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game[0][0]=new Array ("Where did the Renaissance start?","Italy","Canada","Bolton","Borneo","R.J. Tarr") 
game[0][1]=new Array ("Which artist painted the 'Mona Lisa'?","Leonardo da Vinci","Constable","Turner","Picasso","R.J. Tarr") 
game[0][2]=new Array ("In what year did 'Columbus sail the ocean blue?'","1492","1485","1477","1466","R.J. Tarr") 
game[0][3]=new Array ("Which city state did the Medici family control?","Florence","Milan","Naples","Savoy","R.J. Tarr") 
game[0][4]=new Array ("What name do we give to the destruction of the Pope's city by the forces of Charles V in 1527?","The Sack of Rome","The Bag of Vicenza","The Bucket of Tuscany","The Chest of Lucrezia Borgia","R.J. Tarr")
game[0][5]=new Array ("Who ruled Spain at the time that Columbus sailed to America?","Ferdinand and Isabella","William and Mary","Laurel and Hardy","Ant and Dec","R.J. Tarr") 
game[0][6]=new Array ("Who painted the roof of the Sistine Chapel?","Michelangelo","Leonardo","Raphael","Bottecelli","R.J. Tarr") 
game[0][7]=new Array ("What was the name of the pioneering surgeon who started dissecting corpses?","Vesalius","Copernicus","Kepler","Lorenzo the Magnificent","R.J. Tarr") 
game[0][8]=new Array ("Which Renaissance politician wrote the book 'The Prince'?","Machiavelli","Castiglione","Thomas More","Henry VIII","R.J. Tarr") 
game[0][9]=new Array ("What work of Leonardo is now in danger of fading away into nothing?","The Last Supper","The Mona Lisa","The Fighting Temeraire","The Hay Wain","R.J. Tarr") 
game[0][10]=new Array ("Who was the Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Aztecs?","Cortes","Magellan","Columbus","Seve Ballesteros","R.J. Tarr") 
game[0][11]=new Array ("What name do we give to the philophical movement which encouraged people to think for themselves?","Humanism","Scholasticism","Epicureanism","Nihilism","R.J. Tarr") 
game[0][12]=new Array ("Of which monarch did Charles V say 'He preaches nothing but peace and good faith; and he is an enemy of both one and the other'?","Ferdinand of Aragon","Francis I of France","Henry VIII","Maximilian I","R.J. Tarr") 
game[0][13]=new Array ("What was the defining physical characteristic of Charles VIII of France?","He was a dwarf","He had 3 nipples","He was a giant","He had only 9 toes","R.J. Tarr") 
game[0][14]=new Array ("In what year was the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople?","1453","1499","1501","1492","R.J. Tarr") 
game[1][0]=new Array ("What was the name of the ship in which Columbus sailed to America?","Santa Maria","Pinta","Nina","Titanic","R.J. Tarr") 
game[1][1]=new Array ("Who was the great ruler of the Ottoman Empire throughout the 1530's?","Suleiman the Magnificent","Selim the Grim","Selim the Sot","Bayezid the Thunderbolt","R.J. Tarr") 
game[1][2]=new Array ("America was named after a voyager called Amerigo. What was his surname?","Vespucci","Amerigan","Medici","Sforza","R.J. Tarr") 
game[1][3]=new Array ("What relationship was Emperor Charles V to Catherine of Aragon?","Nephew","Brother","Cousin","Husband","R.J. Tarr") 
game[1][4]=new Array ("What was the title given to the elected ruler of Venice?","Doge","Dude","Dodo","Diego","R.J. Tarr") 
game[1][5]=new Array ("Francis I of France was known as 'le nez' - because of his big what?","Nose","Neck","Knees","Knickers","R.J. Tarr") 
game[1][6]=new Array ("At what battle did the Christians crush the Ottoman navy in 1571?","Lepanto","Mohacs","Marignano","Otranto","R.J. Tarr") 
game[1][7]=new Array ("Ferdinand and Isabella expelled the Jews from Spain in what year?","1492","1485","1501","1506","R.J. Tarr") 
game[1][8]=new Array ("What name do we give to the policy of peaceful co-existence between different religions in Spain before 1492?","Convivencia","Reconquista","Holocaust","Alcabala","R.J. Tarr") 
game[1][9]=new Array ("In which country did Emperor Charles V die?","Spain","Germany","Holland","France","R.J. Tarr") 
game[1][10]=new Array ("Who famously painted Emperor Charles V on horseback?","Titian","Canaletto","Breughel","Durer","R.J. Tarr") 
game[1][11]=new Array ("Which famous Renaissance inventor and scientist was recently the subject of a best-selling book based on the letters of his daughter?","Galileo","Leonardo","Copernicus","Michelangelo","R.J. Tarr") 
game[1][12]=new Array ("Who was married to 'Philip the Fair'?","Joanna the Mad","Anne of Cleves","Lucrezia Borgia","Catherine the Great","R.J. Tarr") 
game[1][13]=new Array ("Which friend of Henry VIII said that 'If my head could win him a castle in France it would not fail to go'?","Thomas More","Thomas Cromwell","Thomas Cranmer","Thomas Howard","R.J. Tarr") 
game[1][14]=new Array ("Erasmus wrote a book called 'The dagger of a Christian gentleman'. What is it otherwise known as?","In Praise of Folly","The Enchiridion","Utopia","Love's Labours Lost","R.J. Tarr") 
game[2][0]=new Array ("Brunelleschi is famous for building a what?","Dome","Arch","Bridge","Skyscraper","R.J. Tarr") 
game[2][1]=new Array ("It was said that Queen Mary Tudor died with a word etched on her heart. What was it?","Calais","Philip","England","Armada","R.J. Tarr") 
game[2][2]=new Array ("Who wrote 'The Book of the Courtier'?","Castiglione","Machiavelli","Thomas More","Erasmus","R.J. Tarr") 
game[2][3]=new Array ("What nationality was the artist Albrecht Durer?","German","French","Spanish","Australian","R.J. Tarr") 
game[2][4]=new Array ("Only one of the following states in Italy was a Kingdom in the 16th Century. Which one?","Naples","Florence","The Papal States","Milan","R.J. Tarr") 
game[2][5]=new Array ("Which Pope was the father of the notoriously brutal Cesare Borgia?","Alexander VI","Julius II","Adrian VI","Paul III","R.J. Tarr") 
game[2][6]=new Array ("Which French King famously siad that 'Paris is worth a mass' (and was later stabbed to death)?","Henry IV","Francis I","Charles VIII","Louis XIV","R.J. Tarr") 
game[2][7]=new Array ("What is the name given to the tecnique of painting into wet plaster, used by Leonardo and others?","Fresco","Impasto","Chiaroschuro","Pesto","R.J. Tarr") 
game[2][8]=new Array ("Which Spanish King divided a map of his country into four pieces and built his capital at the point they crossed?","Philip II of Spain","Suleiman the Magnificent","Ferdinand of Aragon","Ferrante of Naples","R.J. Tarr") 
game[2][9]=new Array ("What system of accountancy was developed in Florence?","Double entry bookkeeping","Fast-track accounting","Management Accountancy","Auditing","R.J. Tarr") 
game[2][10]=new Array ("Who was the author of 'A History of Italy' in the 16th Century?","Guicciardini","Machiavelli","Castiglione","Martin Luther","R.J. Tarr") 
game[2][11]=new Array ("What was the name given to the first widely used handheld gunpowder weapon at this time?","Arquebus","Pistollia","Trebuchet","Mangonel","R.J. Tarr") 
game[2][12]=new Array ("Which French King died watching a tennis match?","Charles VIII","Francis I","Henry IV","Louis XIV","R.J. Tarr") 
game[2][13]=new Array ("Which of the following artists was born first?","Giotto","Michelangelo","Van Dyck","Rubens","R.J. Tarr") 
game[2][14]=new Array ("Who built the Tempietto di San Pietro in Montorio?","Bramante","Brunelleschi","Palladio","Galen","R.J. Tarr")