History
The “The Renaissance and the Age of Discovery” quiz — History. It has 25 questions in five categories: Renaissance masters, The Great Voyages, Humanists & scholars, Science & navigation, Spices, gold & power. 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.
Which Italian polymath and artist painted the Mona Lisa and the Milan refectory mural The Last Supper?
Which Florentine master sculpted the Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Which Florentine painter created…
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Which navigator set sail from Spain with three ships in 1492 and landed in the Caribbean while seeking a route to Asia?
Whose 1519–1522 expedition achieved the first circumnavigation of the globe, though the commander died in the Philippines?
Which Portuguese explorer sailed…
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Which English humanist coined the name for an ideal island society in his 1516 book, defining a famous literary genre?
Which 14th-century Italian poet, famous for his lyrical sonnets to Laura, is celebrated as the father of humanism?
Which Dutch scholar, pictured…
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Which brass instrument, pictured, was used by Renaissance navigators and astronomers to measure the altitude of celestial bodies?
Which astronomer placed the Sun at the center of the cosmos in his 1543 treatise On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres?
Which Flemish physician revolutionized…
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Which powerful banking dynasty effectively ruled Florence, financed Europe's monarchs, and produced several Roman popes?
Which 1494 treaty drew a meridian through the Atlantic, dividing newly discovered lands outside Europe between Spain and Portugal?
Which Florentine diplomat argued…
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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.