Shakespeare said what?
This tragic prince of Denmark asked, “To be, or not to be?”
Hamlet
He painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.
Leonardo da Vinci
This man nailed 95 Theses to a church door and sparked the Reformation.
Martin Luther
This English monarch ruled during Shakespeare’s time.
Queen Elizabeth I
He sailed west from Spain and reached the Caribbean in 1492
Christopher Columbus
This Shakespearean play features star-crossed lovers from feuding families.
Romeo and Juliet
This artist sculpted a 17-foot-tall statue of David.
Michelangelo
This Polish astronomer proposed the heliocentric model of the universe.
Nicolaus Copernicus
This French heroine was burned at the stake in 1431.
Joan of Arc
This Portuguese explorer was the first to reach India by sea.
Vasco da Gama
This ambitious character was told by witches that he would be king.
Macbeth
This painter was known for his “School of Athens.
Raphael
This Englishman is considered the father of modern science and emphasized empirical methods.
Francis Bacon
This dynasty ruled Florence and was a major patron of the arts.
Medici
This Renaissance man sketched designs for flying machines and studied anatomy.
Leonardo da Vinci
Shakespeare’s theater in London shared its name with the planet.
The globe
He painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Michelangelo
This Italian wrote “The Prince,” a political guidebook for rulers.
Niccolò Machiavelli
This king broke away from the Catholic Church to form the Church of England.
Henry VIII
Guesseth what?
Chicken buttocks
This comedy ends with four weddings and a play-within-a-play in a forest.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
This architect redesigned St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
Donato Bramante
He invented the first practical printing press around 1440.
Johannes Gutenberg
This treaty in 1648 ended the Thirty Years’ War in Europe.
Peace of Westphalia
This Dutch inventor improved the telescope and helped launch the Scientific Revolution.
Galileo Galilei