Grade 8 · World history
This quiz helps revise “The Renaissance” in World history for grade 8. It has 25 questions in five categories: New Ideas, Painting, Workshops & Buildings, Books & Characters, Exploring the World. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
In which country did the Renaissance begin?
Which Renaissance movement valued individual dignity and looked to Greek and Roman texts for learning?
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Who painted the pictured Mona Lisa, the portrait of a woman with a mysterious smile?
What mural technique applies water-based paint directly to wet plaster?
Who painted The School…
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Which centre of the early Renaissance is home to Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral and its huge dome?
Who developed printing with movable metal type in Europe in the mid-fifteenth century?
Who carved the pictured…
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In the gameWho wrote the tragedy Romeo and Juliet?
Who wrote Don Quixote, the novel in which a knight mistakes windmills for giants?
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What pictured optical instrument did Galileo use to observe Jupiter's moons?
Which astronomer published a model in 1543 in which Earth and the other planets orbit the Sun?
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In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.