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Timeline of the 17th Century

How well do you remember historical events from 1601 until 1700?
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1. Which philosopher was burned at the stake for believing that the universe is infinite and that other solar systems exist?
Antoine Lavoisier ✓
Jean Bodin ✓
Giordano Bruno ✓
Michel de Montaigne ✓
2. What period of fine art, well known for its grandiosity and exaggeration, started in Italy around 1600?
Baroque ✓
Symbolism ✓
Realism ✓
Romanticism ✓
3. What town became the first permanent English settlement in the Americas in 1607?
Plymouth ✓
Jamestown ✓
Roanoke ✓
Charlestown ✓
4. Which English explorer tried to find the Northwest Passage in 1607?
William Bradford ✓
Henry Hudson ✓
Samuel de Champlain ✓
John Rolfe ✓
5. Which scientist discovered the moons of Jupiter in 1610?
Robert Boyle ✓
Gallileo Gallilei ✓
Johannes Kepler ✓
Christiaan Huygens ✓
6. What was the name of early English settler of North America who was married to Pocahontas?
William Penn ✓
Roger Williams ✓
John Rolfe ✓
John Smith ✓
7. What Native American tribe was Pocahontas from?
Sioux ✓
Cherokee ✓
Navajo ✓
Powhatan ✓
8. Miguel de Cervantes is best known for his novel "Don Quixote" completed in 1615. In what Spanish region is the story taking place?
Galicia ✓
Andalusia ✓
La Mancha ✓
Aragon ✓
9. What war was the result of the Reformation?
Forty Years' War ✓
Thirty Years' War ✓
Sixty Years' War ✓
Twenty Years' War ✓
10. The first Africans arrived in what British colony in America in 1619?
Georgia ✓
Connecticut ✓
Massachusetts ✓
Virginia ✓
11. What was the name of the ship of Pilgrims that landed in Massachusetts in 1620?
Juneflower ✓
Marchflower ✓
Aprilflower ✓
Mayflower ✓
12. What was the stage name of the comedic French playwright, whose works included "The Misanthrope" and "Tartuffe?"
Jolliet ✓
Voltaire ✓
Moliere ✓
Giotto ✓
13. Which artist painted Nicolaes Tulp (1632), Belshazzar's Feast (1635) and The Night Watch (1642)?
Peter Paul Rubens ✓
Rembrandt ✓
Caravaggio ✓
Jan Steen ✓
14. In which U.S state .was Harvard University founded in 1636?
North Carolina ✓
Maine ✓
Michigan ✓
Massachusetts ✓
15. "Cogito, ergo sum" is a statement that was made in Latin by which philosopher?
Rene Descartes ✓
Gottfried Leibniz ✓
Niccolo Macchiavelli ✓
Giordano Bruno ✓
16. In 1643, who led the first known European expedition to reach New Zealand and to sight the Fiji islands?
Abel Tasman ✓
James Cook ✓
Hernando de Soto ✓
John Cabot ✓
17. Which Italian violin maker opened a shop at Piazza Roma, prominent craftsmen square in Cremona?
Niccolo Paganini ✓
Antonio Salieri ✓
Antonio Stradivari ✓
Claudio Monteverdi ✓
18. Who was the "Lord Protector of the Commonwealth" of England?
Thomas Becket ✓
Oliver Cromwell ✓
Robert Walpole ✓
John Collins ✓
19. Who did the English colonists of New England fight in King Philip's war between 1675 and 1678?
Spanish ✓
Mexicans ✓
French ✓
Native American tribes ✓
20. Which physicist brought the theories of gravity and the basic laws of motion?
Albert Einstein ✓
Michael Faraday ✓
Max Planck ✓
Isaac Newton ✓
21. Which Caribbean port city was largely destroyed by a cataclysmic earthquake in 1692, leaving pirates to find another refuge and base of operations?
Port Royal ✓
Portobello ✓
Tortuga ✓
Havana ✓
22. For what crime 20 people were executed in Massachusetts in 1692-93?
Children abuse ✓
Rape ✓
Kidnapping ✓
Witchcraft ✓
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