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Can you name the most populated cities in France? Enter a city in the box below Correctly named cities will show up below Source: citypopulation.de 2006 Census This game was contributed by Sporcle user: Booger You've got 5 minutes after you hit the start button.	Search: Popular trivia games today The Impossible Quiz 15324 Top Food Chains (US) 11155 States by Capital 9123 Best Actress Nominations (90s) 8087 1-100 4315 NFL Rushing TDs (2000s) 4293 And more...
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	Dodge:	Jun 26th, 2009 at 08:09 GMT	-4 points
	Le poisson, le poisson, hee hee hee, HAW HAW HAW!

	brock:	Jun 26th, 2009 at 08:18 GMT	2 points
	League 1 really helped me out here. VIVA LA FRANCAIS!

	zalagreensbury:	Jun 26th, 2009 at 08:19 GMT	7 points
	Loved this quiz.

	DasFengster:	Jun 26th, 2009 at 08:19 GMT	15 points
	Great quiz. Can't wait to do the same for UK, Germany etc.

	LightningWombat:	Jun 26th, 2009 at 08:20 GMT	1 point
	I was trying to go by Ligue 1 but I forgot Saint Etienne, the most times winner!

	RedLIon:	Jun 26th, 2009 at 08:28 GMT	5 points
	I'm 40% French! :) Loved this quiz. Maybe we could get one for the provinces/departmentes?

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	NoVan:	Jun 26th, 2009 at 08:44 GMT	7 points
	Thanks to Asterix, which I read when I was a kid, and to the folks who translated it into English.

	cmkeller:	Jun 26th, 2009 at 08:51 GMT	3 points
	@DasFengster, there's already a quiz of most populous UK metro areas.

	Hanz:	Jun 26th, 2009 at 09:00 GMT	2 points
	I don't know if it is impressive or shameful that 99.9 percent of quiz takers knew of Paris... I mean who would miss that?

	Caedus:	Jun 26th, 2009 at 09:02 GMT	-2 points
	I have to thank the Europa Universalis games for most of my answers

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	GeoExpert:	Jun 26th, 2009 at 09:15 GMT	1 point
	I sent a quiz similar to this about French cities, but I guess Sporcle already had this one planned? Good quiz otherwise.

	bean:	Jun 26th, 2009 at 09:20 GMT	-4 points
	Q: What do you call 10,000 men with their arms in the air? A: the French army

Jun 26th, 2009 at 09:38 GMT

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I have to thank the board game Here I Stand and the computer game Civilization for the answers I got.

	darkthorn:	Jun 26th, 2009 at 09:44 GMT	2 points
	This is a great quiz . . . although i don't think my french teacher will be proud of my results. I aced her french cities final but failed on this one! haha

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	fm_:	Jun 26th, 2009 at 10:02 GMT	5 points
	Once I got the first one, I just started naming wines. That got me one more.

	Diablo11d:	Jun 26th, 2009 at 10:17 GMT	2 points
	asterix! and le petit prince. well they didnt help that much but it helps i guess. good quiz. for some reason i kept spelled montpellier wrong.

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	Rhys:	Jun 26th, 2009 at 10:27 GMT	2 points
	@ Brock yep same here, Ligue 1 was the perfect resource.

	paoletti:	Jun 26th, 2009 at 10:33 GMT	4 points
	Nice quizz!:)thank you Sporcle I hope a quizz on French régions and departement is planned. I can't wait!

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	Kaenif:	Jun 26th, 2009 at 11:11 GMT	8 points
	Paris, Marseille, Lyon, and... and... and... I fail ._.

	Morby:	Jun 26th, 2009 at 13:06 GMT	2 points
	well I only got 3. I got Brest because I had a Pen Pal from there when I was a kid. I got Grenoble because Andre The Giant was from there. And I got Paris.

	Growler:	Jun 26th, 2009 at 13:06 GMT	-4 points
	Angers was invented this morning

	Kinitawowi:	Jun 26th, 2009 at 13:24 GMT	3 points
	Ligue 1 was a huge help here. Also, Saint Etienne are an awesome band.

	Pistol:	Jun 26th, 2009 at 14:24 GMT	7 points
	Great quiz. Can we please have one for Germany, Spain and Italy, and maybe Japan, India, China and South Africa?

	Freddie:	Jun 26th, 2009 at 15:18 GMT	3 points
	As everyones said before, Ligue 1 was my main resource. Football deserves an award for singlehandedly boosting the geographical knowledge of a sizable portion of the world's citizens.

	Mr Bojangles:	Jun 26th, 2009 at 15:29 GMT	-2 points
	Got 13. Quite pleaed with that, thought I'd do worse. Though being a football fan Ligue 1 helped a lot.

	ZeZapatiste:	Jun 26th, 2009 at 15:34 GMT	7 points
	Got 19, I missed Nîmes. I would not have thought it was among the 20 more populous cities in my country. By the way, Toulouse and Paris are a little bit misplaced ! Great quiz, by the way :)

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	JoeGrzzly:	Jun 26th, 2009 at 19:25 GMT	5 points
	Contrary to common beliefs of the day, the French have not alwayts been known for surrendering and relying on the U.S. for support, that was judt from WWI on. France was the mightiest nation in the world from 1600s to 1790, much longer than the U.S.'s reign from 1945-2009. Besides those glorious years, France has been around since 843. Compare 2000 years of history to 233.

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	RandallPinkston:	Jun 26th, 2009 at 20:45 GMT	2 points
	By my count, there are 7 one-syllable cities on this list. For those of you whose work day is as slow as mine, can you think of any large one-syllable U.S. cities? The only ones that come to mind right now are Flint and Nome, but there's got to be something bigger.

	jaymc:	Jun 26th, 2009 at 21:14 GMT	1 point
	That's a great question, Russell. Unbelievably, I think it's Orange, Calif., the 177th largest city in the U.S. -- but some would even dispute whether "Orange" is one syllable or two. In which case it would have to be Flint, at #216.

	peanut4:	Jun 26th, 2009 at 22:02 GMT	3 points
	C'est jolie. Loved this. Can we have more for other European countries?

	johnlk:	Jun 26th, 2009 at 22:04 GMT	1 point
	Orange is surely two syllables. Also, I was rather surprised by Angers being on the list. Missed that and Le Havre.

	kyah:	Jun 26th, 2009 at 22:05 GMT	-2 points
	J'oublie ma Francais! Three weeks out of class and all basic knowledge is flushed from my mind...