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1. In Sergei Bondarchuck's 'Waterloo', Rod Steiger played Napoleon Bonaparte. Who played Marshal Michel Ney executed by Louis XVIII soon after the battle?
2. Serial killers are not found only in the USA. In this movie, a man contacts Parisian women through newspapers, seduces them and kills them for their money. It was directed by Claude Chabrol and written by Francoise Sagan. Who was this killer nicknamed 'Bluebeard'?
3. Marcel Petiot is another well known French serial killer. During WW2, he promised rich Jews to pass them in Spain, but instead he killed them and stole their belongings. In the 1990 movie 'Docteur Petiot', who portrayed this spooky character?
4. France doesn't only shelter serial killers. She also got her fair share of saints. This 1943 movie about a peasant girl who had vision of a 'beautiful lady' won many Oscars including the Best Actress Award which went to Jennifer Jones. Which saint did she play?
5. Ken Russell's 'The Devils' tells the story of Father Urbain Grandier, a priest falsely accused of sorcery and burnt to the stake in Loudun in 1634. Who played the role?
6. In Fred Zinneman's 'The Day of the Jackal', a professional hitman is hired by the OAS to assassinate Charles de Gaulle. Who played this handsome cold-blooded assassin?
7. Which of these actresses never played Joan of Arc?
8. This British actor portrayed King Louis XV in three different movies: in 1933, in 1934 and in 1946. Need a clue? He was the Admiral Boom in 'Mary Poppins'. What is his name?
9. This Austrian actor won a Golden Globe in 1986 for his portrayal of Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke. In 1989, he played an extremely convincing George Danton in 'The French Revolution' directed by Robert Enrico and Richard T. Heffron. Who is he?
10. Which horrible massacre is showed in 'La Reine Margot' (or 'Queen Margot') directed by Patrice Leconte in 1994 and starring Isabelle Adjani and Jean-Hugues Anglade?
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