A night in the Park: answers
April 27, 2011 in Quizzes
Who's the boss in French politics? François Fillon or Alain Juppé.
Here are the answers for the questions posted yesterday. As I explained, some questions had several answers before we got to the right one. In one case, alas, the correct answer was never found, leaving those of us who had submitted it at a disadvantage.
The second question of the night was: “Who is the Prime Minister of France?”. This was quite a hard one for so early in the quiz, I thought. Well, it turned out to be a mistake as the answer given was Nikolas Sarkozy. I doubt I need to tell you that M. Sarkozy is the President of France and, as a matter of fact, has never served as Prime Minister. The disagreement expressed by the contestants led the quiz master into a hasty retreat. Literally – he walked back to the correcting table!
After a brief discussion he came back to the mic and announced that the answer was actually Alain Juppé and the three teams in the room who’d answered thus would be getting a point. This surprised Ger on our team who, after much mental effort during the round, had come up with the name François Fillon. However, he wasn’t 100% sure about it and, presuming that the correct answer had actually been frantically looked up, let it pass.
The following morning he went to the trouble of finding out and, sure enough, M. Fillon is the Prime Minister of France. Alain Juppé was Prime Minister once – between 1995 and 1997! That said, he is the current Minister of Foreign Affairs. Perhaps, not having the ability to look up the answer, the correctors simply totted up which one (other than Sarkozy!) was given by most teams and presumed that was right?
