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medieval-world-jeopardy-2019-04-30
{
"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": "This Braveheart King expelled the Jews from England",
"answer": "Who is Edward I?"
},
{
"category": "English Kings",
"value": 500,
"question": "He married Isabella of France",
"answer": "Who is Edward II?"
},
{
"category": "English Kings",
"value": 600,
"question": "They were Plantagenets but they weren't called Plantagenets",
"answer": "Who are the Angevins?"
},
{
"category": "English Kings",
"value": 700,
"question": "The Son of Matilda",
"answer": "Who is Henry II?"
},
{
"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": "While sin is absent from Purgatory, this consequence still remains",
"answer": "What is Vice?"
},
{
"category": "Purgatory",
"value": 400,
"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": 500,
"question": "He sang a song and Dante forgot",
"answer": "Who is Casella?"
},
{
"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": "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": "He wrote the foundational textbook of the legal curriculum",
"answer": "Who is Gratian"
},
{
"category": "Schools and Scholars",
"value": 400,
"question": "He wrote the foundational textbook of the theology curriculum",
"answer": "Who is Peter Lombard?"
},
{
"category": "Schools and Scholars",
"value": 500,
"question": "The University of Bologna was renowned for the teaching of this subject",
"answer": "What is law?"
},
{
"category": "Schools and Scholars",
"value": 600,
"question": "Canon Law is similar to this",
"answer": "What is the Hadith?"
},
{
"category": "Schools and Scholars",
"value": 700,
"question": "If you're looking for theoretical medical knowledge, you should study at this university",
"answer": "What is the University of Salerno?"
},
{
"category": "On this date",
"value": 100,
"question": "Constantinople was conquered",
"answer": "What is 1453?"
},
{
"category": "On this date",
"value": 200,
"question": "The Jews were expelled from France",
"answer": "What is 1306?"
},
{
"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 1258?"
},
{
"category": "On this date",
"value": 500,
"question": "The plague began?",
"answer": "1347"
},
{
"category": "On this date",
"value": 600,
"question": "The Hundred Years's War began",
"answer": "1337"
},
{
"category": "On this date",
"value": 700,
"question": "In this year, the Peasants' Revolt in which peasants marched on London occurred",
"answer": "What is 1381?"
},
{
"category": "On this date",
"value": 800,
"question": "On this date, what started in 711 came full circle",
"answer": "What is 1492?"
},
{
"category": "The Plague",
"value": 100,
"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": "The Plague",
"value": 200,
"question": "The Plague most likely originated here",
"answer": "What is Tibet/China?"
},
{
"category": "The Plague",
"value": 300,
"question": "These caused wages to increase",
"answer": "What are labor shortages?"
},
{
"category": "The Plague",
"value": 400,
"question": "The end of this meant crops were harded to grow",
"answer": "What is little optimum?"
},
{
"category": "The Plague",
"value": 500,
"question": "This new style of fighting reduced the food supply",
"answer": "What is a chevauchée?"
},
{
"category": "The Plague",
"value": 600,
"question": "The battle at this port is sometimes called the first use of biological warfare",
"answer": "What is Caffa"
},
{
"category": "Monsters, Knights, Pilgrims",
"value": 100,
"question": "He ruled Herot",
"answer": "Who is Hrothgar?"
},
{
"category": "Monsters, Knights, Pilgrims",
"value": 200,
"question": "He took the underwater bridge",
"answer": "Who is Sir Gawain?"
},
{
"category": "Monsters, Knights, Pilgrims",
"value": 300,
"question": "Chaucer's pilgrims are heading to see the relics of this saint",
"answer": "Who is Thomas Beckett"
},
{
"category": "Monsters, Knights, Pilgrims",
"value": 400,
"question": "William of Norwich and the Chaucher's Prioress have this in common",
"answer": "What is a blood libel?"
},
{
"category": "Monsters, Knights, Pilgrims",
"value": 500,
"question": "A young hero who fought alongside an aged hero",
"answer": "Who is Wiglaf?"
},
{
"category": "Monsters, Knights, Pilgrims",
"value": 600,
"question": "He claimed: What has Ingeld to do with Christ?",
"answer": "Who is Alcuin?"
}
]
}
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