Q 01/05

Opponents of Sacré-Cœur once proposed hiding the basilica behind a full-size copy of which famous sculpture?

A) Venus de Milo

B) Statue of Liberty

C) Michelangelo's David

D) The Thinker

Answer · why

B) Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty had just been shipped from France to America when critics suggested raising a twin in front of the church to block it from view....

Q 02/05

Sacré-Cœur is built of Château-Landon stone, which reacts in what way whenever rain falls on it?

A) It whitens itself

B) It darkens to grey

C) It turns pale pink

D) It grows green moss

Answer · why

A) It whitens itself

It whitens itself, because the stone gives off calcite on contact with rainwater. The travertine, quarried at Souppes-sur-Loing in Seine-et-Marne, is ...

Q 03/05

Which 2023 action film has its hero fight up Montmartre's long staircase to a sunrise duel at Sacré-Cœur?

A) The Equalizer 3

B) Dead Reckoning Part One

C) John Wick: Chapter 4

D) Extraction 2

Answer · why

C) John Wick: Chapter 4

John Wick: Chapter 4 has Keanu Reeves's hitman fight his way up the steps of the Rue Foyatier twice before a pistol duel in front of the basilica.

Q 04/05

What has continued inside Sacré-Cœur day and night, without a single break, since the summer of 1885?

A) A cycle of hymns

B) The tolling of bells

C) A reading of names

D) A relay of prayer

Answer · why

D) A relay of prayer

A relay of prayer has never stopped here: men, women and children take turns before the altar, hour after hour, through every night of the year.

Q 05/05

What does Sacré-Cœur, the name of the white basilica crowning Montmartre, mean in English?

A) Sacred Heart

B) Holy Cross

C) Sacred Choir

D) Holy Crown

Answer · why

A) Sacred Heart

Sacred Heart is a Catholic devotion to the heart of Jesus, and Pope Pius IX had made it a feast of the Church in 1856, not long before the basilica wa...