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