| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Deadly 14th century pandemic | Black Death | 95%
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| Germanic people who gave France its name | Franks | 92%
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| Long war fought between England and France | Hundred Years War | 90%
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| Maid who beat the English at Orléans | Joan of Arc | 89%
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| First university in France | University of {Paris} | 89%
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| Founder of the Carolingian Empire | Charlemagne | 88%
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| Region ceded to the Vikings in the 10th century | Normandy | 87%
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| Catholic military order suppressed by Philip IV | Knights {Templar} | 77%
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| Duke of this region who conquered England | William the Conqueror | 75%
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| System of vassalage and peasant obligation | Feudalism | 67%
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| City that housed several antipopes | Avignon | 64%
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| Royal house of France from 987-1328 | House of {Capet} | 58%
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| Charles Martel stopped the Islamic Umayyad Caliphate here | Battle of {Tours} | 56%
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| This empire's capital | Aachen | 45%
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| French king who defeated this empire | {Philip} Augustus | 39%
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| Travelling lyric poets common in Southern France | Troubadour | 39%
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| Heretical movement suppressed by the Albigensian crusade | Catharism | 38%
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| Empire dominant in Western France from 1154-1214 | {Angevin} Empire | 37%
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| Summa Theologica author who taught here | Thomas Aquinas | 26%
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| Council that started the Crusades | Council of {Clermont} | 19%
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