European Renaissance Essentials - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
the Mona Lisa artist, inventor, mirror-writer	daVinci	87%
Sistine Chapel's ceiling artist	michelangelo	85%
Country where the European renaissance began	italy	79%
Theory of Gravity	Newton	79%
Invented a telescope, proved Copernicus' theories	Galileo	78%
Author of "The Prince"	Machiavelli	78%
Reached America, but thought it was India	Columbus	76%
Wealthy family "funded" renaissance artists and others	Medici	76%
French word for "rebirth"	renaissance	75%
Mechanical Printing Press	Gutenberg	73%
His plays filled the Globe Theater	William Shakespeare	72%
Created the Church of England	King Henry VIII	70%
Wrote about "the Inferno"	Dante	69%
People started publishing in the languages they actually spoke instead of...	latin	64%
Gutenberg made the	printing press	64%
Was known as "the Virgin Queen" and never married	Elizabeth I	63%
Posted a list of 95 complaints about the Church and started reforms	Martin Luther	63%
Michelangelo painted this ceiling	Sistine Chapel	58%
He proposed the Sun is the center of the universe (Heliocentric)	Copernicus	57%
He wrote about his travels across Asia and the Silk Road	Marco Polo	55%
Christopher Columbus sailed for..	Spain	55%
Cortes and Pizarro claimed Central and South America for this country	Spain	55%
Led French to victory in 100 Years' War	Joan of Arc	54%
Joan of Arc helped France win this war	100 Years	52%
School of Athens artist	raphael	52%
Wrote Don Quixote	Cervantes	51%
Thomas More invented this term for a perfect society	utopia	49%
people wanted to get to Asia to get these expensive items...	spices	46%
Masterminded the 1st Circumnavigation	Magellan	45%
America is named for...	Amerigo Vespucci	43%
Values individuality, logic, and human potential	Humanism	43%
Miguel Cervantes wrote about this "knight"	don quixote	39%
Brunelleschi made a famous...	dome	33%
Legend says he came to Florida looking for the Fountain of Youth	ponce de leon	31%
Discovered the patterns of planetary motion	Kepler	28%
The culture of Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece is called...	classical	27%
Pirate, hired by Elizabeth 1, defeated Spanish Armada	Sir Frances Drake	27%
Painters started using these lines to make their work look more "3d"	perspective	24%
Re-discovered Cicero's letters and got people interested in the "Classics"	Petrarch	19%
First European to find a route to India by sea	de Gama	18%
Famous for the Scientific Method that changed how we do science	Bacon	16%
Charted Latitude and Longitude on a map	Mercator	15%
Started a school for sailing and navigation	Prince Henry the Navigator	9%
Catarina van Hemmessen painted herself, at the...	easel	4%

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