Scavenger Hunt

Question 1

True or False? The Medici family were wool merchants and bankers.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

He was a tutor for the Medici children.

Answer 2

Galileo

Question 3

How many members of the Medici family were popes?

Answer 3

4

Question 4

Galileo named four of the moons of Jupiter after what or whom?

Answer 4

Children of the Medici family

Question 5

Ferdinando Medici was a patron of music. He helped to fund the invention of what musical instrument?

Answer 5

Piano

Question 6

Why did people drink beer and wine with their meals?

Answer 6

Water would make them sick

Question 7

What dance was invented in the 15th and 16th centuries?

Answer 7

Ballet

Question 8

What string instrument was invented during the renaissance?

Answer 8

Violin

Question 9

List a reason other than expense that meat was hard to get?

Answer 9

You need salt to preserve the meat

Question 10

What would be reattached to large game birds at feasts or weddings fore the meat decoration?

Answer 10

Feathers

Question 11

What was dessert called?

Answer 11

Fruit course

Question 12

What eating utensil was not yet invented?

Answer 12

Fork

Question 13

What was a doublet?

Answer 13

Snug fitting buttoned jacket

Question 14

What hair color was considered especially stylish for women?

Answer 14

Blonde

Question 15

Laws were often passed to keep the lower class from wearing what?

Answer 15

Fancy clothes

Question 16

Jewish men had to identify themselves by wearing a yellow circle on their shoulders. What did Jewish women have to wear?

Answer 16

Yellow scarf

Question 17

Why did women wear hats or veils?

Answer 17

To stay pale

Question 18

Define Polyphony

Answer 18

People singing over each other

Question 19

This instrument was similar to a violin.

Answer 19

Hurdy Gurdy

Question 20

This instrument was similar to a guitar.

Answer 20

Lute

Question 21

What were the 2 types of dances during the Renaissance?

Answer 21

Court dances and country dances

Question 22

What is considered the most important invention of the Renaissance and possibly in the history of the world?

Answer 22

Printing press

Question 23

What two things were invented due to the improvements in making lenses?

Answer 23

Telescope and microscope

Question 24

List any 6 inventions during the Renaissance.

Answer 24

Mechanical clocks, canons, flushing toilets, screwdriver, wallpaper, submarine

Question 25

Describe The Pieta.

Answer 25

A sculpture by Michelangelo

Question 26

It is considered Michelangelo’s most famous work of art.

Answer 26

David

Question 27

In 1505 Michelangelo was commissioned by the pope to paint the ceiling of what chapel?

Answer 27

Sistine chapel

Question 28

The ceiling he painted contained how may scenes from the bible?

Answer 28

9

Question 29

The most famous of all the scenes on the ceiling is what?

Answer 29

The creation of adam

Question 30

List a fact about the 300 people painted on the famous ceiling.

Answer 30

No 2 look alike

Question 31

What were the names of Shakespeare’s twins?

Answer 31

Judith and Hamnet

Question 32

This famous theater was originally built by Shakespeare.

Answer 32

The globe

Question 33

Shakespeare is credited with introducing 3,000 what?

Answer 33

Words to the English language

Question 34

The School of Athens features philosophers of ancient Greece. Name two

Answer 34

Plato and Aristotle

Question 35

What has become the most famous part of the Sistine Madonna?

Answer 35

Two angels

Question 36

Two of Da Vinci’s most famous paintings were the Mona Lisa and the what?

Answer 36

The last supper

Question 37

How many of Da Vinci’s painting exist today?

Answer 37

15

Question 38

The Mona Lisa is also called “La Giaconda”. What does that mean?

Answer 38

The laughing one