Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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Prison stormed by a mob on July 14, 1789 | Bastille | 92%
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The world's tallest man-made structure from 1889–1930 | Eiffel Tower | 92%
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Gothic cathedral completed in 1345 after nearly 200 years of construction | Notre-Dame de Paris | 92%
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Queen who was beheaded in 1793 | Marie Antoinette | 89%
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Royal palace turned into an art museum in 1793 | The Louvre | 87%
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Civilization that established the city of Lutetia in 52 AD | The Romans | 83%
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Aerial invention demonstrated by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783 | Hot Air Balloon | 81%
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Race held for the first time in 1903, starting and ending in Paris | Tour de France | 77%
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Satiric newspaper which was attacked by terrorists after printing a cartoon of Mohammad | {Charlie} Hebdo | 76%
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Group whose leaders were burned at the stake on the orders of King Philip in 1307 | Knights {Templar} | 74%
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Underground location where 6 million sets of human remains were transferred in the 18th century | The {Catacombs} | 72%
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Type of dancing you would you be likely to see at the Moulin Rouge around the turn of the century | Can-Can | 69%
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Beverage which became popular in Paris in 1669 after a visit from the Ottoman ambassador | Coffee | 69%
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Country which besieged and captured Paris in 1871 | Prussia | 59%
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Group of people who were killed in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of 1572 | Huguenots | 58%
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Group of people who attacked Paris several times in the 800s, burning many of its churches | Vikings | 57%
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Tribe, led by Clovis, which made Paris its capital in 511 AD | The Franks | 56%
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Type of wide roads which were built during Haussmann's renovation of Paris from 1853–1870 | Boulevards | 49%
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Radical socialist government which ruled Paris for sixty days in 1871 | Paris {Commune} | 36%
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Annual art exhibition which was organized by the Académie des Beaux-Arts | The Salon | 13%
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