Napoleon Quiz - 90 Trivia Questions!

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Conquer the history of Napoleon Bonaparte, the French military genius and emperor who reshaped Europe. Test your knowledge of his campaigns, reforms, and the enduring legacy of his rule in this quiz.

In which city was Napoleon crowned King of Italy in 1805?

Florence
Rome
Milan
Venice

Who was the leader of the Thermidorian Reaction who gave Napoleon Bonaparte command of his troops at the Battle of Toulon

George IV
Paul Barras
Napoleon Bonaparte's friend
Charles VII

Which military theorist regarded Napoleon as a genius in the operational art of war?

George Washington
Napoleon's father
John von Neumann
Carl von Clausewitz

Who commanded the British forces at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815?

Napoleon
Duke of Wellington
Charles Dickens
King Louis

Who painted 'The Coronation of Napoleon' in 1804?

Napoleon
Jacques-Louis David
Theodore Roosevelt
The painter's brother

In which country did Napoleon Bonaparte cross the Alps in 1800?

France
Swiss
The United Kingdom
Italy

What was the name of Napoleon's illegitimate son?

Louis Bonaparte
The Great
Charles Léon
Louis

In which French town was a statue of Napoleon III unveiled in 1858?

Nice
Cherbourg
Montmartre
Orleans

Which English poet wrote a poem about Napoleon's escape from St Helena?

Lord Byron
John Milton
Charles Dickens
John Keats

Who was Napoleon's brother who became King of Spain in 1808?

Napoleon's brother
Napoleon's wife
Napoleon
Joseph Bonaparte

Which French general fought the Battle of the Pyramids in 1798?

Charles de Gaulle
The Count of Monte Cassino
Baron Lejeune
Napoleon I

Who commanded the British fleet at the Battle of the Nile in 1798?

Sir Horatio Nelson
The British king
Admiral John Moore
Captain Henry Bowerman

On which island was Napoleon the Great born?

The French Island
Sardinia
Livorno
Corsica

What colour was Napoleon's uniform when he was Emperor of France?

Black
Green
White
Red

In which French city was Napoleon baptised in 1771?

Lyon
Ajaccio
Saint-Tropez
Paris

Which Pope signed a Concordat with Napoleon in 1801?

Pius VII
Pope Francis
Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Alexander VI

Which territory was sold to the USA by Napoleon for 15 million dollars in 1803?

Louisiana
New Mexico
Canada
The West Indies

What was the cause of Napoleon's death?

His wife
His family
A serious heart disease
Stomach cancer

Who was the Austrian general who surrendered to Napoleon at the Battle of Ulm in 1805?

Karl Mack
The Duke of Württemberg
Count von Bock
Karl I

What was Napoleon's first name?

Napoleon Bonaparte
The Great
Napoleon III
Buonaparte

Who was Napoleon Bonaparte's French Foreign Minister from 1797 to 1799?

Jean-Louis
Charles-Antoine de Orleans
Talleyrand
Antoine de La Rochefoucauld

Who was the commander of the French Corps at the Battle of Pratzen Heights in World War I?

Napoleon I
The Emperor of the German Empire
The French President
Marshal Soult

Which island did Napoleon Bonaparte conquer in 1798?

Corsica
Santorini
Malta
The Spanish island of Tenerife

Which French overseas territory was abolished of slavery in 1794 and then reinstated in 1802?

French Guiana
Haiti
France
Guadeloupe

What was the name of Napoleon's older brother?

Joseph
George
Napoleon I
Napoleon

In which city did Napoleon leave his army in a sledge in 1812?

Vienna
Paris
Vilnius
Tallinn

What was the largest unit of the French army during the Napoleonic Wars?

The Corps de Marine
Army
The army of the Atlantic
Corps

What type of stone is the sarcophagus in which Napoleon is entombed at Les Invalides in Paris?

Quartzite
marble
Bronze
granite

What was the name of the Kingdom of Prussia that was created by Napoleon as part of his peace terms with Russia?

The Kingdom of the Germans
Westphalia
France
Napoleon's Empire

On which river did Napoleon and Alexander I meet in 1807?

River Thames
River Danube
River Volga
Neman

Who is the author of 'Memory and Political Imagination: The Legend of Napoleon Revisited'?

John F. Kennedy
Amitav Ghosh
Theobald von Humboldt
Sudhir Hazareesingh

Where was Napoleon exiled to after the Battle of Waterloo?

The French Republic
France
Saint Helena
Paris

What was the largest battle of Napoleon's career?

Battle of Saint-Lambert
Battle of the Plains of Abraham
Battle of Wagram
The Battle of the Somme

What did Napoleon use to legitimize his rule?

His power
The emperor's wit
Propaganda
Political power

What country was ruled by Napoleon?

China
Spain
The US
France

What was the name of the stone discovered by Napoleon Bonaparte in Egypt in 1798?

The Pyramids of Egypt
The Stone of the kings
Rosetta Stone
Egypt's Pyramids

What group did Napoleon emancipate in France?

The king's friends
The poor
Jews
The French army

At which battle of August 1812 did Napoleon defeat the Russian army?

Moscow
Smolensk
The Battle of Vienna
Napoleon's death

Who was the King of Bourbon at the time of the Battle of Grenoble in 1815?

The King of the French
Napoleon I
Louis XVIII
Charles V

Which country did Napoleon defeat in the War of the Oranges in 1801?

The Netherlands
Spain
France
Portugal

What was the name of Napoleon's regent when he abdicated in favour of his son?

Louis
The emperor's mother
Marie Louise
The Queen of the French

Which treaty was signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Austria in 1801?

Treaty of Lunéville
Treaty of Vienna
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris

Which city was captured by Napoleon's troops in November 1808?

Paris
Rome
Naples
Vienna

What was the name of Napoleon's wife?

Marie
Louise
Joséphine
Marie-Louise

What disease killed most of Napoleon's troops in Egypt in 1799?

Bubonic plague
cholera
Tuberculosis
malaria

What was the name of the confederation of German states formed by Napoleon after the Battle of Austerlitz in 1806?

Federal Republic
Confederation of the Rhine
The German Empire
Union of the German States

Who was the mistress of King Louis XVI of France, who married him in 1796?

Marie-Louise
Marie-Antoinette
Queen Marie
Joséphine de Beauharnais

Who wrote the play L'Aiglon in 1900?

Jean-Claude
Edmond Rostand
Claude Simon
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier

At which battle of 1805 did Napoleon defeat the Holy Roman Empire?

Austerlitz
The Battle of Waterloo
Battle of the Plains of Abraham
Battle of Waterloo

What type of cartoons were popular during the Napoleonic Wars?

Drawings of animals
Caricature
Cartoons of soldiers
Comics

Which French philosopher wrote 'The Spirit of Conquest and Usurpation' in 1814?

Georges Perec
Aristotle
Benjamin Constant
Voltaire

What was the name of Napoleon's first wife?

Empress Joséphine
The Queen of the French
Napoleon's wife
Queen Marie

What card game is named after Napoleon?

The Bridge Game
The French Game
Patience
The French Card Game

What was the name of Napoleon's palace in Paris where he lived after his abdication from the throne in 1814?

Chateau de Versailles
Malmaison
Montmartre
La Bastille

What was the largest battle of the Napoleonic Wars?

The Battle of the Alamo
Leipzig
The Battle of the Plains of Abraham
Napoleon's death

Who was the captain of the British ship on which Napoleon surrendered in 1815?

Frederick Maitland
Captain Henry Seymour
John Hawkins
John Moore

At which battle of 1813 did Napoleon defeat the forces of Prussia?

Dresden
Vienna
Napoleon's invasion of Britain
Napoleon's death

The Austrian army crossed which river to invade Bavaria in April 1804?

Inn
Rhine
The Danube
The River Danube

At which battle of June 1814 did Napoleon Bonaparte defeat the Austrian army?

La Haye
The Battle of Fontenay
Battle of La Rochelle
Marengo

Toussaint L'Ouverture was the de facto dictator of which French West Indian colony during the Napoleonic Wars?

Saint Martin
Saint-Domingue
Haiti
Saint-Louis

Who was the Emperor of Austria at the outbreak of the War of 1809?

Emperor Napoleon
Emperor Charles I
King Louis
Archduke Charles

What is the highest decoration in France?

Legion of Honour
Order of Saint Laurent
Legion d'Honor
Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour

Which city was the venue for the peace negotiations between Napoleon and the Allies in 1813?

Frankfurt
Paris
Vienna
Milan

At which battle of 1809 did Napoleon defeat the British forces and end their participation in the War of Spanish Succession?

The Battle of the Atlantic
Corunna
Battle of the Alhambra
Battle of Waterloo

What was the name of Napoleon's central bank?

Bank of England
Banque de France
Banque de France and the French National Bank
Banque du Luxembourg

Which war was fought between France and the Allies in Spain?

The First World War
French Revolution
The War of the Three Kingdoms
Peninsular War

Which country was part of the French Empire in 1812?

The United States
Spain
Netherlands
Britain

Which river did the French army cross in 1812?

Berezina
Volga
The Volga
River Volga

What is the name of the giant statue of a head in the desert?

The Great Pyramid
The Pyramids
The Sphinx

What was Napoleon Bonaparte's favourite military tactic?

Crossing the river
The encirclement
Battle
Envelopment

In Napoleonic warfare, what was the term for a square battalion?

Battlefield
The French Guard
Bataillon
Bataillon-carré

Where was Napoleon's last resting place, where rumours of his return were rife?

Saint-Louis
St. Helena
The Tower of London
New York

Napoleon Bonaparte took command of the French army in which country in 1797?

South Africa
The United Kingdom
England
Italy

What poison was found in Napoleon's hair?

Carbon dioxide
Arsenic
Blood
Carbon monoxide

In which country did the Battle of Walcheren take place during the Napoleonic Wars?

The United States
Spain
The Netherlands
Holland

Who wrote 'Napoleon's 1796 Italian Campaign'?

Clausewitz
Napoleon
A British soldier
Charles II

In exile, Napoleon wrote a book about which historical figure?

King Henry VII
Julius Caesar
Byron
King Louis

In which country did Napoleon form an alliance with Fath-Ali Shah Qajar in 1806?

France
Persia
India
The United Kingdom

Napoleon Bonaparte conquered which country in 1805?

Egypt
France
South America
Italy

Which French port was blockaded by the British during the Napoleonic Wars?

Nice
Saint-Nazaire
Paris
Toulon

Who did Napoleon sign a Concordat with in 1804?

His father
The British
The French king
The Pope

What was abolished in Poland during the reign of Napoleon I?

The king
Serfdom
The monarch
The privilege of marrying a foreigner

Which future Duke commanded the British army during the Peninsular War?

Wellesley
The Duke of Buckingham
Charles, Duke of Cornwall
Charles

Which city did Napoleon Bonaparte force to surrender in 1797?

Naples
Milan
Paris
Venice

At which battle of 1794 did Napoleon Bonaparte defeat the Austrians?

The Battle of Vienna
Milan
The Battle of the Mohicans
Saorgio

Who was the King of Spain at the time of the Napoleonic Wars?

The king's brother
Napoleon
Ferdinand VII
King Ferdinand I

Which river did Napoleon cross when he invaded Prussia in 1805?

The River Moselle
River Thames
Saale
Rhine

In which European city did artillery fire on the Royalists on 13th Vendémiaire?

Paris
Amsterdam
Vienna
Milan

Which French revolutionary leader was the brother of Napoleon Bonaparte?

Charles XIV
Louis XIV
Robespierre
Jacques Bonaparte

Where is the tomb of Napoleon I?

In the church of the tombs
The Grand Theatre
St Jérôme's Chapel
The Grand Palace
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