16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
Religious/Political Movements
Wild Card
100

This Pope failed to adequately respond to the start of Lutheranism.

Who is Pope Leo X?

100

This person founded the Congregation of the Mission and the Daughters of Charity. Bonus points for whichever team can tell me what these organizations were supposed to do.

Who is Vincent de Paul?

100

This period in European history is closely connected to the Scientific Revolution of the 17th Cenutry.

What is The Enlightenment?

100

This is the first Protestant Faith.

What is Lutheranism?
100

The Index of Forbidden Books was created during this Church assembly.

What is The Council of Trent?

200

Abuse of this controversial form of penance sparked the Protestant Reformation.

What are indulgences?

200

The Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith was founded because of this.

What is the Counter-Reformation?

200

This privilege of the first and second estate was a main factor in revolutionary anger. Bonus points to whichever team can tell me who made up the second estate.

What are tax exemptions?

200

This person is the head of the state Church of Anglicanism currently.

Who is King Charles III?

200

The diocese of Baltimore was directly connected to this event from the 17th Century.

What is the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith?

300

This was given its name due to priests giving their "nephews" (actually their illegitimate children) land and positions within the Church. It is still practiced today as a form of corruption.

What is nepotism?

300

This person was imprisoned by the Roman Inquisition for their work.

Who is Galileo Galilei?

300

The Jesuits controlled and established many of these across European nations and this was one of the reasons they were seen as a political threat.

What are schools?

300

Jansenism is tied to Calvinism and Presbyterianism by belief in this. Bonus points to whichever team can tell me who founded Calvinism and who founded Presbyterianism.

What is predestination?

300

French revolutionaries tried to change this system due to its ties to the Church and Pope Gregory XIII.

What is the (Gregorian) calendar?

400

This Marian apparition appeared as an Aztec princess.

What is Our Lady Of Guadalupe?

400

The Holy Roman Empire was a loose confederation of states which were ruled by one supreme state making it the antithesis of these.

What are nation-states?

400

This Pope presented the Encyclical Ex Omnibus to the Comte de Stainville.

Who is Pope Benedict XIV?

400

The Avignon Papacy directly fostered this political philosophy.

What is Gallicanism?

400

This combatant was the only direct Catholic connection to the American Revolution.

What are the French?

500

These heretical beliefs mean "By faith alone" and "By scripture alone." Bonus points for whichever team can explain why these two beliefs are heretical adequately.

What are sola fide and sola scriptura?

500

This event was a conflict between Protestants and Catholics, but also involved throwing someone out a window.

What is the Defenestration of Prague?

500

This social belief, which was based on Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection, clashed with the Christian ethics of the Social Gospel Movement.

What is Social Darwinism?

500

This Protestant denominations core tenet is pacifism and it was a massive proponent of the Social Gospel Movement; this denomination is also responsible for the creation of solitary confinement.

What are Quakers?

500

The number of Sacraments Protestants believe exist and what they believe the Eucharist is.

What is two sacraments? and What is symbolic?