Thanks to everyone who entered the 2010 Gallic Books Bastille Day Quiz. We had more entries than ever before and with 99% getting all the answers correct we needed a particularly big chapeau for all the entries.

The answers, and winners, are posted below. Congratulations and thanks again to all of you who took part. Same again next year...
The 2010 Gallic Books Bastille Day Quiz





1) What is the 16th word of the French National anthem ‘La Marseillaise’? Tyrannie

2) What was ‘The Marais Assassin’ by Claude Izner previously published as in France? Le Secret des Enfants-Rouges

3) Who captained France in football’s 1998 World Cup Final? Didier Deschamps

4) Which Gallic Books author is responsible for the the Agnes de Souarcy chronicles? Andrea H. Japp

5) Who was the king of France during the French Revolution? Louis XVI

6) What is the longest river in France? The Loire

7) Who wrote ‘Le Petit Prince’? Antoine de Saint-Exupery

8) Jacques Brel was born in Belgium. True or false? True

9) How many copies has the Suicide Shop by Jean Teulé sold in hardback in France? 53,000

10) Who translated ‘Checkout: A Life on the Tills’ for Gallic Books? Morag Young

List of prizes, and winners
•    A book of your choice from the Gallic Books list - Deborah Snowdon
•    Personally signed copies of ‘The Officer’s Prey’, ‘Wolf Hunt’ and ‘Memory of Flames’ by A Cabasson - Yvonne Poole, Laura Sanderson and Amanda Wakefield
•    A signed copy of Francois Lelord’s ‘Hector and the Search for Happiness’ - Nadir Kamran
•    A hot-off-the-press copy of ‘The Baker Street Phantom’ by Fabrice Bourland - Diane Smith
•    A hot-off-the-press copy of ‘The Predator of Batignolles’ by Claude Izner - Lora McGinlay
•    A ‘Hector and the Search for Happiness’ promotional poster - Solange Thomas
•    A ‘Clisson and Eugenie’ promotional poster - Nicola Perkins
•    A ‘The Baker Street Phantom’ promotional poster - Neil Yeoman

Prizes will be sent out on the week commencing Monday, July 26