Years
Inventions
Family
Events (years)
Awards
100

What year was Galileo born?

What is 1564?

100

What celestial invention did he make?

What is, The Telescope
100

What year did galileo have his first child?

What is 1600?

100

In what year did Galileo first hear about the invention of the telescope, which would lead to him building his own?

What is 1609?

100

What award did he win for mathematics? 

The Chair Of Mathematics   

200

What year did Galileo die?

What is 1642?

200

What book/books did he publish? Multiple answers (Before house arrest)

What is, Sidereus Nuncius,Discourse on Floating Bodies,The Assayer (Il Saggiatore) 

200

What financial difficulty faced by Galileo’s family caused him to withdraw from the University of Pisa before completing his degree?

What is, lack of funds?

200

 In what year did Galileo present his discoveries to the Venetian Senate, securing his position as the chief mathematician and philosopher of Venice?

What is 1609?

200

What did he discover about jupiter?

What is Moons?

300

What year Galileo was put on trial for heresy by the Roman Catholic Church?

What is 1633?

300

What book did he publish while on house arrest?

What is "Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences"

300

After leaving the University of Pisa, where did Galileo work as a tutor in mathematics while living with his family?

What is the Florentine Academy?

300

In what year did Galileo publish his book Sidereus Nuncius, revealing his observations of the moons of Jupiter?

What is 1610?

300

What ancient Greek did Galileo prove wrong by dropping the balls from The Tower Of Pisa?

What is Aristotle?

400

What year the Catholic Church formally acknowledged its error in condemning Galileo for supporting the heliocentric theory?

What is 1992?

400

What is the name of the instrument he created to find the specific gravity of objects by weighing them in water?

What is the hydrostatic balance?

400

Who Galileo's father? Clue was a musician who initially hoped his son would pursue medicine?

What is, Vincenzo Galilei

400

 In what year did Galileo receive a letter from the Inquisition warning him against advocating the Copernican heliocentric model?

What is 1616?

400

What did the heliocentric theory do to the Roman Catholic Church?

What is Weakened it?

500

What year did Galileo enrolled at the University of Pisa to study medicine, though he later shifted to mathematics?


What is 1581?

500

What device, invented by Galileo in 1609, was an early version of the thermometer and relied on the expansion of air to indicate temperature changes, but was not yet calibrated to provide precise measurements?

What is the Thromometer?

500

Where did Galileo receive his early education after moving with his family to Florence in 1574?

What is a monastery near Florence?

500

In what year was Galileo convicted of heresy by the Roman Catholic Church, leading to his trial and eventual house arrest?

What is 1633?
500

What was proven wrong after the creation of the telescope?


What is the theory of geocentrism?