Statistics for Renaissance People

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
"Discovered" the Americas	Christopher Columbus	98%
Created many sketches for flying machines	Leonardo Da Vinci	98%
Sculpted "The David"	Michelangelo	97%
Discovered the Moons of Jupiter	Galileo	90%
Started the Protestant Reformation	Martin Luther	90%
Invented the Printing Press	Johannes Gutenberg	88%
Told storied of China to the Italians	Marco Polo	81%
Sometimes called the greatest writer of all time	William Shakespeare	80%
Wrote the "Divine Comedy"	Dante Alighieri	76%
First of a large Florentine Dynasty	Cosimo de Medici	73%
Said the Sun was at the center of the Solar System	Nicolaus Copernicus	73%
Wrote a book on how to gain power	Niccolò Machiavelli	66%
Painted The "School of Athens	Raphael	63%
Killed the Aztecs	Hernán Cortés	59%
Reached India from Portugal	Vasco de Gama	54%
Spanish Painter originally from Greece	El Greco	42%
Explored much of Canada	Henry Hudson	37%
Explored much of Newfoundland	John Cabot	19%
Wrote books criticizing the church	Erasmus	15%
Brought back Roman architecture	Filippo Brunelleschi	15%