| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Crusading English king | Richard the Lionheart | 92%
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| French heroine against English occupation | Joan of Arc | 89%
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| Conqueror of England | William of Normandy | 88%
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| Greatest Renaissance artist | Leonardo Da Vinci | 87%
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| Divine Comedy writer | Dante Alighieri | 86%
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| Florentine banker who made a dynasty | Cosimo de Medici | 80%
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| Muslim warlord who drove crusaders from Jerusalem | Saladin | 78%
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| Reconquista queen | Isabella I | 77%
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| 'Great' Tsar who expanded Russia | Ivan the Great | 77%
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| Scottish warlord fighting English invasion | William Wallace | 77%
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| His printing press spurred intellectual upheaval | Johannes Gutenberg | 71%
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| Canterbury Tales writer | Geoffrey Chaucer | 66%
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| Pope who launched the crusades | Urban II | 64%
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| United his Aragon with Castille to build Spain | Ferdinand II | 61%
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| Italian traveler and fabulist | Marco Polo | 61%
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| Redbearded Hohenstaufen Holy Roman Emperor | Frederick I "Barbarossa" | 58%
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| First Tudor English king | Henry VII | 58%
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| 'Saintly' French king who died on crusade | Louis XI | 58%
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| Murdered and sainted English bishop | Thomas Beckett | 55%
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| Powerful queen of France and England | Eleanor of Aquitaine | 53%
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| Hunchbacked English king | Richard III | 53%
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| Ottoman Sultan who conquered Constantinople | Mehmed II | 50%
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| Sainted thinker of religion and Aristotelean philosophy | Thomas Aquinas | 48%
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| Castillian warlord who fought Moorish kingdoms | El Cid | 44%
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| Infamously corrupt pope | Rodrigo Borgia | 43%
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| Painted Primavera and the Birth of Venus | Sandro Botticelli | 43%
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| Portuguese sponsor of exploration | Henry "the Navigator" | 40%
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| English thinker with a razor | William of Ockham | 40%
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| Italian monk who loved animals | Francis of Assisi | 38%
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| Agincourt victor with 'band of brothers' | Henry V | 37%
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| Hundred Years War warrior prince | Edward the Black Prince | 35%
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| English philosopher who pushed empiricism | Roger Bacon | 35%
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| The last Byzantine emperor | Constantine Palaiologus | 32%
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| Dutch scholar who navigated reformation | Erasmus | 30%
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| Revolting peasant | Wat Tyler | 30%
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| Italian sonneteer who inspired lyric poetry | Petrarch | 27%
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| Humanist writer of the Decameron | Giovanni Boccaccio | 23%
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| Powerful Norman king of Sicily | Roger II | 22%
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| German abbess and scholar | Hildegard of Bingen | 21%
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| German painter and print maker | Albrecht Durer | 18%
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| Great German banker | Jakob Fugger | 18%
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| Early Dutch Renaissance painter | Jan Van Eyck | 17%
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| Jewish philosopher of Moorish Spain | Maimonides | 17%
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| First Habsburg German king | Rudolf I | 17%
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| His paintings heralded the start of the Renaissance | Giotto | 14%
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| Venetian Doge who sacked Constantinople | Enrico Dandolo | 13%
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| Founder of Polish-Lithuanian union | Jogaila | 13%
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| Bohemia's 'Iron and Golden King' | Ottokar II | 8%
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| Pope who expanded Vatican power | Boniface VIII | 3%
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| Bulgarian tsar who refounded a Balkan empire | Kaloyan | 3%
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