Thank you! A very nice quiz. However, I do think that Buonarroti should be accepted as a correct answer for Michelangelo, as it was his surname (: Does Fernao de Magalhaes work for Magellan? (I didn't check).
Do you also take great pride in that he was a German speaker from a German family that never identified himself with the Polish heritage, culture, or language? Because that would be nice to mention too. I we were into valuing people's nationalities instead of their universal contributions. Which I don't think we should.
Well, if you want to get technical, most of his documents were written in Latin, which was the official language of the Catholic Church and Poland's royal court. His father was from Krakow, and his mother was from Torun, and he lived all of his life within the Kingdom of Poland, even if that includes culturally Prussian lands. He was Polish, and he never denied this nationality. My mother speaks Polish far better than she speaks English, but she has been an American citizen for almost 30 years now. Does that make her not American?
Besides, many of the other historical figures on this quiz are described using their nationality, even if it is up for debate. The real question is, do you have to be that much of a genuine jerk when I harmlessly asked for a nice gesture for my culture? I did not disparage any other cultures, so why do you feel compelled to respond so vitriolically?
LinkinParkUnded: I apologize for sounding (being?) too vitriolic. I have nothing against Polish culture. On the contrary, I have always admired nations that have had to struggle through history placed between imperialistic powers. It's just that I'm strongly opposed to this "obsession" to classify everyone according to their nationality, specially when the situation is muddy due to the historical issues. Borders come and go, and many people have mixed nationalities. So, specially in not clear-case situations, I'd prefer to avoid classifying people by present day states.
make that 16th, the 14-hundreds were the 15th century... whatever the first two digits of a century are, its called by the next.. ie 2018 is the 21st century
I think this quiz could be slightly improved by putting the events in chronological order. It would give a better sense of the arc of events and help with context. In most cases, it would not make any difference for the individual events, but it is nice to come away with an understanding of the order of things.
I never read about Luther nailing the theses to the door without remembering a teacher who wrote about funny quiz answers his students turned in. One of them wrote that Martin Luther nailed 95 theocrats to the door because they forced him to eat a diet of worms. :)
That is an excellent answer :). My grandma was told by her Catholic priest that Luther was a devil when she was a child, and she believed Luther was a literal devil with horns and a red tail until her 60s. "Age doesn't keep me from learning new things", as she uses to say.
Great quiz! Just a suggestion: I did end up getting the right answer, but could you make clear that Raleigh popularized tobacco *in England*? In France, we usually credit Jean Nicot (the namesake for nicotine) with the introduction and popularization of tobacco, in the 1560s (seemingly even earlier that Raleigh did in Britain), although, after reading up on it, Nicot got his seeds from Flemish merchants in Lisbon, so he clearly wasn't the first in the Old World either.
Would be nice to include at least one question that isn't about either something that happened in Europe or something done by Europeans. Other places have history too.
When a quiz like this is reset, I always am left wondering what changed. After all, we're not getting fresh news stories from the 16th century! (Or are we?)
Besides, many of the other historical figures on this quiz are described using their nationality, even if it is up for debate. The real question is, do you have to be that much of a genuine jerk when I harmlessly asked for a nice gesture for my culture? I did not disparage any other cultures, so why do you feel compelled to respond so vitriolically?
This country launches a doomed counter-armada against Spain and failed even more.