Q 01/05

In which city does the Eiffel Tower stand?

A) Lyon

B) Brussels

C) Marseille

D) Paris

Answer · why

D) Paris

It rises from the Champ de Mars, a park on the Left Bank of the Seine.

Q 02/05

The tower is named after which engineer?

A) Gustave Eiffel

B) Auguste Bartholdi

C) Ferdinand de Lesseps

D) Georges Haussmann

Answer · why

A) Gustave Eiffel

His company designed and built it between 1887 and 1889, though the design itself came from two of his senior engineers.

Q 03/05

The tower was built as the centrepiece of which event?

A) The 1900 Olympic Games

B) The 1889 World's Fair

C) The coronation of Napoleon III

D) The 1878 Universal Exposition

Answer · why

B) The 1889 World's Fair

The fair marked the centenary of the French Revolution; the tower was only meant to be temporary.

Q 04/05

What is the tower's local nickname, 'La dame de fer', in English?

A) The Iron Lady

B) The Steel Queen

C) The Iron Needle

D) The Lady of Paris

Answer · why

A) The Iron Lady

It comes from the wrought iron the tower is made of; the metal weighs about 7,300 tonnes.

Q 05/05

Roughly how tall did the Eiffel Tower become after its 2022 aerial extension?

A) 250 metres

B) 300 metres

C) 330 metres

D) 400 metres

Answer · why

C) 330 metres

That is about the height of an 81-storey building; a new aerial added in March 2022 took it to 330 m. The 1957 broadcasting aerial had pushed it above...