Bonjour, mes amis, et bienvenue à Paris! Welcome back to a new quiz from We Love Quizzes. In this quiz, we’ll be testing your knowledge on Paris; both the capital city of France and the eponymous region it is located in.
Paris Quiz Questions and Answers
1 The region of France that Paris is in is…
A Normandy
B Île-de-France
C Midi-Pyrénées Region
2 The official motto of Paris, written in French, is…
A Fluctuat nec mergitur
B Il est agité par les vagues, et ne sombre pas
C Niteris incassum navem submergere Petri
3 The rugby union club, ________, is based in Paris.
A Lyon OU
B AS Béziers Hérault
C Stade Français
4 When was the Eiffel Tower constructed?
A 1889
B 1901
C 1954
5 The Notre Dame Cathedral was completed in…
A 1160
B the 14th century
C the 1760s
6 The structure that sits in front of the Louvre Museum is…
A a pyramid
B a cruciform
C a statue
7 Paris was originally known as…
A Englaland
B Lucotocia
C Mayrit
8 Saint Denis, a Christian bishop, was decapitated on…
A Montmartre
B Belleville
C Passy
9 Moliere opened the _________ in 1643.
A Illustre Theatre
B Palais Garnier
C Odeon Theatre
10 The 1789 Women’s March on Versailles occured to protest the price of….
A milk
B clothing
C bread
11 The names of how many scientists were engraved into the Eiffel Tower?
A 72
B 81
C 100
12 The treaty that ended WWI was signed in…
A Versailles
B Paris
C Montreuil
13 The official currency of France is the…
A franc
B euro
C dollar
14 The Parisii were a _______ tribe that founded the city of Paris.
A Celtic
B British
C Slavic
15 When was the Bastille Prison demolished?
A 1651
B 1777
C 1789
16 The Musée Picasso was opened in…
A 1712
B 1986
C 2004
17 The Mona Lisa is in display at…
A Musée d’Orsay
B Louvre Museum
C Musée Picasso
18 Which museum in Paris also serves as a doll hospital?
A Hameau de la Reine
B Musée Lambinet
C Musée de la Poupee
19 What can be found on top of the Eiffel Tower?
A a restaurant
B a champagne bar
C a gift shop
20 What is the maximum sway of the Eiffel Tower?
A around 5 centimeters
B around 5 inches
C around 5 feet
21 Since ______, boats were offered to tourists through the sewers of Paris.
A 1704
B 1856
C 1920
22 What is NOT one thing that Emmanuel Bruneseau found while mapping the sewers of Paris?
A the skeleton of an orangutan
B a cellphone
C lost jewels
23 How many avenues radiate around the Arc de Triomphe?
A twelve
B nine
C five
24 The Arc de Triomphe is dedicated to…
A those who died in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
B the famous artists that lived in Paris
C the president of France
25 Oscar Wilde’s tomb in Paris has a sculpture of…
A a person with wings
B a quill
C a book
26 Napoleon Bonaparte is entombed in…
A Arc de Triomphe
B Les Invalides
C Trocadéro Gardens
27 The city of Paris is exclusively twinned with which other city?
A Rome
B London
C NYC
28 Postal codes in the city of Paris range from _______ to _______.
A 82915–83000
B 15839–16112
C 75001–75020
29 The birth name of Alexandre Gustave Eiffel was…
A Bonickhausen dit Eiffel
B Alexandre Gustave Eiffel
C Jean-René Bönickhausen
30 Jim Morrison is buried in…
A Père Lachaise
B Picpus
C Passy
31 King Louis XVI was decapitated in…
A Place de l’Étoile
B Palais de la Découverte
C Place de la Concorde
32 The Hotel des Invalides was built as…
A a hotel for nobles
B the palace for the king
C a home for soldiers wounded in battle.
33 The painting, “Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1,” is in display at the…
A Musée d’Orsay
B Musée du Quai Branly
C Musée de l’Orangerie
34 The Sacre Coeur, situated in Paris, is…
A a Roman Catholic church
B one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s many palaces
C the country’s leading hospital and trauma center
35 Around how many steps do you need to climb to reach the top of the Notre Dame tower?
A 300
B 400
C 500
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