French History A-Z - Statistics

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	Hint	Answer	% Correct
B	This prison was stormed in 1789, but only seven prisoners were still inside	The Bastille	97%
J	Woman who led French troops against the English and was burned at the stake	Joan of Arc	92%
W	Napoleon's last battle	Waterloo	90%
K	Unit of mass invented by the French in 1795	Kilogram	86%
T	Bloodiest period of the French Revolution	Reign of {Terror}	84%
R	Marie and Pierre Curie discovered this radioactive element in 1898	Radium	81%
I	School of art practiced by Monet and Manet	{Impression}ism	78%
N	This Viking group settled in northern France	Normans	74%
X	Roman numerals that follow the name of the king who ruled from 1643-1715	XIV	72%
M	Wife of one king and mother to three others, she came from a famous Italian family	Catherine de' {Medici}	68%
C	Cultural group that was dominant in ancient Gaul prior to the Roman conquest	Celts	68%
E	Period of history also known as the "Age of Reason"	The Enlightenment	68%
A	City home to the papacy in the 1300s	Avignon	67%
F	King who bested England's Henry VIII in a wrestling bout	Francis I	65%
D	Title that referred to the heir to the French crown	Dauphin	64%
H	Montgolfier brothers invention first demonstrated in 1783	Hot Air Balloon	55%
Q	This city was founded by explorer Samuel de Champlain in 1608	Quebec City	55%
V	Often associated with France, the croissant originally came from this city	Vienna	52%
S	According to one story, Napoleon's soldiers chopped the nose off this statue. In reality, it lost its nose long before	The Sphinx	50%
Y	During WWI, five battles were fought near this Belgian city	Ypres	49%
U	Caliphate that tried to conquer Gaul but was turned back by Charles Martel at the Battle of Tours in 732	Umayyad Caliphate	40%
L	France annexed this Flemish city, known for textiles, in 1668	Lille	37%
P	This building was converted from a church to a mausoleum in 1791, and is the final resting place of Voltaire, Victor Hugo, and Marie Curie	The Panthéon	36%
O	Southern French language that was suppressed in the 19th and 20th centuries	Occitan	35%
G	Group of people that founded Marseille in 600 B.C.	Greeks	30%
Z	Term for a French solider of Berber extraction known for wearing baggy red trousers	Zouave	12%