Good quiz, but you should make it less Anglo-saxon, by accepting the height of Napoleon in meters (1 meter 68), and by accepting the French name for the Battle of Borodino which is Battle of Moskova (only term used in France).
Since this has been spotlighted... I don't know if the quiz maker is still around, but I think this good quiz could be improved.
6 - As mentioned above, the height in meters should be shown. Don't forget that the metric system was adopted during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era. I would also accept any value between 1,65m and 1,7m.
11- I think "Final end" would mean that he died there, which is incorrect. This should be reformulated.
12 - It would be better to reformulate the question so that the answer is Wellington, it's the name under which he is better known (especially in other languages).
16 - If it were my quiz, I would accept, or even show "(Les) Cent-Jours".
Just to add my gripe (which is a bit unfair, I liked and appreciated the quiz), I think Marie, or even Marie of Austria should be acceptable - both of which I tried.
Can't agree with that. In French, Marie-Louise is her first name, the hyphen shows it's a compound name, not two names. I grouse every time that Marie is accepted for Marie-Antoinette, and let's not talk about Jacques-Yves Cousteau whose Yves is utterly ignored in English...
One thing that I don't understand. Germany also produced a megalomaniac with ideas of World-domination and whose clever military strategy enabled him to threaten it and now he is (almost) universally reviled in his home country. Yet Napoleon is still revered as a hero in France, as I discovered when I recently visited his grave in the Hotel des Invalides. Can anyone explain?
Maybe because he didn't try to exterminate a race of humans? Maybe because his actions more than anyone's served to cement and solidify the Revolution? With every monarchy in Europe panicking and forming hasty coalitions against France (lest the other peasants see how well a country can fare without a king) it is doubtful if France would have lasted out the century without him. He instigated change on a vast scale, abolishing, modernising or creating many of France's institutions. Today's France owes much of her existence, her laws, her religious and societal structures to changes brought about by Napoleon. Updated infrastructure, improvements in education and the encouragement of scientific enquiry. Not to mention being an absolutely kick-ass field general, who rarely lost a battle and inspired devotion in his own troops. All of this from an extremely modest background in Corsica. No wonder the French love him - I'm English, and I think he was tremendous. Megalomania was his hubris...
Before you say it, I know he subsequently made himself emperor and had himself painted like Alexander the bleeding Great and tried to take over half the world. What can I say? People change, and taken as a whole, his life and contribution to history puts little adolph's in the shade.
Great quiz! I never thought to put the stone after Rosetta for some reason because the question asked what stone it was, and most quizzes just let you omit things like that.
6 - As mentioned above, the height in meters should be shown. Don't forget that the metric system was adopted during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era. I would also accept any value between 1,65m and 1,7m.
11- I think "Final end" would mean that he died there, which is incorrect. This should be reformulated.
12 - It would be better to reformulate the question so that the answer is Wellington, it's the name under which he is better known (especially in other languages).
16 - If it were my quiz, I would accept, or even show "(Les) Cent-Jours".
23 - Louis 18 should indeed be accepted.