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Questions |
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Answers |
| 1. |
What
king lost his life in the Battle of Flodden Field? |
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James
IV of Scotland |
| 2. |
Whose
marriage united Aragon and Castile and led to the final defeat
of the Moors in Spain? (2 pts) |
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Isabella
of Aragon and Ferdinand of Castile |
| 3. |
What
city was ruled by an elected official called the Doge? |
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Venice |
| 4. |
What
do cuisses protect? |
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Thigh |
| 5. |
List
the two of the Trivium of medieval university education. (2 pts) |
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Grammar,
Rhetoric, Logic |
| 6. |
What
part of a garment was called a maunch in medieval French? |
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The
sleeve |
| 7. |
What
was the federation of north German towns formed to protect
mutual trading interests? |
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Hansa |
| 8. |
What
English king's nickname was FitzEmpress? |
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Henry
II |
| 9. |
Who
was the first Christian king of Hungary? |
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St.
Stephen/Steven/Stephan/Istvan |
| 10. |
In
what city did John Calvin establish a religious theocracy?
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Geneva |
| 11. |
What
was Genghis Khan's given name? |
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Timujin |
| 12. |
What
people was Offa's Dyke constructed to keep out? |
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The
Welsh |
| 13. |
Who
acquired Pomerania from Mieszko II in 1031? |
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Cnut
of Denmark, Cnut the Great |
| 14. |
Who
wrote "In Praise of Folly"? |
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Erasmus
of Rotterdam |
| 15. |
What
term did the Arabs use for most Europeans? |
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Ferengi
or Franks |
| 16. |
What
time of day was Matins celebrated? |
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Midnight
or 2 AM |
| 17. |
Name
two fibers commonly used to make cloth in the Middle Ages. (2 pts) |
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Wool,
Linen, Silk, Nettle |
| 18. |
What
island was dominated in turn by the Byzantines, the Arabs,
the Normans, the Germans, the French and the Spanish? |
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Sicily |
| 19. |
Who
defeated the Norse in a battle at Clontarf in 1014? |
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Brian
Boru/Borumha/Brian of Munster |
| 20. |
What
feature particularly distinguishes the Gothic style of architecture
from the Romanesque? |
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Pointed
Arch |
| 21. |
What
woman united Denmark, Sweden and Norway in the late 14th century? |
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Margaret
of Denmark |
| 22. |
Who
declared himself "Emperor of the Serbs, Greeks, Bulgars
and Albanians" in 1346? |
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Stephen
Dushan, Stephen Urosh IV |
| 23. |
Whose
troops are said to have been captured and blinded by Emperor
Basil II Bulgaroktonos? |
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Tzar
Samuel of Bulgaria |
| 24. |
What
was the name of the king of Jerusalem who suffered from leprosy? |
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Baldwin
IV the Leper |
| 25. |
Name
the Prince of Wales who reigned during most of the 1st half
of the 13th century. |
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Llywelyn
the Great, Llywelyn ab Iowerth |
| 26. |
In
heraldic blazon, what does "queue forchee " indicate? |
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A
forked tail. |
| 27. |
What
Irish queen was Cú Chulainn's great enemy? |
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Medb
of Connacht |
| 28. |
What
was Salah ad-Din, Sultan of Egypt and Syria known to Europeans
of his time as? |
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Saladin |
| 29. |
In
what century was the Archbishopric of Peking created? (Two
points for the exact year!) |
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1275/1289 |
| 30. |
What
medieval European country's ships were the first to reach
India? |
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Portugal |
| 31. |
Name
the English royal office that got its name from the checkerboard
cloth used when rendering accounts. |
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Exchequer |
| 32. |
Who
was king of Hungary during the Mongol invasion in 1241? |
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Bela
IV |
| 33. |
Who
was crowned Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day, 800 A.D.? |
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Charlemagne |
| 34. |
What
Italian city was dominated by the de Medici family in the
15th century? |
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Florence |
| 35. |
Who
was granted the title Chef de Guerre in 1429? |
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Jeanne
D'Arc |
| 36. |
What
famous Tsar was a contemporary of Elizabeth I? |
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Ivan
the Terrible |
| 37. |
Against
what medieval heresy did Innocent III proclaim a crusade in
1208? |
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Albigensians
or Cathars |
| 38. |
What
Holy Roman Emperor was drowned in Turkey? |
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Frederick
Barbarossa |
| 39. |
Who
popularized the legend of King Arthur through his book "The
History of the Kings of Britain"? |
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Geoffrey
of Monmouth |
| 40. |
Where
was Outremer? |
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The
Holy Land |
| 41. |
What
subject was the University of Salerno famous for? |
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Medicine |
| 42. |
What
is the name of the French peasant rebellions that occurred
in the 14th century? |
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Jacquerie |
| 43. |
Who
was the first Christian king of Norway? |
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Olaf
Tryggvasson |
| 44. |
What
was the name of the Abbasid Caliph famous for the "Tales
of the Arabian Nights"? |
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Haroun
al'Rashid |
| 45. |
Who
did the Penance at Canossa in 1077? |
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Henry
IV of Germany |
| 46. |
Who
wrote a history of the Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus
know as "The Alexiad"? |
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Anna
Comnena |
| 47. |
Who
was declared Commander-in-Chief of the Netherlands in 1555
by Emperor Charles V? |
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William
the Silent or William of Orange |
| 48. |
What
medieval chess variation is played on a round board? |
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Byzantine
Chess |
| 49. |
Name
the king of Portugal who founded a university in Lisbon in
1292? |
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Diniz
the Worker/Dinis/ Diniz o Lavrador |
| 50. |
Blazon
France Ancient. |
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Azure,
semi-de-lies or |
| 51. |
What
Gothic tribe settled in Spain? |
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Visigoths |
| 52. |
What
kingdom did Alfred the Great rule? |
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Wessex |
| 53. |
What
king won the Battle of Bannockburn? |
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Robert
the Bruce |
| 54. |
Who
was known as the "Hammer of the Saracens"? |
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Charles
Martel |
| 55. |
What
city was known to the Norse as Miklagard? |
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Constantinople |
| 56. |
What
was the name of the meeting held in early 1521 at which Martin
Luther defended his doctrines? |
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Diet
of Worms |
| 57. |
What
was El Cid's real name? |
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Ruy
or Rodrigo Dias |
| 58. |
Who
united Lithuania and Poland under his rule to form the largest
country in Europe? |
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Wladyslaw
Jagiello |
| 59. |
Who
produced the famous systematic statement of Jewish law and
belief called the "Mishneh Torah"? |
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Moses
Maimonides |
| 60. |
Who
is the patron saint of travelers? |
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St.
Christopher |
| 61. |
What
woman wrote a manual on waging war called "Livre des
fais d'armes et de chevallerie"? |
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Christine
de Pisan |
| 62. |
What
year did the Black Death strike Europe? |
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1347-1350 |
| 63. |
What
king lost the Battle of Stamford Bridge? |
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Harald
Hardraada |
| 64. |
Who
is the patron saint of Wales? |
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St.
David or Dafydd or Dewi |
| 65. |
What
battle caused Serbia to become a vassal state of the Turks
in 1389? |
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Battle
of Kossovo |
| 66. |
Who
wrote the "Historia Danica"? |
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Saxo
Grammaticus |
| 67. |
What
French city became the seat of the Papacy in the 14th century?
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Avignon |
| 68. |
What
is a palimpsest? |
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A
reused parchment |
| 69. |
Name
two medieval European pole weapons. (2 pts) |
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Lance,
Volge, Bohemian Ear Spoon, Pike, Maul, Spear, Glaive, Halberd,
Holy Water Sprinkler |
| 70. |
What
Norman was known as Terror Mundi ("The Terror of the
World")? |
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Robert
Guischard |
| 71. |
What
does the motto "Honi soit qui mal y pense" mean? |
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Evil
be to him who evil thinks |
| 72. |
Name
two of the four humors of the body in medieval medical theory. (2 pts) |
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Phlegm,
Blood, Choler, Bile |
| 73. |
Who
defeated the Teutonic Knights at Lake Peipus in 1242? |
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Alexander
Nevski |
| 74. |
What
modern name is related to the Welsh name Gwenhwyfar? |
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Jennifer |
| 75. |
Who
proselytized Christianity in Kyoto in 1550? |
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St.
Francis Xavier |
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