Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Westminster Abbey · Florence Cathedral · Notre-Dame Cathedral · Cologne Cathedral
Answer: Notre-Dame Cathedral
Paris's great Gothic cathedral. The setting of 'The Hunchback of Notre-Dame'!
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Q. Who were the armored warriors who rode horses in medieval Europe?
Options: Samurai · Gladiators · Pirates · Knights
Answer: Knights
Medieval knights protected the castle and their lord.
Q. What sturdy building did medieval Europe's kings and nobles live in?
Options: An apartment · A castle · A pyramid · A temple
Answer: A castle
They lived in castles with high walls and towers.
Q. What was the old trade route linking East and West?
Options: The Roman Road · Route 66 · The Tea Horse Road · The Silk Road
Answer: The Silk Road
Silk, spices, and culture traveled the Silk Road.
Q. Who traveled the Silk Road in medieval times and left 'The Travels'?
Options: Magellan · Ibn Battuta · Columbus · Marco Polo
Answer: Marco Polo
Marco Polo's travel book introduced the East to Europe.
⚔️ Q. What were medieval Europe's religious wars over Jerusalem?
Options: The World Wars · The Wars of the Roses · The Hundred Years' War · The Crusades
Answer: The Crusades
Christian and Muslim powers fought over the holy land in the 'Crusades'.
🐎 Q. Which huge empire founded by Genghis Khan stretched across Asia and Europe?
Options: The Roman Empire · The Ottoman Empire · The Tang dynasty · The Mongol Empire
Answer: The Mongol Empire
Genghis Khan's 'Mongol Empire' was one of the largest in history.
🦠 Q. Which terrible disease took countless lives in medieval Europe?
Options: Cholera · Smallpox · The Black Death (plague) · The common cold
Answer: The Black Death (plague)
The 'Black Death' drastically cut medieval Europe's population.
Q. What system had a king give land to his vassals in return for loyalty?
Options: The civil exam system · A republic · Feudalism · Democracy
Answer: Feudalism
Feudalism — trading land for loyalty!
Q. What do we call the noble who ruled the land in medieval Europe?
Options: A serf · A merchant · A lord · A knight
Answer: A lord
The lord who lived in the castle.
Q. What were the peasants who worked a lord's land called?
Options: Serfs · Knights · Lords · Kings
Answer: Serfs
Serfs, who had little freedom.
Q. What was a young boy's first role on the way to becoming a knight?
Options: A page · A blacksmith · A general · A prince
Answer: A page
Page → squire → knight was the path.
Q. What honorable code did medieval knights have to follow?
Options: Hwarangdo · Chivalry · Gentlemanliness · Bushido
Answer: Chivalry
The spirit of chivalry, protecting the weak!
Q. What contest had knights charge each other on horseback with lances?
Options: An archery contest · A fencing match · A joust · A wrestling match
Answer: A joust
The joust, held at tournaments!
Q. What was the ditch of water dug around a medieval castle for?
Options: Blocking enemy attacks · Doing laundry · A swimming pool · Raising fish
Answer: Blocking enemy attacks
The moat was a defense for the castle!
Q. What device on a castle lifts up to block the gate?
Options: An elevator · A slide · A swing · A drawbridge
Answer: A drawbridge
When enemies come, up goes the drawbridge!
Q. What group did people doing the same work form in medieval European towns?
Options: A bank · A school · A guild · An army
Answer: A guild
Associations like the bakers' guild and the shoemakers' guild.
Q. Where was knowledge and books protected in medieval Europe?
Options: Farms · Markets · Monasteries · Castle gates
Answer: Monasteries
Monks copied books by hand and preserved knowledge.
Q. Which medieval cathedral style features soaring pointed spires and stained glass?
Options: Igloo style · Hanok style · Gothic style · Baroque style
Answer: Gothic style
Gothic cathedrals like Notre-Dame!
Q. What do we call the colorful glass decorations in a medieval cathedral?
Options: Frescoes · Stained glass · Chandeliers · Mosaic tiles
Answer: Stained glass
Glowing stained glass!
Q. What famous medieval cathedral is in Paris?
Options: Cologne Cathedral · Hagia Sophia · Notre-Dame Cathedral · Milan Cathedral
Answer: Notre-Dame Cathedral
Notre-Dame, beside the Seine!
Q. Which religion held the most power in medieval Europe?
Options: Buddhism · Islam · Christianity (Catholicism) · Hinduism
Answer: Christianity (Catholicism)
The church was the center of society.
Q. Which city is famous for having Europe's first university?
Options: Sydney · Seoul · New York · Bologna
Answer: Bologna
The University of Bologna in Italy is considered Europe's first!
Q. Which northern European people sailed the seas of Europe in long ships?
Options: The Mongol army · Pirate kings · The Vikings · The Crusaders
Answer: The Vikings
The Vikings, with dragon-headed ships!
Q. Which region today is the Vikings' homeland?
Options: Northern Europe (Scandinavia) · South America · Africa · Southeast Asia
Answer: Northern Europe (Scandinavia)
The lands of Norway, Denmark, and Sweden.
Q. Who is thought to have reached the Americas before Columbus?
Options: The Chinese · The Vikings · The Egyptians · The Romans
Answer: The Vikings
Leif Erikson's Vikings got there first!
Q. Which 1215 document limited the power of England's king?
Options: The Magna Carta · Hunminjeongeum · The Code of Hammurabi · The Declaration of Independence
Answer: The Magna Carta
A promise that even the king must follow the law!
Q. Which war did England and France fight for more than 100 years?
Options: The Thirty Years' War · The Wars of the Roses · The Crusades · The Hundred Years' War
Answer: The Hundred Years' War
The Hundred Years' War, 1337–1453!
Q. Which country-girl hero saved France in the Hundred Years' War?
Options: Marie Curie · Cleopatra · Nightingale · Joan of Arc
Answer: Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc, who said she received a message from God!
Q. About how old was Joan of Arc when she made her mark?
Options: A teenage girl · A woman in her 40s · A baby · A woman in her 60s
Answer: A teenage girl
A 17-year-old girl led an army!
Q. Which figure of English legend took from the rich in the forest and helped the poor?
Options: Robin Hood · King Arthur · Peter Pan · Don Quixote
Answer: Robin Hood
Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest!
Q. Which legendary English king is famous for the Knights of the Round Table?
Options: Henry VIII · King Richard · King Arthur · King John
Answer: King Arthur
King Arthur of Excalibur!
Q. What was the legendary sword King Arthur is said to have pulled from a stone?
Options: The Twin Dragon Sword · The Sword of Light · Excalibur · The Iron Blade
Answer: Excalibur
Excalibur, the proof of a king!
Q. After the Roman Empire split in two, what was the eastern empire's capital?
Options: Constantinople · Paris · London · Rome
Answer: Constantinople
Constantinople — today's Istanbul!
Q. What is the great domed cathedral of Constantinople?
Options: St. Peter's Basilica · Hagia Sophia · Cologne Cathedral · Notre-Dame
Answer: Hagia Sophia
Hagia Sophia, the masterpiece of Byzantium!
Q. Which city did European knights try to win back in the Crusades?
Options: Rome · Jerusalem · Cairo · Paris
Answer: Jerusalem
They fought over the holy city of Jerusalem.
Q. What good change did the Crusades leave behind?
Options: The seas got wider · Only war skills improved · Nothing changed · More goods and ideas flowed between East and West
Answer: More goods and ideas flowed between East and West
Pepper, silk, and learning came to Europe.
Q. Which generous Muslim hero defended Jerusalem against the Crusaders?
Options: Hammurabi · Genghis Khan · Saladin · Suleiman
Answer: Saladin
Saladin, who was generous even to his enemies!
Q. Who founded Islam?
Options: Confucius · Buddha · Moses · Muhammad
Answer: Muhammad
Muhammad of 7th-century Arabia.
Q. Which city in Saudi Arabia is Islam's holy city?
Options: Cairo · Istanbul · Baghdad · Mecca
Answer: Mecca
Mecca, the direction Muslims face to pray!
Q. What is a place of Islamic worship called?
Options: A cathedral · A shrine · A mosque · A temple
Answer: A mosque
The mosque, with its round dome and minaret!
Q. Which Arabian story collection holds 'Aladdin' and 'Sinbad'?
Options: Romance of the Three Kingdoms · Aesop's Fables · One Thousand and One Nights · Grimms' Fairy Tales
Answer: One Thousand and One Nights
One Thousand and One Nights — the Arabian Nights!
Q. What do we call the numbers we use, like 1, 2, 3?
Options: Egyptian numerals · Roman numerals · Arabic numerals · Chinese numerals
Answer: Arabic numerals
They began in India and spread through Arabia!
Q. Which field of study did the medieval Islamic world NOT develop?
Options: Computer science · Astronomy · Mathematics (algebra) · Medicine
Answer: Computer science
Computers are modern! Islam was a treasure house of science.
Q. Which city of Islamic learning had the 'House of Wisdom'?
Options: Delhi · Beijing · London · Baghdad
Answer: Baghdad
Learning flowered at Baghdad's 'House of Wisdom'!
Q. Which culture first took to drinking coffee and spread it to the world?
Options: Japan · Islam (Arabia) · The Americas · Northern Europe
Answer: Islam (Arabia)
Arabian coffee spread across the world!
Q. Who founded the Mongol Empire?
Options: Genghis Khan · Qin Shi Huang · Timur · Kublai Khan
Answer: Genghis Khan
Temüjin — that is, Genghis Khan!
Q. Which grandson of Genghis Khan founded the Yuan dynasty?
Options: Ögedei Khan · Timur · Kublai Khan · Batu
Answer: Kublai Khan
Kublai Khan! On the land his grandfather won, he founded the 'Yuan' — and it long dominated Korea's Goryeo.
Q. What made the Mongol army so strong?
Options: Guns · Fast horses and skill with the bow · Tanks · Airplanes
Answer: Fast horses and skill with the bow
Mounted troops firing arrows from horseback!
Q. Which country did Marco Polo come from?
Options: France · England · Italy (Venice) · Spain
Answer: Italy (Venice)
He was a merchant of Venice, the city of water.
Q. Which country did Marco Polo describe in 'The Travels'?
Options: Egypt · The United States · Australia · The Yuan dynasty (China)
Answer: The Yuan dynasty (China)
He described Kublai Khan's Yuan dynasty.
Q. Which capital of China's Tang dynasty was the world's biggest city?
Options: Beijing · Shanghai · Nanjing · Chang'an
Answer: Chang'an
Chang'an (Xi'an), the start of the Silk Road!
Q. Which is NOT one of China's four great inventions?
Options: The compass · Television · Gunpowder · Paper
Answer: Television
Paper, printing, the compass, and gunpowder are the four!
Q. Which Chinese invention changed sea travel?
Options: Paper · The compass · Porcelain · Gunpowder
Answer: The compass
The compass made far-ocean voyages possible!
Q. What do we call medieval Japan's warriors?
Options: Hwarang · Gladiators · Samurai · Knights
Answer: Samurai
The sword-bearing samurai!
Q. Who ruled medieval Japan as the head of the warriors?
Options: Only the emperor · Only the daimyo · A magistrate · The shogun
Answer: The shogun
The shogun! The emperor kept the throne but the shogun held real power — and this warrior rule lasted nearly 700 years.
Q. What is the huge medieval temple in the jungles of Cambodia?
Options: Angkor Wat · Borobudur · The Taj Mahal · The pyramids
Answer: Angkor Wat
Angkor Wat of the Khmer Empire!
Q. Which gold-rich king ruled the medieval African Mali Empire?
Options: Mansa Musa · Saladin · The pharaoh · Shaka
Answer: Mansa Musa
Mansa Musa, considered the richest person in history!
Q. What is the Black Death known to have spread through?
Options: Rats and fleas · Only wind · Birds · Fish
Answer: Rats and fleas
Fleas on rats carried the disease.
Q. What changed in Europe after the Black Death spread?
Options: Nothing happened · The population dropped enormously · Cities only grew · The population grew
Answer: The population dropped enormously
They say a third of Europe's people were lost.
Q. Why did medieval Europeans treasure spices?
Options: They made meat taste good and keep, and were hard to get · They weren't medicine · They were pretty · They were light
Answer: They made meat taste good and keep, and were hard to get
Pepper was as costly as gold!
Q. Which Italian city grew rich selling pepper to medieval Europe?
Options: London · Berlin · Venice · Paris
Answer: Venice
Venice, center of trade with the East!
Q. What did people trade for goods in medieval markets?
Options: Phone payments · Gold and silver coins · Credit cards · Only paper money
Answer: Gold and silver coins
Clink, clink — gold and silver coins!
Q. What was the difference between a medieval peasant's home and a lord's?
Options: There was no difference · Both were palaces · Peasants had thatch huts; lords had stone castles · Both were apartments
Answer: Peasants had thatch huts; lords had stone castles
The lord lived in a castle, the peasant in a small hut.
Q. How did medieval monks make books?
Options: With a typewriter · By copying them out by hand, letter by letter · With a printer · With a copier
Answer: By copying them out by hand, letter by letter
Copying one book took months!
Q. What did medieval Europe's traveling minstrels do?
Options: Sang songs and told stories · Built castles · Farmed · Made swords
Answer: Sang songs and told stories
Minstrels who sang their way through castles and villages!
Q. What big events were held in a medieval European town square?
Options: The World Cup · Markets and festivals · The Olympics · Fireworks competitions
Answer: Markets and festivals
Market day was the village's festival day!
Q. About how much did a medieval knight's armor weigh?
Options: 20–30 kg · 500 g · 1 kg · 100 kg
Answer: 20–30 kg
About as much as a small child! It was heavy.
Q. Which was NOT used to attack castles in medieval Europe?
Options: A siege tower · A catapult · A battering ram · A missile
Answer: A missile
A missile! In medieval times they used catapults, siege towers, and flaming arrows — missiles are a modern weapon of the 20th century.
Q. What do we call the family symbol painted on a shield in medieval Europe?
Options: A doodle · An advertisement · A coat of arms · A map
Answer: A coat of arms
Each family had its own coat of arms.
Q. Which Japanese class was like a medieval European knight?
Options: Merchants · Samurai · The shogun · Serfs
Answer: Samurai
They're alike in being warriors who gave their loyalty.
Q. In Japan's system, like European feudalism, who matched the lord?
Options: The daimyo · The samurai · The ninja · The emperor
Answer: The daimyo
The daimyo, who ruled the provinces!
Q. Which did NOT travel between medieval Europe and Asia?
Options: Papermaking · Silk · Spices · Email
Answer: Email
Email! Back then, camel caravans and ships carried silk, spices, and paper — email came after the internet.
Q. If the medieval age is the 'age of knights and castles', what was happening in Korea?
Options: Before the Three Kingdoms · Modern Korea · Late Joseon · The Goryeo dynasty
Answer: The Goryeo dynasty
Medieval Europe and Goryeo were around the same time.
Q. What's closest to the toys medieval European children played with?
Options: Video games · Wooden rocking horses and tops · Drones · LEGO
Answer: Wooden rocking horses and tops
They played with wooden toys.
Q. What was medieval Europe's main way to get around?
Options: Trains · Bicycles · Horses and carriages · Cars
Answer: Horses and carriages
The horse was the best transportation!
Q. What did the cathedral bells announce?
Options: The time and village news · Music class · The lunch menu · The weather
Answer: The time and village news
Bells announced prayer times and danger.
Q. Who could mostly read in medieval Europe?
Options: All peasants · All merchants · Clergy and some nobles · All children
Answer: Clergy and some nobles
Books were rare, so few people could read.
Q. Between which ages does the 'medieval' age sit?
Options: The future · Between ancient and modern · Before ancient · After the present
Answer: Between ancient and modern
It's the 'middle age' between ancient and modern.
Q. Which ingredient was NOT in medieval European cooking?
Options: Wine · Bread · Cheese · Potatoes and tomatoes
Answer: Potatoes and tomatoes
Potatoes and tomatoes came later, from the Americas!
Q. About how long did it take to build Notre-Dame Cathedral?
Options: A month · 1 year · A week · More than 100 years
Answer: More than 100 years
It was a huge project spanning generations!
Q. Why is Venice called the 'city of water'?
Options: It has canals instead of streets · It rains a lot · It has many fountains · It has many pools
Answer: It has canals instead of streets
The city of canals where gondolas glide!
Q. What was pepper's nickname in medieval Europe?
Options: Black sand · Black gold · Cheap powder · Spicy stones
Answer: Black gold
It cost as much as gold — 'black gold'!
Q. What good effect did the Mongol Empire's spread leave on world history?
Options: Exchange between East and West flourished · Writing disappeared · The seas vanished · Exchange was cut off
Answer: Exchange between East and West flourished
The relay-station roads connected East and West.
Q. What was the Mongol Empire's system for fast news?
Options: Only pigeons · Email · Only signal fires · The relay station system
Answer: The relay station system
News raced along, riders swapping horses at each station!
Q. Besides the jeweled crown, what were a medieval European king's symbols?
Options: Glasses · The scepter and the throne · Sneakers · A smartwatch
Answer: The scepter and the throne
Crown, scepter, and throne — the big three!
Q. Which legendary king is connected to the 'legend of the Holy Grail'?
Options: King Richard · Charlemagne · Solomon · King Arthur
Answer: King Arthur
King Arthur and the Round Table's quest for the Grail!
Q. Which emperor nearly united medieval Europe and is called the 'father of Europe'?
Options: Charlemagne · Alexander · Caesar · Napoleon
Answer: Charlemagne
Charlemagne the Great.
Q. Where did chess come from before catching on in medieval Europe?
Options: The United States · Australia · The North Pole · India
Answer: India
It began with chaturanga in India!
Q. Which did a medieval European blacksmith NOT make?
Options: Eyeglass lenses · Horseshoes · Swords · Armor
Answer: Eyeglass lenses
A blacksmith worked iron. Lenses were the glassmaker's job!
Q. Where were medieval European weddings mostly held?
Options: An amusement park · A church · A harbor · A market
Answer: A church
The ceremony was held in the village church.
Q. Why were castle gates closed at night in medieval Europe?
Options: To keep out thieves and enemies · Only to sleep · To save electricity · To clean
Answer: To keep out thieves and enemies
At night the gates were shut tight for safety!
Q. What do we call the tallest central tower of a medieval castle?
Options: An observation deck · The keep · A bell tower · A chimney
Answer: The keep
The central tower that was the last refuge.
Q. What do we call a Mongol's portable home?
Options: A log cabin · A ger (yurt) · A pit house · An igloo
Answer: A ger (yurt)
The ger, the portable home of the steppe!
Q. Which animal did nomads NOT raise?
Options: Camels · Horses · Sheep · Penguins
Answer: Penguins
Penguins! Nomads raised horses, sheep, goats, and camels, while penguins live in the cold seas of the far south.
Q. What do we call a traditional public bath in Islamic culture?
Options: A hammam · A hot spring · A sauna room · A sauna
Answer: A hammam
The hammam, the bathhouse of Islam!
Q. What do we call the ornate decorative pictures in medieval European manuscripts?
Options: Doodles · Illuminations · Comics · Stickers
Answer: Illuminations
Beautiful illustrations, even trimmed in gold leaf!
Q. What's closest to what Japan's ninja did?
Options: Cooking · Singing · Farming · Secretly gathering information
Answer: Secretly gathering information
The ninja, who spied from the shadows!
Q. What form of money did China's Song dynasty use first in the world?
Options: Credit cards · Seashells · Paper money · Only gold coins
Answer: Paper money
'Jiaozi', the world's first paper money!
Q. What did jesters do at medieval European festivals?
Options: Collected taxes · Built castles · Held trials · Gave tricks and laughter
Answer: Gave tricks and laughter
The jester who made kings and villagers laugh!
Q. What was the resting place on the Silk Road's desert route?
Options: Only wells · A rest stop · A convenience store · An oasis
Answer: An oasis
They rested at oasis towns where water sprang up!
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Westminster Abbey · Florence Cathedral · Notre-Dame Cathedral · Cologne Cathedral
Answer: Notre-Dame Cathedral
Paris's great Gothic cathedral. The setting of 'The Hunchback of Notre-Dame'!
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Cologne Cathedral · Chartres Cathedral · A gargoyle · St Mark's Basilica
Answer: Chartres Cathedral
A French Gothic cathedral with beautiful stained glass.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Cologne Cathedral · Giotto's Campanile · Florence Cathedral · Notre-Dame Cathedral
Answer: Cologne Cathedral
A German Gothic cathedral finished over 600 years.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Stained glass · Westminster Abbey · Canterbury Cathedral · St Mark's Basilica
Answer: Canterbury Cathedral
The cathedral at the heart of the Church of England.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Hagia Sophia · Westminster Abbey · St Mark's Basilica · Giotto's Campanile
Answer: Westminster Abbey
The abbey where England's kings are crowned.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Canterbury Cathedral · Salisbury Cathedral · A Byzantine mosaic of Christ · Chartres Cathedral
Answer: Salisbury Cathedral
The cathedral with the tallest spire in England.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: St Mark's Basilica · A Byzantine mosaic · Florence Cathedral · Cologne Cathedral
Answer: Florence Cathedral
A cathedral famous for its huge red dome (the Duomo).
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: A stained glass window · Stained glass · Notre-Dame Cathedral · St Mark's Basilica
Answer: St Mark's Basilica
Venice's golden Byzantine basilica.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Cologne Cathedral · Westminster Abbey · A gargoyle · Hagia Sophia
Answer: Hagia Sophia
The great cathedral of the Byzantine Empire, later a mosque.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Hagia Sophia · A Byzantine mosaic of Christ · Westminster Abbey · Giotto's Campanile
Answer: Giotto's Campanile
The bell tower of Florence, designed by the painter Giotto.
Q. What is this church window art, making pictures from colored glass?
Options: Florence Cathedral · Notre-Dame Cathedral · A fresco · Stained glass
Answer: Stained glass
It told Bible stories in pictures to people who couldn't read.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Stained glass · A gargoyle · A fresco · A Byzantine mosaic of Christ
Answer: Stained glass
The colored glass windows of Sainte-Chapelle.
Q. What is this monster carving stuck to a cathedral wall?
Options: A gargoyle · Notre-Dame Cathedral · Cologne Cathedral · A Byzantine mosaic of Christ
Answer: A gargoyle
It's a rain spout and a guardian all in one.
Q. Who is this emperor, pictured with tiny pieces of glass?
Options: St Mark's Basilica · A stained glass window · Hagia Sophia · A Byzantine mosaic
Answer: A Byzantine mosaic
The mosaic of Emperor Justinian in a church in Ravenna.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: A Byzantine mosaic of Christ · A Byzantine mosaic · Cologne Cathedral · St Mark's Basilica
Answer: A Byzantine mosaic of Christ
The golden mosaic of Hagia Sophia.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Giotto's Campanile · A Byzantine mosaic of Christ · Mont-Saint-Michel · Chartres Cathedral
Answer: Mont-Saint-Michel
An abbey built on a rocky island in the sea.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Charles Bridge · Krak des Chevaliers · The Kremlin · Carcassonne
Answer: Carcassonne
A medieval French city ringed with walls.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Krak des Chevaliers · The Tower of London · The Kremlin · Edinburgh Castle
Answer: The Tower of London
The London fortress that keeps the Crown Jewels.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Edinburgh Castle · The Walls of Constantinople · Carcassonne · The Kremlin
Answer: Edinburgh Castle
A Scottish castle built atop a rocky cliff.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Charles Bridge · Conwy Castle · Carcassonne · Krak des Chevaliers
Answer: Conwy Castle
A medieval castle built by a river in Wales.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Charles Bridge · The Kremlin · Bodiam Castle · The Tower of London
Answer: Bodiam Castle
An English castle surrounded by a moat.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: The Walls of Constantinople · Carcassonne · Krak des Chevaliers · The Tower of London
Answer: Krak des Chevaliers
A castle in Syria built by the Crusader knights.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Charles Bridge · The Kremlin · The Walls of Constantinople · Edinburgh Castle
Answer: The Kremlin
Moscow's red-walled fortress.
Q. What are these walls that stood unbroken for a thousand years?
Options: The Walls of Constantinople · Conwy Castle · Charles Bridge · Edinburgh Castle
Answer: The Walls of Constantinople
The triple walls that protected the Byzantine capital.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: The Walls of Constantinople · Charles Bridge · The Tower of London · Edinburgh Castle
Answer: Charles Bridge
Prague's beautiful medieval stone bridge.
Q. What is this medieval record embroidered on a long cloth?
Options: The Bayeux Tapestry · A quipu · An astrolabe · The Battle of Hastings
Answer: The Bayeux Tapestry
The story of the Norman Conquest, embroidered on 70 meters of cloth.
Q. Which battle changed England's fate in 1066?
Options: The Aztec Sun Stone · Greek fire · A rune stone · The Battle of Hastings
Answer: The Battle of Hastings
William, Duke of Normandy, conquered England.
Q. Which 1215 document limited the king's power?
Options: The Magna Carta · An hourglass · A Timbuktu manuscript · Jiaozi (the first paper money)
Answer: The Magna Carta
The 'Great Charter' was the start of the rule of law.
Q. What is this Bible that monks decorated so richly?
Options: The Book of Kells · A quipu · An hourglass · A coat of arms
Answer: The Book of Kells
A manuscript called the treasure of Ireland.
Q. What was Europe's first book printed with movable metal type?
Options: A coat of arms · The Canon of Medicine · A Viking helmet · The Gutenberg Bible
Answer: The Gutenberg Bible
Gutenberg's printing set off a knowledge revolution.
Q. What is this machine Gutenberg invented?
Options: A quipu · A printing press · The Gutenberg Bible · A coat of arms
Answer: A printing press
It changed the world by printing books quickly.
Q. What device found your position by looking at the stars?
Options: An astrolabe · A coat of arms · Jiaozi (the first paper money) · The Book of Kells
Answer: An astrolabe
An astronomy instrument developed by Islamic scholars.
Q. What is this book written by the Islamic doctor Ibn Sina?
Options: The Lewis chessmen · The Gutenberg Bible · Greek fire · The Canon of Medicine
Answer: The Canon of Medicine
It was the textbook of European medical schools for 500 years.
Q. What are these books that piled up in a city of the Sahara?
Options: Timbuktu manuscripts · The Gutenberg Bible · An hourglass · Greek fire
Answer: Timbuktu manuscripts
Africa had cities of learning too.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: A Viking helmet · A printing press · Greek fire · The Gutenberg Bible
Answer: A Viking helmet
Real Viking helmets had no horns!
Q. What is this lettered stone the Vikings raised?
Options: A rune stone · The Battle of Hastings · An hourglass · The Gutenberg Bible
Answer: A rune stone
They carved deeds and stories in runic letters.
Q. What is this medieval toy made from walrus ivory?
Options: The Magna Carta · The Gutenberg Bible · The Lewis chessmen · A rune stone
Answer: The Lewis chessmen
Chess pieces found on a Scottish beach.
Q. What is this shield design, different for each knight's family?
Options: The Lewis chessmen · A coat of arms · A Timbuktu manuscript · The Gutenberg Bible
Answer: A coat of arms
It was the mark that told armored knights apart.
Q. What was this Byzantine weapon that wouldn't go out even in seawater?
Options: A Viking helmet · The Battle of Hastings · Greek fire · A rune stone
Answer: Greek fire
It was the secret weapon of the Byzantine Empire.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: The Bayeux Tapestry · An astrolabe · A Viking helmet · An hourglass
Answer: An hourglass
When the sand runs out, your time is up!
Q. What was this, the world's first of its kind, made in the Song dynasty?
Options: A printing press · Jiaozi (the first paper money) · The Lewis chessmen · The Canon of Medicine
Answer: Jiaozi (the first paper money)
They made paper money instead of heavy coins.
Q. What is this the Inca recorded with knotted cords?
Options: A coat of arms · A printing press · A quipu · A Timbuktu manuscript
Answer: A quipu
They recorded numbers with knots instead of letters.
Q. What is this giant Aztec calendar stone?
Options: An astrolabe · The Aztec Sun Stone · The Battle of Hastings · A Timbuktu manuscript
Answer: The Aztec Sun Stone
A 24-ton stone carved with the sun god and a calendar.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Joan of Arc · Medieval farming · A Viking shield · A suit of knight's armor
Answer: A suit of knight's armor
Medieval knights covered themselves head to toe in steel.
Q. What is this contest of charging on horseback with lances?
Options: A water wheel · A joust · Richard the Lionheart · A suit of knight's armor
Answer: A joust
It was the sport of knights.
Q. What is this giant machine used to attack castles?
Options: A longbowman · A trebuchet (catapult) · Medieval farming · Saladin
Answer: A trebuchet (catapult)
It flung heavy stones over castle walls.
Q. What are these soldiers who shoot long bows?
Options: Longbowmen · A windmill · A medieval university · A water wheel
Answer: Longbowmen
English longbowmen were the stars of the Hundred Years' War.
Q. What is this, worn even by a knight's horse?
Options: A medieval market · Horse armor (barding) · A Viking shield · Joan of Arc
Answer: Horse armor (barding)
Horses wore armor into battle too.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: A medieval university · The Crusades · A joust · A Viking shield
Answer: A Viking shield
The Vikings used round wooden shields.
Q. What was this medieval expedition that set out for the holy land?
Options: Richard the Lionheart · Spices · The Crusades · A suit of knight's armor
Answer: The Crusades
They marked themselves with the cross and headed for Jerusalem.
Q. Who is this girl hero who saved France?
Options: Richard the Lionheart · A monk · A suit of knight's armor · Joan of Arc
Answer: Joan of Arc
She led France to victory in the Hundred Years' War.
Q. Which Muslim hero took Jerusalem back from the Crusaders?
Options: A suit of knight's armor · Saladin · A medieval market · A joust
Answer: Saladin
A generous leader respected even by his enemies.
Q. Which English king was called 'the Lionheart'?
Options: A water wheel · Saladin · Richard the Lionheart · A medieval university
Answer: Richard the Lionheart
A Crusader king famous for his courage.
Q. Who is this emperor on the coin, called the 'father of Europe'?
Options: Richard the Lionheart · Saladin · Charlemagne · Joan of Arc
Answer: Charlemagne
He united Western Europe and revived learning.
Q. What is this bird-beaked mask doctors wore during the Black Death?
Options: A plague doctor's mask · Richard the Lionheart · A longbowman · Charlemagne
Answer: A plague doctor's mask
They filled the beak with herbs to block what they thought was bad air.
Q. Who are these people who preserved knowledge by copying books?
Options: Marco Polo · The Crusades · A camel caravan · Monks
Answer: Monks
They made books by hand in the monastery.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: A longbowman · A medieval university · A medieval market · A windmill
Answer: A medieval market
A painting of a market scene in a medieval city.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Medieval farming · Spices · A plague doctor's mask · Charlemagne
Answer: Medieval farming
A seasonal calendar painting of medieval farmers.
Q. This is a class at the world's oldest university. Where is it?
Options: A water wheel · A windmill · Spices · A medieval university
Answer: A medieval university
The University of Bologna in Italy is the first university.
Q. What ground grain using the power of water?
Options: Horse armor (barding) · A water wheel · A plague doctor's mask · A joust
Answer: A water wheel
It was the power plant and mill of medieval times.
Q. What machine used the power of the wind?
Options: The Crusades · Medieval farming · A windmill · A water wheel
Answer: A windmill
Dutch windmills are especially famous.
Q. What was this, worth more than gold — like pepper?
Options: Spices · Medieval farming · A Viking shield · Joan of Arc
Answer: Spices
The search for spices opened the Age of Exploration.
Q. Who is this traveler who left behind 'The Travels'?
Options: Marco Polo · Richard the Lionheart · Spices · A monk
Answer: Marco Polo
He traveled from Venice all the way to China.
Q. What is this group that crossed the desert and linked East and West?
Options: A medieval market · Joan of Arc · A camel caravan · The Crusades
Answer: A camel caravan
They carried silk and spices along the Silk Road.
Q. What is this black building in Mecca that Muslims face to pray?
Options: One Thousand and One Nights · The Kaaba · The Janissaries · The Mosque of Córdoba
Answer: The Kaaba
It's the direction of prayer for Muslims worldwide.
Q. What is this golden-domed shrine in Jerusalem?
Options: The Kaaba · The Dome of the Rock · The Mosque of Córdoba · One Thousand and One Nights
Answer: The Dome of the Rock
It's a masterpiece of Islamic architecture.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: The Janissaries · The Great Mosque of Djenné · The Mosque of Córdoba · The arches of the Mezquita
Answer: The Mosque of Córdoba
A great Islamic mosque still standing in Spain.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Mansa Musa · The arches of the Mezquita · The Great Mosque of Djenné · One Thousand and One Nights
Answer: The arches of the Mezquita
Striped horseshoe arches form a whole forest.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: The Alhambra · Mansa Musa · The Great Mosque of Djenné · The arches of the Mezquita
Answer: The Alhambra
The palace of Spain's last Islamic kingdom.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: The Dome of the Rock · The Great Mosque of Djenné · Mansa Musa · The arches of the Mezquita
Answer: The Great Mosque of Djenné
The largest building in the world made of mud.
Q. Who is this king of Mali in Africa, called the king of gold?
Options: Mansa Musa · The Kaaba · One Thousand and One Nights · The Great Mosque of Djenné
Answer: Mansa Musa
He's considered the richest person in history.
Q. What was this elite corps of the Ottoman Empire?
Options: Mansa Musa · The arches of the Mezquita · The Kaaba · The Janissaries
Answer: The Janissaries
They were the sultan's guard.
Q. What is this story collection with 'Aladdin' and 'Sinbad' in it?
Options: The Great Mosque of Djenné · The Dome of the Rock · One Thousand and One Nights · The Kaaba
Answer: One Thousand and One Nights
Stories that went on for a thousand and one nights.
Q. Which Tang dynasty pagoda held the sutras the monk Xuanzang brought back?
Options: Song porcelain · Genghis Khan · The Giant Wild Goose Pagoda · Kinkaku-ji
Answer: The Giant Wild Goose Pagoda
It was built by the real-life model for the monk in 'Journey to the West'.
Q. What is this Tang dynasty pottery using three colors of glaze?
Options: A Mongol horse archer · Sancai pottery · A ger (yurt) · The rock garden of Ryoan-ji
Answer: Sancai pottery
Splendid pottery in yellow, green, and brown.
Q. What is this scroll painting the bustling Song dynasty capital?
Options: A katana (Japanese sword) · Along the River During the Qingming Festival · Song porcelain · The rock garden of Ryoan-ji
Answer: Along the River During the Qingming Festival
City life 1,000 years ago is captured so vividly.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Song porcelain · Angkor Wat · The Giant Wild Goose Pagoda · A ger (yurt)
Answer: Song porcelain
Song dynasty porcelain with its soft, subtle color.
Q. Who is this figure in the portrait, who built history's largest empire?
Options: The rock garden of Ryoan-ji · A ger (yurt) · Genghis Khan · A Mongol horse archer
Answer: Genghis Khan
The Mongol Empire commanded all of Eurasia.
Q. Who is this soldier shooting a bow from horseback?
Options: Kinkaku-ji · A Mongol horse archer · Genghis Khan · Todai-ji
Answer: A Mongol horse archer
The Mongol cavalry was the strongest in the world.
Q. What is this round home of the Mongol nomads?
Options: A katana (Japanese sword) · Along the River During the Qingming Festival · Angkor Wat · A ger (yurt)
Answer: A ger (yurt)
A portable home that's easy to put up and take down.
Q. What is this palace in Beijing built by a Ming emperor?
Options: The Forbidden City · Song porcelain · Kinkaku-ji · Todai-ji
Answer: The Forbidden City
It's the largest palace in the world.
Q. What is this warrior class of Japan?
Options: Borobudur · A Mongol horse archer · The samurai · Todai-ji
Answer: The samurai
They wore swords and gave their loyalty to their lord.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: The Giant Wild Goose Pagoda · The Forbidden City · A katana (Japanese sword) · The samurai
Answer: A katana (Japanese sword)
The curved sword of the samurai.
Q. What is this gold-leafed temple in Kyoto, Japan?
Options: Angkor Wat · Kinkaku-ji · The Forbidden City · A ger (yurt)
Answer: Kinkaku-ji
Its reflection in the pond is beautiful.
Q. Which old Japanese temple was influenced by Korea's Baekje kingdom?
Options: Kinkaku-ji · The Forbidden City · Sancai pottery · Horyu-ji
Answer: Horyu-ji
It has the oldest wooden building in the world.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: A ger (yurt) · Angkor Wat · Todai-ji · Borobudur
Answer: Todai-ji
A Japanese temple with a giant bronze Buddha.
Q. What is this Japanese garden made only of stone and sand?
Options: Horyu-ji · Borobudur · The rock garden of Ryoan-ji · The samurai
Answer: The rock garden of Ryoan-ji
A meditation garden where everyone sees something different.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Angkor Wat · A katana (Japanese sword) · A Mongol horse archer · Along the River During the Qingming Festival
Answer: Angkor Wat
A giant temple in the jungles of Cambodia.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: Borobudur · Horyu-ji · The samurai · Todai-ji
Answer: Borobudur
A giant Buddhist monument in Indonesia.
Q. What is this Inca city atop the Andes mountains?
Options: Moai · The Piazza del Campo in Siena · Bruges · Machu Picchu
Answer: Machu Picchu
It's called the 'city in the sky'.
Q. What is this stepped pyramid of the Mayan civilization?
Options: Chichén Itzá · Moai · The Oseberg Viking ship · Great Zimbabwe
Answer: Chichén Itzá
At each equinox, the shadow of a snake appears.
Q. This is a model of the Aztec capital built on a lake. What's its name?
Options: The Oseberg Viking ship · Machu Picchu · Tenochtitlan · The Leaning Tower of Pisa
Answer: Tenochtitlan
It's the forerunner of Mexico City.
Q. What are these giant stone statues of Easter Island?
Options: Moai · Tenochtitlan · Great Zimbabwe · The Oseberg Viking ship
Answer: Moai
Who made them and why is a mystery.
Q. What are these giant stone ruins in southern Africa?
Options: Great Zimbabwe · The Oseberg Viking ship · The Piazza del Campo in Siena · Moai
Answer: Great Zimbabwe
The country Zimbabwe took its name from here.
Q. What is this ship the Vikings sailed the seas in?
Options: The Leaning Tower of Pisa · Chichén Itzá · The Oseberg Viking ship · Venice
Answer: The Oseberg Viking ship
A sleek ship with a dragon-head ornament.
Q. What is this medieval trading city called the city of water?
Options: Moai · The Oseberg Viking ship · Venice · Chichén Itzá
Answer: Venice
A city made rich by trade with the East.
Q. What is this trading city called the 'Venice of the North'?
Options: The Leaning Tower of Pisa · Venice · Bruges · Chichén Itzá
Answer: Bruges
It was an important trading city of the Hanseatic League.
Q. Which German city was the center of the Hanseatic League?
Options: Tenochtitlan · Venice · Moai · Lübeck
Answer: Lübeck
It dominated the trade of northern Europe.
Q. What is this shell-shaped medieval square?
Options: Tenochtitlan · Great Zimbabwe · The Piazza del Campo in Siena · Moai
Answer: The Piazza del Campo in Siena
The central square of Siena, Italy.
Q. What is the name of this cultural treasure?
Options: The Leaning Tower of Pisa · Chichén Itzá · Great Zimbabwe · Moai
Answer: The Leaning Tower of Pisa
An Italian tower that was finished already leaning.