Question | Answer | % Correct |
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What city did the Medici family rule? | Florence | 95%
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What trade did the Medici family deal to become wealthy? | Banking and wool | 92%
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What country did both Catherine de' Medici and Marie de' Medici become queens of? | France | 87%
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Which Medici ruler was know as "the Magnificent?" | Lorenzo | 85%
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In what century did the Medici family come to power? | 15th | 79%
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What was the name of the conspiracy to overthrow the Medici by murdering both Lorenzo and his brother Giuliano in 1478? | Pazzi conspiracy | 79%
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What was the name of Lorenzo's successor known as "the Unfortunate", under whose rule the Medici were temporarily overthrown? | Piero | 77%
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Who painted famous "Mars and Venus", for whose painting the models were probably Giuliano de 'Medici and Simonetta Vespucci? | Sandro Botticelli | 77%
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What was the name of Cosimo de' Medici's wife? | Contessina de Bardi | 74%
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When the Medici were temporarily overthrown, the city came under the rule of a which fanatical monk? | Girolamo Savonarola | 74%
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Which architect made Cosimo's dream to complete the Duomo of Florence? | Filippo Brunelleschi | 69%
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Which member of the Medici family was assassinated by the Pazzi family in front of 10,000 people at the Easter church service? | Giuliano | 69%
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Which of these diseases plagued many members of the Medici family? | Gout | 69%
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Who was the head of the Pazzi family, who became the greatest enemies to the Medici family? | Jacopo | 69%
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What was the name of Cosimo's grand-daughter who was married to Guglielmo de Pazzi from rival family? | Bianca | 67%
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Cosimo's son Piero and his wife Lucrezia had four children. Which was not among them? | Carlo | 59%
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How many popes came from the Medici family? | 4 | 56%
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Which member of Medici family became pope Clement VII? | Giulio | 56%
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Which artist did Lorenzo give a room in the Medici palace to stay in and money to continue studying art? | Michelangelo | 46%
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Which member of the family was the founder of the Medici dynasty? | Cosimo | 41%
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