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Italian Culture And Geography
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1. Which river flows through Rome?
Arno
Marco Polo
Boccaccio
Tiber
2. Where is mt Vesuvius located?
South of Naples
Giuseppe Mazzini
Sicily
Marconi
3. Which seas are to the west?
Rossini
Sicily
Garda
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
4. Who lead the Fascist movement?
Mussolini
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Alessandro Volta
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
5. Which painter note for his idealized and tranquil madonnas and portraits painted The School of Athens - Alba Madonna - and the Transfiguration of Christ?
Mussolini
'il bel paese'
Adige
Raphael
6. Who developed wireless telegraphy?
Garda
Marconi
Raphael
Alessandro Volta
7. What Venetian explorer and traveler crossed central Asia and visited China - Sumatra - Ceylon - India and Persia?
Sicily
Marco Polo
Eastern Sicily
Leonardo da Vinci
8. Where is mt Etna located?
Christopher Columbus
Eastern Sicily
Marconi
Lorenzo Ghiberti
9. Who was the great Italian poet?
Leonardo da Vinci
Mussolini
Brunelleschi
Petrarca
10. Which is Italy's largest lake?
Mussolini
Garda
Mediterranean Sea
Giuseppe Verdi
11. Which two islands are in the Bay of Naples?
Minister of Education
Giuseppe Mazzini
Capri - Ischia
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
12. Which volcano is located in eastern Sicily?
Mont Blanc
Etna
South of Naples
Alessandro Volta
13. Who sculpted La Pieta and David and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Arno
Michelangelo
Donatello
Sardinia
14. Who designed the dome of the Duomo in Florence?
Brunelleschi
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
Carbone
Lorenzo Ghiberti
15. Who sculpted David and Gattamelata?
Alessandro Volta
Antonio Vivaldi
Sardinia
Donatello
16. Which volcano is located south of Naples?
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
Vesuvius
Rossini
Christian Democratic Party
17. Which river flows through Florence and Pisa?
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
Titian
Dante
Arno
18. Italian is a ___ language.
Stromboli
Adige
Garda
Romance
19. Who is the greatest opera composer?
Italian
Giuseppe Verdi
Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
20. How do you say 'the awakening' in Italian?
Adriatic Sea
Risorgimento
Luigi Pirandello
Arno
21. The majority of Italians are ____ _____. (religion)
Botticelli
Raphael
Mussolini
Roman Catholics
22. Which treaty formed the Vatican City
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Marco Polo
Donatello
Ligurian Sea - Tyrrhenian Sea
23. Spans across which sea?
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
Mediterranean Sea
South of Naples
Po
24. Who is the author of the Divine Comedy and the father of the Italian language?
Eastern Sicily
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Mont Blanc
Dante
25. Who was the leading sculptor of the Baroque period who was designed Saint Peters Square in the Vatican city?
Romance
Bernini
Roman Catholics
South of Naples
26. What is the most popular sport in Italy?
Machiavelli
Lateran Treaty of 1929
soccer - il calcio
Roman Catholics
27. Who is the physicist who escaped to the US and helped develop the atomic and hydrogen bombs?
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Enrico Fermi
La Befana
Michelangelo
28. Who traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and discovered the east coast of present-day United States?
Christopher Columbus
Romance
Adriatic Sea
John Cabot
29. Who is the greatest artist - scientist - and inventor of all time?
Dante
Leonardo da Vinci
Donatello
Risorgimento
30. Which mountain range forms a natural border across northern Italy?
The Alps
Vesuvius
Mussolini
Luigi Pirandello
31. Who is the greatest conductor of all time?
Roman Catholics
Eastern Sicily
Arturo Toscanini
Michelangelo
32. What is the name of the old which who brings gifts to children on the night of January 6th?
La Befana
Roman Catholics
Capri - Ischia
Caruso
33. Who invented the electric battery and electric condenser?
Marconi
Vesuvius
Alessandro Volta
Brunelleschi
34. Who was the brain ('il cervello') of the Italian independence movement and the King of Piedmont?
Giacomo Puccini
Alessandro Volta
Mediterranean Sea
Cavour
35. 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?
Capri - Ischia
Galileo
Arturo Toscanini
Mussolini
36. Which four countries touch Italy? (Alphabetical)
Mussolini
Marconi
Austria - France - Slovenia - Switzerland
'il bel paese'
37. How do you say 'coal' in Italian?
Etna
Giuseppe Mazzini
Luigi Pirandello
Carbone
38. Who was the author of the Decameron - a collection of short stories?
Galileo
Boccaccio
Mont Blanc
Brunelleschi
39. Who was the father of modern political science and wrote Il Principe (The Prince)?
South of Naples
Titian
Adige
Machiavelli
40. What is the highest point in Italy?
Mont Blanc
The Alps
Marconi
Donatello
41. Which river is the longest?
Po
Sardinia
Antonio Vivaldi
Alessandro Volta
42. Who is called 'la spada' and lead the Red shirts?
The Apennines
The Alps
Lateran Treaty of 1929
Giuseppe Garibaldi
43. Who was the leader of the Italian independence movement?
Romance
Giuseppe Mazzini
The Alps
Arno
44. The ___ _ ___ is in charge of all education.
Christopher Columbus
Antonio Vivaldi
La Befana
Minister of Education
45. Nickname for Italy
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46. Who sculpted the Gates of Paradise which are the bronze doors of the baptistery of the Duomo in Florence?
'il bel paese'
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Island of Stromboli
Botticelli
47. Who is the most famous Italian tenor?
Arturo Toscanini
Caruso
South of Naples
Mediterranean Sea
48. Approximately twice the size of which US state?
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Rossini
Florida
Minister of Education
49. Italy is a ___ ___ ___. (type of government)
Rossini
Dante
independent democratic republic (Repubblica Italiana)
Minister of Education
50. Who 'discovered' America in 1492?
Christopher Columbus
Eastern Sicily
Stromboli
Dante