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2008 04 10: Q0017

Medieval European History – that’s the topic for today’s 10 questions. Just to hone up your grey cells, I mention here, “all the continents of the world have their names started as well as ended in ‘A’…of course except EUROPE.

1. Which English King had six wives?
2. What diminutive dictator ruled post-Revolutionary France?
3. Who started the Protestant Reformation by posting Ninety-Five Theses on the door of the Schlosskirche
4. In 1588, what did the British navy defeat, making England Europe's most powerful nation?
5. What is the name of the medieval fortress and prison that was stormed by French Revolutionaries on July 14, 1789?
6. Who did Elizabeth I of England marry?
7. What Italian astronomer used a telescope to prove Copernicus's theory of a heliocentric solar system?
8. What was the name of the theatre that William Shakespeare partly owned?
9. What were colonial-era British soldier's nicknamed?

10. Who did Pope Julius II hire to decorate the ceiling of his chapel in 1508?

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