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House of Medici

What do you know about famous rulers whose influence later spread to all of the Italian peninsula and the rest of Europe?
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1. In what century did the Medici family come to power?
13th ✓
17th ✓
15th ✓
2. What city did the Medici family rule?
Milan ✓
Venice ✓
Florence ✓
3. What trade did the Medici family deal to become wealthy?
Silk weaving ✓
Banking and wool ✓
Selling art ✓
4. Which member of the family was the founder of the Medici dynasty?
Giovanni ✓
Cosimo ✓
Lorenzo ✓
5. How many popes came from the Medici family?
2 ✓
4 ✓
3 ✓
6. What country did both Catherine de' Medici and Marie de' Medici become queens of?
France ✓
England ✓
Russia ✓
7. Which Medici ruler was know as "the Magnificent?"
Lorenzo ✓
Piero ✓
Cosimo ✓
8. Which of these diseases plagued many members of the Medici family?
Gout ✓
Yellow fever ✓
Haemophilia ✓
9. What was the name of the conspiracy to overthrow the Medici by murdering both Lorenzo and his brother Giuliano in 1478?
Pazzi conspiracy ✓
Albizzi conspiracy ✓
Medici conspiracy ✓
10. Which artist did Lorenzo give a room in the Medici palace to stay in and money to continue studying art?
Leonardo da Vinci ✓
Michelangelo ✓
Filippo Brunelleschi ✓
11. What was the name of Lorenzo's successor known as "the Unfortunate", under whose rule the Medici were temporarily overthrown?
Galeazzo ✓
Giulio ✓
Piero ✓
12. When the Medici were temporarily overthrown, the city came under the rule of a which fanatical monk?
Girolamo Savonarola ✓
Girolamo Riario ✓
Francesco Salviati ✓
13. What was the name of Cosimo de' Medici's wife?
Piccarda Bueri ✓
Clarice Orsini ✓
Contessina de Bardi ✓
14. Which member of Medici family became pope Clement VII?
Filippo ✓
Giulio ✓
Alessandro ✓
15. What was the name of Cosimo's grand-daughter who was married to Guglielmo de Pazzi from rival family?
Bianca ✓
Ginevra ✓
Maddalena ✓
16. Who painted famous "Mars and Venus", for whose painting the models were probably Giuliano de 'Medici and Simonetta Vespucci?
Sandro Botticelli ✓
Donatello ✓
Giotto ✓
17. Cosimo's son Piero and his wife Lucrezia had four children. Which was not among them?
Bianca ✓
Giuliano ✓
Lucrezia ✓
Lorenzo ✓
Carlo ✓
18. Which architect made Cosimo's dream to complete the Duomo of Florence?
Raphael ✓
Filippo Brunelleschi ✓
Michelangelo ✓
19. Which member of the Medici family was assassinated by the Pazzi family in front of 10,000 people at the Easter church service?
Giuliano ✓
Giovanni ✓
Cosimo ✓
20. Who was the head of the Pazzi family, who became the greatest enemies to the Medici family?
Francesco ✓
Jacopo ✓
Renato ✓
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