Statistics for The French Revolution - Basics

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Question	Answer	% Correct
What device was used to behead them?	Guillotine	93%
Who became "First Consul" in 1799, then Emperor?	Napoleon Bonaparte	86%
What is name of the period (1793 - 94) in which thousands were executed?	The Reign of {Terror}	86%
What did that queen supposedly say that people should eat if they had no bread?	Cake	79%
After the revolution, Napoleon ruled as an _________	Emperor	79%
What king and queen were beheaded in 1793?	Louis XVI	79%
The city where most of it happened	Paris	79%
When the 1st and 2nd Estates needed money, they taxed the _________ estate.	3rd	71%
What prison was stormed in 1789?	Bastille	71%
Clergy = officials working for the _______	church	71%
What groups of people comprised the "three estates" prior to the revolution?	Clergy	71%
The three social classes were called "The Three _________"	Estates	71%
On what day of the year was that prison attacked?	July 14	71%
What revolutionary motto, first uttered in 1790, is still the national motto of France?	Liberté, egalité, {fraternité}	71%
What king and queen were beheaded in 1793?	Marie Antoinette	71%
A government ruled by a king or a queen	Monarchy	71%
The 3rd estate wanted less _______	tax	71%
In which decade did most of the Revolution occur?	1790	64%
France was out of money after helping the __________ Revolution	American	64%
What Charles Dickens novel is set in London and Paris during the time of the French Revolution?	A Tale of Two Cities	64%
Marie Antoinette's home country	Austria	64%
What does "fraternity" mean?	Brotherhood	64%
What groups of people comprised the "three estates" prior to the revolution?	Commoners	64%
Who led the Reign of Terror?	Maximilien Robespierre	57%
What groups of people comprised the "three estates" prior to the revolution?	Nobility	57%
What small group led France during the terror?	Committee of Public {Safety}	50%
A widespread food shortage	famine	50%
When the king refused to meet, the people met without him at the	Tennis Court	43%
Napoleon used this same title as the "Presidents" of the Roman Republic	consul	36%
A group of peasant ____________ invaded the Palace in Versailles looking for grain.	women	29%