| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| French region conquered by Vikings | Normandy | 77%
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| Currency used by France until 2002 | Franc | 66%
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| Oldest city still existing in France | Marseille | 64%
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| French city controlled by England from 1346 to 1558 | Calais | 62%
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| Bourbon king known as "the Beloved" | Louis XV | 61%
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| One of the first cities settled in New France, now in Canada | Quebec City | 61%
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| Name of the French Protestants | Huguenots | 55%
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| Unexpected defeat of France against English and Welsh archers | Agincourt | 46%
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| Major victory of Franks against Muslims (732) | Tours | 45%
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| First dynasty to rule over Francia | Merovingian | 42%
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| England-ruling house which claimed the throne of France (1337-1453) | Plantagenet | 36%
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| French Humanist who wrote Gargantua and Pantagruel | François Rabelais | 35%
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| Latin name of Lyon | Lugdunum | 35%
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| Edict which guaranteed French Calvinist Protestants religious rights | Edict of Nantes | 26%
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| King who inherited West Francia after the treaty of Verdun | Charles II | 23%
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| Significant victory mainly led by French warriors (1095-1099) | First Crusade | 23%
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| Prefect who completely renovated Paris under Napoleon III | Georges-Eugène Haussmann | 23%
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| Major artistic movement, initiated by Gustave Courbet | Realism | 18%
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| Civil war between government and the Parlements, the people and the nobility (1648-1653) | The Fronde | 18%
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| City in which Louis IX died | Tunis | 18%
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| Alliance of left-wing political movements led by Blum, Thorez, Cautemps, etc. | Popular Front | 14%
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| French victory against Flanders, England and Holy Roman Empire | Bouvines | 11%
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| Reference encyclopedia published during the Enlightenment | Encyclopédie | 11%
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| Breakaway part of Roman Empire which included Gaul (260-274) | Gallic Empire | 9%
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| Party of current French president Emmanuel Macron | La République En Marche | 9%
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| Phrase pronounced by Charles de Gaulle in Montreal | Vive le Québec libre | 9%
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| Village whose population got extermined by a Waffen-SS unit (1944) | Oradour-sur-Glane | 7%
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| Vercingetorix's tribe | Averni | 3%
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| Burgundian abbot who created the Knights Templar | Bernard of Clairvaux | 3%
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| Period of strong influence of French arts and literature | Grand Siècle | 3%
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| Law which made French the official language of the Kingdom of France | Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts | 3%
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