| Clue | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| French war heroine who was charged with heresy and executed in Rouen at age 19 | Joan of Arc | 100%
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| River that flows through Rouen | Seine River | 100%
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| French region that Rouen is located in | Normandy | 92%
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| Novelist who wrote "Madame Bovary" and "Salammbô" | Gustave Flaubert | 83%
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| Only French city consistently larger than Rouen during the 13th and 14th centuries | Paris | 83%
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| Painter of the above (hint: he also founded a famous art movement) | Claude Monet | 75%
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| Dramatist and poet who wrote the tragicomedy "Le Cid" | Pierre {Corneille} | 75%
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| King of France during the reclamation of the city in 1449 | {Charles} VII | 67%
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| Country that occupied Rouen from 1419–1449 | England | 67%
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| Bordering commune where the University of Rouen is situated | Mont-Saint-{Aignan} | 58%
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| Cathedral that was the tallest building in the world from 1876–1880 | Notre-Dame de Rouen | 58%
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| People group that made up 20% of the population in the 1100s | Jews | 33%
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| Name of Rouen during the Roman control of Gaul | Rotomagus | 33%
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| World-famous author who called Rouen a "city of a hundred bell towers" | Victor Hugo | 33%
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| Rouen-born Charles Nicolle proved that these insects transmit typhus by testing monkeys in Tunisia, later earning a Nobel Prize | Lice | 25%
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