City of Paris Trivia Questions
What is the city of Paris?
A: Paris is the capital and the most populous
city of France.
What is the area of Paris in square miles?
A: 41.
What was the population of Paris in 2013?
A: 2,229,621.
When was Paris founded?
A: In the 3rd century BC.
Who founded Paris?
A: A Celtic people called the Parisii, who gave
the city its name.
By the 12th century, it was the largest city in
what?
A: The western world.
Paris was also the home of the what university,
one of the oldest universities in history?
A: University of Paris.
By the 17th century Paris was one of Europe's
major centers of what?
A: Finance, commerce, fashion, science, and the
arts.
The city is also a major rail, highway, and
air-transport hub, served by what two
international airports?
A: Paris-Charles de Gaulle, and Paris-Orly.
Opened in 1900, the city's subway system, the
Paris Métro, serves how many passengers daily?
A: 5.23 million.
It is the second busiest metro system in Europe
after what other metro?
A: The Moscow Metro.
Paris is the hub of the national road network
and is surrounded by what three orbital roads?
A: The Périphérique, the A86 motorway, and the
Francilienne motorway.
Among Paris's what art museum in Paris is the
most visited art museum in the world?
A: The Louvre.
The central area of the city along the Seine
River is classified as a what?
A: UNESCO Heritage Site.
In 2015 Paris received how many visitors?
A: 22.2 million.
What 80,000-seat , built for the 1998 FIFA World
Cup, is located just north of the Paris?
A: Stade de France.
Paris hosts what annual tennis tournament on the
red clay of Roland Garros?
A: French Open Grand Slam.
Paris hosted what two summer Olympics?
A: 1900 and 1924.
Paris is bidding to host what future event?
A: 2024 Summer Olympics.
Every July, what race finishes in the city?
A: Tour de France of cycling.
Paris is often referred to as the what?
A: The City of Light.
In the 1860s, the streets of Paris were
illuminated by how many gas lamps?
A: 56,000.