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Marie Antoinette A-Z Quiz - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 44 times
- The average score is 12 of 26
Answer Stats
| Question | Answer | % Correct | |
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| G | The apparatus used to behead Marie Antoinette. It was last used in France in 1977. | Guillotine | 81%
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| Y | The name of the conflict between Britain and France starting a year after Marie Antoinette's birth: Seven ___ War | Years' | 81%
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| V | Marie Antoinette's royal residence built by Louis XIV. | Versailles | 78%
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| D | The title given to Marie Antoinette upon her marriage to Louis Auguste. It is the equivalent of the Princess of Wales and the French term for 'dolphin'. | Dauphine | 72%
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| N | The item of jewellery which sparked a scandal in 1784. | Diamond necklace | 72%
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| W | The surname of the US President in power at the time of Marie Antoinette's death. | George Washington | 69%
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| I | Marie Antoinette was accused of committing this crime involving her 10-year-old son, Louis. | Incest | 69%
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| M | The first name of Marie Antoinette's mother and the only female ruler of Habsburg dominions. | Maria Theresa | 69%
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| K | The first name of the actress who played Marie Antoinette in Sofia Coppola's 2006 film. | Kirsten Dunst | 67%
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| X | The ordinal placed after Marie Antoinette's husband's name. | Louis XVI | 61%
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| B | The surname of a former prostitute who became the Maîtresses-en-Titre [Principal Mistress to the King]. Her relationship with Marie Antoinette was contentious. | Madame Du Barry | 58%
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| F | The surname of the Swedish Count who reportedly had an affair with Marie Antoinette. | Axel Von Fersen | 53%
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| T | The name of the famous French artist and sculptor who was tasked with creating a death mask for Marie Antoinette. There is a wax museum in London named after her. | Madame Tussauds | 42%
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| Q | The French phrase incorrectly attributed to Marie Antoinette. It originally appeared in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's 'Confessions'. | Qu'ils mangent de la brioche | 42%
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| E | The first name of the Irish statesman and philosopher who bemoaned the treatment of Marie Antoinette in his pamphlet 'Reflections on the Revolution in France'. | Edmund | 33%
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| P | The hairstyle popularised by Marie Antoinette after she wore it for her husband's coronation in 1775. | Pouf | 33%
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| R | An artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement. Writers of this era include Mary Robinson, Mary Wollstonecraft and Charlotte Smith. All of whom mentioned Marie Antoinette in their writings. | Romanticism | 33%
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| J | The most influential political club of the Revolution. | The Jacobins | 33%
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| H | A rustic retreat built for Marie Antoinette in 1783 near the Petit Trianon. | Hameau de la Reine | 31%
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| U | The phrase used to denote a burial place lacking a headstone or nameplate to indicate that a body is buried there. Marie Antoinette's body was thrown into one. | Unmarked grave | 22%
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| A | The revolutionary group formed by the Third Estate in 1789. | Assemblée Nationale | 19%
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| S | The Austrian Palace where Marie Antoinette spent the first fourteen years of her life. | Schönbrunn Palace | 19%
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| Z | The surname of the Austrian novelist who wrote a 1932 biography of Marie Antoinette. | Stefan Zweig | 19%
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| L | The name of the political pamphlets used to slander Marie Antoinette. | Libelles | 17%
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| O | The term used to describe the political and social system of the Kingdom of France from the Late Middle Ages up until Marie Antoinette's execution. The English term for the Ancien Régime. | Old Regime | 17%
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| C | The surname of the prominent English aristocrat and great-great-great-great aunt of Princess Diana. She was a friend and confidante of Marie Antoinette and the two are frequently compared. | Georgiana Cavendish | 14%
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