This week, we’re traveling back in time, because Hallie has written six trivia questions all about the Renaissance! We also talk about video games, art, and one of the most strangely cast movies we’ve ever heard of!
2:42: Q1 (Times & Places): In Florence, the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance, the Medici family ruled for many years. The family produced four Popes of the Catholic Church during this time. Name any one of these Popes.
14:11: Q2 (Sports & Games): What 3D fighting game, the second game in a series of the same name, premiered in arcades in 1998 and is about the pursuit of a mystical sword during the Renaissance?
20:34: Q3 (Movies & TV): What 1965 American historical drama starred Charlton Heston as Michelangelo and Rex Harrison as Pope Julius II?
26:41: Q4 (Arts & Literature): In 2017, what Leonardo da Vinci painting, Latin for “Savior of the World”, became the most expensive painting ever sold?
34:42: Q5 (Music): During the Renaissance, what type of musical composition was usually based on a
cantus firmus, and was usually for a tenor voice?
39:42: Q6 (Everything Else): The Scientific Revolution, which took place during the second half of the Renaissance, began with the revolution named for what polymath who created the heliocentric model of the Solar System?
Theme music: "Thinking it Over" by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY 2.0