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Category #1Category #2Category #4Category #5Category #6 Renaissance Philosophy Renaissance Philosophy Wars and the Military Wars and the Military Visual Arts Visual Arts New Monarchs New Monarchs Feeling Religious Feeling Religious Lets Exlore Lets Exlore $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $300 $400 $500 $300 $400 $500 $300 $400 $500 Click on any of the top squares to return to the Scoreboard.

$100 AnswerScoreboard This 14 th -century Florentine is considered the father of Humanism in Renaissance Italy.

$100 Petrarch Who is Petrarch? Round 1

$200 ScoreboardAnswer This philosopher wrote On the Dignity of Man and believed humans were capable of achieving great things.

$200 Pico Della Mirandola Who is Pico Della Mirandola? Round 1

$300 ScoreboardAnswer This Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII wrote Utopia, a view of an ideal society based on Renaissance ideals.

$300 Thomas More Who is Thomas More? Round 1

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$400 ScoreboardAnswer The Courtier, written by this diplomat, was the most important work on courtly behavior and the ideal of the quintessential Renaissance man.

$400 Baldassare Castiglione Who is Baldassare Castiglione? Round 1

$500 ScoreboardAnswer This Frenchmans development of the essay form and his ideas of skepticism made him an important figure in the late Renaissance.

$500 Michel de Montaigne Who is Michel de Montaigne? Round 1

$100 AnswerScoreboard This long war between England and France resulted in Englands loss of nearly all its French territories.

$100 Hundred Years War What is the Hundred Years War? Round 1

$200 ScoreboardAnswer This young peasant quasi- military leader helped the French defeat England in the Hundred Years War.

$200 Who is Joan of Arc Joan of Arc? Round 1

$300 ScoreboardAnswer The mutinous armies of this emperor sacked Rome in 1527.

$300 Who is Charles V Charles V? Round 1

$400 ScoreboardAnswer This late-fifteenth century struggle between two noble families led to the rise of the Tudor Dynasty in England.

$400 What is the War of the Roses War of the Roses? Round 1

$500 ScoreboardAnswer This policy resulted in the expulsion of Moors and Jews from Spain in the late-15 th century.

$500 reconquista What is the reconquista? Round 1

$100 AnswerScoreboard This sculptor created in the 15 th century the first bronze statue since antiquity.

$100 Donatello Who is Donatello? Round 1

$200 ScoreboardAnswer Michelangelo built a huge dome atop this basilica for the pope in the early-16 th century.

$200 St. Peters Basilica What is St. Peters Basilica? Round 1

$300 ScoreboardAnswer This technique was developed by Giotto to create 3-D effects. He used contrasts of light and dark colors.

$300 chiaroscuro What is chiaroscuro? Round 1

$400 ScoreboardAnswer This master of perspective built in Florence the then-largest dome in the world, known as Il Duomo.

$400 Brunelleschi Who is Brunelleschi? Round 1

$500 ScoreboardAnswer This German was the foremost Northern Renaissance artist, a master of the woodcut.

$500 Round 1 Albrecht Dürer? Who is Albrecht Dürer?

$100 AnswerScoreboard This arachnid monarch in France created a royal army and suppressed the nobility in the late- fifteenth century.

$100 Round 1 Louis XI (the Spider King)? Who is Louis XI (the Spider King)?

$200 ScoreboardAnswer These two monarchs united Spain in the late 15 th century and established the Reconquista.

$200 Ferdinand Isabella? Who are Ferdinand and Isabella? Round 1

$300 ScoreboardAnswer This French ruler instituted the taille and took power of appointing bishops away from the Church in the Concordat of Bologna (1516).

$300 Round 1 Francis I? Who is Francis I?

$400 ScoreboardAnswer This late-15 th century Tudor used the Star Chamber to reduce the power of the nobility.

$400 Round 1 Who is Henry VII?

$500 ScoreboardAnswer This ruler, though not really a new monarch, led both the Spanish and Austrian Hapsburg branches and was the most powerful European ruler of the 16th century.

$500 Round 1 Who is Charles V?

$100 AnswerScoreboard This northern humanist wrote a powerful critique of Catholic Church abuses in In Praise of Folly.

$100 Round 1 Erasmus? Who is Erasmus?

$200 ScoreboardAnswer This turn-of-the-16 th - century pontiff was the most worldly and corrupt of the Renaissance popes. He was a huge patron of Renaissance Art.

$200 Round 1 Alexander VI? Who is Alexander VI?

$300 ScoreboardAnswer This fourteenth century English theologian believed the Church should only follow scripture. His followers were the Lollards.

$300 Round 1 Who is John Wyclif?

$400 ScoreboardAnswer This leading French humanist produced five versions of the Psalms that challenged a single authoritative version of the Bible.

$400 Round 1 Jacques Lefevre dEtables? Who is Jacques Lefevre dEtables?

$500 ScoreboardAnswer This popular monk took control of Florence in the 1490s and created a theocratic republic hoping to clean up immorality and corruption. He was later burned alive!

$500 Round 1 Girolamo Savonarola? Who is Girolamo Savonarola?

$100 AnswerScoreboard This Portuguese explorer was the first to round the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa.

$100 Round 1 Bartholomeu Dias? Who is Bartholomeu Dias?

$200 ScoreboardAnswer This conquistador subdued the Aztecs in 1521.

$200 Round 1 Who is Hernán Cortés?

$300 ScoreboardAnswer This Portuguese explorer was the first European to find an all-water route to India.

$300 Round 1 Vasco da Gama? Who is Vasco da Gama?

$400 ScoreboardAnswer This Portuguese royal invested large sums of money in the mid- fifteenth century to fund expeditions down the western coast of Africa.

$400 Round 1 Prince Henry the Navigator? Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?

$500 ScoreboardAnswer This edict issued by the Pope in 1494 divided the world between Spain and Portugal by drawing a line down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

$500 Round 2 Treaty of Tordesillas? What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?

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Scoreboard Ultimate Question Answer This non-native Spanish painter was the most well- known of the Mannerists; his masterpiece was The Burial of Count Orgaz.

Scoreboard Ultimate Question Back to Ultimate Question El Greco? Who is El Greco?