Question:  Where did Napoleon and Czar Alexander first meet?
Answer: Tilsit

Question: In what year did Napoleon and Czar Alexander first meet?
Answer: 1807

Question: Violations of what Napoleonic policy by Russia led to tensions between Russia and France?
Answer: the Continental System

Question: What did Napoleon name the war with Russia in an effort to garner support from Poland?
Answer: the Second Polish War

Question: What was the name of the 1768 war that involved the Bar Confederation uprising against Russia?
Answer: the First Polish War

Question: Polish nationalists wanted Russian territories in Poland to be joined with which national entity?
Answer: the Duchy of Warsaw

Question: Napoleon rejected Polish demands for an independent state because of prior promises to which ally?
Answer: Austria

Question: During France's retreat, atrocities were committed against French soldiers by which Russian subjects?
Answer: serfs

Question: To avoid direct fighting with Napoleon, the Russians retreated into which country?
Answer: Russia

Question: Where did the Russians try to resist Napoleon and get defeated?
Answer: Smolensk

Question: In what month were the Russians defeated at Smolensk?
Answer: August

Question: What methods used by the Russian army made it hard for the French to find food?
Answer: scorched earth tactics

Question: Outside what city did the Battle of Borodino occur?
Answer: Moscow

Question: On what date did the Battle of Borodino take place?
Answer: 7 September

Question: Approximately how many Russians were hurt, killed, or captured in the Battle of Borodino?
Answer: 44,000

Question:  Around how many French were killed, injured, or taken prisoner in the Battle of Borodino?
Answer: 35,000

Question: Who won the Battle of Borodino?
Answer: the French

Question: When Napoleon entered Moscow, he expected an offer of peace from whom?
Answer: Alexander

Question: What was the name of the governor who ordered the burning of Moscow?
Answer: Feodor Rostopchin

Question: How long did Napoleon stay in Moscow before leaving?
Answer: five weeks

Question: What 1812 event turned Napoleon's attention back to France?
Answer: the Malet coup

Question: Approximately how many French men and horses froze to death on the night of 8/9 November?
Answer: 10,000

Question: The Allies suggested peace terms in which set of proposals?
Answer: the Frankfurt proposals

Question: When were the Frankfurt proposals made?
Answer: November 1813

Question: The Frankfurt proposals allowed Napoleon to retain what position in France?
Answer: Emperor

Question: The Frankfurt proposals sought to reduce France to what?
Answer: its "natural frontiers."

Question:  Who told Napoleon that the Frankfurt proposals were probably the best terms the Allies would offer?
Answer: Metternich

Question: The Allies took back their offer to Napoleon in what month?
Answer: December

Question: In what year did Napoleon attempt to resume peace talks?
Answer: 1814

Question: Which peace initiative did Napoleon refer to when he attempted to make peace in 1814?
Answer: the Frankfurt proposals

Question: The new Allied demands for peace insisted France return to its boundaries of what year?
Answer: 1791

Question: In the new Allied peace proposal, what territory would France have been forced to surrender?
Answer: Belgium

Question: On what date did Alexander speak to the Sénat conservateur?
Answer: 1 April

Question:  The Sénat conservateur became hostile to Napoleon due to whose efforts?
Answer: Talleyrand's

Question: What was the act passed by the Sénat conservateur that deposed Napoleon?
Answer: the Acte de déchéance de l'Empereur

Question: Where had Napoleon advanced to when he received word that Paris was lost?
Answer: Fontainebleau

Question: What did Napoleon's senior officers and marshals do when he suggested they march on Paris?
Answer: mutinied

Question: In which treaty was Napoleon exiled?
Answer: the Treaty of Fontainebleau

Question: What is the name of the island Napoleon was exiled to?
Answer: Elba

Question: In what sea is Elba located?
Answer: the Mediterranean

Question: The allies permitted Napoleon to keep what title?
Answer: Emperor

Question: When Napoleon was exiled, where did his wife and son go for shelter?
Answer: Austria

Question: What military unit was charged with intercepting Napoleon?
Answer: The 5th Regiment

Question: On what date was Napoleon contacted by the 5th Regiment?
Answer: March 7, 1815

Question:  When Napoleon suggested to the 5th Regiment that they kill him, how did they respond?
Answer: "Vive L'Empereur!"

Question:  Ney had told Louis XVIII that he would carry Napoleon to Paris in what kind of container?
Answer: an iron cage

Question:  After fleeing France, where did Louis XVIII go?
Answer: Belgium

Question: Where did Napoleon return and find that the populace and government had turned against him?
Answer: Paris

Question:  On what date did Napoleon abdicate?
Answer: 22 June

Question:  How many days after his abdication did Napoleon leave Paris?
Answer: three days

Question:  On what date did the Coalition forces arrive near Paris?
Answer: 29 June

Question:  When Napoleon left Paris, he went to the palace formerly belonging to whom?
Answer: Josephine

Question: In what year did Louis Philippe I get permission to return Napoleon's remains to France?
Answer: 1840

Question:  On what date was a state funeral held for Napoleon?
Answer: 15 December 1840

Question: At what location did the hearse carrying Napoleon's remains begin its procession?
Answer: the Arc de Triomphe

Question:  In what building was the cupola where Napoleon's remains were first placed located?
Answer: St Jérôme's Chapel

Question: In what year was Napoleon's final tomb completed?
Answer: 1861

Question: When were the diaries of Napoleon's valet published?
Answer: 1955

Question: What was the name of Napoleon's valet?
Answer: Louis Marchand

Question:  What was the possible cause for Napoleon's death suggested in a 1961 Nature paper?
Answer: arsenic poisoning

Question: In 1961, who suggested the possibility that Napoleon died from ingestion of arsenic?
Answer: Sten Forshufvud

Question: What condition was Napoleon's body in when it was moved in 1840?
Answer: well preserved

Question: What substance used in Napoleon's treatment is it suggested prevented his stomach from expelling arsenic compounds?
Answer: potassium tartrate

Question: What do those who think Napoleon was poisoned cite as a symptom that would suggest this?
Answer: his thirst

Question: According to Patrick Knize, what conclusion does the type of arsenic found in Napoleon's hair shafts suggest?
Answer: that he was murdered

Question: In what year was the article describing the type of arsenic found in Napoleon's hair published?
Answer: 2007

Question: Studies published in 2007 and 2008 dismiss what possible cause of Napoleon's death?
Answer: arsenic poisoning

Question: Studies published in 2007 and 2008 support what possible causes of Napoleon's death?
Answer: peptic ulcer and gastric cancer

Question:  A 2008 study supporting the original autopsy findings related to Napoleon's death analyzed samples of what substance taken from Napoleon and his family?
Answer: hair

Question: The 2008 study related to Napoleon's death found that hair collected from Napoleon's hair as well as that of his family and contemporaries, had arsenic levels approximately how many times higher than current averages?
Answer: 100 times

Question: What type of marriage did Napoleon have with Joséphine de Beauharnais?
Answer: civil

Question: What did Napoleon display tolerance related to during his time in Egypt?
Answer: religion

Question: General Dupuy revealed the motives for Napoleon's religious tolerance after the death of which religious figure?
Answer: Pope Pius VI

Question: Who argued that Bonaparte's admiration for Muhammad was sincere?
Answer: Juan Cole