Renaissance Jeopardy

Art

100

Published a work called The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

Nicolaus Copernicus

200

Michelangelo painted the roof of this building.

What is the Sistine Chapel?

300

I painted David in Bronze.

Who is Donatello

400

Hugely important Renaissance artist who produced works of art from paintings, building, engravings and sculptures.

Raphael

500

Was a genius for invention, created nature sketches and human models

DaVinci

Explorers

100

Italian explorer who completed four Spanish based voyages sponsored by Catholic monarchs

Christopher Columbus

200

Sailed around South Africa and the Cape of Good Hope

Vasco de Gama

300

Led the way in exploration for Portugal

Prince Henry

400

Set out from Spain with five ships to find a way to reach the Pacific.

Ferdinand Magellan

500

The names of Columbus' two small ships

Pinta and Santa Maria

People

100

I wrote plays, many for Queen Elizabeth. Today, students in high school still learn about my plays and poems in their english class.

Who is Shakespeare?

200

He influenced the Treaty of Tordesillas through his discoveries of new lands

Columbus

300

I was upset that divided up Italy was getting picked on by neighboring countries so I wrote a book on how to get into power and how to keep it.

Who is Machiavelli?

400

He was often called Leonardo of the North

Albrecht Durer

500

I took the throne at nine years old and died when I was sixteen. I tried giving the crown to my cousin, Lady Jane Grey.

Who is Edward VI?

Misc

100

This means "rebirth" in french

What is Renaissance?

200

He summoned Martin Luther to the diet.

Charles V

300

Intellectual movement that led to the study of worldly subjects such as math, sciences, and arts.

What is Humanism?

400

Venice ordered Jews to live in a separate quarter of the city because?

They refused to convert to Christianity

500

This is why Italy was able to aquire different cultures and technologies during the Renaissance? The location of Italy helped them do this.

What are trade routes?

Random

100

 A sun centered view of the universe is called

heliocentric

200

A protest against the practices of the church that errupted in the Renaissance period.

What is the Protestant Reformation?

300

Belief that God already knows if you're going to heaven or not before you're born.

What is Predestination?

400

to sail around

circumnavigate

500

I ticked off the Catholic Church, but I believed that the Sun was in fact the center of the universe! I am also considered the father of astronomy.

Who is Galileo?