Thursday 4th June 2026
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    Cheese-eating surrender monkeys (#1,294)

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    "Cheese-eating surrender monkeys", sometimes shortened to "surrender monkeys", is a pejorative term for French people, used mainly in the United States.

    1. In which American TV show was the phrase "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" first spoken?

    2. The term was popularly used to criticise the French for not wishing to play a part in the US invasion of which country?

    3. Further to question 2, French fries were renamed "Freedom fries" by some restaurants in the USA as another way to criticise the French. What percentage of Americans thought this was "patriotic", according to a Gallup poll?

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