About the invention of airplanes, it's funny to read both wikipedia notice's about airplane/avion (English and French) and then to examine the differences between these version :-)
Regarding question 15 : Technically, there was a Regence period between 1610 (Henri IV's assassination) and 1614, when Louis XIII officially came to age (at 13). In fact, it was only by 1617 that his mother Marie of Medici stepped down from her position as a Régente.
Please, could you change "planes" by something else, because there is clearly a debate here, with some people considering Clément Ader is at the origin of the plane. It could make the question clearer.
Then the quizz should say so. "Three-axis fixed-wing aircraft" is a proper answer, as the Wright Flyer is indisputably the first of those.
"Airplanes" is just too ambiguous. Ader's Éole took off 13 years prior to the Flyer. She had no proper control surfaces and couldn't fly more than a few dozens yards, but she qualifies as a powered fixed-wing aircraft. Then, as the Flyer and her descendants needed a catapult to take off, it can be argued that they don't strictly qualify as "powered flight". And then the first real airplane — self-powered and controlled on three axis — is the 14-bis by Santos-Dumont.
I'm not saying the airplane was invented in France, barely that no one can be affirmative about where and when it was invented. There are just too many small steps from "might be an airplane" to "is definitely an airplane".
I agree, this answer is not precise enough: mechanical computers existed, and the first of those was French. Should be "modern computer" or "electronic computer".
Nice quiz! Fun fact: France never colonized Chile, but Orélie-Antoine de Tounens, a french citizen, proclaimed himself the King of Araucania and Patagonia (part of Chile and Argentina) in the 19th century.
"Airplanes" is just too ambiguous. Ader's Éole took off 13 years prior to the Flyer. She had no proper control surfaces and couldn't fly more than a few dozens yards, but she qualifies as a powered fixed-wing aircraft. Then, as the Flyer and her descendants needed a catapult to take off, it can be argued that they don't strictly qualify as "powered flight". And then the first real airplane — self-powered and controlled on three axis — is the 14-bis by Santos-Dumont.
I'm not saying the airplane was invented in France, barely that no one can be affirmative about where and when it was invented. There are just too many small steps from "might be an airplane" to "is definitely an airplane".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography#Precursor_technologies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism