French History A-Z - Statistics

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