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1. Who was called the 'Morning Star of the Reformation'?
2. Who did Martin Luther call Grobiana...a filthy, scurvy vice..originating from the German 'Grob'?
3. What food item was mistakenly called 'D'inde'?
4. Why did the French resist eating Potatoes for awhile in the 17th century?
5. Gargantua was to Pantagruel as Rabelais was to __________?
6. Which writer's name came from Latin: 'taxus', meaning 'Yew-tree'?
7. Who was known as Phillipus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim?
8. Which play by Racine was booed and hissed off the stage, which made him vow to never write another play?
9. Who designed 106 fortresses for Louis XIV?
10. Which Belgian coined the term 'gas' from the term -Gascht-?
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