Location, Location, Location Some HistoryThe ArtistThe WallsThe Ceiling

Question The Sistine Chapel is located in this city.

Answer 1 – 100 Vatican City

Question The Sistine Chapel is located in this country.

Answer 1 – 200 Vatican City

Question If you travel one mile north, south, east, or west of the Sistine Chapel, you would be in this city.

Answer 1 – 300 Rome

Question If you travel one mile north, south, east, or west of the Sistine Chapel, you would be in this country.

Answer 1 – 400 Italy

Question This Sistine Chapel is nestled against this basilica.

Answer 1 – 500 St. Peter’s

Question This was the name of the original chapel which once stood where the Sistine Chapel is now.

Answer 2 – 100 “Capella Magna”

Question This is the year that reconstruction of the Sistine Chapel began (during the 15 th Century).

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Question This is the name of the Pope who began reconstruction on the Sistine Chapel.

Answer 2 – 300 Pope Sixtus IV

Question This is the saint who was crucified in the first century and buried directly beneath the Vatican.

Answer 2 – 400 St. Peter

Question This was the original decoration of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Answer 2 – 500 Gold Stars, Blue Sky

Question This is the name of the artist who painted the frescos on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Answer 3 – 100 Michelangelo

Question This is the name of the Pope who asked for a new painting project on the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

Answer 3 – 200 Pope Julius II

Question This was when (give or take 5 years) the Pope first asked for a new painting project on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

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Question This is the year that repainting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel commenced.

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Question This was the year that repainting of the Sistine Chapel was completed.

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Question This is what are painted on the first layer of the Sistine Chapel walls, immediately above the floor; they look like hanging carpets.

Answer 4 – 100 Tapestries

Question Paintings on the Sistine Chapel walls, the second level up, depict the life of this Old Testament figure.

Answer 4 – 200 Moses

Question Paintings on the Sistine Chapel walls, the second level up, depict the life of this New Testament figure.

Answer 4 – 300 Christ

Question Before we reach the ceiling, we find depictions of these Old Testament figures (who line the top of the outside walls).

Answer 4 – 400 Prophets

Question Before we reach the ceiling, we find depictions of these Greek mythological figures (who line the top of the outside walls).

Answer 4 – 500 Sybils

Question This was the original proposal which the Pope made for the subject matter of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Answer 5 – 100 The Twelve Apostles

Question On the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the artist painted scenes from this book of the Bible.

Answer 5 – 200 Genesis

Question The Paintings of Creation are closest to this piece of chapel furniture.

Answer 5 – 300 The Altar

Question In the Creation of Adam, God’s “encasement” or surrounding looks an awful lot like this.

Answer 5 – 400 A human brain

Question God is depicted as having this physical feature, which would suggest age and ancient wisdom.

Answer 5 – 500 A white beard