History of France - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Emperor who conquered much of Europe in the early 1800s	Napoleon	96%
Device used for painless beheading	Guillotine	92%
Palace constructed by that king	Versailles	90%
The longest-reigning monarch in world history (72 years)	Louis XIV	88%
African country which became independent from France in 1962, once home to the "Pieds-noirs"	Algeria	87%
Notorious prison liberated on July 14, 1789 (with just 7 prisoners inside)	Bastille	87%
Female warrior who helped relieve the Siege of Orleans in 1429	Joan of Arc	87%
Period of mass beheadings during the French Revolution	Reign of {Terror}	86%
Leader of the Free French during WWII, he later become President	Charles de Gaulle	84%
Nickname of the above	The {Sun} King	77%
Frankish king who was crowned emperor in 800 AD	Charlemagne	71%
Art movement which Claude Monet was part of	{Impression}ism	70%
Roman general who conquered Gaul	Julius Caesar	69%
Royal palace which was turned into a museum in 1793	Louvre	68%
During the 1700s, Paris was the center of this cultural and scientific movement	Age of {Enlightenment}	64%
City which was the center of the Catholic church in the 1300s	Avignon	55%
"World war" which France fought against Britain and Prussia between 1756–1763	{Seven} {Year}s War	54%
Invention of the Montgolfier brothers	Hot air balloon	50%
Chief Minister of France from 1624–1642	Cardinal {Richelieu}	46%
At the Council of Clermont in 1095, Pope Urban II set this into motion	The First Crusade	38%

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