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Quiz about the 5th Arrondissement (Paris) - Statistics
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- The average score is 7 of 15
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| 20th quartier of Paris, named after a famous university | de la Sorbonne | 100%
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| Street that dates back to antiquity. Its name supposedly dervies from "mouffle"/"mouffette", old French words for "stench", "stink". | Rue Mouffetard | 100%
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| It is May. Leftist students fight the police in the streets and erect barricades. A general strike takes place and President De Gaulle flees the country. Which year are we talking about? | 1968 | 67%
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| Unlike many other arrondissements, the 5th remained largely untouched by this baron's massive urban modernization projects in the 1860s. | Georges-Eugène Haussmann | 67%
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| The ruins of a Roman amphitheatre reach back to the 1st century, when Paris was still called this | Lutetia | 67%
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| Mausoleum for distinguished French citizens inspired by a building with the same name in Rome. It also gives the 5th its name. | Panthéon | 67%
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| 18th quartier of Paris named after a botanical garden which hosts the National Museum of Natural History | du Jardin des Plantes | 33%
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| This film director ("The 400 Blows", "Jules et Jim") spent much of his time at the movie theater Le Champo and called it his "headquarters" | François Truffaut | 33%
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| The 1834 novel "Le Père Goriot" (or Father Goriot) takes place in a shabby street in the 19th quartier. Who wrote it? | Honoré de Balzac | 33%
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| Museum centered around Roman thermes and a medieval abbey | Musée de Cluny | 33%
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| This medieval scholar of mentioned university is today perhaps best known for his romance with the nun Héloïse | Pierre Abélard | 33%
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| Historic quarter that was a residence of students from mentioned university and later, intellectuals and artists | Quartier Latin | 33%
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| English-language bookstore named after a famed English playwright. It was a place to go for beatniks and continues the name of a bookstore that operated close by 1919-1944. | {Shakespeare} and Company | 33%
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| 19th quartier of Paris | du Val-de-Grâce | 0%
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| 17th quartier of Paris | Saint-Victor | 0%
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