Answers to Quiz - 123

1)    What is the name of the red coloured soft conical cap that is widely regarded as a symbol of liberty and an icon of French Revolution?

Phrygian cap

2)     Name the finance minister of Louis XVI whose sacking on July 11, 1789 provoked the storming of the Bastille on July 14.

Jacques Necker

3)      Who is the composer of the French National Anthem, La Marseillaise?

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

4)   There were 2 main political groups during the French Revolution. The group that wanted radical change was the Jacobins. What was the name of the conservative group?

Girondins

5)      Name the woman who stabbed Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat in his bathtub for his extreme views.

Charlotte Corday

6)   Name the revolutionary whose famous last words were - "Do not forget to show my head to the people, it is well worth seeing".

Georges Jacques Danton

7)   What was the virtuous nickname of Maximilien Robespierre, one of the most influential figures of the French Revolution?

The Incorruptible

8)      What populist club during the French Revolution was named after a radical district of Paris?

Cordeliers

9)      What was the infamous epithet for Marie Antoinette because of her influence on Louis XVI?

Madame Veto

10)  Name the journalist revolutionary who earned the nickname of “The Lantern Lawyer” for advocating that aristocrats be hanged from the light post.

Camille Desmoulins