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

Petrarch? Who is Petrarch? $100 Scoreboard

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

Pico Della Mirandola? Who is Pico Della Mirandola? $200 Scoreboard

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

$300 Scoreboard Thomas More? Who is Thomas More?

$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 Scoreboard Baldassare Castiglione? Who is Baldassare Castiglione?

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

Michel de Montaigne? Who is Michel de Montaigne? $500 Scoreboard

$100 Answer This long war between England and France resulted in England’s loss of nearly all its French territories.

Hundred Years’ War? What is the Hundred Years’ War? $100 Scoreboard

$200 Answer This young peasant quasi- military leader helped the French defeat England in the Hundred Year’s War.

Who is Joan of Arc? $200 Scoreboard

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

Charles V? Who is Charles V? $300 Scoreboard

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

What is the War of the Roses? $400 Scoreboard

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

reconquista? What is the reconquista? $500 Scoreboard

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

Donatello? Who is Donatello? $100 Scoreboard

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

What is St. Peter’s Basilica? $200 Scoreboard

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

chiaroscuro What is chiaroscuro? $300 Scoreboard

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

Brunelleschi Who is Brunelleschi? $400 Scoreboard

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

$500 Scoreboard Albrecht Dürer? Who is Albrecht Dürer?

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

Louis XI (the “Spider King”)? Who is Louis XI (the “Spider King”)? $100 Scoreboard

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

Ferdinand Isabella? Who are Ferdinand and Isabella? $200 Scoreboard

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

Francis I? Who is Francis I? $300 Scoreboard

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

Who is Henry VII? $400 Scoreboard

$500 Answer 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.

Who is Charles V? $500 Scoreboard

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

Erasmus? Who is Erasmus? $100 Scoreboard

$200 Answer 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.

Alexander VI? Who is Alexander VI? $200 Scoreboard

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

John Wyclif? Who is John Wyclif? $300 Scoreboard

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

$400 Scoreboard Jacques Lefevre d’Etables? Who is Jacques Lefevre d’Etables?

$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!

Girolamo Savonarola? Who is Girolamo Savonarola? $500 Scoreboard

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

$100 Scoreboard Bartholomeu Dias? Who is Bartholomeu Dias?

$200 ScoreboardAnswer This conquistador subdued the Aztecs in 1521.

$200 Scoreboard Who is Hernán Cortés?

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

Vasco da Gama? Who is Vasco da Gama? $300 Scoreboard

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

Prince Henry the Navigator? Who is Prince Henry the Navigator? $400 Scoreboard

$500 Answer 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.

Treaty of Tordesillas? What is the Treaty of Tordesillas? $500 Scoreboard

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

El Greco? Who is El Greco? Ultimate Question ScoreboardBack to Question