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French History A-Z

Can you guess these people, places, and things from French history starting with each letter of the alphabet?
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First submittedDecember 5, 2018
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A
City home to pope and anti-popes in the 1300s
Avignon
B
Prison which was stormed in 1789
The Bastille
C
Cultural group that was dominant in ancient Gaul prior to the Roman conquest
Celts
D
Title that referred to the heir to the French crown
Dauphin
E
Period of history also known as the "Age of Reason"
The Enlightenment
F
King who bested England's Henry VIII in a wrestling bout
Francis I
G
Around 600 B.C. these people founded Marseille, the oldest city in France
The Greeks
H
Invention first demonstrated by the Montgolfier Brothers in 1783
Hot air balloon
I
School of art practiced by Claude Monet
Impressionism
J
Woman who led French troops against the English and was burned at the stake
Joan of Arc
K
Unit of mass invented by the French in 1795
Kilogram
L
Flemish city, known for textiles, which France annexed in 1668
Lille
M
Wife of one king and mother to three others, she came from a famous Italian family
Catherine de' Medici
N
Viking group which settled in northern France
Normans
O
Southern French language that was suppressed in the 19th and 20th centuries
Occitan
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
Q
City in the New World founded by explorer Samuel de Champlain in 1608
Quebec City
R
Radioactive element discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898
Radium
S
A popular misconception holds that this statue lost its nose when Napoleon's
troops used it for target practice
The Sphinx
T
Bloodiest period of the French Revolution
Reign of Terror
U
Caliphate that tried to conquer Gaul but was turned back by Charles Martel
at the Battle of Tours in 732
Umayyad Caliphate
V
Longest battle of World War I
Verdun
W
Napoleon's last battle
Waterloo
X
Roman numerals that follow the name of the king who ruled from 1643–1715
XIV
Y
First name of fashion designer Saint Laurent
Yves
Z
Material which most rooftops in Paris have been made of since
Baron Haussmann's redesign of the city in the 19th century
Zinc
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17 Comments
Sly67
+5
Level 77
Dec 6, 2018
for answer U the battle was not in Tours but in Poitiers
Arp2600
+6
Level 89
Dec 6, 2018
Well in English it's called battle of Tours. The fact is, that it's not known where that (rather anecdotic) battle really took place.
sillie
+6
Level 75
Dec 6, 2018
Isn't it just "Celts". Celtics is that sports team?
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Dec 6, 2018
Yes, fixed
Nicco55
+2
Level 68
Dec 6, 2018
Kilogram is a unit of mass, not weight. Also, you shouldn't accept just "kilo", because "kilo" isn't a unit of measurement. "Kilogram" is.
redsplat
+4
Level 72
Dec 6, 2018
It's okay to accept kilo. If I buy a kilo of apples at the store it weighs exactly a kilogram :)
Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Dec 6, 2018
Changed weight to mass but kilo will still be accepted.
redsplat
+3
Level 72
Dec 6, 2018
Fun fact: the man pictured on Zig-Zag rolling papers is a Z---- solider (until today I thought he was a coeur-de-bois; whoops). From WP: "The choice of a member of this French North African regiment as a Zig-Zag icon originates from a folk story about an incident in the battle of Sevastopol. When the soldier's clay pipe was destroyed by a bullet, he attempted to roll his tobacco using a piece of paper torn from a musket cartridge." The Battle of Sevastopol finished the same year ZigZag was founded, 1855.
Walacama
+2
Level 83
Feb 20, 2019
I put Grecians for the G answer, and then couldn't think of the right answer. Face palm.
CardinalSin
+1
Level 82
Aug 25, 2019
Foolishly, I nearly didn't get the balloon answer. Tried Hydrogen and Helium before it dawned on me.
kpat
+1
Level 52
Sep 28, 2019
Great quiz!

Not accepting Parthenon without "the" is pretty annoying, though :)

Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Sep 29, 2019
The correct answer is Panthéon, not Parthenon. We accept it with or without "the".
cuendillar
+2
Level 71
Feb 14, 2026
It is also not to be confused with the, arguably more famous, Pantheon in Rome. This refers to the one in Paris.
Aoto327
+1
Level 87
Feb 13, 2026
100%
Alexquiz17
+2
Level 95
Feb 16, 2026
Can’t believe Henry VIII got out-wrestled by a French king!

Cheese-eating surrender-monkeys…

Gebb
+2
Level 65
Feb 24, 2026
Sorry to disappoint you:

41 wars between England and Britain occurred. 24 won for France, 11 for England, and 6 ties.

Gebb
+1
Level 65
Feb 24, 2026
Oc should be an accepted answer for Occitan, in my opinion
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