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The Canadian who invented the telephone.
What is Alexander Graham Bell?
The year that construction ended on the Eiffel Tower.
What is 1889?
What is 1867?
French leader who named himself Emperor of France in 1804, after ruling as First Counsel from 1799-1804
What is Napoleon Bonaparte?
The painter of the Mona Lisa.
What is Leonardo Da Vinci?
The decade Tim Hortons was founded in.
What is the 1960s?
The most famous document to have come out of the French Revolution created in 1789.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen?
The beach stormed by Canadians during the D-day landings.
What is Juno Beach?
Wife of King Louis the XVI who was famously misquoted for saying "Let them eat cake."
What is Marie Antoinette?
The Shakespeare play that features the line "to be or not to be."
What is Hamlet?
The disease that Frederick Banting and Charles Best won the Nobel Prize for their work on in 1923.
What is Diabetes?
What is by granting official tolerance to Protestantism?
What is 1982?
Originally known as Henry of Navarre, and ascended to the throne of France in 1589.
What is Henry IV?
What is Gothic?
What is 1965?
The year that Louis XIV centralized his power, declaring himself divine ruler of the Kingdom of France.
What is 1661?
Prime Minister who served 21 years and 154 days in office, the longest-serving Prime Minister to date.
What is William Lyon Mackenzie King?
Prolific Enlightenment writer who was an advocate for freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the separation of church and state.
What is Voltaire?
The year Walt Disney World opened in Florida?
What is 1971?
The official summer national sport of Canada.
What is Lacrosse?
The name of the antisemitic political scandal that occurred during the late 19th and early 20th centuries during which Captain Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason.
What is The Dreyfus Affair?
The subject that the Act passed by John Graves Simcoe in 1793 prohibited.
What is Slavery?
A Jacobin French Revolution leader who sought to carry the revolution forward with "une volonté une" ("one single will") and oversaw the Reign of Terror.
What is Maximilien Robespierre?
The actual number of amendments to the US Constitution.
What is 27?