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Question	Answer	% Correct
What family ruled the city throughout the Renaissance?	Medici	90%
What artist is most known today for his frescos at the Sistine Chapel?	Michelangelo	85%
In what wealthy and powerful Italian city did the Renaissance get its start?	Florence	81%
What invention is most associated with Johannes Gutenberg?	Printing press	72%
Who painted the Last Supper?	Leonardo da Vinci	70%
What drawing of da Vinci's portrays a man who has perfect proportions?	The Vitruvian Man	70%
Martin Luther was the catalyst of the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. Where was he from?	Germany	64%
Which literary work is the story that describes Dante's view of the afterlife?	The Divine Comedy	59%
How did the Medici family become wealthy?	Banking and wool	56%
Which Italian sculptor created statues of David, Mary Magdalene and the Madonna?	Donatello	54%
What priest wrote the book Praise and Folly and was responsible for spreading humanism throughout northern Europe?	Erasmus	46%
What did Filippo Brunelleschi spend most of his life designing and building?	Florence Cathedral	45%
Who is often called the "Father of Humanism?"	Francesco Petrarch	45%
What sculptor was one of the pioneers of Renaissance art with sculptures such as the Gattamelata?	Donatello	44%
How many popes came from the Medici family?	4	43%
Which philosopher was burned at the stake for believing that the universe is infinite and that other solar systems exist?	Giordano Bruno	43%
What country did both Catherine de Medici and Marie de Medici become queen of?	France	40%
What artist worked for the Medici family in Florence and painted several portraits of them?	Sandro Botticelli	35%
Borgia family are descendants of a noble line, originally from which Spanish city?	Valencia	32%
Who is the author of the Decameron, the book that has a number of stories and describes life in 14th century Italy?	Giovanni Boccaccio	30%
Which astronomer is known for his discovery of the three major laws of planetary motion?	Johannes Kepler	29%
Which child of Rodrigo Borgia and Vanozza dei Cattanei became a cardinal and was a major inspiration for The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli?	Cesare	27%
Which member was the founder of that dynasty?	Cosimo	25%
Which member of Borgia family was known as Pope Alexander VI from 1492 to 1503?	Rodrigo Borgia	22%
Who is often regarded as the "Father of Renaissance painting?"	Giotto	17%
Which astronomer from Renaissance developed instruments that were used in measuring and fixing the position of stars?	Tycho Brahe	12%