It's Wednesday, and that means that it's time for yet another episode of our famous* Monday history quiz. This week we're focused on the 1480's. I hope you'll take a couple of minutes to take a stab at the quiz and leave your answers below. If you want to check your answers from last week, please click the button below.
Those brave enough to post their attempts last week did very well. John got the best individual score with seven points, but Adam successfully identified the emperor and Ale recognised an angel, so overall the team managed nine.
Let's see if we can do even better in the 1480's
2. Also in 1480, Ivan III finally ejected which group of people, who'd been ruling over the Rus for more than two centuries?
3. 1480 saw the restoration of the Sistine Chapel, famously home to papal conclaves as well as Michelangelo's Creation of Adam. But why's it called the Sistine Chapel?
5. One of the most famous cases of missing persons ever known, the 'Princes in the Tower' occurred in 1483. But wait, which princes? And which tower?
6. 1487 saw the introduction in Munich of the Reinheitsgebot, a law that has remained virtually unchanged to this day. What does the Reinheitsgebot impose regulations on?
8. The 1480s also saw the first publication of the Malleus Maleficarum, a bestselling book that would go on to be highly influential throughout Europe for two hundred years, despite being roundly condemned as theologically and ethically unsound when released. What's the Malleus all about?
9. The first documented cases of red spots, delerium and gangenous flesh leading to death occurred during the War of Grenada in 1489. Which disease, that Charles Nicolle was given the 1928 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering was transmitted by lice, was the likely culprit?
Don't forget to leave your answers below. No guess goes unappreciated.
*Fame not included.
2 comments:
Okay, let's do this!
1 There’s a clear southern limit to Africa (and the coast links back up from the west to the east) - since at this point they’d navigated the cape of good hope etc and proved that it didn’t just go on forever.
2 okay now it’s definitely the golden horde this time.
3 built by/in honour of a Pope Sixtus?
4 The Pharos of Alexandria?
5. Strictly speaking, only one of them was a prince - Edward V of England was a king! I’m not so sure about his brother’s name; I’ll opt for Richard. They were imprisoned in the Tower of London by their uncle the Lord Protector, Richard the duke of Gloucester (who’d at some point crown himself Richard III).
6. Boat traffic on the river Rhine?
7. The Canary Islands?
8. Witch-hunting and demons, I think.
9. Measles?
10. This is a tricky one. Given the dedication, we can rule out anywhere within the contemporary Christian and Islamic worlds, but since there’s no date set on the Portuguese arrival it could be almost anywhere else within the world - the Americas, southern or eastern Asia, much of Africa, even out in the Pacific. I’m going to resist “panama” as too pat (and because it’s an isthmus, not a peninsula) and opt for the Malay peninsula. Probably wrong.
0) This is too hard today
1) You can sail around the bottom of Africa
2) Teutonic knights (for absolutely no reason)
3) It is the most famous of many sistine chapels, and therefore it is The Sistine Chapel (We know, because we have been there and we totes pay attention to things that happen around us)
4) Hanging Gardens of Babylon (because that is Syls favourite Wonder)
5) Tower of London, a Protestant Prince (see answer 0)
6) Public Drunkenness (as we know very little about Munich, or anything)
7) Canary Islands (Rhymes with Granary)
8) Witches, and the hunting thereof (I mean Maleficarum, amirite (its unlikely))
9) Small Pox, (because it has red spots, a completely unique symptom of disease)
10) Malay Peninsula (has some similar sounds)
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