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Sculptor Daniel Edwards is known for provocative pieces that look at our obsession with celebrity. For example, "Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston" is a life-sized nude statue of Britney Spears, giving birth on all fours on a bear-skin rug. He also sculpted Suri Cruise's bronzed baby poop, a nude of Paris Hilton on an autopsy table and a sculpture of Prince Harry after he had apparently been killed serving in Iraq.

What French leader has all these named for him: a grade of cognac, a British card game, a pig in "Animal Farm" and a French mille-feuille dessert?

A) De Gaulle

B) Louis XVI

C) Napoleon

D) Robespierre

Previous answer: Swedish fish are candies.

(Goldfish are crackers.)

TRIVIA FANS: Send the trivia questions you've always wanted answered, or original TriviaBits ideas of your own, with your full name and hometown, to Paul Paquet at paul@triviahalloffame.com or visit him online at www.triviahalloffame.com.

Paul Paquet has been writing trivia since the early 1990s and has written roughly 100,000 questions. For more, visit triviahalloffame.com or email him at paul@triviahalloffame.com.

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