Which Leonardo painting shows Mary with the Christ Child holding a cross-shaped yarnwinder?
Answer
Madonna of the Yarnwinder
34719 Intermediate Trivia Questions
34719 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which London museum displays Leonardo's Burlington House Cartoon?
Answer
National Gallery
At which Florence hospital was Leonardo permitted to dissect human corpses?
Answer
Santa Maria Nuova
Which doctor collaborated with Leonardo on anatomical studies from 1510 to 1511?
Answer
Marcantonio della Torre
Which room in Milan's Sforza Castle did Leonardo decorate with a tree-canopy illusion?
Answer
Sala delle Asse
Which French king bought the Mona Lisa after Leonardo's death?
Answer
Francis I
Which ancient Roman architect inspired Leonardo's Vitruvian Man?
Answer
Vitruvius
Which Brazilian city has been the country's second-most populous since 1960?
Answer
Rio de Janeiro
What was Jakarta's population in Indonesia's 2020 census?
Answer
10,562,088
What was Greater London's population in the 2021 census?
Answer
8,799,800
What was Berlin's population in the 2022 census?
Answer
3,596,999
Which city is the largest in the Faroe Islands?
Answer
Tórshavn
Which city is New Zealand's most populous?
Answer
Auckland
What population did Tehran record in Iran's 2016 census?
Answer
8,693,706
What was Beijing's resident population in the 2020 Chinese census?
Answer
21,893,095
Which metropolitan area had 21,436,911 residents in Mexico's 2020 census?
Answer
Greater Mexico City
Which city is Pakistan's second-most populous?
Answer
Lahore
Which U.S. city had 1,603,797 residents in the 2020 census?
Answer
Philadelphia
In which Spanish city did Christopher Columbus die in 1506?
Answer
Valladolid
What 1502 book did Columbus compile to document royal grants owed to him?
Answer
Book of Privileges
Which 1494 treaty shifted the Atlantic dividing line between Spain and Portugal?
Answer
Treaty of Tordesillas
Which pope issued the 1493 bull Inter caetera after Columbus's first voyage?
Answer
Alexander VI
Which city was Columbus based in from 1477 to 1485?
Answer
Lisbon
Who was the mother of Ferdinand Columbus?
Answer
Beatriz Enríquez de Arana
Which Portuguese noblewoman did Christopher Columbus marry?
Answer
Filipa Moniz Perestrelo
Which 1492 agreement set Columbus's terms with the Spanish Crown?
Answer
Capitulations of Santa Fe
What language is Columbus presumed to have spoken as his native language?
Answer
Genoese dialect
At which university was Albert Einstein an associate professor from 1909 to 1911?
Answer
University of Zurich
Which academy elected Albert Einstein as a member in 1914?
Answer
Prussian Academy of Sciences
Which 1955 anti-nuclear statement did Albert Einstein sign shortly before his death?
Answer
Russell-Einstein Manifesto
Which university awarded Albert Einstein his PhD in 1905?
Answer
University of Zurich
What was the name of the communist party that ruled East Germany when the Berlin Wall fell?
Answer
Socialist Unity Party
Which treaty, signed in 1990, settled the external aspects of German reunification after the Wall fell?
Answer
Two Plus Four Agreement