15th Century Quiz

Try out this 15th Century quiz to test your knowledge. 15th Century trivia explores a century marked by the Renaissance, the fall of Constantinople, and the voyages that began to connect distant parts of the world more directly.

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Question 1 · Easy · 10 pts
The Giants have a longstanding rivalry with which team?
Question 2 · Hard · 40 pts
Which reformer’s followers were known as the Hussites?
Question 3 · Hard · 40 pts
A collector boasts that a volume is an incunable. What must be true about when it was printed?
Question 4 · Hard · 40 pts
In late medieval Catholic usage, an indulgence was associated with the remission of what exactly?
Question 5 · Hard · 40 pts
Which 1493 publication was an illustrated world history?
Question 6 · Hard · 40 pts
Name the important imperial city in the Holy Roman Empire that shares its name with a major 1493 chronicle.?
Question 7 · Hard · 40 pts
Late 15th-century Atlantic ventures gave which Spanish port special prominence?
Question 8 · Hard · 40 pts
If a late medieval mariner wanted a practical nautical map rather than a devotional manuscript, what kind of chart would fit the bill?
Question 9 · Hard · 40 pts
Which trading city held a strategic position on the strait connecting the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea?
Question 10 · Hard · 40 pts
Which settlement on Hispaniola was founded by the Spanish in 1496?
Question 11 · Hard · 40 pts
What labor-and-rule arrangement began in the Spanish Caribbean after Columbus’s voyages?
Question 12 · Easy · 10 pts
What kind of sail is triangular rather than square?
Question 13 · Easy · 10 pts
Which Early Netherlandish painter was active in the first half of the 15th century?
Question 14 · Easy · 10 pts
Which English king was the last to die in battle?
Question 15 · Easy · 10 pts
Which artist worked in Florence during the 15th century?

The Giants have a longstanding rivalry with which team?

Which reformer’s followers were known as the Hussites?

A collector boasts that a volume is an incunable. What must be true about when it was printed?

In late medieval Catholic usage, an indulgence was associated with the remission of what exactly?

Which 1493 publication was an illustrated world history?

Name the important imperial city in the Holy Roman Empire that shares its name with a major 1493 chronicle.?

Late 15th-century Atlantic ventures gave which Spanish port special prominence?

If a late medieval mariner wanted a practical nautical map rather than a devotional manuscript, what kind of chart would fit the bill?

Which trading city held a strategic position on the strait connecting the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea?

Which settlement on Hispaniola was founded by the Spanish in 1496?

What labor-and-rule arrangement began in the Spanish Caribbean after Columbus’s voyages?

What kind of sail is triangular rather than square?

Which Early Netherlandish painter was active in the first half of the 15th century?

Which English king was the last to die in battle?

Which artist worked in Florence during the 15th century?