Timeline of the 17th Century

How well do you remember historical events from 1601 until 1700?

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1. Which philosopher was burned at the stake for believing that the universe is infinite and that other solar systems exist?

Antoine Lavoisier ✓

Michel de Montaigne ✓

Giordano Bruno ✓

Jean Bodin ✓

2. What period of fine art, well known for its grandiosity and exaggeration, started in Italy around 1600?

Romanticism ✓

Baroque ✓

Realism ✓

Symbolism ✓

3. What town became the first permanent English settlement in the Americas in 1607?

Roanoke ✓

Plymouth ✓

Charlestown ✓

Jamestown ✓

4. Which English explorer tried to find the Northwest Passage in 1607?

William Bradford ✓

John Rolfe ✓

Henry Hudson ✓

Samuel de Champlain ✓

5. Which scientist discovered the moons of Jupiter in 1610?

Johannes Kepler ✓

Christiaan Huygens ✓

Gallileo Gallilei ✓

Robert Boyle ✓

6. What was the name of early English settler of North America who was married to Pocahontas?

John Rolfe ✓

John Smith ✓

Roger Williams ✓

William Penn ✓

7. What Native American tribe was Pocahontas from?

Sioux ✓

Navajo ✓

Powhatan ✓

Cherokee ✓

8. Miguel de Cervantes is best known for his novel "Don Quixote" completed in 1615. In what Spanish region is the story taking place?

La Mancha ✓

Andalusia ✓

Galicia ✓

Aragon ✓

9. What war was the result of the Reformation?

Thirty Years' War ✓

Sixty Years' War ✓

Forty Years' War ✓

Twenty Years' War ✓

10. The first Africans arrived in what British colony in America in 1619?

Connecticut ✓

Massachusetts ✓

Georgia ✓

Virginia ✓

11. What was the name of the ship of Pilgrims that landed in Massachusetts in 1620?

Marchflower ✓

Juneflower ✓

Mayflower ✓

Aprilflower ✓

12. What was the stage name of the comedic French playwright, whose works included "The Misanthrope" and "Tartuffe?"

Moliere ✓

Jolliet ✓

Voltaire ✓

Giotto ✓

13. Which artist painted Nicolaes Tulp (1632), Belshazzar's Feast (1635) and The Night Watch (1642)?

Peter Paul Rubens ✓

Rembrandt ✓

Caravaggio ✓

Jan Steen ✓

14. In which U.S state .was Harvard University founded in 1636?

Maine ✓

Michigan ✓

North Carolina ✓

Massachusetts ✓

15. "Cogito, ergo sum" is a statement that was made in Latin by which philosopher?

Rene Descartes ✓

Gottfried Leibniz ✓

Giordano Bruno ✓

Niccolo Macchiavelli ✓

16. In 1643, who led the first known European expedition to reach New Zealand and to sight the Fiji islands?

John Cabot ✓

Hernando de Soto ✓

Abel Tasman ✓

James Cook ✓

17. Which Italian violin maker opened a shop at Piazza Roma, prominent craftsmen square in Cremona?

Antonio Stradivari ✓

Claudio Monteverdi ✓

Niccolo Paganini ✓

Antonio Salieri ✓

18. Who was the "Lord Protector of the Commonwealth" of England?

John Collins ✓

Oliver Cromwell ✓

Robert Walpole ✓

Thomas Becket ✓

19. Who did the English colonists of New England fight in King Philip's war between 1675 and 1678?

Mexicans ✓

French ✓

Native American tribes ✓

Spanish ✓

20. Which physicist brought the theories of gravity and the basic laws of motion?

Max Planck ✓

Isaac Newton ✓

Albert Einstein ✓

Michael Faraday ✓

21. Which Caribbean port city was largely destroyed by a cataclysmic earthquake in 1692, leaving pirates to find another refuge and base of operations?

Havana ✓

Portobello ✓

Port Royal ✓

Tortuga ✓

22. For what crime 20 people were executed in Massachusetts in 1692-93?

Rape ✓

Children abuse ✓

Witchcraft ✓

Kidnapping ✓

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