At the opening of the Estates-General in May 1789, which finance minister delivered a famously long and tedious three-hour speech that disappointed reformers hoping for bold proposals? — Options: Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Charles Alexandre de Calonne, Jacques Necker, Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne

How many prisoners were actually being held inside the Bastille when it was stormed on 14 July 1789? — Options: Seven, Thirty-two, Eighty-three, Over two hundred

The flight to Varennes in June 1791 ended when the royal family was reportedly recognised at a posting house by which local official? — Options: Jean-Baptiste Drouet, a postmaster, Antoine Barnave, a deputy, Jacques Hébert, a journalist, Lazare Hoche, an army officer

Which radical journalist, stabbed in his medicinal bath by Charlotte Corday in July 1793, was immortalised in a famous painting by Jacques-Louis David? — Options: Camille Desmoulins, Jacques Hébert, Jean-Paul Marat, Jacques-Pierre Brissot

The Law of 22 Prairial, passed in June 1794, accelerated the Terror by doing what to those accused before the Revolutionary Tribunal? — Options: Permitting trial in absentia for émigrés, Stripping defendants of the right to legal counsel and witnesses, Requiring unanimous jury verdicts for execution, Extending the Tribunal's reach to provincial cities

Which faction of relatively moderate revolutionaries, largely associated with deputies from the southwest, was purged from the Convention in June 1793 after losing a power struggle with the Montagnards? — Options: The Feuillants, The Girondins, The Enragés, The Cordeliers

The new revolutionary calendar, adopted in October 1793, fixed its Year I as beginning on which date? — Options: 14 July 1789, the fall of the Bastille, 4 August 1789, the abolition of feudalism, 22 September 1792, the proclamation of the Republic, 21 January 1793, the execution of Louis XVI

The French Revolution