Round 4 scores, Round 5 vote

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Scores!

stellanova -- Here's a funny thing about time: there's an awful lot of it.
jeffr23 -- In the beginning...but I get ahead of my self here: how is it that we know that the universe- existance, time, whatever- has a beginning, as opposed to having always been?
offensive_mango -- In the beginning, everything already was. Voted for by a_d_medievalist.
elcanguro -- In the beginning, nothing much happened. Voted for by wwhyte.
a_d_medievalist -- It's hard to imagine all the matter in the universe in one place, at one time. Voted for by jeffr23.
wwhyte -- It's hard to imagine how big space is, so try this to start with: if you were to talk to the Moon, our nearest neighbour, at a speed of three miles an hour, it would take you just over 250 years to get there. Voted for by megolas.
wirette -- Most people think that the history of this planet we call Earth started with the Big Bang.
Bill Bryson -- No matter how hard you try you will never be able to grasp just how tiny, how spatially unassuming, is a proton. Voted for by wirette,stellanova and offensive_mango. Comments: I was also very tempted by line 8, purely because it says "spatially unassuming"
leedy -- Richard Feynman famously said, "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts".
sammywol -- The trick to building a universe is to start out really small. Voted for by raycun
megolas -- The Universe, generally, is big.
raycun -- When I was in fourth grade, I had the best teacher in the world. Voted for by elcanguro, alextiefling and leedy

Also general consensus in the comments that this was quite tough.

Points for guessing the right line: 1 each for wirette, stellanova and offensive_mango.
Points for someone guessing your line: 1 each for offensive_mango, elcanguro, a_d_medievalist, wwhyte and sammywol, 3 for raycun. Except! No vote from sammywol, so no point.

stellanova: 7 + 1 + 0 = 8
alextiefling: 6 + 0 + 0 = 6
raycun: 1 + 0 + 3 = 4
elcanguro: 3 + 0 + 1 = 4
wwhyte: 3 + 0 + 1 = 4
megolas: 4 + 0 + 0 = 4
wirette: 2 + 1 + 0 = 3
offensive_mango: 0 + 1 + 1 = 2
a_d_medievalist: 1 + 0 + 1 = 2
leedy: 2 + 0 + 0 = 2
jeffr23: 1 + 0 + 0 = 1
inuitmonster: 1 + 0 + 0 = 1
sammywol: 1 + 0 + 0 = 1

Now the lines for Europe's House Divided:

1. 1460 saw the birth of Albrecht von Brandenburg, future Archbishop of Mainz, a man whose actions would inadvertantly cause the Reformation.
   
2. As the armies of the Catholic Kings marched towards Granada, priests from the Dniepr to the Atlantic prayed quietly at their altars - a common prayer in a common language.
   
3. Blood and religion are closely entwined.
   
4. Everything was so simple once.
   
5. History is more exciting than you think it is.
   
6. Lurking in a little English country church, at Preston Bissett in Buckinghamshire, is an object lesson in the difficulty of understanding the religious outlook of past generations.
   
7. October 31, 1517, began much like any other day in the bustling Saxon city of Wittenberg.
   
8. October 31, 1517.
   
9. "Take the priests and kill them all, Kyrie Eleison!"
   
10. Under Innocent VIII, the Catholic Church was looking for heresy under every bed and table--and, often, finding it.
    
11. When Martin Luther left the printer's shop in Wittenburg on 30 October, 1517, he had a bomb in his bag.
    

Poll Round 5 vote

Deadline is Tuesday evening.

Incidentally, assuming there'll be another game starting soon after, these last few days are probably a good opportunity to advertise for more people, if you want.