The 1500s Quiz - Statistics

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Hint	Years	Answer	% Correct
6) Portuguese explorer Pedro AlvaresCabral claims this country for Portugal	1500	Brazil	100%
3) Francisco Pizarro defeats thisPeruvian empire and founds the city of Lima	1532-1572	Inca	100%
9) The famous David sculpture by thispainter is unveiled in Florence	1504	Michelangelo	100%
2) Spanish Conquistador Hernan Cortes defeats King Montezuma and the collapse of this empire	1521	Aztec	94%
7) This famous explorer is arrested anddeported from Santo Domingo back to Spain, only to have the charges dismissed in December	Oct 1500	Christopher Columbus	89%
10) This famous playwright is born inStratford upon Avon	1564-1616	William Shakespeare	89%
25) This English queen, the 2nd wife of Henry VIII,is executed for treason at the Tower of London	1533-1536	Anne Boleyn	83%
19) This king severs ties with the pope and establishesthe English Anglican Church	1534	Henry VIII	83%
5) This Portuguese explorers team is the first to circumnavigate the globe	1519-1522	Ferdinand Magellan	78%
14) This Brazilian megacity is founded by theteam of Portuguese explorer Gonçalo Coelho	1502	Rio De Janeiro	78%
11) German locksmith Peter Henlein inventsa portable version of this timekeeping device	1506-10	Watch	78%
4) This astronomer publishes his theorythat Earth orbits the Sun	1543-1687	Copernicus	72%
20) This English explorer completes the 2nd circumnavigation of the world	1577-1580	Francis Drake	72%
16) This family dynasty ruled England when thehouses of Lancaster and York were united	1500s	Tudor	67%
15) This famous Dutch humanist publishesIn Praise of Folly	1509	Erasmus	50%
12) Spains' King Philip II sends a massivefleet to England to restore Catholicism, known as this event	1588	Spanish Armada	50%
23) This explorer founds the first English colonyin present day North Carolina	1587	Walter Raleigh	44%
13) This Italian explorer maps 2 stars, Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri	1502	Amerigo Vespucci	39%
21) This Flemish geographer creates the famous mapprojection that bears his name	1569	Mercator	39%
8) Portuguese explorer Joao Da Nova discovers this remote Atlantic island	1502	Saint Helena	33%
18) This Florida city is established by the Spanishas a permanent settlement in America	1565	St Augustine	33%
22) #9 paints the famous Last Judgement in this Vatican church	1536-1541	Sistine Chapel	28%
17) This Ottoman ruler expands the empire intothe Middle East and Africa	1520-1566	Suleiman	28%
1) Martin Luther protests againstthe Catholic Church, sparking this religious movement	1517	Protestant Reformation	22%
24) This meeting is held to refine Catholic doctrine inresponse to the spread of Protestantism	1545-1563	Council of Trent	11%

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