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Renaissance - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 923 times
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| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| What family ruled the city throughout the Renaissance? | Medici | 89%
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| In what wealthy and powerful Italian city did the Renaissance get its start? | Florence | 82%
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| What artist is most known today for his frescos at the Sistine Chapel? | Michelangelo | 75%
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| What invention is most associated with Johannes Gutenberg? | Printing press | 73%
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| Who painted the Last Supper? | Leonardo da Vinci | 69%
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| What drawing of da Vinci's portrays a man who has perfect proportions? | The Vitruvian Man | 63%
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| Martin Luther was the catalyst of the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. Where was he from? | Germany | 62%
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| How did the Medici family become wealthy? | Banking and wool | 61%
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| Which literary work is the story that describes Dante's view of the afterlife? | The Divine Comedy | 59%
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| Which Italian sculptor created statues of David, Mary Magdalene and the Madonna? | Donatello | 53%
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| What sculptor was one of the pioneers of Renaissance art with sculptures such as the Gattamelata? | Donatello | 52%
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| What priest wrote the book Praise and Folly and was responsible for spreading humanism throughout northern Europe? | Erasmus | 50%
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| What did Filippo Brunelleschi spend most of his life designing and building? | Florence Cathedral | 45%
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| What country did both Catherine de Medici and Marie de Medici become queen of? | France | 41%
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| Who is often called the "Father of Humanism?" | Francesco Petrarch | 39%
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| Which philosopher was burned at the stake for believing that the universe is infinite and that other solar systems exist? | Giordano Bruno | 36%
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| Borgia family are descendants of a noble line, originally from which Spanish city? | Valencia | 36%
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| Which child of Rodrigo Borgia and Vanozza dei Cattanei became a cardinal and was a major inspiration for The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli? | Cesare | 35%
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| Who is the author of the Decameron, the book that has a number of stories and describes life in 14th century Italy? | Giovanni Boccaccio | 35%
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| How many popes came from the Medici family? | 4 | 33%
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| Which member was the founder of that dynasty? | Cosimo | 31%
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| What artist worked for the Medici family in Florence and painted several portraits of them? | Sandro Botticelli | 30%
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| Which astronomer is known for his discovery of the three major laws of planetary motion? | Johannes Kepler | 28%
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| Which member of Borgia family was known as Pope Alexander VI from 1492 to 1503? | Rodrigo Borgia | 28%
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| Who is often regarded as the "Father of Renaissance painting?" | Giotto | 25%
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| Which astronomer from Renaissance developed instruments that were used in measuring and fixing the position of stars? | Tycho Brahe | 18%
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