The Church The Sistine Chapel

1. The Church The Sistine Chapel

3. Question 1 - 100 The Sistine Chapel is located in this city.

4. Answer 1 – 100 Vatican City

5. Question 1 - 200 The Sistine Chapel is located in this country.

6. Answer 1 – 200 Vatican City

7. Question 1 - 300 If you travel one mile north, south, east, or west of the Sistine Chapel, you would be in this city.

8. Answer 1 – 300 Rome

9. Question 1 - 400 If you travel one mile north, south, east, or west of the Sistine Chapel, you would be in this country.

10. Answer 1 – 400 Italy

11. Question 1 - 500 This Sistine Chapel is nestled against this basilica.

12. Answer 1 – 500 St. Peter’s

13. Question 2 - 100 This was the name of the original chapel which once stood where the Sistine Chapel is now.

14. Answer 2 – 100 “Capella Magna”

15. Question 2 - 200 This is the year that reconstruction of the Sistine Chapel began (during the 15th Century).

16. Answer 2 – 200 1477

17. Question 2 - 300 This is the name of the Pope who began reconstruction on the Sistine Chapel.

18. Answer 2 – 300 Pope Sixtus IV

19. Question 2 - 400 This is the saint who was crucified in the first century and buried directly beneath the Vatican.

20. Answer 2 – 400 St. Peter

21. Question 2 - 500 This was the original decoration of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

22. Answer 2 – 500 Gold Stars, Blue Sky

23. Question 3 - 100 This is the name of the artist who painted the frescos on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

24. Answer 3 – 100 Michelangelo

25. Question 3 - 200 This is the name of the Pope who asked for a new painting project on the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

26. Answer 3 – 200 Pope Julius II

27. Question 3 - 300 This was when (give or take 5 years) the Pope first asked for a new painting project on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

28. Answer 3 – 300 1504

29. Question 3 - 400 This is the year that repainting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel commenced.

30. Answer 3 – 400 1508

31. Question 3 - 500 This was the year that repainting of the Sistine Chapel was completed.

32. Answer 3 – 500 1512

33. Question 4 - 100 This is what are painted on the first layer of the Sistine Chapel walls, immediately above the floor; they look like hanging carpets.

34. Answer 4 – 100 Tapestries

35. Question 4 - 200 Paintings on the Sistine Chapel walls, the second level up, depict the life of this Old Testament figure.

36. Answer 4 – 200 Moses

37. Question 4 - 300 Paintings on the Sistine Chapel walls, the second level up, depict the life of this New Testament figure.

38. Answer 4 – 300 Christ

39. Question 4 - 400 Before we reach the ceiling, we find depictions of these Old Testament figures (who line the top of the outside walls).

40. Answer 4 – 400 Prophets

41. Question 4 - 500 Before we reach the ceiling, we find depictions of these Greek mythological figures (who line the top of the outside walls).

42. Answer 4 – 500 Sybils

43. Question 5 - 100 This was the original proposal which the Pope made for the subject matter of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

44. Answer 5 – 100 The Twelve Apostles

45. Question 5 - 200 On the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the artist painted scenes from this book of the Bible.

46. Answer 5 – 200 Genesis

47. Question 5 - 300 The Paintings of Creation are closest to this piece of chapel furniture.

48. Answer 5 – 300 The Altar

49. Question 5 - 400 In the Creation of Adam, God’s “encasement” or surrounding looks an awful lot like this.

50. Answer 5 – 400 A human brain