French Revolution Quiz

Six questions, 1789 onward

The French Revolution quiz begins in 1789 and runs forward from there. Its six questions take in the Bastille, the king and queen, and Napoleon. Six is a tight set, and the subject suits it: a short, dense stretch of years with a great deal packed in.

As everywhere on this site, only settled points are asked. Nothing that historians still argue about makes it into the set — if a question is here, its answer is not in dispute. It reads in minutes and stands up to a second pass.

Written twice, compared key by key

Behind every question is a dataset that two independent authors wrote in parallel, without reference to each other. Their versions were compared entry by entry — 149 catalog facts, verified 149 out of 149 — before any question was generated. When the two could not agree on a point, that point was excluded. No question rests on a single compiler’s say-so.

How a round runs

You play in the page. Four options per question; choose one and the result comes back at once, with the correct answer displayed whether you got it or not. The sixth question closes into a review of the whole round, and your best score is remembered by your browser between visits. Play again and the review is where the better second score comes from. No signup, nothing to install.