Statistics for History of France Quiz

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Emperor who conquered most of Europe in the early 1800s	Napoleon	91%
French king for 72 years	Louis XIV	89%
The palace he lived in	Versailles	86%
Device used for painless beheading	Guillotine	84%
Event won by France in 1998 and 2018	FIFA World Cup	84%
Royal palace in Paris, now a museum	Louvre	81%
Notorious prison liberated in 1789	Bastille	81%
Free French leader / French President 1959-69	Charles de Gaulle	76%
Period of mass beheadings	Reign of {Terror}	75%
Nickname of the above	The {Sun} King	72%
Mediterranean island annexed in 1770	Corsica	72%
"Great" Frankish king crowned emperor in 800 AD	Charlemagne	69%
Roman who conquered Gaul	Julius Caesar	68%
Art movement of Monet and Renoir	Impressionism	65%
WWII capital of unoccupied France	Vichy	63%
Former colony that became independent in 1962, after a bloody war	Algeria	62%
Golden age of 1871-1914	{Belle} Époque	51%
First minister of France who consolidated royal power	Cardinal {Richelieu}	47%
What the Montgolfier brothers invented	Hot Air Balloon	37%
"World war" fought against Britain and Prussia 1756-1763	Seven Years War	32%