General
What was the event that killed 30-60% of Europe's population leading up to the Renaissance.
What is the Black Death?
A written work that features two star crossed lovers...
What is Romeo and Juliet?
Leonardo Da Vinci's famous piece of artwork featuring a Florentine woman.
What is the "Mona Lisa"?
This invention was created in the year 1440 and helped boost literacy rates, as well as literature production.
An English King that had a total of six wives; two of them beheaded.
Who is King Henry VIII?
What is humanism?
The king of this Scandinavian country tells his son to kill a new king, the son's uncle...
What is Hamlet?
Created in 1485, this painting features Venus arriving in Cyprus on a seashell.
What is "The Birth of Venus"?
This invention began to replace the use of sundials/water clocks and was popularized in Europe.
What is the mechanical clock?
He wrote the Ninety-Five Theses in 1517.
Who is Martin Luther?
The word "Renaissance" derives from a word from which country?
What is France?
A book written in 1612 that criticized the chivalrous and idealistic tropes that were prevalent in literature around that time.
What is Don Quixote?
What is the "Last Supper"?
The development of more effective lenses during the Renaissance would lead to more discoveries and knowledge about space using this invention.
What is the telescope?
In 1705, an English man, who is known for his accomplishments with motion, was knighted.
Who is Sir Issac Newton?
This was prevalent in Renaissance architecture, used to stabilize buildings.
What is a column?
This book helped set in stone the trope of parallel realities and was written in 1516.
What is Utopia?
Painted in 1511, this painting symbolizes the idea of philosophy, theology, and more, with famous philosophers such as Plato in the center.
What is "The School of Athens"?
Similarly to the telescope, the development of lenses would lead to the creation of this invention, expanding our knowledge of the human body.
What is a microscope?
This man created an invention that made books, such as the Bible more prevalent.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
Being one of the most common instruments used during the Renaissance, this instrument has a pear-shaped appearance, similar to a guitar, and has strings in pairs called courses.
What is a lute?
Nicolaus Copernicus created this book that dismantled the common belief of the Earth being in the center of the universe.
What is "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres"?
Created in 1434, this painting features a couple at their wedding ceremony, with a man in a black outfit, and a woman in a rich, green dress.
What is "Arnolfini Wedding Portrait"?
Leonardo Da Vinci comprised the first sketches of this invention, which would later be more efficiently developed to be used as transportation and for military use on water.
What is the submarine?
This queen attended Shakespeare's first performance of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and was the last Tudor monarch.
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?