Statistics for Paris True or False

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Paris lies on the River Seine	True	95%
Paris borders the sea	False	94%
A person from Paris is known as a "Parisite"	False	93%
Paris is located in the northern half of France	True	92%
In the French language, the "s" in Paris is silent	True	92%
"Le Monde" is a major newspaper based in Paris	True	91%
Arabic is now the most common language spoken in Paris	False	88%
Paris has never been captured by a foreign invader	False	87%
Millions of human skeletons were dug up and reburied in the Catacombs due to cemetery overcrowding in the 1700s	True	86%
Versailles lies less than 50 km away from Paris	True	84%
Near the Louvre, there is a giant golden statue of Louis XIV which always rotates to face the sun.	False	81%
Cars are not allowed in central Paris	False	80%
The Eiffel Tower is the tallest structure in Paris	True	73%
The Louvre was built during the reign of Napoleon	False	63%
Paris is named after a Trojan prince from the Iliad	False	56%