Science & Discoveries
$100: The process of making observations, experimenting, and drawing conclusions based on evidence.
What is the Scientific Method?
$100: Opposing Church teachings…or teaching something that the Church does not support.
What is heresy?
$100: A work in which the characters and events are meant to symbolically express a deeper moral or political meaning.
What is an allegory?
$100: Sentenced to house arrest for arguing that the Sun was at the center of the universe, not the Earth.
Who is Galileo?
$100: How old am I?
Answer: What is [insert your age]?
$200: The science that deals with the structure of animals and plants.
What is anatomy?
$200: Official exclusion from the Catholic Church.
What is excommunication?
$200: A crafty, unscrupulous person who seeks and holds power by any means possible.
What is Machiavellian?
$200: A person who copied books.
What is a scribe?
$200: What university did I attend?
Answer: What is [insert your university]?
$300: Science of the stars.
What is astrology?
$300: Certificates that reduced the time people would be punished for their sins after they died.
What are indulgences?
$300: The collective point of view of a specific group; in art, representing objects as they appear to the eye.
What is perspective?
$300: To spread information.
What is disseminates?
$300: What other classes do I teach besides Social Studies?
Answer: What are [insert other classes you teach]?
What is the process of making observations, experimenting, and drawing conclusions based on evidence called?
a) Anatomy
b) Astrology
c) The Scientific Method
c) The Scientific Method
$400: After losing much of its authority due to the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Church met to reform.
What is the Catholic Counter-Reformation?
Which scientist confirmed the Sun-centered universe by studying the stars?
a) Galileo Galilei
b) Nicolaus Copernicus
c) Johannes Kepler
a) Galileo Galilei
How did Humanism influence scientific discoveries?
a) It promoted questioning and experimenting with ideas.
b) It encouraged traditional remedies.
c) It banned dissection.
a) It promoted questioning and experimenting with ideas.
$400: Name one other school I have taught at besides St. John XXIII.
Answer: What is [insert other school(s) you’ve taught at]?
Before the Renaissance, what did most Europeans believe about the Earth and the Sun?
a) The Earth moved around the Sun.
b) The Earth was flat.
c) The Sun revolved around the Earth.
c) The Sun revolved around the Earth.
Why did the idea of a Sun-centered universe challenge people's beliefs?
a) It contradicted the belief that Earth was the center of the universe.
b) It was based on astrology.
c) It proved ancient remedies wrong.
a) It contradicted the belief that Earth was the center of the universe.
A doctor in the Renaissance wants to study anatomy. Which development allows them to do so?
a) The creation of astrology-based remedies.
b) The legalization of dissection in many cities.
c) The invention of the printing press.
b) The legalization of dissection in many cities.
Why did medical practices based on astrology persist during the Renaissance?
a) They were supported by the scientific community.
b) They were deeply rooted in culture and religion.
c) They were scientifically proven.
b) They were deeply rooted in culture and religion.
$500: How tall am I? (If you guess too low, you lose a lot of points!)
Answer: What is [insert your height]?