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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• The Spanish Inquisition

Which city housed the Spanish Inquisition tribunal established for Peru in 1570?

Answer

Lima

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• The Spanish Inquisition

The Spanish Inquisition replaced which earlier papal-controlled institution?

Answer

Medieval Inquisition

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• The Spanish Inquisition

Which 1478 papal bull let the Catholic Monarchs appoint inquisitors for Castile?

Answer

Exigit sincerae devotionis affectus

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• The Spanish Inquisition

Which former Inquisition secretary published a critical history from French exile in 1817?

Answer

Juan Antonio Llorente

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• The Spanish Inquisition

Which Dutch-born future pope was Grand Inquisitor of Aragon in 1516?

Answer

Adrian of Utrecht

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• The Spanish Inquisition

In what year was the permanent Castilian tribunal at Granada established?

Answer

1526

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• The Spanish Inquisition

Which religious order adopted the Decree de genere in 1593?

Answer

Jesuits

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• The Spanish Inquisition

Which pope approved a blood-purity statute for the Hieronymites in 1496?

Answer

Alexander VI

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• The Spanish Inquisition

Which city enacted the first blood-purity statute in 1449?

Answer

Toledo

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• The Spanish Inquisition

Which monastery library kept many banned texts collected by Philip II and Philip III?

Answer

Monasterio del Escorial

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• The Spanish Inquisition

Which Spanish literary work was expurgated in 1632 and fully banned by the Inquisition in 1790?

Answer

La Celestina

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• The Spanish Inquisition

Under which king did the Inquisition prosecute Protestant communities in Valladolid and Seville from 1558 to 1562?

Answer

Philip II

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