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Timeline of the 16th Century

How well do you remember historical events from 1501 until 1600?
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1. Which Portuguese navigator claimed Brazil for Portugal?
Pedro Álvares Cabral
Vasco da Gama
Diogo Cão
Bartolomeu Dias
2. Astrologer, physician and reputed seer Nostradamus was born in 1503. Where was he from?
Italy
France
Greece
Spain
3. Who painted "La Gioconda?"
Sandro Botticelli
Michelangelo
Raphael
Leonardo da Vinci
4. Who proclaimed the Sun the center of the Solar system in 1512?
Nicolaus Copernicus
Johannes Kepler
Galileo Galilei
Tycho Brahe
5. Who wrote "Utopia" and published it in 1516?
Thomas Becket
Martin Luther
Thomas More
Francis Bacon
6. Capital of which empire was Tenochtitlan before was conquered by Spain?
Aztec
Maya
Navajo
Inca
7. Under which Ottoman ruler did the Empire reached its peak?
Selim I the Strong
Bayezid II the Saint
Mustafa I the Mad
Suleiman I the Magnificent
8. Who painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling?
Donatello
Leonardo da Vinci
Giotto
Michelangelo
9. Which explorer is known for defeating the Aztec Empire and taking Mexico in the name of Spain in 1521?
Hernan Cortes
Francisco Pizarro
John Cabot
Amerigo Vespucci
10. Who completed the first circumnavigation of the globe in a single expedition after its captain, Ferdinand Magellan, was killed?
Juan Ponce de León
Juan Sebastián Elcano
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado
Hernando de Soto
11. Where was Ferdinand Magellan killed in a battle in 1521?
Argentina
Brazil
Philippines
New Zealand
12. Who won the Battle of Mohács in 1526?
Kingdom of Hungary
Holy Roman Empire
Ottoman Empire
Kingdom of Poland
13. Who conquered the Inca Empire in 1532?
Amerigo Vespucci
Hernan Cortes
Francisco Pizarro
Christopher Columbus
14. What was the capital of Inca Empire?
Cusco
Macchu Picchu
Guadalajara
Tulum
15. How long Queen Elizabeth I held the English throne?
11 years
44 years
22 years
33 years
16. What was it that Queen Elizabeth I said she was married to?
Parliament
Her country
France
Church
17. What form of fine art is the Elizabethan Era most famous for?
Painting
Ballet
Theatre
Literature
18. Who was the first Queen of England to be executed in 1536?
Catherine of Aragon
Anne Boleyn
Lady Jane Grey
Catherine Howard
19. Which French explorer claimed Canada for France in 1536?
Samuel de Champlain
Jacques Cartier
Jacques Cousteau
Jacques Marquette
20. What was Martin Luther famous for?
Reformation
Astronomy
Medicine
Painting
21. Who was the first Tsar of Russia?
Nicholas II
Peter the Great
Feodor I
Ivan the Terrible
22. What was Gerardus Mercator famous for?
Philosophy
Writing
Carthography
Music
23. Which pope introduced his calendar in 1582 that is being used to present day?
Julius III
Sixtus V
Gregory XIII
Pius IV
24. What colony was the first attempt by the English to establish a colony in the Americas in 1585?
Plymouth
Roanoke
Jamestown
New Netherland
25. Williams Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" was published in 1597. How that tragedy ends?
They lived happily ever after
Romeo dies, Juliet stays alive
Juliet dies, Romeo stays alive
They both die
26. Who was burned at the stake for heresy in Rome for believing that the universe is infinite and that other solar systems exist?
Jean Bodin
Michel de Montaigne
Antoine Lavoisier
Giordano Bruno
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