history quiz 29

France's highest peak is

• Mont Blanc
• Pic du Midi
• Puy de Dôme
• Mont Ventoux

French discoverer of the St. Lawrence River

• Jacques Cartier
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Henry Hudson
• Samuel de Champlain

French who taught the world the importance of protecting the body against harmful germs

• Marie Curie
• René Descartes
• Victor Hugo
• Louis Pasteur

French known for discovering radium

• Marie Curie
• Louis Pasteur
• Isaac Newton
• Albert Einstein

Peasant girl who helped the French defeat the English

• Marie Antoinette
• Catherine de Medici
• Joan of Arc
• Cleopatra

Which queen was beheaded during the French Revolution?

• Cleopatra
• Marie Antoinette
• Elizabeth I
• Catherine de' Medici

Who led the the Reformation in France?

• Ulrich Zwingli
• Henry VIII
• John Calvin
• Martin Luther

Calvin's followers were known as

• Lutherans
• Anglicans
• Huguenots

• Baptists

French most ruthless dictator who crowned himself emperor of France and set out to conquer the world

• Napoleon Bonaparte
• Charles de Gaulle
• Maximilien Robespierre
• Louis XIV

French World War II hero who set up a democratic government called the Fifth Republic

• Georges Clemenceau
• Charles de Gaulle
• Philippe Pétain
• Léon Blum