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A) Italian B) French C) Spanish D) German
A) 17th B) 15th C) 13th D) 10th
A) 24 B) 18 C) 30 D) 12
A) Attila the Hun B) Emperor Taizong C) Kublai Khan D) Genghis Khan
A) Journey to the East B) Around the World in 80 Days C) The Travels of Marco Polo D) The Silk Road Chronicles
A) 20 B) 10 C) 15 D) 17
A) Incense Trail B) Silk Road C) Amber Road D) Spice Route
A) India B) Japan C) Mongolia D) China
A) His brothers B) His grandparents C) His father and uncle D) His cousins
A) Florence B) Naples C) Milan D) Venice
A) Bark B) Leaves C) Papyrus D) Silk
A) Yamato B) Izanagi C) Nihon D) Cipangu
A) Ferdinand Magellan B) Christopher Columbus C) James Cook D) Vasco da Gama
A) Soldiers B) Artists C) Merchants D) Scholars
A) General B) Advisor C) Trade ambassador D) Foreign emissary
A) Crusades B) Hundred Years' War C) War with Genoa D) Peloponnesian War
A) Leonardo da Vinci B) Giovanni Boccaccio C) Rustichello da Pisa D) Dante Alighieri
A) Electricity, airplanes, radios B) Plastics, antibiotics, television C) Steam engines, telegraphs, computers D) Porcelain, gunpowder, paper money
A) Mongol Empire B) Ottoman Empire C) British Empire D) Roman Empire
A) Roxelana B) Eleanor C) Aisha D) Kököchin
A) 1275 B) 1269 C) 1240 D) 1254
A) Niccolò B) Emilione C) Kublai D) Milione
A) 'Traveler' B) 'Merchant' C) 'Explorer' D) 'Million'
A) Giovanni Battista Ramusio B) Luigi Foscolo Benedetto C) Marco Polo D) Niccolò Polo
A) Explorer B) Travelling merchant C) Writer D) Scholar
A) 1254 B) 1269 C) 1280 D) 1275
A) 18 years old B) 10 years old C) 15 years old D) 20 years old
A) Baghdad B) Beijing C) Venice D) Constantinople
A) Gold coins B) Silk C) Jewels D) Spices
A) 1290 B) 1265 C) 1271 D) 1280
A) Doge Lorenzo Tiepolo B) Doge Marco Cornaro C) Doge Enrico Dandolo D) Doge Pietro Gradenigo
A) Constantinople B) Beijing C) Venice D) Acre
A) Fifteen B) Twenty-one C) Thirty D) Seventeen
A) 1305 B) 1295 C) 1285 D) 1275
A) Cannon B) Trebuchet C) Catapult D) Crossbow
A) The Travels of Marco Polo B) The Book of Marvels C) Livres des Merveilles du Monde D) Il Milione
A) Agnese B) Fantina C) Moreta D) Donata Badoèr
A) Bartolomeo B) Giovanni Battista Ramusio C) Rustichello da Pisa D) Pietro d'Abano
A) Frances Wood B) John W. Haeger C) Stephen G. Haw D) Herbert Franke
A) Peter, the Tartar servant B) Giovanni Giustiniani C) Friar Benvenuto D) Donata, his wife
A) The Yuan dynasty B) The Han dynasty C) The Qing dynasty D) The Ming dynasty
A) John W. Haeger B) David Morgan C) Igor de Rachewiltz D) Stephen G. Haw
A) The 'testamentum scriptum' rule B) The 'holographic signature' rule C) The 'signum manus' rule D) The 'notary validation' rule
A) A trade guild B) The imperial guard C) A type of ship D) A religious order
A) Four languages B) Three languages C) Two languages D) Five languages
A) 1325 B) 1330 C) 1323 D) 1322
A) June 1324 B) 9 January 1324 C) 10 January 1325 D) 8 January 1323
A) Peng Hai B) Herbert Franke C) David Morgan D) Ronald Latham
A) Stephen G. Haw B) Herbert Franke C) David Morgan D) Peng Hai
A) San Lorenzo B) The Vatican Archives C) Venice City Hall D) Biblioteca Marciana
A) Chinese emperors B) The Mongol ruler Kublai Khan C) Marco Polo himself D) A Sogdian named Mar-Sargis from Samarkand
A) Shanghai B) Yangzhou C) Beijing D) Nanjing
A) Invisible Cities (1972) B) Messer Marco Polo (1921) C) The Journeyer (1984) D) Marco Millions (1928)
A) Four B) Five C) Three D) Six
A) Herbert Franke B) David Morgan C) Paul Pelliot D) Peng Hai
A) Ten B) Twelve C) Thirteen D) Eleven
A) A tiger B) A dragon C) An elephant D) The Sumatran rhinoceros
A) Dadu B) Bukhara C) Bolghar D) Ukek
A) At sunset B) At noon C) At dawn D) At midnight
A) Messer Marco Polo (1921) B) Invisible Cities (1972) C) Marco Millions (1928) D) The Journeyer (1984)
A) Shangdu B) Dadu C) Beijing D) Zaitun
A) 1299 B) 1319 C) 1321 D) 1305
A) Elizabethan version by John Frampton in 1579 B) Castilian translation of 1503 C) Latin manuscript by Francesco Pipino in 1302 D) Italian by Giovanni Battista Ramusio in 1559
A) San Giovanni B) San Paolo of the Order of Preachers C) San Lorenzo D) The Church
A) Trebizond on the Black Sea B) Singapore C) Shangdu D) Beijing
A) 1299 B) 1305 C) 1310 D) 1321
A) Herbert Franke B) John W. Haeger C) David Morgan D) Stephen G. Haw
A) Frances Wood B) Peter Jackson C) Igor de Rachewiltz D) David Morgan
A) Zeno Map B) Mercator projection C) Ptolemaic map D) The 1453 Fra Mauro map
A) They were rescued by local villagers B) They hid in the desert until morning C) They fought through to a nearby town D) They negotiated with the bandits
A) Xiangwei B) Mar Sarchis C) Boluo D) Saman
A) Marco Polo B) Bento de Góis C) Christopher Columbus D) Matteo Ricci
A) Moreta B) Agnese C) Fantina D) Bellela
A) Brian Dennehy B) Ruocheng Ying C) Ian Somerhalder D) Ken Marshall
A) David O. Morgan B) Historian Frances Wood C) Historian Igor de Rachewiltz D) Sinologist Francis Woodman Cleaves
A) The Travels of Marco Polo B) The Yongle Encyclopedia C) Jami' al-tawarikh D) The Secret History of the Mongols
A) Matteo Ricci B) Marco Polo C) Giovanni Battista Ramusio D) Piero Falchetta
A) Mark Eden B) Ken Marshall C) John Cassavetes D) Ian Somerhalder
A) 9 January 1323 B) 10 January 1324 C) 8 January 1324 D) 7 January 1325
A) Trade agreements between Europe and China. B) The translation of 'The Book of Marvels' into Latin. C) The conversion of Marco Polo to Christianity. D) A possible Christian-Mongol alliance against Islam.
A) There were no Persian books available during his time. B) Polo did not speak Persian. C) The only Persian source mentioning the princess was completed after 1310–1311. D) All Persian sources had been lost by then.
A) 100 lire B) 220 soldi C) 50 soldi D) 300 lire
A) Italian B) Arabic C) Latin D) Franco-Venetian
A) Francesco Pipino B) Antonio Montefusco C) Ronald Latham D) Luigi Foscolo Benedetto
A) As a romance or fable B) As a religious text C) As a scientific journal D) As an accurate historical document
A) No B) Yes C) As an advisor only D) Only in some sources
A) The ships there were not seaworthy B) They did not have enough supplies C) They lacked a proper map D) They encountered pirates
A) Marco Polo and the Sleeping Beauty (1988) B) The Journeyer (1984) C) The Judas Strain (2007) D) Invisible Cities (1972)
A) Eugene O'Neill B) Grania Davis C) Italo Calvino D) John Fusco
A) Civilization Revolution (2008). B) Assassin's Creed: Origins. C) The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. D) Age of Empires III.
A) Jacopo d'Acqui B) Antonio Montefusco C) Francesco Pipino D) Rustichello of Pisa
A) Kei Tomiyama B) John Cassavetes C) Mark Eden D) Ken Marshall
A) Miro Branković B) Denis Belliveau C) Giuliano Montaldo D) John Fusco
A) Ken Marshall B) Brian Dennehy C) Burt Lancaster D) Ian Somerhalder
A) Because it lacked detailed maps. B) Because it was written in a foreign language. C) Because Marco Polo refused to share his experiences. D) Because it contained unbelievable stories.
A) Eleven or thirteen B) Twelve C) Twenty-four D) Five
A) Red Dead Redemption II. B) Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (2009). C) The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. D) Final Fantasy XV. |