The French Revolution and Napoleon

What this quiz asks

• On 14 July 1789, Parisian crowds stormed which fortress-prison, an event France now celebrates on its national day?
• Which three words, first popular during the Revolution, became the official motto of the French Republic?
• On which Mediterranean island was Napoleon Bonaparte born?
• The Third Estate, whose deputies swore the Tennis Court Oath in June 1789, represented which part of French society?
• The guillotine became France's official method of execution during the Revolution, in 1792.
• In October 1789, crowds led by Paris market women marched to which palace to bring the royal family back to the capital?
• On which remote South Atlantic island did Napoleon spend his final exile, dying there in 1821?
• Which Jacobin leader, the man most associated with the Reign of Terror, was himself guillotined in July 1794?
• Which radical journalist was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday in July 1793?
• Which 1805 victory over Russia and Austria is known as the Battle of the Three Emperors?
• Did Napoleon escape from his first exile on the island of Elba and take back power in France?
• Napoleon's France sold the vast Louisiana territory to the United States in 1803.
• Select ALL of these battles that Napoleon won.
• Waterloo, where Napoleon was finally defeated in June 1815, lies in which modern country?
• Which city did Napoleon's Grande Armée enter in September 1812, only to find it abandoned and soon in flames?
• Select ALL of these that were created under Napoleon's rule.
• Order these events from earliest to latest.
• In June 1791, Louis XVI and his family tried to flee France in disguise. In which town were they stopped and arrested?
• In what year did Napoleon seize power in the coup of 18 Brumaire, becoming First Consul?
• Napoleon made this insect an emblem of his empire, inspired by golden ones found in the tomb of which early Frankish king?