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Italian Culture And Geography
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who composed the Barber of Seville and William Tell?
The Apennines
Rossini
Florida
Christian Democratic Party
2. Who was the first king of Italy?
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
soccer - il calcio
Mediterranean Sea
Vesuvius
3. Spans across which sea?
Sicily
Petrarca
Vesuvius
Mediterranean Sea
4. Which island is shaped like a triangle and lies just off the toe of the Italian boot?
Donatello
Sicily
Antonio Vivaldi
Rossini
5. Who developed wireless telegraphy?
Minister of Education
Romance
Mont Blanc
Marconi
6. Which treaty formed the Vatican City
Etna
Lateran Treaty of 1929
John Cabot
Mont Blanc
7. Where is mt Stromboli located?
Island of Stromboli
Italian
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Leonardo da Vinci
8. Who is the author of the Divine Comedy and the father of the Italian language?
Petrarca
Brunelleschi
Dante
John Cabot
9. What Venetian explorer and traveler crossed central Asia and visited China - Sumatra - Ceylon - India and Persia?
Marconi
Marco Polo
Enrico Fermi
Mussolini
10. Which two islands are in the Bay of Naples?
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Antonio Vivaldi
Capri - Ischia
Island of Stromboli
11. Which is the second longest river that flows through Verona?
Adige
Lateran Treaty of 1929
John Cabot
Galileo
12. Which sea is to the east?
Adriatic Sea
Galileo
Island of Stromboli
Petrarca
13. Which seas are to the south?
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Giuseppe Verdi
Etna
Alessandro Volta
14. Who was the father of modern political science and wrote Il Principe (The Prince)?
Bernini
Mussolini
Machiavelli
Capri - Ischia
15. Who wrote Madama Butterfly?
Giacomo Puccini
Marco Polo
Po
John Cabot
16. Who is considered the founder of modern experimental science - invented the telescope - thermometer - and hydroscale - and was put on house arrest for opposing the church?
Marconi
Christopher Columbus
Sunny Italy
Galileo
17. Who is the physicist who escaped to the US and helped develop the atomic and hydrogen bombs?
Enrico Fermi
Tiber
Antonio Vivaldi
Mediterranean Sea
18. Which four countries touch Italy? (Alphabetical)
Machiavelli
Petrarca
Florida
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
19. Who painted The Birth of Venus?
Botticelli
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Cavour
20. Which mountain range forms a natural border across northern Italy?
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Italian
The Alps
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
21. Who was the leader of the Italian independence movement?
Donatello
Giuseppe Mazzini
Capri - Ischia
Giuseppe Garibaldi
22. Who sculpted David and Gattamelata?
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Antonio Vivaldi
Vesuvius
Donatello
23. Who was the brain ('il cervello') of the Italian independence movement and the King of Piedmont?
'il bel paese'
Mussolini
Bernini
Cavour
24. Who designed the dome of the Duomo in Florence?
Raphael
La Befana
Brunelleschi
Capri - Ischia
25. Who composed the Four Seasons?
Boccaccio
Antonio Vivaldi
Giacomo Puccini
Luigi Pirandello
26. Who is the greatest conductor of all time?
Arturo Toscanini
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Capri - Ischia
Eastern Sicily
27. Which island is very mountainous and is rich in livestock?
Capri - Ischia
Arturo Toscanini
Sardinia
Boccaccio
28. How do you say 'the awakening' in Italian?
Enrico Fermi
Minister of Education
Galileo
Risorgimento
29. Approximately twice the size of which US state?
Capri - Ischia
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
Adige
Florida
30. Italy is generally called '___ ___'. (refering to climate)
Leonardo da Vinci
Sunny Italy
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Tiber
31. Who is the greatest Venetian painter of the Renaissance who painted the Rape of Europa?
La Befana
soccer - il calcio
Titian
Sardinia
32. Who 'discovered' America in 1492?
Capri - Ischia
Christopher Columbus
La Befana
Po
33. Which painter note for his idealized and tranquil madonnas and portraits painted The School of Athens - Alba Madonna - and the Transfiguration of Christ?
Boccaccio
Machiavelli
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
Raphael
34. What is the official language of Italy?
Italian
Adriatic Sea
Giacomo Puccini
Arno
35. Which volcano is located south of Naples?
Vesuvius
Donatello
Galileo
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
36. Nickname for Italy
37. Who is the greatest opera composer?
Giuseppe Verdi
Po
Island of Stromboli
Boccaccio
38. Which volcano is located on the island of Stromboli?
Mediterranean Sea
Michelangelo
Capri - Ischia
Stromboli
39. Which is Italy's largest lake?
Boccaccio
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Garda
Mediterranean Sea
40. Who was the great Italian poet?
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Risorgimento
Petrarca
Raphael
41. Who invented the electric battery and electric condenser?
Arturo Toscanini
Alessandro Volta
Minister of Education
John Cabot
42. Who was the author of the Decameron - a collection of short stories?
Boccaccio
Island of Stromboli
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Adriatic Sea
43. Who lead the Fascist movement?
Boccaccio
Marconi
Mussolini
Christopher Columbus
44. Which river flows through Rome?
Cavour
Tiber
Alessandro Volta
Minister of Education
45. The ___ _ ___ is in charge of all education.
Tiber
Vesuvius
Ionian Sea - Mediterranean Sea
Minister of Education
46. Who was the leading sculptor of the Baroque period who was designed Saint Peters Square in the Vatican city?
Bernini
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Petrarca
Arturo Toscanini
47. Which river is the longest?
Po
The Apennines
The Alps
Marco Polo
48. Which volcano is located in eastern Sicily?
Brunelleschi
Giuseppe Mazzini
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Etna
49. Who is the greatest artist - scientist - and inventor of all time?
Botticelli
Mediterranean Sea
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Leonardo da Vinci
50. How do you say 'coal' in Italian?
Carbone
Tiber
Mussolini
Luigi Pirandello