Problem: Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (; 15 April 14522 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian Renaissance polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of palaeontology, ichnology, and architecture, and is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Sometimes credited with the inventions of the parachute, helicopter and tank, he epitomised the Renaissance humanist ideal.

Many historians and scholars regard Leonardo as the prime exemplar of the "Universal Genius" or "Renaissance Man", an individual of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination". According to art historian Helen Gardner, the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent in recorded history, and "his mind and personality seem to us superhuman, while the man himself mysterious and remote". Marco Rosci notes that while there is much speculation regarding his life and personality, his view of the world was logical rather than mysterious, and that the empirical methods he employed were unorthodox for his time.

Born out of wedlock to a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina, in Vinci in the region of Florence, Leonardo was educated in the studio of the renowned Florentine painter Andrea del Verrocchio. Much of his earlier working life was spent in the service of Ludovico il Moro in Milan. He later worked in Rome, Bologna and Venice, and he spent his last years in France at the home awarded to him by Francis I of France.
1. Who was a polymath?
2. When was he born?
3. Was he a painter?
4. A writer?
5. What is one more thing he was
6. Was did he invent?
7. What is he the father of?
8. What era was he a part of
9. Who is Helen Gardner?
10. What country is Leonardo from?
11. What is his full name?
12. Who is his dad?
13. His mom?
14. Were they married?
15. Who was his teacher?
16. When did Leonardo die?
17. Who did he work for?
18. Who awarded him a home?
19. Where?
20. Where else did he live?
Answer: 1. Leonardo da Vinci
2. 15 April
3. Yes
4. yes
5. architecture
6. parachute, helicopter and tank
7. palaeontology, ichnology, and architecture
8. Renaissance
9. art historian
10. Italy
11. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci
12. Piero da Vinci
13. Caterina
14. No
15. Andrea del Verrocchio
16. May 1519
17. Ludovico il Moro
18. Francis I
19. France
20. Rome, Bologna and Venice

Problem: CHAPTER II.

"'Dime; no ves aquel caballero que hacia nosotros viene sobre un caballo rucio rodado que trae puesto en la cabeza un yelmo de oro?' 'Lo que veo y columbro,' respondio Sancho, 'no es sino un hombre sobre un as no pardo como el mio, que trae sobre la cabeza una cosa que relumbra.' 'Pues ese es el yelmo de Mambrino,' dijo Don Quijote."--CERVANTES.

"'Seest thou not yon cavalier who cometh toward us on a dapple-gray steed, and weareth a golden helmet?' 'What I see,' answered Sancho, 'is nothing but a man on a gray ass like my own, who carries something shiny on his head.' 'Just so,' answered Don Quixote: 'and that resplendent object is the helmet of Mambrino.'"

"Sir Humphry Davy?" said Mr. Brooke, over the soup, in his easy smiling way, taking up Sir James Chettam's remark that he was studying Davy's Agricultural Chemistry. "Well, now, Sir Humphry Davy; I dined with him years ago at Cartwright's, and Wordsworth was there too--the poet Wordsworth, you know. Now there was something singular. I was at Cambridge when Wordsworth was there, and I never met him--and I dined with him twenty years afterwards at Cartwright's. There's an oddity in things, now. But Davy was there: he was a poet too. Or, as I may say, Wordsworth was poet one, and Davy was poet two. That was true in every sense, you know."

Dorothea felt a little more uneasy than usual. In the beginning of dinner, the party being small and the room still, these motes from the mass of a magistrate's mind fell too noticeably. She wondered how a man like Mr. Casaubon would support such triviality. His manners, she thought, were very dignified; the set of his iron-gray hair and his deep eye-sockets made him resemble the portrait of Locke. He had the spare form and the pale complexion which became a student; as different as possible from the blooming Englishman of the red-whiskered type represented by Sir James Chettam.
1. Who was poet two?
2. Who was poet one?
3. Who felt uneasy?
4. What did she wonder about?
5. What color was his hair?
6. What was Mr. Brooke eating?
7. Was he frowning?
8. Where did he dine with Sir Humphry Davy?
9. Who else was there?
10. What was Wordsworth?
11. Who was wearing a golden helmet?
12. What was he on?
13. What helmet was it?
14. Who did Dorothea think had dignified manners?
15. Who did he resemble?
16. Was he tanned?
17. What was his skin like?
18. Was he a student?
Answer:
1. Davy
2. ,Wordsworth
3. Dorothea
4. Mr Caubon's support for trivialty
5. iron-gray
6. soup,
7. no
8. Cartwright's
9. Wordsworth
10. apoet
11. a cavalier
12. a dapple-gray steed
13. the helmet of Mambrino.
14. Mr. Brooke
15. Locke
16. no
17. pale
18. no