History of Christianity in Europe Trivia

How much do you know about the ancient, medieval and modern history of Christianity in Europe?

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Hint (Antiquity and Medieval)	Answer
Island where St. Paul is said to have been shipwrecked	Malta
Country known as the "Eldest Daughter of the Church"	France
Country named after a Dalmatian saint fleeing the Diocletian Persecution	San Marino
Abbess from Kildare, one of the patron saints of Ireland, who shares the name of a Celtic goddess	St. Brigid
Irish saint who evangelized in Scotland	St. Columba
Byzantine Empress who opposed Chalcedonianism, and was accused of undermining the unity of Christendom	Theodora I
Saint regarded as the founder of Western Christian monasticism, who wrote the Rule	St. Benedict
First archbishop of Canterbury, the "Apostle to the English"	Augustine of Canterbury
Battle where Charles Martel defended France from the Muslim invasion	Battle of Tours
The attack on this monastery in 793 AD marks the beginning of the Viking Age	Lindisfarne
Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen known as the "Apostle of the North"	St. Ansgar
Two brothers known as the "Apostles to the Slavs" who created an alphabet for Old Church Slavonic	Cyril and Methodius
First Norse king to convert to Christianity	Harald Klak
King responsible for Christianizing the Kievan Rus	Vladimir the Great
Grandmother of the previously mentioned king, venerated in the Orthodox Church as "Equal to the Apostles"	Olga of Kiev
City where St. Nicholas is said to be buried	Bari
Region of Greece which continued practicing paganism until the 11th century	Mani Peninsula
Ascetic movement founded in 1173 AD that spread into the Alps	Waldensians

Hint (Early Modern Era)	Answer
French city home to seven successive popes in the 14th century	Avignon
Last European country to convert to Christianity, in 1387 AD	Lithuania
Leader of the Bohemian Reformation, which the Moravian Church claims descent from	Jan Hus
City where Martin Luther was declared a heretic following an imperial diet	Worms
City where radical Anabaptists attempted to establish a communal government	Munster
Former priest from Frisia who founded an Anabaptist movement	Menno Simons
Queen of Navarre who led the Huguenots	Jeanne d'Albret
Founder of the Methodist Church	John Wesley
Ethnic group in Scandinavia that converted to Christianity in the 18th century	Sami

Hint (Modern Era)	Answer
Country which experienced a revival in 1904-1905	Wales
City in which the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to three children in 1917	Fatima
Country which officially declared Jesus its king in 2016	Poland
Largest church in the world for more than 1000 years	Hagia Sophia
Former mosque that later became the largest cathedral in the world	Seville Cathedral
City where the relics of the Magi are said to be resting	Cologne
Church which claims to house relics of the Crown of Thorns, True Cross, Holy Lance, among others	Notre-Dame de Paris
Formerly Christian country where only 10% of the population identifies as Christian today	Czechia
At 99% Christian, it is the most Christian country in the world after the Holy See	Romania