Statistics for The French Revolution

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Members of the First Estate	Clergy	96%
Members of the Second Estate	Nobility	80%
Enlightenment philosophe V_______	Voltaire	52%
Name of fortress in Paris stormed by workers	The Bastille	42%
Members of the Third Estate	Common People	41%
Enlightenment philosophe R_______	Rousseau	39%
National land (%) owned by First Estate	8-10%	33%
Population (%) in the Third Estate	98%	32%
Oath of solidarity swore by the National Assembly	Tennis Court Oath	30%
Name of the church tax	Tithe	30%
Months of the Great Fear July - ______	August	29%
Second Finance Minister (1776 - 1781)	Necker	29%
Enlightenment philosophe M_________	Montesquieu	26%
Enlightenment philosophe D______	Diderot	25%
Year of this document's publication	1781	23%
Organisation formed by the Third Estate led by Sieyes	National Assembly	23%
Pamplet published by above in January 1789	What is the Third Estate?	23%
Date of the above event	20th June 1789	22%
Fourth Finance Minister (1787 - 1788)	Brienne	22%
Third Finance Minister (1783 - 1787)	Calonne	22%
Name for salt tax	Gabelle	22%
Name of the direct tax	Taille	22%
Population (%) in the First Estate	0.6%	20%
Intellectual leader and key figure in revolution	Abbe Sieyes	20%
Nickname given to Marie Antoinette for her extravagant spening	Madame Deficit	20%
Population (%) in the Second Estate	0.4%	19%
Dates of the August Decrees 5th - __ of August	11th	19%
Years of the four wars waged by France 1733 - ____	1783	19%
Income (%) speant by peasants on bread in 1789	65-90%	19%
Dates of the October Days 4th - _ of October	6th	19%
Organisation appealed to by Calonne for fiscal reform	Assembly of Notables	19%
'Bible of the revolution'	Social Contract	19%
Claim of surplus made in the document	10 million livres	17%
National land (%) owned by Second Estate	30%	17%
Organisation that the case was referred to by the above	Estates-General	17%
First Finance Minister (1774 - 1776)	Turgot	17%
Date on which above occurred	14th July 1789	16%
Publication year of above	1762	16%
Years of the above ____ - 1788	1787	16%
Years of the above ____ - 1789	1788	16%
Population (%) in the peasantry	85%	16%
Name for public services tax	Corvée	16%
Number of royal troops surrounding Paris 1st July 1789	20,000	14%
Financial declaration published by Necker	Compte Rendu au Roi	14%
Date of the formation of above	17th June 1789	13%
Population (%) in the bourgeoisie	8%	13%
Action by Parlements to delay or block legislation	Remonstrance	13%
Name for income tax	Vingtième	13%
Number of troops surrounding Paris 11th July 1789	30,000	12%
Drop (%) in demand for consumer goods in 1789	50%	12%
Stage two of the four revolts	Bourgeois Revolt	12%
Name for the peasant tax paid to landlord	Feudal Dues	12%
First step of ecenomic crisis	Financial Crisis	12%
Second step of ecenomic crisis	Fiscal Crisis	12%
Decree wby which the King could improson without explanation	Lettres de Cachet	12%
Stage three of the four revolts	Urban Revolt	12%
Number of cannons seized by workers	20	10%
Number of nobles that fled abroad as a result of this	20,000	10%
National land (%) owned by Third Estate	25-45%	10%
Number of people killed in this event	98	10%
Stage one of the four revolts	Aristocratic Revolt	10%
Organisation appealed to by Brienne for fiscal reform	Paris Parlement	10%
Stage four of the four revolts	Peasant Revolt	10%
Annual deficit of French economy on 1786	112 million livres	9%
Cost of these four wars for France	4,000 million livres	9%
Actual deficit of French economy	46 million livres	9%
Books organised for the meeting of the Estates-General	Cahiers de Doleances	9%
Third step of ecenomic crisis	Political Crisis	9%
Number of muskets seized by workers	28,000	7%
Number of delegates for the Third Estate at Estates-General	578	7%
English translation of above	Books of Grievances	7%
Tax abolition proposal on the 4th August	Feudal Dues	7%
Date of Royal Session in which Parlements blocked legislation	17th November 1787	3%