Which French Renaissance château features a famous double-helix staircase?
Answer
Château de Chambord
34719 Intermediate Trivia Questions
34719 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which Italian Renaissance architect wrote the treatise 'De re aedificatoria'?
Answer
Leon Battista Alberti
Which Venetian painter created the 'Venus of Urbino'?
Answer
Titian
Which Flemish cartographer created the Mercator projection world map in 1569?
Answer
Gerardus Mercator
Which Italian astronomer discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter?
Answer
Galileo Galilei
Which Polish astronomer published the heliocentric model in 'De Revolutionibus'?
Answer
Nicolaus Copernicus
Which French Renaissance author wrote 'Gargantua and Pantagruel'?
Answer
François Rabelais
Which English humanist wrote the book 'Utopia'?
Answer
Thomas More
Which Flemish painter created 'The Arnolfini Portrait'?
Answer
Jan van Eyck
Which Italian mathematician wrote 'Summa de Arithmetica'?
Answer
Luca Pacioli
Who painted the fresco 'The School of Athens'?
Answer
Raphael
Which English playwright wrote 'The Jew of Malta'?
Answer
Christopher Marlowe
Which Italian architect designed the Villa Rotonda?
Answer
Andrea Palladio
Which German artist created the engraving 'Melencolia I'?
Answer
Albrecht Dürer
Which French writer authored the 'Essays'?
Answer
Michel de Montaigne
Which Flemish painter completed the 'Ghent Altarpiece'?
Answer
Jan van Eyck
Which Italian architect designed the Palazzo Rucellai in Florence?
Answer
Leon Battista Alberti
Who wrote the book 'The Courtier' describing Renaissance courtly behavior?
Answer
Baldassare Castiglione
Which Italian Renaissance writer is known for his epic poem 'Orlando Furioso'?
Answer
Ludovico Ariosto
Who painted the fresco 'The Last Judgment' in the Sistine Chapel?
Answer
Michelangelo
Which Renaissance architect designed the Tempietto in Rome?
Answer
Donato Bramante
What is the title of the first book printed using movable type in Europe?
Answer
The Gutenberg Bible
Which Italian queen of France was a major patron of the arts during the Renaissance?
Answer
Catherine de' Medici
In what year was the Medici Bank founded?
Answer
1397
Which biblical scene is depicted at the center of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling?
Answer
The Creation of Adam
Which Renaissance astronomer first proposed a heliocentric model in his 1543 book?
Answer
Nicolaus Copernicus
What is the name of the influential Han dynasty mathematical text?
Answer
The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art
Which Han emperor sent Zhang Qian on his mission to the Western Regions?
Answer
Emperor Wu of Han
Which Tang emperor had a famous romance with Yang Yuhuan?
Answer
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang
What is the name of the Ming dynasty imperial palace in Beijing?
Answer
Forbidden City
Which Chinese emperor ordered the burning of books and burying of scholars?
Answer
Qin Shi Huang
What was the capital of the Qin dynasty?
Answer
Xianyang
Which dynasty added the most sections to the Great Wall?
Answer
Ming dynasty