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{
"questions": [
{
"category": "English Kings",
"value": 100,
"question": "He ruled Wessex",
"answer": "Who is King Alfred?"
},
{
"category": "English Kings",
"value": 200,
"question": "This famous Duke became King by Right of Conquest",
"answer": "Who is William the Conqueror?"
},
{
"category": "English Kings",
"value": 300,
"question": "This king lost a lot of land",
"answer": "Who is John Lackland?"
},
{
"category": "English Kings",
"value": 400,
"question": "He married Isabella of France",
"answer": "Who is Edward II?"
},
{
"category": "English Kings",
"value": 500,
"question": "They were Plantagenets but they weren't called Plantagenets",
"answer": "Who are the Angevins?"
},
{
"category": "English Kings",
"value": 600,
"question": "He married Eleanor",
"answer": "Who is Henry II?"
},
{
"category": "English Kings",
"value": 700,
"question": "This Braveheart King expelled the Jews from England",
"answer": "Who is Edward I?"
},
{
"category": "Purgatory",
"value": 100,
"question": "This vice is punished in Purgatory by forcing pilgrims to carry heavy stones",
"answer": "What is pride?"
},
{
"category": "Purgatory",
"value": 200,
"question": "The first person Dante meets in Purgatory",
"answer": "Who is Cato?"
},
{
"category": "Purgatory",
"value": 300,
"question": "He sang a song and Dante forgot",
"answer": "Who is Casella?"
},
{
"category": "Purgatory",
"value": 400,
"question": "While sin is absent from Purgatory, this consequence still remains",
"answer": "What is Vice?"
},
{
"category": "Purgatory",
"value": 500,
"question": "In this level of purgatory, these pilgrims neither love the wrong thing nor love too much",
"answer": "What is the fourth circle?"
},
{
"category": "Purgatory",
"value": 600,
"question": "For the final half of Purgatory, he accompanies Dante and Virgil up the mountain",
"answer": "What is Statius?"
},
{
"category": "Purgatory",
"value": 700,
"question": "She helped Dante across a river",
"answer": "Who is Matilda?"
},
{
"category": "Moral Formation",
"value": 100,
"question": "These are just excellences",
"answer": "What is Virtue"
},
{
"category": "Moral Formation",
"value": 200,
"question": "These four excellences led Dante to Beatrice but no further",
"answer": "What are the Cardinal Virtues"
},
{
"category": "Moral Formation",
"value": 300,
"question": "These can only be learned through repetitive practice",
"answer": "What are moral virtues (virtues of character)"
},
{
"category": "Moral Formation",
"value": 400,
"question": "It is through these habits that one gains a vision of this; and it is in light of this that one deliberates about action",
"answer": "What is the End worth pursuing, the good, the content of happiness"
},
{
"category": "Moral Formation",
"value": 500,
"question": "These excellences can't be acquired, that can only be received (infused)",
"answer": "What are the theological virtues"
},
{
"category": "Moral Formation",
"value": 600,
"question": "When Augustine tell his story of the pears, he's trying to oppose Aristotle's idea that all wickedness is fundamentally due to this",
"answer": "What is ignorance"
},
{
"category": "Schools and Scholars",
"value": 100,
"question": "These schools preceded the medieval universities",
"answer": "What are cathedral schools?"
},
{
"category": "Schools and Scholars",
"value": 200,
"question": "This early scholar first studied with Roscelin and then made his way to Paris",
"answer": "Who is Abelard?"
},
{
"category": "Schools and Scholars",
"value": 300,
"question": "Instead of being a campus or physical place, the earliest medieval universities were this",
"answer": "What is set of protocols? What is a guild?"
},
{
"category": "Schools and Scholars",
"value": 400,
"question": "At this university famous for the subject of law, students banded together to force masters to teach",
"answer": "What is the University of Bologna?"
},
{
"category": "Schools and Scholars",
"value": 500,
"question": "This was an alternative intellectual tradition that flourished outside the schools",
"answer": "What is mysticism?"
},
{
"category": "Schools and Scholars",
"value": 600,
"question": "His work became the main text book of theology in the medieval universities",
"answer": "Who is Peter Lombard"
},
{
"category": "Schools and Scholars",
"value": 700,
"question": "In this book, Gratian aimed to make concordant all the discordant canons",
"answer": "What is the concordia discordantium canonum or The Decretum"
},
{
"category": "Schools and Scholars",
"value": 800,
"question": "The undergraduate curriculum consisted of the 'trivum' and this",
"answer": "What is the quadrivium?"
},
{
"category": "On this date",
"value": 100,
"question": "The French Language became the language of English Monarchs",
"answer": "What is 1066"
},
{
"category": "On this date",
"value": 200,
"question": "Constantinople was finally conquered",
"answer": "What is 1453?"
},
{
"category": "On this date",
"value": 300,
"question": "This peace lasted from roughly 1250-1350",
"answer": "What is the Pax Mongolica?"
},
{
"category": "On this date",
"value": 400,
"question": "The Glory of the Abbassid Empire effectively ended",
"answer": "What is 1258?"
},
{
"category": "On this date",
"value": 500,
"question": "The plague began?",
"answer": "What is 1347"
},
{
"category": "On this date",
"value": 600,
"question": "The Hundred Years's War began",
"answer": "What is 1337"
},
{
"category": "On this date",
"value": 700,
"question": "In 1378 a major division occurred",
"answer": "What is the Western Schism"
},
{
"category": "The Plague",
"value": 100,
"question": "The Plague most likely originated here",
"answer": "What is Tibet/China/Mongolia?"
},
{
"category": "The Plague",
"value": 200,
"question": "These caused wages to increase",
"answer": "What are labor shortages?"
},
{
"category": "The Plague",
"value": 300,
"question": "The end of this meant crops were harder to grow",
"answer": "What is little optimum?"
},
{
"category": "The Plague",
"value": 400,
"question": "This new style of fighting reduced the food supply",
"answer": "What is le Chevauchée"
},
{
"category": "The Plague",
"value": 500,
"question": "Do to this, victims of the Plague may have had weakened immune systems",
"answer": "What is the Great Famine"
},
{
"category": "The Plague",
"value": 600,
"question": "This is the port where infected rats likely boarded ships for Europe",
"answer": "What is Caffa"
},
{
"category": "The Plague",
"value": 700,
"question": "This term originates from a statute requiring merchants to stay in the hospital for 40 days upon arrival in order to stop the spread of the Plague",
"answer": "What is Quarantine?"
},
{
"category": "Monsters, Knights, Pilgrims",
"value": 100,
"question": "He ruled Herot",
"answer": "Who is Hrothgar?"
},
{
"category": "Monsters, Knights, Pilgrims",
"value": 200,
"question": "Lancelot crossed this bridge",
"answer": "What is the sword bridge?"
},
{
"category": "Monsters, Knights, Pilgrims",
"value": 200,
"question": "Dante see this in the eyes of Beatrice",
"answer": "What is a Griffin?"
},
{
"category": "Monsters, Knights, Pilgrims",
"value": 300,
"question": "A young hero who fought alongside an aged hero",
"answer": "Who is Wiglaf?"
},
{
"category": "Monsters, Knights, Pilgrims",
"value": 400,
"question": "His Rash boon resulted in the loss of Guinevere",
"answer": "Who is Hrothgar?"
},
{
"category": "Monsters, Knights, Pilgrims",
"value": 500,
"question": "He claimed: What has Ingeld to do with Christ?",
"answer": "Who is Alcuin?"
},
{
"category": "Monsters, Knights, Pilgrims",
"value": 600,
"question": "Whatever he did was both wrong and right",
"answer": "Who is Lancelot?"
}
]
}
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