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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• The Spanish Inquisition

In what year was the first Inquisition tribunal established in the Americas?

Answer

1570

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• The Spanish Inquisition

How many tribunals did the Spanish Inquisition have at its peak in the 16th century?

Answer

21

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• The Spanish Inquisition

From 1561, where was the supreme council of the Spanish Inquisition located?

Answer

Madrid

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Galileo Galilei

What cardinal gave Galileo a warning in 1616 to not teach heliocentrism?

Answer

Robert Bellarmine

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Galileo Galilei

In what year did Galileo move to Florence to become mathematician?

Answer

1610

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Galileo Galilei

What phrase is attributed to Galileo after his abjuration?

Answer

E pur si muove

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Galileo Galilei

What spacecraft sent to Jupiter was named after Galileo?

Answer

Galileo

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Galileo Galilei

In what year did Galileo begin teaching at the University of Padua?

Answer

1592

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• Galileo Galilei

Who was Galileo's student and correspondent on heliocentrism?

Answer

Benedetto Castelli

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Galileo Galilei

What unit of acceleration is named after Galileo?

Answer

Gal

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Galileo Galilei

What is the title of Galileo's 1623 work on comets?

Answer

The Assayer

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• Galileo Galilei

What was the name of Galileo's long-term mistress?

Answer

Marina Gamba

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