Statistics for Things that Happened in France

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Year	Event	Answer	% Correct
1889	Tower which became the tallest human-built structure in history	Eiffel Tower	99%
1793	Queen beheaded by guillotine	Marie Antoinette	97%
1789	Prison stormed by a mob	Bastille	93%
1959	President who founded the Fifth Republic	Charles de Gaulle	91%
1799	General proclaimed as "First Consul" of the Republic	Napoleon Bonaparte	91%
1940	Town from which British forces evacuated in advance of German troops	Dunkirk	87%
1307	Military order who were arrested en masse on Friday the 13th	Knights {Templar}	78%
1306	Group of people banished from France and whose property was confiscated	Jews	74%
1783	Flying device demonstrated by the Montgolfier brothers	Hot air balloon	73%
1871	Country which besieged and captured Paris	Prussia	72%
845	Group who sailed up the Seine and sacked Paris	Vikings	66%
1095	Conflict launched by Pope Urban at the Council of Clermont	First Crusade	62%
52 BC	Conqueror to whom Vercingetorix surrendered	Julius Caesar	62%
1429	City liberated from an English siege by Joan of Arc	Orleans	55%
1598	Group of people given rights by the Edict of Nantes	Huguenots (Protestants)	54%
732	King who halted the Muslim advance at the Battle of Tours	Charles Martel	46%
1858	Town where a peasant girl named Bernadette had visions of the Virgin Mary	Lourdes	36%
508	Frankish king who was baptized	Clovis	30%
1913	Composer whose ballet "The Rite of Spring" supposedly shocked concert goers	Igor Stravinsky	18%