

4. I had to do a silly little word map thing (I'm not good with numbers) but it's twenty two unless I've managed to forget somewhere.

5. Socialist Party (PS)

6. De Gaulle, Pompidou, Giscard, Mitterrand, Chirac, Sarkozy

7. I'm sure I'll forget some. Let's see... Mauroy, Fabius, Chirac... er... Rocard, Cresson, Beregovy, Balladur, Juppe, Jospin, Raffarin (had to think about that for a bit... could picture the face but the name took a while), De Villepin, Fillon.

INTERMEDIATE (38)

8. PCF (Commies), Greens, Left Radicals (PRG)

9. Er... wait... General Council (or something like that) and Cantons.

10. hahahaha

11. 15% of the electorate, or something like that.

12. European Parliament (obviously), Regional elections... er... must the answer be France-wide? Because don't the use PR for the elections in Paris and some other big cities? Or is that my memory lying to me again.

13. Chirac, Le Pen, Jospin, Bayrou. Though Bayrou was miles behind the others, who were tightly packed at the 'top'. No one above 20%.

14. Breton surely. And presumably Alsatian. Occitan, right? Basque seems possible, I guess. If not, maybe Catalan. I'd wonder about Provencal but I don't think anyone actually speaks it now.

15. Mitterand, Giscard, Chaban-Delmas. De Gaulle, Mitterand... and I don't remember the MRP guys name.

16. 1969

17. PCF, SFIO, MRP, CNIP

18. PCF, although they never polled much more than a quarter of the vote (which is still a lot, mind).

19. Basically centrist (even if leftish in theory) anticommunist coalition. SFIO, MRP, Radicals... and some other party which I don't recall.

20. Brittany is Jean-Yves Le Drian (PS). PACA is Michel Vauzelle (PS). I don't remember the others.

21. Alsace, of course.

ADVANCED (27)

22. don't know

23. Blum was the leading SFIO politician of the late Third Republic and the first socialist (and first Jewish) Prime Minister. His brother was killed in the Holocaust and it's vaguely surprising that he wasn't as well. Made a brief comeback in the early years of the Fourth Republic. Daladier was one of many 'Radical' PMs during the late Third Republic and was in office at the start of the Second World War. Briand was a former socialist who led a centrist party with a socialist-sounding name (I can't remember what it was, but that's not the point) who became Prime Minister a ridiculous number of times but generally only for about five minutes. Involved in endless failed treaties (one of which bears his name; Kellogg-Briand is not a brand of breakfast cereal) and got the Nobel Peace Prize for his pains. Lebrun was President at the end of the Third Republic, but I don't know much else about him.

24. I wish I knew the first of those! But the one who went mad was Deschanel.

25. Epinay

26. Used to know, don't now.

27. Bidault was a member of the Resistance who became a politician (I think), but I don't recognise the other names.

28. Blue something, but I don't remember what.

29. One in the 20s and one in the 30s. Let's randomly guess a few years; 1927 and 1932.

30. Louis Napoleon (obviously), Cavinac (sp?). I don't remember the others, but none won many votes.

31. Not a clue.

32. Royer was a right-wing politician (and Mayor of Tours for donkey's years) who ran for President in 1974 on an unintentionally hilarious anti-pornography programme. Waechter was an early Green politician from Alsace (don't remember much more), Marchais was the gloriously incompetent leader of the PCF from the early 1970s until the mid 1990s. Whenever faced with a serious question about the future of his party he always chose the worst possible answer, with the result that under his reign it fell from being the largest party of the Left in France to the essentially minor force that it is today (it would have had problems anyway, but he made things worse). He ran for President in 1981 and made a seriously crass attempt at race-baiting that actually lost him support. He also had a wonderful habit of arguing with journalists and of saying seriously stupid things in public ('I have not talked about it with anyone, but it is the position of the Party' - or something close to that). Jacques Duclos was a chain-smoking, bespectacled, moustachioed Stalinist robot who had a mysterious level of popularity with some working class voters and who ran for the PCF in the 1969 elections (and came a solid third).

IMPOSSIBLE (9)

33. Commentry

34. Douarnenez

35. Marseille is still Gaudin (UMP) I think. Montreuil is Voynet (Green) who beat a race-baiting semi-communist.

36. Le Pen senior for one of them?

BONUS

37. Megret

[republicanism]

EASY (26)

1. Name the current President and his party (2)
--- Nicolas Sarcozy, UMP.

2. Name the current Prime Minister and his party (2)
--- Villepin, UMP

3. What are the two houses of the French Parliament? (2)
--- Spelling may be wrong: Assemblée Nationale and Senate.

4. How many regions is France divided into (excluding five overseas regions)? (1)
--- 21

5. Which party holds the second-most seats in the Parliament? (1)
--- Parti Socialiste

6. Name all six Presidents of France since 1958 (excluding one interim) (6)
--- Charles de Gaulle, George Pompidou, Valerie Giscard-d'Estaign, Francois Mitterand, Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarcozy.

7. Name all twelve Prime Ministers of France since 1981 (12)
--- Villepin, Raffarin, Chirac (i think he was PM once again in the 80s), Lionel Jospin...

INTERMEDIATE (38)

8. Name three left-wing parties, aside from the PS, which currently hold seats in Parliament (3)
--- Parti Communiste Francais, Les Verts and Parti Radicale de Gauche (they should count as left-wing, I think).

9. What are the names of the local assemblies governing each department, and what are the 'constituencies' used to elect members of these assemblies called? (2)
--- Don't know.

10. How many departments are there (1)
--- Should be ca. 70

11. In legislative elections, if no candidate wins a majority of the vote by the first round, what is the threshold to qualify for the runoff? (1)
--- 15% (?) of the constituents, not the voters.

12. Which three direct elections in France use some sort of proportional representation? (3)
--- European elections, regional elections (that kind of election in which the left won 20/21 regions last year), and perhaps council elections for towns/municipalities?

13. Name the top four candidates in the 2002 presidential election (4)
--- 1. Chriac, 2. Le Pen, 3. Jospin, 4. either Bayrou or some Trotzkyist.

14. In metropolitan France, certain regional languages are recognized locally as part of local heritage. Name four of these languages (4)
--- Corsican, Breton, Norman (?), German (?)

15. Name the top three candidates in the 1974 and 1965 presidential elections (6)
--- 1965: de Gaulle, Mitterand (he ran several times before he was elected, I'm not sure if in 1965 already), some Centrist.
--- 1974: Giscard D'Estaing, Mitterand, some Gaullist.

16. Aside from 2002, in which presidential election since 1965 did no left-wing candidate qualify for the runoff? (1)
--- Has to be 1967 than.

17. Name four political parties, two of which must be left-wing (generally) and two of which must be right-wing (generally), which existed during the Third Republic? (4)
--- SFIO, Parti Communiste Francais, the big center-right party with "Republicain" in its name, and there was some far-right outfit called "National Union" or so, I'll try it with that.

18. Aside from June 1946, which party topped the poll in terms of votes in all legislative elections during the GPRF and Fourth Republic?
--- The Communists, I think.

19. What was the Troisième Force and name the three main parties of the Troisième Force (4)?
--- The non-communist and non-Gaullist parties in the 4th Republic. SFIO, Mouvement Republican Populaire (MRP) and... again, some party with "Republicain" and/or "Radicale" in its name.

20. Who are the current regional presidents of Ile-de-France, Provence-Alpes-Cote-d'Azur, Bretagne and Corse? (4)
--- No idea.

21. Of the regions of metropolitan France, which is the only region not governed by the left? (1)
--- Alsace.

ADVANCED (27)

22. Who were the Ralliés? (1)
Some fascist movement in the Third Republic?

23. Who were Léon Blum, Édouard Daladier, Aristide Briand and Albert Lebrun (4)
--- Leon Blum was a socialist and prime minister in the People's Front government in the 1930s. Aristide Briand was foreign minister in the 1920s who got the Nobel peace prize together with our Gustav Stresemann. Daladier was some right-winger. Don't know Lebrun.

24. Which President of the Third Republic died while sleeping with his mistress? Which one became insane while in office? (2)
--- No idea.

25. At which 1971 Congress (city name) was the Socialist Party formed? (1)
--- No idea.

26. Which Senate parliamentary group currently in existence was founded in 1892 (though under a different name) and which party/parties have traditionally composed it? (2)
--- The one composed of PRG, radical-socialist, radical-republicain, that kind of parties. No idea what it's name may be.

27. Who were Louis Marin, Pierre-Etienne Flandin, Georges Bidault and Camille Chautemps? (4)
--- No idea.

28. What was the name given to the legislature elected in 1919? (1)
--- No idea.

29. Which two elections were won by the Cartel des gauches? (2)
--- The last one before German occupation was one of them. The other one was before the People's Front came to power.

30. Name four of the six candidates in the 1848 presidential election, including the top two candidates (4)
--- Napoleon III, of course. No idea for the others.

31. Name the only regionalist French MEP and the party he represents (2)
--- Probably one for the oversea territories.

32. Who were Jean Royer, Antoine Waechter, Georges Marchais and Jacques Duclos? (4)
--- No idea.

IMPOSSIBLE (9)

33. Which French city elected the first socialist mayor in the world in 1882? (2)
--- No idea.

34. Which French city elected the first Communist mayor in France in 1921? (2)
--- No idea.

35. Name the current mayors of Nice, Marseille and Montreuil (3)
--- No idea.

36. Who said "our cities are in the hands of the bearded men (Muslims)" and "Mr. Durafour-crématoire" [two separate politicians] (2)
--- I'm afraid Le Pen sr. or jr. would be to easy...

BONUS

37. Which politician does Jean-Marie Le Pen refer to as "Brutus"? (2)
--- The one who split from the FN to form the MRN (Mouvement Republicain et Nationale). Don't remember his name.

[Хahar 🤔]

About two years ago I would have done much better on this test.

1. Sarkozy, UMP
2. Fillon, UMP
3. National Assembly and Senate
4. About 20
5. PS
6. De Gaulle, Pompidou, Giscard, Mitterrand, Chirac, Sarkozy. Also Poher.
7. Can't do that, so I'll list a few. Chirac, Jospin, Balladur, Villepin, Bérégovoy, Fillon.
8. Greens, Left Radicals, PCF
9. The constituencies are cantons. Don't remember the names of the assemblies.
10. 100?
11. Can't believe I've forgotten this. 15%?
12. European elections are one. Don't know the other two.
13. Chirac, Le Pen, Jospin. Not sure about the last one. Laguiller?
14. Flemish, Catalan, Basque, Alsatian
15. 1965 was De Gaulle, Mitterrand, Lecanuet. 1974 was Chirac, Mitterrand, and a Gaullist whose name I've completely forgotten.
16. 1969
17. Left is easy: SFIO and PCF. I can't remember the names of any right-wing parties offhand; they changed too often.
18. PCF
19. Anti-Communist and Anti-Gaullist coalition in the Fourth Republic, composed of the SFIO, Radicals, and some right wing party. CNIP, I think.
20. Pass.
21. Alsace
22. Ugh, I've forgotten.
23. Blum was a Jewish SFIO politician who became Prime Minister after the 1936 elections. Daladier was a Radical-Socialist; I believe he succeeded Blum as Prime Minister. Briand was Foreign Minister and namesake of the Kellogg-Briand Pact. Lebrun was the last President of the Third Republic.
24. Don't remember the first. The second was Paul Deschanel.
25. Reims
26. Don't remember the name, but it's some boring centrist group. I believe the Radicals are in it.
27. Flandin was Deputy Prime Minister at one point in Vichy. Chautemps was another Radical who was Prime Minister between the wars.
28. Bleu horizon
29. 1924 and 1932
30. Bonaparte and some others
31. I don't know, but I do know that PdV is the only Libertas MEP.
32. Royer was a right-wing candidate for President in 1974. Waechter was a Green candidate for President. Marchais was leader of the PCF for many years. Duclos was a left-wing candidate for President in 1969. I think he was PCF.
33-36. Pass.
37. Bruno Mégret

[MaxQue]

1. Nicolas Sarkozy, Union pour un mouvement populaire (UMP). He comes from Neuilly-sur-Seine.

2. François Fillon, UMP. Was elected from Sarthe.

3. Sénat & Assemblée Nationale.

4. 22, and I'm able to draw a rough map and place them, too (that is how I counted them).

5. Parti Socialiste (PS).

6. I see Charles de Gaulle (Gaullist), Georges Pompidou (right), Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (UDF), François Mitterand (PS), Jacques Chirac (Rassemblement pour la République-RPR, UMP) and Nicolas Sarkozy (himself).

7. More difficult. François Filion (UMP), Dominique de Villepin (UMP), Jean-Pierre Raffarin (UMP). Michel Rocard (PS), Edith Cresson (PS), Pierre Bérégovoy (PS). Alain Juppé, Lionel Jospin (PS), Jacques Chirac. I don't see the last 3. I'm sure I know them, but their name aren't coming back.

8. Parti Communiste Français (PCF), Europe-Écologie-Les-Verts (EELV, their new name) and Parti Radical de Gauche (PRG). (I also have three other answers. I think than Hutin, a député from North and Chevènement is now a senator (for Territoire de Belfort) are in Mouvement républicain et citoyen (MRC). Marc Dolez, also a député founded the Parti de Gauche with Mélenchon (PG), if I remember well, too. Robert Hue, senator for some suburbs of Paris, is in MUP, I think.)

9. Conseil général. The conseillers généraux are elected from "cantons", which are very badly malapportionned (favoring the right).

10. Many. There is 94 départments in Metropolitan France. 102 with Outre-Mer, I think (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyane, St. Barth, Réunion, SPM, W-F, Polynésie?).

11. 12,5%?

12. Régionales, Européennes and Municipales (over 3500 inhabitants).

13. Chirac, Jean-Marie Le Pen (Front National, FN), Jospin and François Bayrou (UDF)?

14. Breton, Corse, Basque and Alsacien? (Or Gallo? I doubt it very much and prefer my answers.)

15. 1974. Giscard d'Estaing, Mitterand and Georges Marchais (PCF)?
     1965. de Gaulle, Mitterand and Jean Lecanuet (center?).

16. 1969, with Pompidou and Poher (center)?

17. Left. Section Française de l'Internationale Ouvrière (SFIO) and Radical-Socialiste.
     Right. It is more complicated. Let's try Parti de l'Ordre (or it is even before 3rd Republic?) and some party with the "Gauche" word in it. Gauche Républicaine?

18. PCF?

19. The Troisième Force was the "moderate parties" between the PCF and the Gaulists. SFIO, Radicals and Mouvement républicain populaire (MRP).

20. Île-de-France: Huchon (PS). PACA: Michel Vauzelle (PS). Bretagne: Jean-Yves Le Drian, from Morbihan, if I remember well. He beated Josselin de Rohan in 2004 and Bernadette Malgorn in 2010. Corse: Dominique Pupponi (PCF)?.

21. Alsace. Jacques Bigot didn't win.

22. Les Ralliés were... it is a good question. The Socialists who refused the Programme Commun with the PCF and left PS to join the right?

23. Léon Blum. French PM (well Président du Conseil), during the Front Populaire, just before WWII. Édouard Daladier, was a French Président du Conseil, during the 30's, from the Radicals. I think he signed a treaty with Germany and was hated for that. Aristide Briand was another President of the Council, after WWI, which was very influent. Albert Lebrun was the last French President before full power were given to Pétain.

24. Sleeping with his mistress and dying: Félix Faure. Insane: Mac-Mahon???.

25. ÉpinaY! I remember I answered ÉpinaL last time, a few years ago.

26. RDSE. Traditionaly made by the Radicals, which are now split in two, PRG and PR (Parti radical 'valoisien', which recently splitted from UMP to form ARES (Alliance Républicaine, écologiste et sociale), with random centrist parties, because Borloo was angry than he wasn't named Prime Minister.)

27. Louis Marin: I don't know. Neither I know Pierre-Étienne Flandin. I think than Georges Bidault was a President du Conseil during the 4th Republic. Camille Chautemps was a President du Conseil from l'entre-deux-guerres.

28. Chambre bleu horizon.

29. 1931 and 1936??

30. The one who will became Napoléon III, which won. Alphonse de Lamartine, the famous poet. Some guy called Cavaillac or something like that, which finished second. I can't give a fourth one.

31. François Alfonsi, Parti national corse (PNC), elected on a EE (Europe-Écologie) list.

32. Jean Royer. Who doesn't know Jean Royer? Mayor of Tours, he tried to ban pornography in his city. He ran in a presidential election and lost an awful result, even if he had an excellent result in hs home department. The problem was a dismal result in the rest of France. He had an awful campaign, because his campaign was based in Tours and not Paris. He refused to take planes, had ugly brown posters and all his campaign was based on morals and was derailed by young people protesting and girls raising on tables and showing her breasts. He died this year. Hashemite loves him, for some reason. Antoine Waetcher is an Alsatian politician, ecologist. Originally in the Green Party, he left when the left-wing took over and he founded MEI (Mouvement écologique indépendant), a centrist party. He is now involved in Alsatian politics. I think he was elected under the Union de la Gauche (including EELV and AEI-MEI) list in 2010 on regional Council. Georges Marchais. Iconic Communist leader, general secretary and presidential candidate. He said iconic sentences like "C'est peut-être pas votre question, mais c'est ma réponse!" and "(name of his wife), fais les valises, on rentre à Paris!". I think he was a little bit nuts. (Well, anybody taking USSR as a model is, to me). Jacques Duclos is a socialist and the father of Martine Aubry. In 1994, everybody was saying he would be the next President, but he never ran. He is also a father of the European Union and was a mayor of Lille.

33. Good question. Douai??

34. If I remember well, it is Douarnenez, in Bretagne.

35. Montreuil: Dominique Voynet, EELV, Green candidate to the presidential in 2007 won the city over former communist Brard.
Nice: Christian Estrosi, UMP. Former minister (Outre-Mer?), he is also an député from an horrible circonscription running from Nice to high mountains. He beated the PS Patrick Allemand and the incumbent mayor, the FN-lite Jacques Peyrat.
Marseille: Gaudin, UMP. He was, and perhaps still is, the boss of the investiture commission of the UMP. He beated the "suspected" corrupt leader of Bouches-du-Rhône general council, whose name isn't coming to me right now.

36. Durafour-awful pun was said by Jean-Marie Le Pen. For "our cities are in the hands of the bearded men", I'll try Bruno Gollinsch.

37. A traitor to him. Bruno Mégret, the guy from the Mouvement national républicain (MNR)?

[Хahar 🤔]

Parti de l'Ordre was Second Republic.

[MaxQue]

Parti de l'Ordre was Second Republic.

Well, I had no other idea for right parties. I'm more embarassed by confusing Jacques Delors and Jacques Duclos, even if I never heard of Jacques Duclos.

[republicanism]

And I can't believe that I forgot about Fillon...

[big bad fab]

Well, Al has the good answer for 34. and I really suck not to be able to answer this fine question...

Antonio, almost all this is your first year's program in Sci-Po: you must have at least 95

[minionofmidas]

1. Name the current President and his party (2)
Nicolas Sarkozy, Union for the Adolation of the Presidential Buffoon or something like that.

2. Name the current Prime Minister and his party (2)
Would go "oh right, I knew that" if you told me, same party. Irrelevant, of course.

3. What are the two houses of the French Parliament? (2)
Aseemblée and Sénat, I think.

4. How many regions is France divided into (excluding five overseas regions)? (1)
Lemme count... 21. Or do you consider Corse "overseas"?

5. Which party holds the second-most seats in the Parliament? (1)
PS

6. Name all six Presidents of France since 1958 (excluding one interim) (6)
Charles de Gaulle
Georges Pompidou
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Francois Mitterrand (too lazy to find the cedille)
Jacques Chirac
Nicolas Sarkozy

7. Name all twelve Prime Ministers of France since 1981 (12)
No.

8. Name three left-wing parties, aside from the PS, which currently hold seats in Parliament (3)
PCF, whatever the Greens currently call themselves, PRG

9. What are the names of the local assemblies governing each department, and what are the 'constituencies' used to elect members of these assemblies called? (2)
Conseil Général, Canton

10. How many departments are there (1)
right about a hundred

11. In legislative elections, if no candidate wins a majority of the vote by the first round, what is the threshold to qualify for the runoff? (1)
12.5% of registered voters (or top two)

12. Which three direct elections in France use some sort of proportional representation? (3)
Regionals, Euros. Municipal elections sorta-kinda in that there's no constituencies, but you can't call that "some sort of proportional" with a straight face.

13. Name the top four candidates in the 2002 presidential election (4)
Sarko, Segolène Royal, Francois Bayrou, whoever came fourth (Jean-Marie Le Pen I guess)

14. In metropolitan France, certain regional languages are recognized locally as part of local heritage. Name four of these languages (4)
Breton, Basque, Provencal, Occitan?

15. Name the top three candidates in the 1974 and 1965 presidential elections (6)
Giscard, Mitterrand, ?; de Gaulle, Mitterrand, ?

16. Aside from 2002, in which presidential election since 1965 did no left-wing candidate qualify for the runoff? (1)
1969

17. Name four political parties, two of which must be left-wing (generally) and two of which must be right-wing (generally), which existed during the Third Republic? (4)
SFIO, Radical Socialists (who weren't what the name implies); Moderés, Action Francaise

18. Aside from June 1946, which party topped the poll in terms of votes in all legislative elections during the GPRF and Fourth Republic?
Whatever the Gaullists were called then

19. What was the Troisième Force and name the three main parties of the Troisième Force (4)?
The predecessor of the UDF? Forget what the constituent parties are called.

20. Who are the current regional presidents of Ile-de-France, Provence-Alpes-Cote-d'Azur, Bretagne and Corse? (4)
Don't give a damn.

21. Of the regions of metropolitan France, which is the only region not governed by the left? (1)
No idea.

ADVANCED (27)

22. Who were the Ralliés? (1)
No idea.

23. Who were Léon Blum, Édouard Daladier, Aristide Briand and Albert Lebrun (4)
Legendary Socialist leader, Prime Minister of a Popular Front government in the mid-30s and short-term interim president of the Provisional Republic after the war; some 3rd Republic President whose import escapes me; foreign minister in the 20s, signed pacts with Stresemann; President of France 1932-40.

24. Which President of the Third Republic died while sleeping with his mistress? Which one became insane while in office? (2)
I've heard of both these events but don't recall any names.

25. At which 1971 Congress (city name) was the Socialist Party formed? (1)
City name? How is that relevant?

26. Which Senate parliamentary group currently in existence was founded in 1892 (though under a different name) and which party/parties have traditionally composed it? (2)
?

27. Who were Louis Marin, Pierre-Etienne Flandin, Georges Bidault and Camille Chautemps? (4)
?

28. What was the name given to the legislature elected in 1919? (1)
?

29. Which two elections were won by the Cartel des gauches? (2)
?

30. Name four of the six candidates in the 1848 presidential election, including the top two candidates (4)
The future Napoleon III is one.

31. Name the only regionalist French MEP and the party he represents (2)
?

32. Who were Jean Royer, Antoine Waechter, Georges Marchais and Jacques Duclos? (4)
Jean Royer was... a politician of the early 5th Republic. Was he the centrist who lost the 1969 runoff to Pompidou, or am I thinking of someone else? An early Green politician. A Communist leader (70s/80s). I forget.

IMPOSSIBLE (9)

33. Which French city elected the first socialist mayor in the world in 1882? (2)

34. Which French city elected the first Communist mayor in France in 1921? (2)

35. Name the current mayors of Nice, Marseille and Montreuil (3)
The section is accurately titled.

36. Who said "our cities are in the hands of the bearded men (Muslims)" and "Mr. Durafour-crématoire" [two separate politicians] (2)
Bruno Mégret and Jean Marie le Pen?

BONUS

37. Which politician does Jean-Marie Le Pen refer to as "Brutus"? (2)
Bruno Mégret?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Antonio, almost all this is your first year's program in Sci-Po: you must have at least 95

Got 89... I stupidly messed with 3rd Republic right-wing parties, and forgot about the mistress guy.


TBF, I knew all this before Sciences-Po.

[big bad fab]

TBF, I knew all this before Sciences-Po.

You're an awful nerdee