Holy Roman Empire Quiz - Statistics

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This quiz has been taken 946 times
The average score is 11 of 21

Answer Stats

Hint	Answer	% Correct
Founder of the empire	Charlemagne	90%
Protestant reformer who nailed 95 theses on a church door	Martin Luther	90%
The above was the king of this kingdom before founding the empire	Kingdom of the Franks	84%
What Johannes Gutenberg invented	Printing Press	81%
European capital the Ottomans besieged, but fail to capture, in 1529 and 1683	Vienna	76%
Royal family that was the ruling dynasty of the empire from 1452 till its end in 1806	Habsburg	75%
War that was fought against almost the entire Europe between 1618–48	Thirty Years' War	68%
General who finally ended the empire in 1806 after the Battle of Austerlitz	Napoleon	67%
Confederation of merchant cities along the Baltic and North Seas	{Hanseatic} League	58%
City in which the Pope resided between 1309–76	Avignon	56%
"Great" emperor who unified the German tribes	Otto I	56%
City where the first university in the world was established in 1088	Bologna	51%
French philosopher who famously said: "the Holy Roman Empire was in no way holy, nor Roman, nor an empire"	Voltaire	51%
Bavarian city that is often referred to as the "unofficial capital" of the empire	Nuremberg	38%
Pope who crowned him the Holy Roman Emperor	Pope Leo III	35%
First emperor from that royal family	Frederick III	27%
City that was the most populous in the empire by the year 1600	Prague	27%
War famously fought between and Modena the above in 1325	War of the Bucket	25%
Factions that supported either the Emperor or the Pope in the Italian city-states	Guelphs / Ghibellines	24%
The most important conflict between secular and religious powers in medieval Europe	{Investiture} Controversy	18%
Official title of the Holy Roman Emperors, in English	Emperor of the Romans	8%