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French History A-Z - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 24,766 times
11,472 since last reset
- The average score is 18 of 26
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
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| B | Prison which was stormed in 1789 | The Bastille | 97%
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| J | Woman who led French troops against the English and was burned at the stake | Joan of Arc | 92%
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| W | Napoleon's last battle | Waterloo | 91%
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| K | Unit of mass invented by the French in 1795 | Kilogram | 88%
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| T | Bloodiest period of the French Revolution | Reign of {Terror} | 85%
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| R | Radioactive element discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898 | Radium | 84%
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| Y | First name of fashion designer Saint Laurent | Yves | 84%
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| I | School of art practiced by Claude Monet | {Impression}ism | 79%
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| N | Viking group which settled in northern France | Normans | 79%
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| X | Roman numerals that follow the name of the king who ruled from 1643–1715 | XIV | 79%
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| A | City home to pope and anti-popes in the 1300s | Avignon | 74%
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| E | Period of history also known as the "Age of Reason" | The Enlightenment | 73%
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| C | Cultural group that was dominant in ancient Gaul prior to the Roman conquest | Celts | 72%
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| Q | City in the New World founded by explorer Samuel de Champlain in 1608 | Quebec City | 72%
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| M | Wife of one king and mother to three others, she came from a famous Italian family | Catherine de' {Medici} | 69%
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| F | King who bested England's Henry VIII in a wrestling bout | Francis I | 65%
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| V | Longest battle of World War I | Verdun | 65%
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| D | Title that referred to the heir to the French crown | Dauphin | 63%
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| Z | Material which most rooftops in Paris have been made of since Baron Haussmann's redesign of the city in the 19th century | Zinc | 63%
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| S | A popular misconception holds that this statue lost its nose when Napoleon's troops used it for target practice | The Sphinx | 61%
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| H | Invention first demonstrated by the Montgolfier Brothers in 1783 | Hot air balloon | 59%
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| L | Flemish city, known for textiles, which France annexed in 1668 | Lille | 52%
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| U | Caliphate that tried to conquer Gaul but was turned back by Charles Martel at the Battle of Tours in 732 | Umayyad Caliphate | 51%
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| G | Around 600 B.C. these people founded Marseille, the oldest city in France | The Greeks | 45%
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| O | Southern French language that was suppressed in the 19th and 20th centuries | Occitan | 44%
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| P | Building that was converted from a church to a mausoleum in 1791, and is the final resting place of Voltaire, Victor Hugo, and Marie Curie | The Panthéon | 43%
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