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Embarrassing Chapters in French History - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 20,067 times
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- The average score is 13 of 20
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| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| This country is able to quickly overwhelm and defeat France in 1940 | Germany | 99%
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| Napoleon loses 95% of his army after invading this country | Russia | 94%
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| Thousands are beheaded for political crimes during this part of the French Revolution | Reign of {Terror} | 89%
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| In a 1976 blind taste test, wines from this U.S. state are judged superior to wines from France | California | 81%
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| Slaves overthrow their French oppressors to establish this country in 1804 | Haiti | 78%
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| This general becomes President after a coup causes the collapse of the Fourth Republic in 1958 | Charles de Gaulle | 76%
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| A law makes it illegal for women to wear these (unless on a bicycle or horse). It was finally repealed in 2012. | Pants | 75%
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| France loses this colony in 1962 after a brutal eight year war | Algeria | 72%
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| This celebrated female fashion designer collaborates with the Nazis | Coco Chanel | 72%
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| The French are forced to withdraw from this peninsula after losing the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954 | Indochina | 62%
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| This violent song, advising listeners to "Let impure blood water our lands" is made the national anthem | La Marseillaise | 60%
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| French intellectuals such as Jacques Derrida forever ruin the humanities with the invention of this nihilistic "ism" | {Post}modernism | 60%
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| The "Rainbow Warrior", a boat owned by this environmental group, is sunk for protesting French nuclear tests in pristine ocean waters | Greenpeace | 58%
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| People wearing these type of vests protest after yet another tax increase reduces the quality of life for French citizens still further | Yellow | 57%
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| This soccer player head butts an opponent in the World Cup finals | Zinedine Zidane | 57%
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| France loses many of its North American colonies as a result of this 1756-1763 war | Seven Years' War | 54%
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| France protects and celebrates this film director who drugged and raped a 13 year old girl | Roman Polanski | 52%
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| Painter Paul Gauguin likely spreads syphilis to the population of this tropical island | Tahiti | 51%
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| In 1415, France loses this battle against a much smaller English army, mostly peasant archers | Battle of {Agincourt} | 45%
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| In this last 19th century "affair", an innocent Jewish soldier is convicted of treason | {Dreyfus} affair | 43%
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