# 🗼 The Eiffel Tower Trivia Set

**Used:** 2025-06-13

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## 📌 REGULAR QUESTIONS

### 1. Who designed the Eiffel Tower?  
**Answer:** Gustave Eiffel  
**Taglines:**  
- Eiffel built it, then flexed hard  
- Gustave’s giant metal ego  
- Engineer with flair  
- The man, the myth, the ironworker  
- Paris’s pointy pride started with this dude  

### 2. What year was the Eiffel Tower completed?  
**Answer:** 1889  
**Taglines:**  
- Built for a world’s fair, stayed for the selfies  
- 1889: pre-Instagram, post-awesome  
- A century after the French Revolution—coincidence?  
- 19th-century spire of spite  
- Steel before it was cool  

### 3. How tall is the Eiffel Tower (including antennas)?  
**Answer:** 330 meters (1,083 feet)  
**Taglines:**  
- Eiffel flexes at 1,083 ft  
- France’s iron skyscraper  
- Size does matter—ask Paris  
- The OG tower of power  
- Still taller than your dreams  

### 4. In what city is the Eiffel Tower located?  
**Answer:** Paris  
**Taglines:**  
- Croissants, couture, and iron  
- Paris: where structure meets seduction  
- Romantic steel since 1889  
- The only tower with a dating profile  
- French skyline MVP  

### 5. What major event was the Eiffel Tower built for?  
**Answer:** 1889 World’s Fair (Exposition Universelle)  
**Taglines:**  
- Built to impress, and it did  
- Fair enough, Eiffel  
- Expo flex turned national treasure  
- French industrial thirst trap  
- Tower of temporary fame turned eternal icon  

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## 🧩 FILL-IN-THE-BLANK QUESTIONS

### 1. The Eiffel Tower was originally intended to be ______.  
**Answer:** Temporary  
**Taglines:**  
- Built to bounce, stayed to slay  
- 20-year lease turned eternal  
- Paris couldn’t let go  
- “Just a phase,” they said  
- Like your bangs in high school—meant to be short-lived  

### 2. The Eiffel Tower is made primarily of ______.  
**Answer:** Iron  
**Taglines:**  
- Rust never sleeps  
- Steel’s sassy cousin  
- Iron giant of Europe  
- Structurally sound, dramatically iconic  
- Harder than a croissant crust  

### 3. The Eiffel Tower has ______ levels accessible to the public.  
**Answer:** Three  
**Taglines:**  
- Three floors, one selfie legend  
- Step up your Eiffel game  
- Elevators optional, cardio encouraged  
- Paris in thirds  
- Heights with highlights  

### 4. The Eiffel Tower is nicknamed “La Dame de ______.”  
**Answer:** Fer (Iron Lady)  
**Taglines:**  
- The Iron Lady—no relation to Thatcher  
- French nicknames hit different  
- Strong, silent, judging you  
- She’s tall, she’s tough, she’s metal  
- Eiffel’s got a nickname and a vibe  

### 5. Gustave Eiffel had a private ______ at the top of the tower.  
**Answer:** Apartment  
**Taglines:**  
- Penthouse flex  
- Airbnb goals  
- Eiffel: engineer and squatter  
- Sky high and snuggly  
- Paris’s highest hideout  

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## 📝 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

### 1. [Difficulty: 1] What color is the Eiffel Tower currently painted?  
A) Bronze  
B) Eiffel Tower Brown ✅  
C) Steel Gray  
D) Parisian Pewter  
**Taglines:**  
- A paint color and a fashion mood  
- It’s brown, not bored  
- Eiffel’s brown phase—permanent  
- Not 50 shades, just one  
- Color me skeptical  

### 2. [Difficulty: 2] How many years was the Eiffel Tower the tallest man-made structure in the world?  
A) 20 ✅  
B) 10  
C) 30  
D) 15  
**Taglines:**  
- Tallest till skyscrapers said “hi”  
- 20 years of iron dominance  
- Pre-Empire State era  
- Held the title, lost the height  
- Towered above all, until it didn’t  

### 3. [Difficulty: 3] What famous scientist used the Eiffel Tower for wind experiments?  
A) Albert Einstein  
B) Marie Curie  
C) Gustave Eiffel ✅  
D) Louis Pasteur  
**Taglines:**  
- Eiffel wasn’t done nerding out  
- Tower with turbulence  
- Experiments at elevation  
- Windy science at high altitude  
- Eiffel went full STEM  

### 4. [Difficulty: 4] What was the French public’s initial reaction to the Eiffel Tower?  
A) Immediate love  
B) Mild interest  
C) Hatred and protests ✅  
D) Confused applause  
**Taglines:**  
- “It’s ugly!” they cried—then bought postcards  
- Protested, then obsessed  
- French shade in iron form  
- From eyesore to Eiffel-core  
- First hated, now high-rated  

### 5. [Difficulty: 2] Which Parisian river flows near the Eiffel Tower?  
A) Rhône  
B) Seine ✅  
C) Loire  
D) Garonne  
**Taglines:**  
- The Seine’s got tower views  
- River with a real estate upgrade  
- Romantic water, iconic tower  
- Eiffel’s liquid neighbor  
- Seine and not sorry
