Palace of Versailles Trivia Questions

Versailles boasts 2,300 rooms, and Marie Antoinette had her own private theater, the Théâtre de la Reine, built in the Petit Trianon.

It was built as a hunting lodge for Louis XIII, not Henry IV. Louis XIV later expanded it into the grand palace we know.

The Treaty of Versailles was signed in the Hall of Mirrors in 1919, but it ended World War I, not World War II.

Marie Antoinette’s Hameau de la Reine included a working farm with cows, so she and her court could play at rustic life.

André Le Nôtre designed the gardens; Gustave Eiffel built the Eiffel Tower over 200 years later. No connection.

Louis XIV melted the 17 massive silver tables and candelabra in the Hall of Mirrors in 1689 to pay for the Nine Years' War.

Louis XIV tore down the first chapel in 1682, deeming it unworthy, and replaced it with the lavish Royal Chapel completed in 1710.

Nobles were required to live there to control them, but no evidence supports hidden peepholes—etiquette was the surveillance tool.