Clue | Answer |
On what day is Bastille Day celebrated? | |
It commemorates the storming of the Bastille prison in what year? | |
The storming of the Bastille was prompted largely by the king's dismissal three days earlier of what finance minister, a popular reformer? | |
The primary goal for storming the Bastille was to obtain what? | |
Within four, how many prisoners were freed from the Bastille that day? | |
After he was killed, Bernard-René de Launay, the prison's governor, befell what fate? | |
What notorious writer was transferred from the Bastille to an insane asylum ten days before it was stormed? | |
From 1698 to 1703, the Bastille's most famous inmate was what mysterious figure, played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Richard Chamberlain? | |
What writer, an icon of the Enlightenment, was imprisoned in the Bastille in 1717 and 1726? | |
Which Charles Dickens novel prominently features the storming of the Bastille? | |
The key to the Bastille was subsequently given to what American? | |
The French Revolution ultimately led to the downfall of which king? | |
What single word did the king write in his diary on the day the Bastille was stormed? | |
Napoleon later ordered the construction of a giant statue of what animal on the site where the Bastille once stood? | |
Each year, Bastille Day is celebrated with a military parade on what famed Parisian street? | |
In 1998, Bastille Day was especially festive, coming two days after a French victory in what event? | |
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