Statistics for Famous French People

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Clue	French Person	% Correct
"Sun King"	Louis XIV	92%
Female warrior, burned at the stake	Joan of Arc	91%
Corsican conqueror of Europe	Napoleon	91%
Radioactive scientist and first female Nobelist	Marie Curie	87%
Designer with a No. 5 perfume	Coco Chanel	85%
Developed a process for making milk safer	Louis Pasteur	78%
"Les Misérables"	Victor Hugo	75%
Became king of the Franks in 768	Charlemagne	71%
Painted water lillies	Claude Monet	71%
Leader of Free France in WWII	Charles de Gaulle	69%
French President since 2017	Emmanuel Macron	66%
Head-butting World Cup captain	Zinedine Zidane	59%
He thought, therefore he was	René Descartes	57%
Undersea explorer	Jacques-Yves Cousteau	56%
Duke of Normandy and conqueror of England	William the Conqueror	56%
One-name Enlightenment philosopher	Voltaire	51%
"Giant" of pro wrestling	Andre the Giant	49%
"Incorruptible" and bloodthirsty revolutionary	Maximilien de Robespierre	41%
"Nothing But the Beat" DJ	David Guetta	35%
"Madame Bovary"	Gustave Flaubert	33%
Considered the first French king	Clovis	26%
"The Second Sex"	Simone de Beauvoir	26%