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What is the name of this iconic portrait that is often considered the magnum opus of the great Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci?
Elizabeth I
The Bird of Venus
Mona Lisa
Madame du Vallens
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The world famous Italian Renaissance musician and priest Claudio Monteverdi popularized what secular musical tradition that would become an Italian Renaissance staple?
Madrigal
Chanson
Overture
Ballad
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When discussing artists of the past, many historians like to divide individuals into schools based on where they worked. Having said that, the great painter Titian was considered the defining member of what 16th Century school?
The Spanish School
The Parisian School
The Austrian School
The Venetian School
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Which of the following plays is by the great William Shakespeare?
The Nutcracker
The Prince and the Pauper
L'Orfeo
Macbeth
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What is the name of this English play-write who perfected the Comedy of Humours genre in such works as The Alchemist and Every Man in His Humour?
Lucas Crichton
Wendell Briggs
Ben Johnson
Toby Lindel
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What artist created this Renaissance masterpiece that is called The Birth of Venus?
Alexander Randolph
Sandro Botticelli
Peter Manuel
Antonia Garcia
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Galileo Galilei was an astronomer of numerous accomplishments in his field. Among these was his work that would go on to prove what concept which means that the planets revolve around the sun and not the Earth?
Solar Rescaping
Refractural Fabricating
Heliocentricity
Solameridianism
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What man, often considered Spain's greatest Renaissance architect, designed the masterpiece that is The Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial?
Albert Jorin
Juan de Herrera
Jose de Riorden
Marco Merriniez
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The artist known as Peter Bruegel the Elder was fascinated by the way of life of the common folk of his time and decided to paint them in his works. For this reason, what nickname is often attached to his name?
"The Humble"
"The Layman"
"The Everyman"
"The Peasant"
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What is the name of the saint and political philosopher who wrote Utopia and was executed for opposing the creation of the Church of England?
Saint Alfred
Saint Thomas More
Saint George of England
Saint Thomas Aquinas
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John Napier was a Scotsman who exceeded in the fields of science and mathematics. Which of the following mathematical concepts did he formulate?
Logarithms
Square roots
The Law of Cosines
Order of operations
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The artistic pair Jean and Francois Clouet were of what relation?
No relation
Brothers
First cousins
Father and son
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Which of the following is the name of the Renaissance philosophy that mankind could carve out its own destiny and that every human had value as a living being?
Machiavellian
Dadaism
Humanism
Radiantism
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The ethics and philosophies of the Renaissance caused much desire to explore the new world in search of riches and wonders. What Spanish explorer discovered the land that would become the state of Florida?
Henry Hudson
Juan Ponce de Leon
Hernando Cortes
Francisco Pizarro
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Josquin de Prez was a musical master of the Renaissance who wrote much of the most popular vocal music of his time. He experimented with music that had multiple lines of text that happened independently of one another, a technique known by what term?
Polyphony
Homophony
Conjunctness
Disjunctness
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Luis de Morales was a man who enjoyed creating art that was based on heavenly subjects. Because of this, what nickname was often attached to his name?
"The Herald of Perfection"
"The Angelic"
"The Divine"
"The Heavenly Troubadour"
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What is the name of the Belgian Renaissance mathematician who studied the concept of reflections and produced the first study on the binocular vision of organisms?
Mercutio Valentino
Francois d'Aguilon
Virgil l'Arnett
Perciolus Antigone
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The Italian musician Monteverdi wrote what is often considered one of the oldest surviving operas, called what?
L'Orfeo
Aeneid
Romeo and Juliet
Wozzeck
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What is the name of the artistic mastermind who painted such works as Madonna of Chancellor Rolin and Portrait of Cardinal Niccolo Albergati?
Louis Pastel
Marion Hensel
Jan Van Eyck
Tristan de Francisco
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What scientist massively changed the world of scientific discovery and research by inventing the modern scientific method?
Nicholas Copernicus
Donovan Smith
Galileo Galilei
Maranda Clements
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What is the name of this iconic sculpture of Jesus in the arms of his mother, as sculpted by Michelangelo?
La Mortico
Pieta
L'everto
Nocturni Christo
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What English play-write was praised for his incredible story-telling by being given the nickname "The Bard of Avon"?
Felix Roberts
Marcus Lundgren
Thomas Bacon
William Shakespeare
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Titian's talent was so well appreciated in his day that he was called "The Sun Among Small Stars." This name is actually a reference to the final line of what literary masterpiece?
The Marriage of Figaro
The Divine Comedy
Waiting for Godot
Paradise Lost
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What inventor during the Renaissance had many ahead-of-the-times ideas, including some of the first designs for a glider and an army tank?
Leonardo de Vinci
Raphael
Leo Tyrasmus
Miles Valencia
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What is the name of the Renaissance military commander who conquered the great Incan Empire in the Americas by waiting to strike until a civil war had dwindled their numbers?
Amerigo Vespucci
Vasco de Gama
Hernan Cortes
Francisco Pizarro
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Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim is the ridiculously long name of a Renaissance scientist who is considered the father of modern pharmacy. By what common nickname is this man known?
Bartok
Paracelsus
Mediolus
Creigen
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During the Renaissance, England became the theatrical center of Europe. The inspiration to William Shakespeare, play-write Christoper Marlowe was highly popular until his death. In what way did Marlowe die?
He was crushed under a lifted piano
He was stabbed to death
He was poisoned
He was executed for high treason
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What great Renaissance artist painted the masterpiece known as The Creation of Man upon the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Michelangelo
Titian
Leonardo de Vinci
Sandro Botticelli
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What Catholic priest and political philosopher called for the Church to reform itself and wrote such works as Julius Exclusus and On Free Will?
Feliccio
Knoll
Llojien
Erasmus
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Jacques Cartier discovered what new land during the Renaissance, claiming it for France?
Canada
Madagascar
Australia
Brazil
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The mindset of Humanism was popularized by the works of what Italian writer and philosopher?
Fulton
Meriaum
Petrarch
Rousseau
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What Renaissance philosopher was so unhappy with the actions of the Catholic Church that he posted Ninety-Five Theses on the door of his local church, an action that began the Protestant Reformation?
Franklin Wells
John Wesley
John Calvin
Martin Luther
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What was the name of William Shakespeare's famous theater troupe?
The Players of Avon
The King's Men
The Gilded Guild
The 24 Men and a Mule
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One of the world's first true dance masters, Fabritio Caroso traveled his land and collected the dances of the people. He collected these dances into manuals, including what book that introduced ballet to the world?
Il Ballerina
La Danseries
La Pouret
Des Cadences
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What great explorer who discovered much of the uncharted world is often considered the man who introduced piracy to the Americas?
Edward Teach
Woods Rogers
Francis Drake
Robert Maynard
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The Renaissance musician known as Palestrina used his incredible talents to write music to be used in what events?
Operas
Funerals
Catholic Masses
Weddings
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Machiavelli was a philosopher whose works influenced an entire philosophy that bears his name. What book, considered his masterpiece, described how in order to gain power, one had to be ruthless?
The Prince
In Search of the Crown
The Pursuit
The Red Lust
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