From our special correspondent in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. It's a tradition every year, the candidates for the Miss France election take their own “baccalaureate”. This is the dreaded general knowledge test organized this year in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, where the 30 candidates are currently for their preparation trip. It was at the very end of the day this Thursday, November 21 that the 1h30 session was organized, in the restaurant of the hotel where the Misses were staying. Frédéric Gilbert, president of the Miss France company, had warned Tele-Leisure : a big novelty was planned for this questionnaire. This year in fact, for the ten questions of mathematics and logicthe organizers chose to impose a limited time to respond, on average 30 seconds. The competition therefore took on the appearance of 100% logicalthe hit show presented by Cyril Féraud on France 2.
Miss France 2025: a big novelty for the general knowledge test this year, find out what it is
A fan of logic and mathematics, Eve Gilles, Miss France 2024, present on site, was like a fish in water and did not hesitate to correct certain copies of the journalists present afterwards – including Télé-Leisure – who took part in the game. In addition to these ten questions, the regional candidates were given a dictation offered by Cindy Fabre, director of the Miss France company. As a main course, the famous general knowledge test, with 60 questions. The majority of them were multiple choice questions unlike last year when the choice was made to offer only open questions, de facto increasing the level of difficulty. At the end, it was a relief for most of the candidates, aware of having finally completed one of the most symbolic stages of this trip to Ivory Coast.
Miss France 2025 general knowledge test: when the candidates reinvent popular expressions
If the results will only be known in the coming hours with the announcement of the top 3 Misses who obtained the best score on this test, Tele-Leisure interviewed some hot candidates to find out their answers, sometimes unexpected, in the great tradition of this competition. Miss Burgundy, for example, reinvented a well-known expression, which needed to be completed. It was “be the joke turkey“, became on his initiative”be the executioner of the prank“. Another Miss wrote “you must not run into nettles” instead of “we must not push Mémé into the nettles“.
The tip of Miss St Martin-Saint-Barthélémy and Miss Tahiti to avoid ending up in the pearls of the general knowledge test
To avoid ending up in the best of the most unusual answers, Misses like Saint-Martin-Saint-Barthélémy et Tahiti chose to leave several questions unanswered, as when it came to giving the name of the Minister of Culture, in this case Rachida Dati. Miss Champagne-Ardenne attributed the cult phrase “Miss France is and will remain” to Sylvie Tellier, while its author is none other than Alain Delon. Miss Bourgogne had the right answer, thanks to her father who had insisted on recently speaking to her about this quote and to whom she had affirmed that this question would never be asked… Miss Center Val-de-Loire missed an open topical question by declaring that Germany was the country which took over the presidency of the European Union this year, when it was Hungary.
More comfortable with questions concerning their generation, some candidates nevertheless missed the one relating to the personality with the greatest number of subscribers on Instagram. Miss Franche-Comté replied Selena Gomez, her colleague from Center-Val-de-LoireKylie Jenner and another, Mister Beast… who is much better known for his activity on Youtube than on Instagram. The correct answer being the footballer Cristiano Ronaldo with 642 million subscribers.
