Statistics for History of Italy

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Description	Answer	% Correct
Fascist leader of Italy, 1925–1943	Benito Mussolini	95%
Artist who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel	Michelangelo	90%
Lagoon-based city that dominated Mediterranean commerce in the Middle Ages	Venice	89%
City known as the "birthplace" of the above	Florence	87%
Cultural "rebirth" that started in Italy around 1300	Renaissance	87%
Scientist who discovered the moons of Jupiter	Galileo Galilei	83%
Frenchman who conquered Italy in the early 1800s and made many reforms	Napoleon	78%
African country invaded by Italy in 1935	Ethiopia	75%
Poet who wrote "The Divine Comedy"	Dante Alighieri	74%
Family that ruled that city. Notable members included Cosimo and Lorenzo.	Medici	70%
Rome's largest church, completed in 1626	St. Peter's	70%
Rival of that city; birthplace of Columbus	Genoa	66%
Title for the ruler of the above	Doge	56%
German empire that technically ruled Italy from 951–1806	Holy Roman	56%
Capital of Piedmont that was the first capital of Italy (1861–1865)	Turin	54%
Germanic tribe that ruled Italy from 568–774 and who gave their name to Milan's region	The Lombards	42%
Family name of the notoriously corrupt Pope Alexander VI (1492–1503)	Borgia	40%
General whose "redshirts" fought for that unification	Giuseppe Garibaldi	38%
First king of a united Italy (1861)	Victor Emmanuel II	35%
Faction that were rivals of the Ghibellines	The Guelphs	19%