French History Trivia
From Joan of Arc’s fiery courage to Napoleon’s self-crowning, prove you’re more than just a baguette in French History.
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
Which Austrian-born queen consort of Louis XVI became a symbol of royal excess and was executed by guillotine in 1793?
Marie Antoinette
In early 20th-century Paris, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque co-founded which influential art movement?
Cubism
What cash crop, cultivated in the French Caribbean with enslaved African labor, made colonies like Martinique and Guadeloupe extremely profitable?
Sugar cane
What medical theory, championed by Louis Pasteur, proposed that microorganisms are the cause of diseases?
Germ theory
Which French monarch allegedly quipped “Paris vaut bien une messe” when abjuring Protestantism to claim the throne?
Henry IV