Whodunits
Nationality
Year of Births
Year of Deaths
Vocabulary
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Who created architectural designs and churches including the dome, the lantern, and the exedra?
Brunelleschi created architectural designs and churches including the dome, the lantern, and the exedra.
100
What nationality is Brunelleschi?
Brunelleschi is Italian.
100
What year was Brunelleschi born?
Brunelleschi was born in 1377.
100
What year did Brunelleschi die?
Brunelleschi died in the year 1446.
100
What is the definition of anatomy?
The science that deals with the structure of organisms and humans.
200
Who created flying machines, tanks, concentrated solar power, an adding machine, and the double hull?
Leonardo da Vinci created flying machines, tanks, concentrated solar power, an adding machine, and the double hull.
200
What nationality is Leonardo da Vinci?
Leonardo da Vinci is Italian.
200
What year was Leonardo da Vinci born?
Leonardo da Vinci was born in 1452.
200
What year did Leonardo da Vinci die?
Leonardo da Vinci died in the year 1519.
200
What is the definition of geometry?
The mathematics of the properties, measurement, and relationships of points, lines, angles, surfaces, and solids.
300
Who created the book, De humani corporis fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body)?
Andreas Vesalius created the book De humani corporis fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body).
300
What nationality is Andreas Vesalius?
Andreas Vesalius is Belgian.
300
What year was Andreas Vesalius born?
Andreas Vesalius was born in 1514.
300
What year did Andreas Vesalius die?
Andreas Vesalius died in the year 1564.
300
What is the definition of autopsy?
An examination of a dead body to find out the cause of death.
400
Who created the book Gargantua and Pantagruel?
Francois Rabelais created the book Gargantua and Pantagruel.
400
What nationality is Francois Rabelais?
Francois Rabelais is French.
400
What year was Francois Rabelais born?
Francois Rabelais was born in 1483.
400
What year did Francois Rabelais die?
Francois Rabelais died in the year 1553.
400
What is the definition of algebra?
The part of mathematics in which letters and other general symbols are used to represent numbers and quantities in formulae and equations.
500
Who was the founder of modern human anatomy?
Vesalius is the founder of modern human anatomy.
500
Which two thinkers were Italian?
Brunelleschi and Leonardo da Vinci are two Italian thinkers.
500
Which thinkers were born in the year 1377 and 1452?
Brunelleschi and Leonardo da Vinci were born in those years.
500
Which thinkers died in the year of 1564 and 1553?
Andreas Vesalius and Francois Rabelais in those years.
500
What is the definition of polymath? Give an example of a person who is a polymath.
A person of wide-ranging knowledge or learning. Ex: Leonardo da Vinci.
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