History of Paris - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Prison stormed by a mob on July 14, 1789	Bastille	92%
The world's tallest man-made structure from 1889–1930	Eiffel Tower	92%
Gothic cathedral completed in 1345 after nearly 200 years of construction	Notre-Dame de Paris	92%
Queen who was beheaded in 1793	Marie Antoinette	90%
Royal palace turned into an art museum in 1793	The Louvre	87%
Civilization that established the city of Lutetia in 52 AD	The Romans	84%
Aerial invention demonstrated by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783	Hot Air Balloon	80%
Race held for the first time in 1903, starting and ending in Paris	Tour de France	78%
Underground location where 6 million sets of human remains were transferred in the 18th century	The {Catacombs}	77%
Satiric newspaper which was attacked by terrorists after printing a cartoon of Mohammad	{Charlie} Hebdo	72%
Group whose leaders were burned at the stake on the orders of King Philip in 1307	Knights {Templar}	72%
Beverage which became popular in Paris in 1669 after a visit from the Ottoman ambassador	Coffee	69%
Type of dancing you would you be likely to see at the Moulin Rouge around the turn of the century	Can-Can	67%
Country which besieged and captured Paris in 1871	Prussia	58%
Group of people who were killed in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of 1572	Huguenots	57%
Group of people who attacked Paris several times in the 800s, burning many of its churches	Vikings	57%
Tribe, led by Clovis, which made Paris its capital in 511 AD	The Franks	54%
Type of wide roads built during Haussmann's renovation of Paris from 1853–1870	Boulevards	47%
Radical socialist government which ruled Paris for sixty days in 1871	Paris {Commune}	36%
Annual art exhibition organized by the Académie des Beaux-Arts	The Salon	11%

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